Guild Wars 2

Hi guys my current computer can’t play GW2 as a result of having a terrible graphics card and low CPU.. The only thing I can attempt is to try and buy a new graphics card and hope this compensates for the low CPU.

Here is a website which I want to use as the store is near me www.pcworld.co.uk

Could someone please reccomend me a graphics card that would be able to play GW2?

Budget of about £40/50 but obviously the lower the better (I appreciate this isn’t a lot for a new graphics card but if I have to pay anymore I will just consider buying a new computer completely)

All the best

What do you have now as a CPU and video card? The very least the video card.

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What do you have now as a CPU and video card? The very least the video card.

Currently at uni atm so don’t have access to my computer but graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce 660 or something like that and the CPU is fairly average it can play world of Warcraft on medium, league of legends, but when starting up GW2 the screen goes fuzzy restarts the computer and I get a notification about how the video card failed or something

Won’t really be able to check exact specs till I’m back in London (2 weeks) tho, I don’t expect a perfect answer just some tangible feedback, cuz I literally have NO IDEA what graphics card is required…because I’ve checked the specs to play GW2 but dnno how the iris Intel HD 3000 they reccomend differs from any other graphics card

Thanks

Reason is that for under £50 is all very low end cards. Wouldn’t want to recommend something inferior to what you currently have.

Well in that case I’m looking to purchase a laptop for university anyway with the ability to play gw2 at least, open to all suggestions only really had a look at Alienware but I think they are more for high end spec games?

I could be wrong!

Also I get great discounts from mac because I’m a student but dnno if the Mac Pro 13" (retina display) is even good enough

Thanks for getting back to me

GT660 should be more then enough for this game. if your 660 is failing check to see if there is still warranty on it. If so RMA it.

The CPU is going to be the weak link, so tell us what you have and we can go from there.

As for a laptop, budget is key here. you can get something older and used for about 450~ that will do very well or you can spend 1.4k on something new that will give the best performance for a laptop.

Your 660 should be able to handle the game fine. It really sounds like your CPU is the bottle neck, or that your GPU might be failing.