I’m playing on an Alienware m14xr2 laptop with 2gb video ram and an nvidia gt 650m graphics card. I can play other MMO’s with 60fps, and virtually any other game (including skyrim) with 40-50fps on MEDIUM settings.
However, after just getting guild wars 2 today, I feel like the game is holding me back, as I get 25-40fps in forrests but less than 20 in cities and instances.
Is there something I should be optimizing?
Also I’m playing on the lowest possible graphics settings.
Sorry if i’m posting in the wrong forum, I’m still a noob
Make sure that your graphics card driver is up to date. At best reinstall the driver. Had the issue myself, after updating the driver the performance was back to normal.
go Nvidia website and download the latest driver. It gives you the NVidia tool that helps keep your drivers up to date and allows you to adjust your Vid-card settings more easily.
go Nvidia website and download the latest driver. It gives you the NVidia tool that helps keep your drivers up to date and allows you to adjust your Vid-card settings more easily.
I have the Nvidia control panel and force experience clients, they both say my drivers are up to date. I heard the game uses a lot of CPU power, is an i5 with 2.5ghz not good enough to run the game at best?
this game is cpu based, your gpu holds very little when it comes to the framerate in guild wars 2. how’s your cpu currently?
edit: kitten you just posted it. an i5 2.5 is a bit slow, especially if dual core (too un-invested to search for your laptop specs). I’d say a quad core 3.0 is the “medium settings requirement” for this game
Druid main, 80 on all, Legendary ranked, Eternal and all that jazz (I go by Feyris in game)
I have the same CPU and a bit better GPU and have trouble in wvw zergs, like 15fps. But thats like 100 vs 100. I’m able to fight 10 v 10 with ~40 fps with medium settings so I just stick to smaller scale stuff. Crowded cities ~25fps
edit: WOW, just turned all of my settings to low/off and fps went from ~55 to ~80-85. Shaders and shadows had the biggest effect by far it seems. Game still looks beautiful too
Also turn shadows to none… this makes a huge difference.
Edit: I run in World vs World and get average of 50 fps. 25-30 in zergs, and 3 way battles vary. I am also on a laptop, nvidia gtx 560m graphics, i7-2670QM processor 2.2ghz
go Nvidia website and download the latest driver. It gives you the NVidia tool that helps keep your drivers up to date and allows you to adjust your Vid-card settings more easily.
I have the Nvidia control panel and force experience clients, they both say my drivers are up to date. I heard the game uses a lot of CPU power, is an i5 with 2.5ghz not good enough to run the game at best?
Laptop i5’s and non-performance i7’s are all dual core CPUs with HT (2 physical cores, and 2 Logical) that in turn is one of the biggest things that holds them back, compared to their desktop variants.
You can get a i7 from the series of CPUs you have, but the QM version for the 4 cores and a better turbo boost.
But the performance you are getting is to be expected on a laptop with GW2. And yea, its all CPU bound. Adding a performance i7 to your laptop will be the only way to get better performance out of it.
But, the 650M is NOT that great of a GPU. You should have taken the HD6770M instead when you bought your system.
But, the 650M is NOT that great of a GPU. You should have taken the HD6770M instead when you bought your system.
Just popping in to say that the GT 650M is substantially better than the HD 6770M. It’s literally a slightly downclocked GTX 660M ASSUMING, that it is the GDDR5 model, (And since it’s Alienware, I guarantee it’s the 2GB GDDR5 model because they never sell the DDR3 model outside out of OEM) and with just a small overclock, or the highest you can get in MSI Afterburner (which really isn’t hard for a GTX 660M or GT 650M or 670MX,) you can get even BETTER performance from it.
But, the 650M is NOT that great of a GPU. You should have taken the HD6770M instead when you bought your system.
Just popping in to say that the GT 650M is substantially better than the HD 6770M. It’s literally a slightly downclocked GTX 660M ASSUMING, that it is the GDDR5 model, (And since it’s Alienware, I guarantee it’s the 2GB GDDR5 model because they never sell the DDR3 model outside out of OEM) and with just a small overclock, or the highest you can get in MSI Afterburner (which really isn’t hard for a GTX 660M or GT 650M or 670MX,) you can get even BETTER performance from it.
I have my 2nd laptop rebuild with a 650M, and the performance is actually worse then my HD6770 (Both have an i7-2630QM).
Granted, the performance difference ranges from 5FPS to 12FPS lower. Its still worse in my experience.
I go normally by Notebook-check.net reviews and they review each card with the best laptop they can find that has it… HD 6770M is one entire class below the 650M. If you scrounged that GT650M from somewhere like Ebay or something it was probably on there for a reason other than what you were hoping. That and it also depends on what model of 650M you have.
I go normally by Notebook-check.net reviews and they review each card with the best laptop they can find that has it… HD 6770M is one entire class below the 650M. If you scrounged that GT650M from somewhere like Ebay or something it was probably on there for a reason other than what you were hoping. That and it also depends on what model of 650M you have.
My 650M is the GDDR5 version embedded on the Motherboard from a DV6T-7100 Pull.
That MB was installed to my DV6-6135DX laptop. Just another AMD to Intel Laptop Upgrade.
BUT, I get a higher FPS on my HD6770 then I do on my 650M.
650M maxes at 78FPS on medium settings
HD6670 Maxes at 89 FPS on medium settings
Both on 1080p LCDs
