Guild Wars 2

Having problems running the game at an adequate speed. I’m getting around 23fps max on the lowest settings.

AMD Phenom 9750 (2.4Ghz Quad Core)
8 GB DDR2
AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series (I can’t remember if it’s 6700 or 6750)

If I need an upgrade it’s pretty much out of the question. I assumed I would get at least 30+ on the lowest settings but that’s not the case at all.

Any help?

I’d say you need an upgrade. Disabling Vsync will help FPS a lot, but obviously you might have screen tearing.

Very likely your CPU is being bottlenecked. (see Q4-9 here to understand why)

If you can’t upgrade, then try overclocking

Yeah try overclocking but dont rush in it take your time and make sure your cpu doesnt get too hot.

kirito.4138:

Very likely your CPU is being bottlenecked. (see Q4-9 here to understand why)

If you can’t upgrade, then try overclocking

In other words, game is so unoptimized that lazy developers instead blame players specs and forces them to burn their chips and upgrade them, just for one game, though other games run fine already. I want to ask whats is more reasonable, thousands of people upgrading their pc’s, spending lot’s of money just for one game or developers fixing the issues with their OWN game and serving the customer rightly??

I used an HD 5770 for a few weeks and would do decently on Medium/High settings, certainly over 30fps in PvE. Your CPU isn’t that bad really. I would expect better too…

How are your temperatures and what is your GPU/CPU usage at during gameplay?

Moenkie.9851:

Having problems running the game at an adequate speed. I’m getting around 23fps max on the lowest settings.

AMD Phenom 9750 (2.4Ghz Quad Core)
8 GB DDR2
AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series (I can’t remember if it’s 6700 or 6750)

If I need an upgrade it’s pretty much out of the question. I assumed I would get at least 30+ on the lowest settings but that’s not the case at all.

Any help?

This game is Extremely CPU intensive, so OCing your current CPU would actually benefit you the most, but before we Delve into that we need to know if your using the CPUs stock cooler that came with it ? As OCing would be pointless if all your doing is frying the CPU :/. So we need to know so we can point out some good aftermarket coolers to suggest :P.

I looked up your GPU or what Could be your GPU, there are 3 types HD 6770, HD 6750 and the HD 6790 I hope thats the 1 lolz they all have 800 SPs minus the 6750 which has 720 SPs but the 6790 is using a 256 bit memory bus, which would help.

Also find and download an app called CPU-Z and GPU-Z there tell you and us Alot about your setup etc, like what GPU you have and what voltage your CPU is at stock etc and a lot more lols.

Note that I’m playing GW2 with a Phenom II X4 955BE at 3.9GHz paired with 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz and a HD4890 and I mostly see 45-50+ FPS in PvE etc, in places like LA or other heavily crowed areas I usually see 35+ to 40ish FPS and big boss fights around 30ish with lots of ppl but I never do WvW cause I’d imagine its a slide show lols.

Now to give you an idea I’m currently playing at 1680×1050 with almost maxed settings, try these settings and see how that helps.

If lowering or increasing ur graphics settings yields little fps change ..then its likely ur CPU.

OC, upgrade, wait for possible patch are your only options.

Alteris.1528

This game is Extremely CPU intensive, so OCing your current CPU would actually benefit you the most, but before we Delve into that we need to know if your using the CPUs stock cooler that came with it ? As OCing would be pointless if all your doing is frying the CPU :/. So we need to know so we can point out some good aftermarket coolers to suggest :P.

I looked up your GPU or what Could be your GPU, there are 3 types HD 6770, HD 6750 and the HD 6790 I hope thats the 1 lolz they all have 800 SPs minus the 6750 which has 720 SPs but the 6790 is using a 256 bit memory bus, which would help.

Also find and download an app called CPU-Z and GPU-Z there tell you and us Alot about your setup etc, like what GPU you have and what voltage your CPU is at stock etc and a lot more lols.

Note that I’m playing GW2 with a Phenom II X4 955BE at 3.9GHz paired with 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz and a HD4890 and I mostly see 45-50+ FPS in PvE etc, in places like LA or other heavily crowed areas I usually see 35+ to 40ish FPS and big boss fights around 30ish with lots of ppl but I never do WvW cause I’d imagine its a slide show lols.

Now to give you an idea I’m currently playing at 1680×1050 with almost maxed settings, try these settings and see how that helps.

Alright, I downloaded CPU-Z and GPU-Z as per your suggestion. Shall we talk overclocking?

lol, an overclocked donkey is still an…well, a donkey.

JabaVakie.4327:

kirito.4138:

Very likely your CPU is being bottlenecked. (see Q4-9 here to understand why)

If you can’t upgrade, then try overclocking

In other words, game is so unoptimized that lazy developers instead blame players specs and forces them to burn their chips and upgrade them, just for one game, though other games run fine already.

• Yes, the game is not optimized (you would have known this if you actually read my FAQ thread, states it multiple times)

• I am not forcing people to buy new hardware or overclock, those are mere workarounds people can take. If people want more fps those are the only options since we users can’t fix the code our self.

• Not blaming anyone. If the cpu is bottlenecked, then it is by definition regardless of how inefficient the game is. No different than saying “The sink is clogging up”

JabaVakie.4327:

I want to ask whats is more reasonable, thousands of people upgrading their pc’s, spending lot’s of money just for one game or developers fixing the issues with their OWN game and serving the customer rightly??

Who knows when or if ever the devs can optimize the game. Gw3? lol. So you rather tell people to whine/pout/qq while waiting for a fix instead of maybe doing something about it now that might let them enjoy the game?

Of course, these people blaming the “lazy developers” have never seen the codebase, and did not work on the project, so they are guessing.

Also, if you have not worked in software development, you should be aware that many decisions are not made by the people writing the code ( the developers); management sets schedules and determines priorities.

Moenkie.9851:

Alteris.1528

This game is Extremely CPU intensive, so OCing your current CPU would actually benefit you the most, but before we Delve into that we need to know if your using the CPUs stock cooler that came with it ? As OCing would be pointless if all your doing is frying the CPU :/. So we need to know so we can point out some good aftermarket coolers to suggest :P.

I looked up your GPU or what Could be your GPU, there are 3 types HD 6770, HD 6750 and the HD 6790 I hope thats the 1 lolz they all have 800 SPs minus the 6750 which has 720 SPs but the 6790 is using a 256 bit memory bus, which would help.

Also find and download an app called CPU-Z and GPU-Z there tell you and us Alot about your setup etc, like what GPU you have and what voltage your CPU is at stock etc and a lot more lols.

Note that I’m playing GW2 with a Phenom II X4 955BE at 3.9GHz paired with 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz and a HD4890 and I mostly see 45-50+ FPS in PvE etc, in places like LA or other heavily crowed areas I usually see 35+ to 40ish FPS and big boss fights around 30ish with lots of ppl but I never do WvW cause I’d imagine its a slide show lols.

Now to give you an idea I’m currently playing at 1680×1050 with almost maxed settings, try these settings and see how that helps.

Alright, I downloaded CPU-Z and GPU-Z as per your suggestion. Shall we talk overclocking?

Ok we really need to know if your CPU is using the stock heatsink that came with it, as it’ll limit how far your want to OC, so having an aftermarket heatsink is always prefered.

Also take a screenshot of your CPU-Z and GPU-Z an post them here there help out, mainly to tell me what your CPU’s stock voltage is, should be around v1.325 for Phenom II X4’s/Phenoms.

An GPU-Z will help identify your GPU faster, either way any of the 3 6700s can pull 40+ FPS on med to high settings, but GW2 is CPU bound so it can cause issues in that regaurd :/.

Also something else jsut came to mind, is your PC custom or pre-built ?