Guild Wars 2

The short answer is get better hardware.

However, that is not what people want to hear, so I would suggest unparking your cores. If you search around this subforum you can find a half dozen explanations and methods on how to do this.

One thing you should be able to do is upgrade for free to Windows 7 x64 bit. I’m not entirely sure how to do this, but I have heard it mentioned around this subforum.

Make sure your graphics driver is up to date.

Overclocking your CPU would help, but since you are on a laptop, I’m sure you would generate too much heat and things would start to malfunction.

None of these things will really net any big performance, if any at all, but its a start to making your system a little better.

Also, realize that you are playing on the MINIMUM requirement graphics card. Meaning the game is able to launch, but nowhere does ArenaNet say how well the game will run. My guess is that your graphics card is holding your system back because its the minimum spec, and since you have a laptop, you can’t upgrade. My advise is to grab a desktop to play GW2.

read the link in my sig, it will cover any questions you have.

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

The short answer is get better hardware.

This.
There may be some things you can do to squeeze out a few extra frames here or there, but with those system specs, you can’t expect to run a modern game like GW2 well (especially one with performance issues that doesn’t scale well). I would definitely not recommend overclocking on a laptop (if the HP bios would even allow it) since it isn’t designed to dissipate the excess heat effectively. Your best bet is to save up and look into building yourself a desktop.

get a 660ti instead of just a 660.
while it makes no difference in GW2, it will at any other newer game.

and yes, that’s more than enough.
though, "acceptable FPS" is a stretchy term at GW. :/
also, the only "ultra" settings are "supersampling", which doesn’t do anything but stresses your GPU if you don’t happen to own either a big screen or a low-resolution screen, "shadows", which got a bug that causes stutters on camera movement and "LOD".

for example, high on everything, LOD at ultra, rendersampling to your native screen resolution and reflections to "terrain&sky" and you will get the following:
PvE: 60FPS**
bigger DE’s: 45-60FPS*
LA or similiar demanding PvE areas: 30-60FPS*/***
sPvP: 60FPS**
WvWvW: 60FPS**
WvWvW karma train(15-25 players): 45-60FPS*
WvWvW zerg (40-70 players): 20-45FPS***
WvWvW zerg (75+ players): 15-35FPS***

*=changing quality or GPU/CPU frequency slightly affects performance
**=changing quality or GPU/CPU frequency highly affects performance
***=changing quality or GPU/CPU frequency does not noticeably affect performance

I wouldn’t get a 660Ti, an HD 7870XT (or 7870LE, same card) will beat it for less money. If you have the extra cash, an HD 7950 will do even better at the same price (as the 660Ti).

mujtaba, yes, videocards dont care what brand your board or cpu or ram or mouse or or or are, as long as its got a slot to support the card and psu to power the card your all set.

my suggestion is get the 7870xt from sapphire, its a beast for its price, the coolers the best of the 7870xt cards i have seen.

Aye a Sapphire 7870XT would be a good choice. Also CPU wise, spend the extra 10-20$ for the K version. 3770K, so u can OC .