Guild Wars 2

Hello, before christmas my computer was basically yhe technological equivalent to a turnip. I have recieved an upgrade and am wondering if anyone can give me an estimation on how many FPS (average) I will be running.
CPU: Core i3-4130 (Haswell) 3.4Ghz
Motherboard: ASUS H81M-A
4gb Ram
250g Samsung SSD 840 EVO 6gb/s

Before I was averaging around 20 fps (lowest graphic settings don’t make fun of me) and I’m really hoping this will help somewhat, I would really enjoy the game again if it looked pretty.

Any sort of estimation of whta my new frame rate will be would be very appreciated! I can’t see them now due to the fact that I am currently doing the updates because I had to re-install the game. Thank you.

You don’t mention a video card. Also since we don’t know what you had previously we have no basis of how much better this new system is relative to the old.

That said your current system is a dual core with HT but 4GB may be an issue depending what else you are running at the same time. However the SSD will noticeably reduce loading times.

Again without any info on if you are using the integrated Intel HD Graphics 4400 (which will swipe part of your 4GB of system memory) or a discrete video card and what you were running before, it’s tough to give you an educated guess.

Also what OS are you using? 32 or 64 bit version?

Behellagh.1468:

You don’t mention a video card. Also since we don’t know what you had previously we have no basis of how much better this new system is relative to the old.

That said your current system is a dual core with HT but 4GB may be an issue depending what else you are running at the same time. However the SSD will noticeably reduce loading times.

Again without any info on if you are using the integrated Intel HD Graphics 4400 (which will swipe part of your 4GB of system memory) or a discrete video card and what you were running before, it’s tough to give you an educated guess.

Also what OS are you using? 32 or 64 bit version?

I’m running windows 7 64bit. Yes I am also running Intel HD graphics 4400.

On medium settings (auto detect but turn off reflections, can leave shadows on if you want,) you should get around pretty darn good FPS. Maybe 60 fps in a lot of places excluding wvw.

Avelos.6798:

On medium settings (auto detect but turn off reflections, can leave shadows on if you want,) you should get around pretty darn good FPS. Maybe 60 fps in a lot of places excluding wvw.

Wow that is much better than I had before, I am really looking forward to it now. Thank you for the hasty estimation response!

I would say that’s a bit of wishful thinking. It is an i3 and thus really a dual core when the game really does much better with three or four real cores. The HT will only act the same as an “overclock” of the dual core.

Even the Intel HD Graphics 4400 is lower performing than the integrated GPU found in the AMD A10-58xx/68xx series which often beat an Intel i7 in games when both are using their respective integrated GPU. GW2 may be an exception to the rule due to the CPU dependent nature but in the OP’s case he only has a dual core and not a quad.

That said I do agree that it’s likely he’ll do noticeably better at the same graphic settings compared to whatever his old system was so the trade off will be, as it always is on a lower end system, frame rate Vs “pretty”. In my case with my A8-3820 using it’s integrated GPU I routinely get in the 25fps on high soloing around because I value “pretty” over fps always over 30. I do turn my settings down when I go WvW or into boss fights simply due to the number of players involved. And I don’t mind the choppy frame rates in cities because cities are generally safe and again I would prefer to look at the “pretty” that the artists spent their time in making.

So for medium settings as Avelos described, I would weigh in with over 30, maybe even to 45. It’ll be interesting to see who comes closer.

I’m pretty positive though that the FPS can reach as high as 60 FPS. A got two buddies who play the game sometimes on laptops with third generation i3 and i5 processors both sporting the HD 4000 and on auto detect (wich usually gives them medium settings,) their fps on the dual core processors with hyper threading are pushing kitten in most areas with the usual drops in wvw, cities, etc. That’s the laptop ivybridge, though. Desktop haswell should do somewhat better which is why I say my numbers haha.