Major Graphics bugs and issues
I’m not official tech support, but it would be helpful to know what graphics card you’re using, I assume it meets the minimum requirements for the game? Have you tried running on low settings? If it works try increasing them gradually until you get the problem back.
i changed the setting to full from the original lowest settings shown in the video, the change is in the video also.
my graphic card is a intel HD graphics 3000 upto 1760 mb dynamic video memory
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I also have this exact same problem and have the same Graphics card. I have checked my drivers and “twiddled” some settings to no avail. I hope this problem is resolved soon.
in previous mmo’s i have seen players having this issue and terrain bug due to a faulty file which is then patched etc so im staying hopefull cuz its a pain to pvp in some maps with this and pve is well out the question
bump… anyone else with this issue?
also i didnt have this issue when i first played the game, it was second time after a patch that the problem occured
So after chuckling for a few minutes and making some obnoxious post about how your GFX card sucks, I just have to ask:
1. Is this the card that’s on the MB of your PC? Or:
2. Did you buy and install this GFX card?
3. Does your card meet the minimum requirements? Does it meet the reccomended requirements?
Sorry, I was not being as nice as I could have, I know. But the answer is obvious to anyone who’s ever had this problem before. Again, my apologies.
The answer is that your card is at the very bottom end of the requirements, which means that in order to run the game you’re going to have to turn your GFX settings all the way down—lowest on everything—just to get the game to run without crashing, or without those hideous artifacts. 99% of the time, if you turn up the graphics details in the options with a lowest possible system, you will get major, game breaking bugs, just like the ones you are seeing in your video. I know because I’ve done it! I’ve had that same problem with games in the past while using cards that barely meet the requirements. And I know that a new card is the solution because I’ve solved the problem by buying a decent card for $120 and never ever had the problem again.
Solutions:
1. Turn all graphics settings to absolute minimum. Lowest possible on everything. If there’s an ‘on/off’ setting, turn it to off. If there’s a ‘low’ setting, go one notch below that. If that solves your problem, then the problem is not with GW2, it’s not a bug at all, but instead it’s that your card can’t display the game the way you want it to. You need a better card.
2. Your card is in fact a native GFX card included on motherboards, and not a gaming card. Your card has a lower specification than a 9800GT, which I know would have problems with this game, because I had that card, and loved it, but it’s jsut too old and too small to display this game. At all. I don’t say ‘display this game well’ because a 9800GT would fry itself trying to display this game well. And it wouldn’t display the game well in the process! Also, note that the 9800Gt is better than the minimum requirements, but still would have serious problems such as lag, and artifacts like yours.
Anyway, the proof is in the pudding. So in case you’re wondering, I upgraded from my trustworthy GeForce 9800GT 1GB 16x card to an AMD HD 6700 1GB PCI-e 2.0 x16 (so far, no noticeable difference in general video quality between equivalent GeForce and Radeon cards). I also upgraded my RAM from 2GB to 8GB, upgraded my motherboard, my CPU, and went to Win7. I can tell you that if you aren’t running on a newer PC—not neccessarily a more expensive, top-end pc, but just a newer one—that you aren’t going to get the experience you should get, that you want to get. Everyone should get to play GW2 with graphics at least as nice as it looks to me, if not even better. My midline PC runs this game with no problems, no lag, even with hundreds of players visible and fighting in WvW (I do occasionally have GFX lag due to skill effects in massive raids). It’s astounding how beautiful this game is… you should see it like this!
p.s. I have a 23" monitor running at 1080i native. It’s easily the best improvement to my system, and it was less than $250.
Oh, I forgot. Proof. Sooooo, look at these shots compared to all the previous MMOs out there. They all want to look like GW2, but sadly, they can’t. They want to run lag-free with 200 characters on the screen in 1080… but they cannot. Kudos to ArenaNet!
P.S. Anti-aliasing is turned off, since at 1080i it looks worse IMO in real-time.
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i love how first u troll then u rant on with a wall of text. but i have to ask did u actually watch the whole video? and read any of my posts?
in the video i show all setting on absolute minimum, so thats half ur post gone lol, and in the video i also show how the bugging doesnt change when the graphics are rolled up, they dont worsen or lessen.
in the last post above urs i state that i played gw2 for a day when i first installed it without any buges at all (auto detect settings at all medium) woke up next morning open up gw2 patches come through then this bugging happened.
no offence bro but ur repeating whats been said to me then some story about ur computer etc, although fun to read but im after some help not issues ive checked out already and as far as i can tell aint the problem if my ‘low end’ graphics card ran the game for a whole night without any issues.
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