Guild Wars 2

So basically, whenever I play with Medium Shaders, there is no grass and foliage in the world.

As much as I don’t mind playing in Low Shaders, I would prefer to be able to have my grass and play at Medium Shaders. It took me a while to realize the issue even existed as I was playing at low initially, then switched to medium in a city one day, about 10 levels later I started to feel like the world lacked some foliage, then I began to play with settings and saw it.

All my drivers are up to date, and I’ve tried many different graphics settings in game to see if anything changed but had no luck.

System Specs;
Windows XP
Dual Core CPU E5200 @ 2.5ghz
3.25GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4800

I’ve made a screenshot showing the difference between Low and Medium, it’s quite noticeable lol

I have the Same problem he is having and to be honest it is rather Obnoxious My Computer is in Close Proximity to his Specs. I’ve had the Grass Appear wile in High Shaders but only on Occasions sometimes it will be off in the distance and vanish as i get close.

Windows XP Service Pack 3
AMD Phenom II X4 B25 Processor Unlocked to a Quad Core.
2.97 GHz, 3.12 GB of RAM (I actually have 6 GB but XP only see’s 3.12)
ATI Radeon HD 4850 Graphics Card.

both of you are using windows XP

the game client is reducing Texturing levels as higher shaders are used to keep the game from crashing.

Right Crashing from Grass? I’ve had mine appear when I’ve had it on High before on occasion these Random Bits and Pieces Anet limits are understandable but stupid same goes with the horrible Render distance on characters, Anet needs to stop Limiting and allow us to control what we think is best and that we can handle….

Funny I just realized the same thing. The problem is in the GPU most likely, I also have an ATI 4800 Series (4850 HD to be exact), although I play all settings High. Actually when I tried changing the shader setting a couple of times between low/medium/high, the grass always appeared. But anyway when I read this topic a few minutes ago I went to a place that has grass and it didn’t show it before I started playing with the settings.

Now it seems that there’s no issue, though. My GPU is the bottleneck in the config (3570k, 16GB Ram, etc) and I guess this thing has been happening rarely enough for me to not notice it. New graphics card on the way though!

Worry not! I’m pretty sure it’s our stupid graphics card.

Btw, I don’t think it’s Windows XP, I’m on Windows 7 x64

So your saying its probably a problem with the HD 4800 Series Card? goody…

HAH! I knew it, i fast traveled into Gendarren Fields Nebo Terrrace wile my fan was pretty much on Idle from sitting in Divinity and when i come into the Zone all the Grass and Flowers were there, It must be dependant on Fan Speed and Heat if they show up or not.