Guild Wars 2

Dell 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop (6th Gen Intel Quad-Core i5-6300HQ Processor up to 3.2GHz, 8GB DDR3, 256GB SSD, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M, Windows 10)

- i was looking to buy this laptop because its in my budget and i researched it a bit and the posotives about it are better than the negatives. I was wondering if anyone with computer knowledge could tell me how good this one will run our beloved gw2. Fromthe tests ive looked at on youtube it will run it a lot nicer than the potato i have now. Just looking for more specifics if possible. Thank you!:)

I can’t comment on this specific laptop (I also am not a techy person at all, so that just looks like random numbers and words/letters to me :P ), but I will say that laptops in general seem fully capable of playing GW2. Sure, I can’t necessarily play the game on high graphics otherwise it lags, and overheats my laptop making it shut down, but it works. I actually got my current laptop years ago with the sole intent of being able to play GW2 (but not break the bank).

While you probably won’t be able to run GW at ultra performance without it taking a hard hit on performance (decreasing FPS) on that gig, it is decent.

You should be able to run the game with nice shaders and post-processing active; however, you should look into a cooling option. Central Tyria will be OK, but the newer maps put the graph card to the test with the nicer effects they have, elevating its temp. High temperature for a prolonged time can and will crash the computer (As I understand, this is by design, to prevent damage to the components).

I play on a laptop with an AMD A10 processor 1.6 GHz, 12 GB RAM and a AMD Radeon R6 graphics card, and it gives me decent FPS (Except on Lions Arch or zerg rushes, where the performance drops, fast). Yours has a better proessor, and a better graphics card.

I gotta wonder, though. Why 256GB on a Solid State Disk? Seems kinda low. (It will give you faster access to the disk, which can speed up the game, although it won’t be THAT noticeable).

It will be pretty good. I’d see if you can get a 970M instead of a 960M, there is a big jump in performance, but I’m not sure about the price difference. My laptop has the 970M and the game runs great at high detail levels.

The laptop i posted was 800 give or take a bit. I have 1800 hours playing on settings barely above those terrible standard grey charaxter models. So at this point anything is an improvement. I will probably get a colling pad for the laptop just so it stays a bit cooler. Also the memory is upgradeable in this laptop. So i will proba ly upgrade as i see fit. I will have to seeing as i can also play other games now. Hell if i get good fps at medium setting with good shaders ill be a happy camper. Thabks for the reply friendos! ????

You should be fine, aha. I have this crappy 4y old laptop that runs GW2 quite well. It’s weird, since it can hardly run minecraft with any decent speed. Only issue on it is overheating.

If all you want is to run it at acceptable FPS and moderate-to-high settings, I expect that laptop will handle it no problem.

I run the game off of the integrated GPU on an older core i3. I don’t get good framerates (rarely above 30 fps) and I have to run on lowest settings (I do set the character models and limit to low, however).

The system you have there is MUCH better, although you would obviously get a lot better bang for your buck on a desktop system for gaming.

I’m also jealous of the SSD. You don’t even want to know what my load times are when entering Lion’s Arch! I accidentally clicked back to the aerodrome in raid one night. I think my guild was ready to kill me by the time I got back!

As long as the display is FHD or below, you should have no problems running GW2 on med-high settings. Ofc, FPS will go up and down depending on what you’re doing, but that’s something everyone has to deal with.
Before I upgraded to my current machine, I played for four years on a laptop with an i7 3720QM, 8 GB RAM, GTX660m and a HD+ display on med-high settings without any issues. Sure, there were some FPS drops at world bosses and big WvW fights, but nowhere to the point of becoming unplayable. Open world and instanced content just ran smooth somewhere between 40 and 60 fps.

Your specs are near identical to my other half’s laptop which runs 60fps pretty consistently on a mix of Medium and High. Enjoy!