Guild Wars 2

I don’t have any problems with FPS, cuz I usually play with “Best Performance” settings, but using WPs, or going to another map usually takes a lot of time (10-20 seconds average) which is quite annoying. So that’s why I’m considering buying SSD now, but I want to know what to expect. Is it going to make loading screens time shorter 20%, 30% , or maybe 50%? Is SDD worth it at all?

Here is my PC configuration:

Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-M Pro
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K, 3500 MHz
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (1024 MB)
Memory: 8 GB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM)
HDD: WDC (1000 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III)

Maybe I should upgrade some other parts as well? But as I said, I dont care much about graphics, I only use “Best Appeareance” setting for screenshots and chilling in Guild Hall or etc. So I just want fastest map loading times possible.

I’ve been using an SSD with the game for 2 years now. It is completely worth it.

Chaba.5410:

I’ve been using an SSD with the game for 2 years now. It is completely worth it.

I hear this a lot, but do you have any numbers? I mean is it twice faster? Or how much better? I just don’t want to waste money if it is going to be not 20 seconds load, but 15 seconds instead or so.

And are there any other ways to make loading faster? I played some other MMOs with same PC, but loading there is much better, usually takes a few seconds. Don’t know why in GW2 it takes so much time. :-(

Sorry I don’t have any numbers.

An SSD certainly improves general performance since SSDs have higher sequential bandwidth and vastly higher random bandwidth.

Obviously in game zoning time should improve and while playing there additional data is loaded on the fly so it’ll help there.

Hello Archy,

My specs are similar to yours, except you have a slightly better CPU. With that being said, I average about 4 – 8 second load times depending on zone. It’s a huge performance increase (in terms of loading screens) from when I was running on a standard 7200 RPM HDD. You’ll most likely see slightly better performance than me as your CPU is better.

Just make sure you get a reliable SSD, I HIGHLY recommend the Samsung EVO 850 Pro. With Black Friday coming up, you’ll definitely be able to nab one at a great price. You’ll want to make sure you install a fresh copy of your operating system on this SSD, and that the SATA cable for the SSD is connected to your SATA 6Gb/s slot on your motherboard instead of the slower, SATA 3Gb/s.

If you do buy the SSD I suggest, make sure to install the Samsung Magician software (disable the startup for it though, not needed). You can use RAPID mode (8GB RAM is okay,16GB RAM recommended for best performance) to increase the performance further. RAPID mode uses your RAM to hot-load your programs, with this enabled, performance benchmarks literally exceed the factory performance standards by 4 to 6 times! I can post performance benchmarks if you’re curious.

Good luck!

SSD for GW2 only brings faster loading times when you login or change a zone.
Personally i don’t had so much benefit from it in GW2 than i had in Windows
since the time it takes to boot or launch programms is so much faster.
And especially installing Windows Updates is extreme faster .. with HDD you wait
5 minutes .. with SSD its 20 seconds or whatever.

Try the 64 bit beta client if you’re not already; in my experimentation that made loading the game from a sata 3 spinny drive nearly as fast as an ssd
Loading into LA traders forum from ssd 18.4 seconds, 15.13 on the 64 bit.
For a sata 3 seagate 7200 rpm 60.5 seconds, 16.65 on 64 bit.

Hopping around the world to a bunch of waypoints (20) my average load times came out to 7.0525 from ssd vs. 7.57 from the seagate on the 64 bit client.
The same circuit on the 32 bit client on ssd yielded 8.6 vs 11.4 for the spinner.

Archy.1046:

I don’t have any problems with FPS, cuz I usually play with “Best Performance” settings, but using WPs, or going to another map usually takes a lot of time (10-20 seconds average) which is quite annoying. So that’s why I’m considering buying SSD now, but I want to know what to expect. Is it going to make loading screens time shorter 20%, 30% , or maybe 50%? Is SDD worth it at all?

Here is my PC configuration:

Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-M Pro
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K, 3500 MHz
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (1024 MB)
Memory: 8 GB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM)
HDD: WDC (1000 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III)

Maybe I should upgrade some other parts as well? But as I said, I dont care much about graphics, I only use “Best Appeareance” setting for screenshots and chilling in Guild Hall or etc. So I just want fastest map loading times possible.

hey buddy the problem is not ssd, the problem is your cpu. graphic card! both are outdated! buy a new pc man!

IAMANDLOVE.3095:

Archy.1046:

I don’t have any problems with FPS, cuz I usually play with “Best Performance” settings, but using WPs, or going to another map usually takes a lot of time (10-20 seconds average) which is quite annoying. So that’s why I’m considering buying SSD now, but I want to know what to expect. Is it going to make loading screens time shorter 20%, 30% , or maybe 50%? Is SDD worth it at all?

Here is my PC configuration:

Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-M Pro
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K, 3500 MHz
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (1024 MB)
Memory: 8 GB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM)
HDD: WDC (1000 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III)

Maybe I should upgrade some other parts as well? But as I said, I dont care much about graphics, I only use “Best Appeareance” setting for screenshots and chilling in Guild Hall or etc. So I just want fastest map loading times possible.

hey buddy the problem is not ssd, the problem is your cpu. graphic card! both are outdated! buy a new pc man!

I have the same CPU … and it is not really that outdated in my eyes. After all i read
so far the newer i5 CPUs would give me maybe 10-20% more performance and
for that i don’t pay 4-500 € for a new CPU + Mainboard + maybe RAM.

I play with these settings, and have no problems with them and also had never
OOM crashes. Ohh .. i have a R9 280x GPU, don’t know how the NVidia of the
OP is, since i deeply dislike NVidia for all their driver problems.

I would say, from an i5-2500 to an i5-6600 it would be closer to 30-35% but it’ll cost you for a guts upgrade (CPU/Motherboard/Ram).

Behellagh.1468:

I would say, from an i5-2500 to an i5-6600 it would be closer to 30-35% but it’ll cost you for a guts upgrade (CPU/Motherboard/Ram).

Yeah .. i thought more about a i5 4690k with the 10-20%

Yeah, upgrading from a 2500k isn’t worth it these days. Is old but far from weak. Just OC it, you should be able to get 4.5+ GHz easily.
Not to mention that a CPU/GPU upgrade wouldn’t really decrease loading times

SSD is totally worth it!

I have an ancient Duo core 3.17ghz Cpu /4gigs ram and when i got my SSD last year i shocked at how much faster things were loading. Eveen with my old hardware i was usually one of the first to load when i was running champ trains at the time. SSD are really cheap now and well worth it to put windows and the game on. As for other games i put them on my HDD.

To be honest if your just gonna use it for guildwars2 and some minor programs just go with this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840&cm_re=seagate_1tb-_-22-148-840-_-Product

its a 1tb 150mbs – 180mbs harddrive its not as fast as a Solid state it is faster than traditional HD’s but u wont see much of a difference on Guildwars compared to a solid state, basically same performance.

Solid State drive would help with boot times of Windows/Linux/Mac, and your able to run more programs reading from the drive while you play without lag spikes like if u was watching a movie stored on your drive, zipping a file, and playing Guildwars2 at the same time then ya solid state go for it LOL

I have 2 solid states combined in Raid 0, for even faster speed but it doesn’t show hardly at all in MMORPG’s, it just helps in boot times, installing games, update installs, basically random access crap!! LOL