Guild Wars 2

Greetings all.

First of, if im blind and have failed misserably at searching the forum please do tell me if there is a thread about the new culling feature.

Ok so .. on to it.

I just want peoples experiances with the new culling options in WvW zergs.

I personaly have the settings maxed out so bassicaly culling is off and textures r maxed.

Obviosly culling does help with FPS still if u turn it on, but i also found that turning the textures down helped with the FPS even when u have GPU headroom. Now obviosly this is becouse the CPU still has to do some of the work and any extra head room u give it in WvW will help with the FPS, but i found that at the most it only added maybe 10FPS going from Low to Highest on the texture setting.

10fps is ofc alot for some, but tbh for Gw2 alsong as i stay above 30fps at al ltimes i dont mind. And my average is usualy 45+.
That said i really couldnt tell the difference between highest and low texture settings when in the thick of battle, so i may end up droping it to medium or low just to gain an extra 5-10 FPS in those intensive situations.

At max settings i still kept my minimum FPS above 30, and gained, thanks to this patch, a much better view distance.

All in all it seems good. I honestly havnt been on GW2 much in the last month so i cant recall very well if the performance has improved along with this change, so more feedback would be helpfull.

The graphics lag hasn’t been an issue for me since the change, the server lag is a whole different issue. I haven’t done WvW for a while but right now it reminds me of the dragon events where the server can’t handle the load, and none of your skills will fire off. Nice to see the zerg but too bad the game can’t handle the load.

Hello,

There is already a dedicated thread about the recent changes made to WvW here : Discuss WvW patch notes- march 26 here!.

Therefore, this one is now closed to avoid duplicates.

Thank you.