Guild Wars 2

I own a 2011 Toshiba Laptop that has a 315M Nvidia card and 4GB of RAM. Yes, I know — it’s terrible for recent video games, but I still manage to get 25-35 fps on most locations and playable FPS on LW2 zones.

Today I started HoT. Spent my 18th B-Day cash back on September to buy the expansion. I was super excited. Once I stepped in, my fps dropped to 8 and my ping climbed to 300. The game is… unplayable. Sometimes it gets back to normal, going up to an average amount of 15 fps, but still s ofar the maps and ‘quests’ are not what I expected… I kept dying, over and over. I felt so lost. And I had to pick the worst class.. Thief..

I am surprised no one has answered this. I am no techy and I play on a Mac which also has horrible fps issues under certain circumstances. I turned my graphics options down to Best Performance and that solved most of the crashing issues. The graphics aren’t the best but it is better than that ‘wading through treacle’ feel and the inevitable crash. Maybe lowering your graphics will help even though it is not what you probably want to do.

You are on a PC though so you have a couple more options. My friend plays on a PC and she was also having trouble in HoT with severe lag. Her game was almost unplayable. Updating her graphics drivers helped her and so did switching over to the 64 bit version (if your computer can use it).

Good luck. I hope something works for you because it is a lot of fun in the HoT lands.

Figlilly.3907:

I am surprised no one has answered this. I am no techy and I play on a Mac which also has horrible fps issues under certain circumstances. I turned my graphics options down to Best Performance and that solved most of the crashing issues. The graphics aren’t the best but it is better than that ‘wading through treacle’ feel and the inevitable crash. Maybe lowering your graphics will help even though it is not what you probably want to do.

You are on a PC though so you have a couple more options. My friend plays on a PC and she was also having trouble in HoT with severe lag. Her game was almost unplayable. Updating her graphics drivers helped her and so did switching over to the 64 bit version (if your computer can use it).

Good luck. I hope something works for you because it is a lot of fun in the HoT lands.

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That’s exactly what I did. Did some tweaks on Nvidia panel and updated my drivers. Game’s still awful in HoT.