Guild Wars 2

I really like WvW, but tonight when I tried to play I was stuck FOREVER on the loading screen and when I finally got into a battle it was like I was in a very poorly made stop motion video. Only a guess, but I would estimate only about 25% of what was supposed to be rendering was actually showing up. It’s kind of hard to assault a keep when you can’t see the keep or the people defending it. I have no problem playing the regular game but it’s terribly frustrating, to put it mildly, when I try to play WvW and run into a kittened up mess like this.

Is this a problem on the server side or do I have to get a i7 powered gaming rig with a $500 video card in order to play WvW?

Depends whats your comp specs?

TobyTucker.5317:

I really like WvW, but tonight when I tried to play I was stuck FOREVER on the loading screen and when I finally got into a battle it was like I was in a very poorly made stop motion video. Only a guess, but I would estimate only about 25% of what was supposed to be rendering was actually showing up. It’s kind of hard to assault a keep when you can’t see the keep or the people defending it. I have no problem playing the regular game but it’s terribly frustrating, to put it mildly, when I try to play WvW and run into a kittened up mess like this.

Is this a problem on the server side or do I have to get a i7 powered gaming rig with a $500 video card in order to play WvW?

1. isp
2. computer
3. server

Check those three, or check customer support if your comp meets halfway between the minimum requirement and ideal requirement of this game.

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1. isp
2. computer
3. server

Check those three, or check customer support if your comp meets halfway between the minimum requirement and ideal requirement of this game.
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1. Just did a speed test:

Download Speed: 15.06 Mbps (1.88 MB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3.87 Mbps (0.48 MB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 74 ms

2. Current rig: Core2 Duo E8400 @3.00 GHz, HD 6850 1GB, XP so 4GB ram

Not the latest or greatest, but more than capable or running this game Like I said, I have no problems running the regular PvE game, it’s just the WvW portion that’s messing up for me.

As an experiment, I switched my settings to “best performance”. In the PvE world I’m getting 35-39 FPS (geez, even this is playing sluggishly now). In the WvW map that drops to 18 FPS when I’m just standing around. Get into a battle and along with everything but the base landscape disappearing, the FPS drops to 1. No doubt it can’t go any lower as it’s more like seconds per frame. Is this happening for other people?

3. Shouldn’t all the game servers be the same? Or is it a question of map population, i.e. the more people playing, the worse the game plays?