Guild Wars 2

Hey there, just a quick question.

Recently, I purchased a new PC I’m going to install this weekend, and I’ve been wondering how (if) it will be able to run Guild Wars 2. I don’t exactly expect a stunning performance (read: I’m fine with low graphics settings), but it should run at least fluently. Looking back, I have honestly no idea how I’ve been able to consistently play with 15 frames per second.

Anyways, here are the specs:

Intel Core i7-3770-processor (Quadcore)
8 GB RAM (though I can upgrade to 16 GB)
NVidia GT 640
I’ll probably be using Windows 7.

I’m not entirely sure what else I need to specify, so let me know if something’s missing please.

Hmm I would say you get around 30-40 fps with that graphic card.
For the rest it will run pretty well.

Better card would help but it shoule run ok if not at the best fps. Lower graphics will help for sure and to be honest this game looks pretty good at low res

Probably okay however the GPU is the weak link. It’s not a very good gaming video card. 8 GB memory is more than enough for any game out there.

If it had 16 Gb of RAM, it would be identical to my off the shelf Asus. And it runs this game just fine. Only time there is an issue might be zerg vs zerg in WvW…than can stress the graphics sometimes if both zergs are over 30 peeps each

Aequitas.6402:

Hey there, just a quick question.

Recently, I purchased a new PC I’m going to install this weekend, and I’ve been wondering how (if) it will be able to run Guild Wars 2. I don’t exactly expect a stunning performance (read: I’m fine with low graphics settings), but it should run at least fluently. Looking back, I have honestly no idea how I’ve been able to consistently play with 15 frames per second.

Anyways, here are the specs:

Intel Core i7-3770-processor (Quadcore)
8 GB RAM (though I can upgrade to 16 GB)
NVidia GT 640
I’ll probably be using Windows 7.

I’m not entirely sure what else I need to specify, so let me know if something’s missing please.

GT 640 ? So a laptop then?

I don’t understand why people keep buying gaming laptops.. It’s so much more satisfying to build a gaming rig… And it comes out being more beastly..

Sorry forgot to add something of use for the future:

For games, 3 factors influence performance (a very simplified run-down)

1: CPU – It handles complex calculations like physics (if you have no dedicated physics processing cores in the gpu or a physX gpu as a separate and dedicated unit) as well as governs things like background/non-visual related processing. Resource loading (coupled with HDD/SSD)

2: GPU, all visuals you see in games and all the fancy effects are thanks to the GPU. The better the card, the more eye candy you can handle.

3: Hard Drive / Solid State Drive: This part oversees the speed at which stuff loads in games, like character models, items, textures, and other game file related stuff/ The faster the drive, the faster the load times.

90% of the time a system bottleneck is the HDD, the other 9% it’s the GPU, and very rarely it’s the CPU.

These statistics are personal experience fyi.

This game needs more CPU than GPU and SSD does not make a big difference.

The the OP:
I hate how people keep getting tricked into buying bad video cards just because they put 2Gb of memory on them. However, the game should run fine, at least for normal PvE; WvW or huge events in Orr I can`t be sure about but I`m guessing u`ll see some FPS drops.

The CPU is not a K (which means no OC’ing and thus bottlenecks will occure in WvW)) ..and the GPU is a media card.

However it should run GW2 on Low/Medium graphics settings and PVE should be fine. LA and WvW will make ur fps drop though.

The reason people get ‘tricked’ into buying media cards is becouse places advertise a premade computer as a ‘gaming computer’ with a good CPU like the 3570k ..or 3770 ..then stick in a media graphics card ..which is just stupid . .But non tech savy people dont know this ..So it cant be helped.

Alright, thanks for the answers.

Given, it’s not supposed to be a gaming PC anyways, so I guess I’l probably be fine, as long as it runs somewhat smoothly.

KICKER.3874:

This game needs more CPU than GPU and SSD does not make a big difference.

The the OP:
I hate how people keep getting tricked into buying bad video cards just because they put 2Gb of memory on them. However, the game should run fine, at least for normal PvE; WvW or huge events in Orr I can`t be sure about but I`m guessing u`ll see some FPS drops.

Sandy bridge i5 quad or above and the game will run fine in wvw.

I play hi res, but when huge zergs or armies vs each other I usually lower everything to low, not that huge of a difference, only textue res is what I notice when I change, also shadows is noticeable

UnknownFreak.2805:

I play hi res, but when huge zergs or armies vs each other I usually lower everything to low, not that huge of a difference, only textue res is what I notice when I change, also shadows is noticeable

Remember the Karka one time event? Don’t know how it was in other servers but in DB, it was massive. Well above 70 people killing the ancient Karka at the same time.
No kittens given.. Ran pretty smooth.

Some people tend to add supersampling instead of native, which like cuts your FPS in half. Don’t do that. Not that much of a difference.

Aequitas.6402:

Alright, thanks for the answers.

Given, it’s not supposed to be a gaming PC anyways, so I guess I’l probably be fine, as long as it runs somewhat smoothly.

You should be fine as long as you let the game set your graphics automatically and have a good Internet connection. I play on a “gaming laptop” with an i7, 8gb ram and an Ati Radeon HD 5870 card. It lags a little bit when the screen is completely full of everything that happens when a couple zergs collide at the front of a keep that’s being hit from everywhere. Other than that it’s great for PvE, dungeons and such. The auto settings have most everything on Medium with a couple of things on high.

I’m not exactly sure how your graphics card compares to mine, but my “gaming laptop” is 3 years old now so I would hope yours is close or better. This laptop was only $1199 when I purchased it. It was considered to be a higher end graphics card then.

My laptop: Asus G73JH