Guild Wars 2

Has there been a recent test of what graphics setting have the biggest impact in FPS?

I’m currently running a ATI R7 370 card with a phenom 4 core at 3.8 ghz. (set at High Performance) I realize I wont be able to render 100 fps in Lion Arch at prime time but want to squeeze as much beauty out of the game as I can without talking a hit in frames.

So what is your trick to get good FPS

Not what you want to hear, but my trick was to buy a MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning graphics card. :P

And then when I got it, I found out my case couldn’t fit it. Tin snips, and some moving around of my hard drives in the hdd bay, and it could fit. Then I had to put in the appropriate fan for direct hdd cooling, intake and outtake fans for cooling the massive titanic of a GPU. Works great.

Just saying, if you want the best settings of all, raw power will win.

Then again my laptop has a Nvidia 840M, and it runs on max settings too, and I have no issues with running around the game with reasonable fps. Makes me think that the more important thing is the CPU, which other people say is important for Guild Wars 2.

Kobrakatana.8264:

Has there been a recent test of what graphics setting have the biggest impact in FPS?

I’m currently running a ATI R7 370 card with a phenom 4 core at 3.8 ghz. (set at High Performance) I realize I wont be able to render 100 fps in Lion Arch at prime time but want to squeeze as much beauty out of the game as I can without talking a hit in frames.

So what is your trick to get good FPS

The R9 370 is a pretty old card. Its actually a HD7870, which was rebadged to a R9 270 AND R9 270x, then again for your R9 370.

In all its a pretty good card for the price (about 119~ TOPS) but its not a ‘real’ performer by today’s standards.

The biggest short coming of your system is that AMD CPU. If you were to upgrade to a Haswell G3220 and continue to use that R9 370, you would be able to get 50-60FPS in lions Arch with the correct in game settings, and you would break 100FPS out in open areas.

I had a G3220 and a HD5770 setup for a while (you can find screenshots in my posting history) that would break 100FPS in queensdale on Medium settings (HD5770 is quite old)

that is how OLD that Phenom II actually is. It will be beaten by a 3.0ghz Dual core Intel CPU you can buy on amazon for 39.99.