Guild Wars 2

Specs

i5 3570
8gb corsair vengance
Gigabyte windforce gtx560ti 2gb oc edition (stock oc’d by gigabyte)

I run this game an all max settings (everything!) on 720p and get from 85 to 18 fps, depending on the area, changing the graphics settings down to low only gives me a 5 fps boost in the times that my fps shoots down to 20 and then hovers around 30, their is times, where i DO get a decent 60 fps solid, in some zones, which i would expect from a computer with pretty high endish specs like mine.

Now for comparison on bf3 i run everything maxxed on ultra and i get a solid 60 fps. What gives here? The other thing that baffles me is turning gw2’s graphics down to meidum or low really doesn’t change anything.

Blissified.8369:

The other thing that baffles me is turning gw2’s graphics down to medium or low really doesn’t change anything.

It’s not so baffling if you consider that the majority of the problems might be on ArenaNet’s end. If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck it’s probably not an eagle.

Well that’s not high end specs most people getting decent FPS in demanding areas are overclocking the CPU to around 4.5 or so and the 560ti is perty much a entry level gaming card remeber they were 560ti, 560ti with 448 cuda cores, 570, 580, and 590 the only 2 gaming cards below you was the GTX560 and 550ti. If you go from Maxed settings to low and only increase 5FPS then your CPU is bottlenecking your video card in this game. Never compair your FPS in this game to anouther game.

how is my cpu bottlenecking my video card though? the video card is the lowest end thing i have? isnt a i5 3570 like the best cpu out atm for gaming?

I wouldn’t say the 560ti overclocked is entry level, looking at benchmarks and the like, ide say its mid level especially how much i got it oc’ed.

if a 1200 dollar computer (built myself, got parts online for good prices( isnt high end, then what is :O

Blissified.8369:

how is my cpu bottlenecking my video card though? the video card is the lowest end thing i have? isnt a i5 3570 like the best cpu out atm for gaming?

I wouldn’t say the 560ti overclocked is entry level, looking at benchmarks and the like, ide say its mid level especially how much i got it oc’ed.

if a 1200 dollar computer (built myself, got parts online for good prices( isnt high end, then what is :O

For the processor yes it’s very good but for this game you need pure speed and your’s can not be overclocked, vidoe card if you change from mac settings to low settings and get min FPS increase then you the CPU is stoping it, and it is 3rd from the bottom out of 7 gaming cards in the 5xx line. The 560ti is pleanty to run this game at near max settings but a stock CPU is not.
High end and my FPS drop to 30 in WVW during big zergs.
i5 2500k @ 5.0GHz
16GB 2133 ram
2x 6970’s @ 950/1425
SSD
$1200 PC
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qXBU

I get issues in certain situations with i5 2500k 4.2 and gtx 680, last time i checked i hit 16 in WvW zergs. something about this game doesnt like nvidia cards, esspecially not the 600 serie.s.