Guild Wars 2

Hello! I was going to buy a laptop with a i5 4210u and with NVidia gt 820m 8 gb of ram.

its a Lenovo z40 I do have the option of getting a i7 version that has 4500u but not sure if its going to make a difference.

I also have the option of a 1080p screen or 768p don’t know If the 1080p screen would lower fps dramatically.

I will really like to hear from someone that is using the same laptop or if not similar and let me know what your kind of settings you use and fps.

from what I am seeing I should be able to play on high/med settings.

thanks

http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/?gid=2135&graphics=GeForce%20820M%201GB says:

GeForce 820M 1GB is an entry-level Graphics Card still based on the ageing Fermi architecture.
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It’s thus a rebadged GeForce GT 720M and will offer identical performance to it. Therefore, it offers performance identical to today’s powerful integrated graphics and ends up being kitteneless acquisition.

Also “8Gb” is technically correct, but in practice is actually shared memory. That’s not good for gaming.

For the same notebook money a desktop system can provide more gaming power.
That being said, the i7 with integrated 4500u, and the i5 notebook will probably run the game, but on the low settings side.

My i5 3570k desktop processor overclocked, to 4.5 Ghz, sees ~30-40 FPS@ 1080p resolution in wvw or larger scale player events (CPU bottlenek) on med video settings with a more powerful video card.

Hex.6415:

My i5 3570k desktop processor overclocked, to 4.5 Ghz, sees ~30-40 FPS@ 1080p resolution in wvw or larger scale player events (CPU bottlenek) on med video settings with a more powerful video card.

Ouch! That’s not good, I have an un-clocked 3570 and I’m getting 50 to 60 fps regular with drops to 30 to 40 fps in really busy areas on pretty high settings (with shadows and AA turned off) at 1080p, on medium settings I can get +50 fps in WvW.