Guild Wars 2

What’s the required PC spec for having the best quality graphics with no FPS drop?

Hasn’t been built.

Edit: The game’s frame rate drops due to lack of CPU power. The game has only a few CPU intensive threads so throwing more cores at it doesn’t do a whole lot past 3 to 4. Also at standard clock speed the current crop of i5 and i7s simply isn’t fast enough to handle the load. So overclocking is necessary. That also means a very decent cooler since Haswell is just as feisty with heat generation as Ivy Bridge.

The game is 32-bit and on a 64-bit OS can use up to 4GB of memory but the game seems coded to only around 2GB baring memory leaks. So lots of ram is of limited usefulness.

An SSD would help any demand loading of assets from the hard drive which could reduce times when drops of frame rates come from that. With lots of ram it’s possible that the OS would cache assets loaded but discarded for memory management reasons which is where having 8 or more GB could come in handy.

The game is limited by it’s Dx9 render path which is why additional cores aren’t as helpful as they are in Dx11 rendering engines. This means it’s likely you won’t see a noticeable frame rate increase between the highest end video cards.

There are several here who do get reasonable frame rates in WvW zerg fests but without a FPS drop, I don’t think so.

Lemme rephrase that: “What’s your PC spec, if you have high quality graphics with no FPS drop?”

Hi TS,

It is tested that the game depend on processor power more than graphic power. Thus, it is advised that if you want to maintain as much FPS as possible, you will require a high-end processor. Intel is more efficient than AMD in term of this aspect since the game is not optimized for AMD. i7 will be your best choice.

View the test result from here
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268.html

Any high-end graphic card should able to sustain your graphical needs.

Check the graphic ranking here
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

16gb ram is recommended if you disabled your paging, the game eats quite a lot of memory, especially in WvW.