Guild Wars 2

I just bought the game today, and I have an extremely low FPS, even with the lowest graphics! The FPS is around 12-13.
I run the game on a Macbook Pro 15", Intel Core i7 CPU, 2,67 GHz and with 8 gb ram.
This should be enough to run the game, atleast on medium settings.
Why does it lag so much? Any tips for how to improve my FPS?

My internet speed is at 27 mbps, and I have attached the results I got from systemrequirementslab.com. It clearly states that my Mac meets the requirements.

Any tips would be appreciated.. Thank you

Unfortunatly as with alot of people who word their threads like this. You infact do NOT havea good computer.
The CPU u have is a 1st generation i series laptop CPU which is only a 2 core CPU with HT.
The GPU u have is a lowly 330m, which isnt even close to a gaming GPU.
The FPS ur getting is perfectly understandable when u consider the GPU u have, and even with a good GPU ur CPU will hold u back in a big way when eve u come close to other players like in cities, events, and PVP.

Also note that minimum spec requirments of any game just mean ’ the game will run’ ..not ’ the game will play’.
‘run’ = load up and enter game..it will run.
‘play’ = it will be playable
Also notice that it doesnt have any ‘recommended’ requirments, simply becouse the game, specificaly the WvW part of it, cannot be run at a resonable FPS without a expensive overclocked computer, even then the fps is not very high <30fps in these WvW battle situations.

Unless u put over £/$1.3k+ into a gaming laptop u cant consider it a good computer for gaming. Laptops are a step down in perofrmance compared to desktops i.e a 660m isnt as good as a desktop 660 gpu. And laptop prices are significantly more expensive than a equivlanetly performing desktop due to the cost of miniturizing the components to fit a laptop.

I hope this enough to help u understand ur situation

So there’s nothing I can do to run this game? I mean my CPU and GPU can’t be THAT bad. I can’t even run it on the lowest settings, and I’m just in the starting area.

You can try setting the GW2.exe to high priority in the task manager, setting ur laptop performance settings to maximum performance ( make sure ur plugged in and not coming of battry).
Set all the games settings to low.
Try running of ur onboard GPU, then try on ur 330m ..see which runs best.

However ..for gaming .yes ur CPU and GPU are THAT bad. specialy the GPU.
Its mainly the GPU holding u back becouse the CPU, though slow, is roughly the same as my old QX6850 at stock and that could alow GW2 pve to get up to around 40 FPS but would still hold back a GPU like a nvidia 460.

I am oh so new to all of that, how do I do those certain things? I’m so confused

Run Gw2.
press alt+tab to get back to windows.
pres ctrl+alt+del
Click ‘start task manager’
go to the processes tab and find GW2.exe, right click and go to change priority then choose High.

For laptop performance settings right click the battry icon in the botton right of the windows desktop screen, click power options, select high performance.

Try that first.

Thank you so much, I will reply when I’ve done it

Your CPU is terrible.

Your graphics card is terrible.

You have only 512MB of video memory.

This is not a good computer. This is in fact a pretty horrible computer.

In addition to that, if you are running OSX and using the Guild Wars 2 Mac Beta client, I hear it runs worse than the native Windows client because of the wrapper around the client to get it to run in OSX. There are some people around here that do play on the Mac client, but from what I have seen, some would rather run a dual-boot setup or something similar.

i have a pretty good PC and got 6 – 20 fps (in the lowest settings!) outside of towns
i have an i7 2600k, GTX 580 1,5GB, 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD (win8 64bit)
does anyone know a solution to this? in other games i got up to 200fps (trackmania 2)
i already tried to redownload GW2 and installed all drivers i could find

moogler make sure ur running of the 580 and not the igpu.
use some monitoring software to check clock speeds of the gpu and cpu and also temps.