Guild Wars 2

It’s still lagging on Windows 10 technical Preview and the latest build 9860, graphics are awful even after using the compability settings!

I know that we are talking about a Technical Preview release of Windows but some of us we would like to play the game while we were testing the new release…

Thank You

Tech previews are for developers and experts, not average users. You shouldn’t expect to get decent performance when it comes to games, especially when you aren’t even using graphics drivers optimized for Windows 10.

It’s kinda like if you’d ask a guy at a car repair shop, if he can do something about the bad signal on your TV.

I hate to tell you this, but A-Net can’t do anything about performance issues on an OS, which probably still is in alpha state.

Even if they could, it would be pointless, because Windows 10 might work completely different, once at 1.0 as well as already implementing code, optimized for that OS might break things for everyone else.

If you really wanna help out Microsoft optimizing their upcoming OS, do some benchmarks or, if you’re a coder, test out the new features and send them your feedback.

It’s just out as a preview for testing purposes. You should’ve installed it seperately on a different partition.

The issue with Tech Previews are generally driver issues. We wont see proper GPU/System drivers until windows 10 hits RC1. So while its in preview you are getting what is expected, a preview of what Windows10 is bringing to the market, not optimizations and performance enhancements.

If its unacceptable for ya, i suggest rolling back to win8/8.1 or 7 until 10 hits RC.

First of all I should thank all of you for the response, I know that Windows 10 are still on technical preview release so I don’t expect much of GW performance.

All this topic was kind of feedback to Anet guys so that they know GW still having issues on Windows 10 build 9860 even if at the pre-release build 9841 i did have none!

foufos.4809:

All this topic was kind of feedback to Anet guys so that they know GW still having issues on Windows 10 build 9860 even if at the pre-release build 9841 i did have none!

Why should ANet care about that ? Its a problem of NVidia and AMD that they have
to release better drivers.

Indeed, I installed knew AMD drivers and the game was a lot smoother…

I believe Anet should know and focus where the problems on Windows 10 are.

As mentioned above, until actual production video drivers for the OS come out, complaining about game performance on a new OS is pointless….

Nobody is going to be pursuing good performance at this point.

I believe Anet should know and focus where the problems on Windows 10 are.

Your assumption that they intend to support Windows 10 is quite large. I’m not saying they won’t, but the are under NO obligation to do so (since the released their software 3 years prior to Windows 10 projected release date).

foufos.4809:

Indeed, I installed knew AMD drivers and the game was a lot smoother…

I believe Anet should know and focus where the problems on Windows 10 are.

Why should ANet do this?
Users before have written why its bad to play on WIN10, on a very early open alpha/beta.
ANet is not Microsoft, nor nVidia or AMD.

When the final version is released and you can buy it in a shop and the performance is bad, THEN its on ANet maybe. When the problem is not the videodriver or the os himself.

When you will play GW2 smooth, use Win8 or Win7, thats it.
I dont think that ms care about games in a early alpha/beta.
Or any dev team for games about alpha os preview versions.

Its not at all a beta, ms is beta testing itself, not you or any other user.
THIS is only a preview, not more. And you dont should use it for normal workloads or playing.

Yeah .. if i would be ANet i would simply expect that GW2 runs on Win-10 as good
as on Win7 after it is released and AMD and NVidia have released proper drivers.

There are no different Versions of Games for XP, Vista, Win7 or 8 .. so why should
there be a different version for Win 10 ?

Else in general it would only make sense to upgrade the engine for DX-11 or create
a 64-bit client.

On one hand it’s Microsoft’s responsibility not to alter their OS in a way to break or slow existing 3rd party applications. It’s also hardware manufacturers responsibility to make sure their drivers for the new OS are as efficient as their previous. The app developer shouldn’t have to worry about either an OS or driver upgrade.

It’s only a problem if the app uses APIs that are no longer supported. So unless Win10 dropped some functionality that’s been there in XP though Win8.1 it’s not the app developer’s responsibility to “fix”.

That said you do realize that tech builds of OS and drivers are likely full of extraneous debug and diagnostic code that won’t be there in the final release as well as being built with optimized code generation settings.

No it’s not Microsoft Jon to not alter there is it is a new os not a update for a existing on they could very well drop support for 32 bit and 16 bit code if they wanted do keeping support for older programs is only good practise

chris.9142:

No it’s not Microsoft Jon to not alter there is it is a new os not a update for a existing on they could very well drop support for 32 bit and 16 bit code if they wanted do keeping support for older programs is only good practise

Except if they want the bulk of existing applications to keep working then it is their job to be selective in breaking the existing API to impact as few apps as possible. Even if breaking is a side effect of “fixing” an API to remove an unintentional side effect that some apps may have been capitalizing on.

An OS without applications is a college project.

But I still contend what is being seen here is unoptimized, debug and test code combined with changes due to Dx12 support. I would be worried if this was 6 months away from Win10’s launch but at this stage, not so much.

I think Complaining about issues playing GW2 on a OS that is over a year away from release is just silly. But then that is me with over 30 years of using Computers.