Low Fps no fix yet?
Your i5 is a first-gen core-i series:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215
The best i5 for GW2 is this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504
You’d need a new motherboard though, as it requires 1155, not 1156. GW2 is still horribly unoptimized, and requires a good single-thread performing CPU, rather than dumping it on more threads, or GPU. If you want to compare GW2 to TERA, you’d have to remember that TERA uses Unreal, not GW1’s Engine (GW2 = GW1 Heavily Modified.)
as above game is ridiculously bad optimized on the cpu side even with a high end cpu you will still see big fps drops in cities and WvW, just have to wait until Anet figure out whatever is causing such big fps drops. ive disabled cores and dropped graphics incites and only things like shadows and reflections give me boosts to fps but not nearly enough. fps everywhere else is fine.
- you didn’t post what fps you were getting and where, just saying “low” is rather subjective.
- your cpu isn’t the best, but should be very playable for PVE content.
Read Part 4, if you want to start troubleshooting.
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