Guild Wars 2

I can’t select High-Res Character Textures in my graphics settings.
I can run the game with everything maxed out at 4k.
It really bothers me to see my character having really nice textures and everyone else having low quality textures.

I have the late 2016 Razer Blade Stealth with an i7 7500u with 16gb of ram and hooked up to a GTX 1080.

If anyone knows any solutions please let me know.
I already tried editing the settings files and it didn’t work.

Thanks
Pat

high res character textures are not available to people with dual core processor machines, which yours is. you need a quad core to enable the option.

Are there any plans to fix this issue?

doubt it. they specifically changed the game to do that ~2 years ago.

Did they say why?
I’m pretty sure many dual cores could handle it.

it was causing major performance issues for many who had dual core processors, like crashing and huge fps drops.

here’s the dev post about it (the grayed out texture quality line is referring to texture quality from the drop down menu. this has been fixed):
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/FPS-Issue-with-the-9-9-patch-merged/page/6#post4506286

Well that’s disappointing.
I guess I’m just forced to seeing everyone else in low quality even though my PC could probably handle it just fine.

Thanks for the info.

I dont know if this works but have you tried enabling it inside the GFXSettings.Gw2-64.exe config file ?

It’s located in “C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2”

Rightclick GFXSettings.Gw2-64.exe and select edit then find this line below located near the end of the file,change False into True so it looks like the line below.When done,rightclick the file again select properties and set it to Read-only.

<OPTION Name=“highResCharacter” Registered=“True” Type=“Bool” Value=“true”/>