Guild Wars 2

Hi,
So tons of people participate in the chest evens all over the map. Probably anywhere from 20-50 at any given time. Just curious what your FPS rate is on a boss like Jormag or Shadow Behemoth. Mine drops to an abysmal 5 FPS, maybe 10. Its unplayable. I stand there and autoattack because I cannot do much else. Much is the same on the instigator champion bosses in Southsun.

I hate to bring it up, but WoW was successful for many reasons. One of them was being that the game was accessible to most people. Anyone could install the game on their crummy computers and they all could experience all of the content without much technical issue(granted they had to have the guild to get them there, etc etc whatever). My point is, any and all WoW content runs smoothly on any machine, now or then. That is a large reason why WoW was able to lure in a lot of people, because their engine didn’t make your cards die.

Sure, my rig has components, on average, probably 5 years or older. I can experience most of the content in the game, as well as any other game(including recently released Neverwinter which has some nice graphics too). However when there are 50 people on the screen with the amazing spell effects all whipping into the boss, its terrible. Its boring.

If/when Arenanet decides to make the world bosses and events more interesting and challenging, I will have to pass on it because I cannot experience difficult content at 5 FPS.

To arenanet: Is there anyway to improve this? These events are mind numbingly boring. Sitting there autocasting because I cannot do much else is not fun. I could give you my specs, but its not just my machine obviously. Many people lag out on these events.

cesmode.4257:

Hi,
So tons of people participate in the chest evens all over the map. Probably anywhere from 20-50 at any given time. Just curious what your FPS rate is on a boss like Jormag or Shadow Behemoth. Mine drops to an abysmal 5 FPS, maybe 10.

Have yet to see my fps drop below 30 frames.. During most boss events it will be at about 40 or so.
This is at 1920×1080 everything maxed. With native sample , with supersample it will drop 5-10 frames.

System Specs:
3570k @ 4.7 ghz
Sli gtx 670 @ 1300 mhz core clock
and 16 gig ram

You need an overclocked cpu (and a recent one) to be able 2 play this game at a somewhat decent framerate in all situations

I use supersampling and I usually get 20-30+ on the large events. The game itself is terribly optimized and needs tons of work to the engine.
They are currently working on optimizations but the outcome of course remains to be seen.
Unless they add new threading to the game for quadcore+ CPUs or a better optimization of the actual client I dont really think that you can do too much OP except get a new system and overclock it.
It is unfortunate but the devs decided to use a modified GW1 engine which uses an antiquated API.
The end user is stuck with the results.

Sossa.1863:

cesmode.4257:

Hi,
So tons of people participate in the chest evens all over the map. Probably anywhere from 20-50 at any given time. Just curious what your FPS rate is on a boss like Jormag or Shadow Behemoth. Mine drops to an abysmal 5 FPS, maybe 10.

Have yet to see my fps drop below 30 frames.. During most boss events it will be at about 40 or so.
This is at 1920×1080 everything maxed. With native sample , with supersample it will drop 5-10 frames.

System Specs:
3570k @ 4.7 ghz
Sli gtx 670 @ 1300 mhz core clock
and 16 gig ram

You need an overclocked cpu (and a recent one) to be able 2 play this game at a somewhat decent framerate in all situations

Well, geez yah with SLI and 4.7ghz processor I doubt you’d have a lot of trouble.

Stormcrow.7513:

I use supersampling and I usually get 20-30+ on the large events. The game itself is terribly optimized and needs tons of work to the engine.
They are currently working on optimizations but the outcome of course remains to be seen.
Unless they add new threading to the game for quadcore+ CPUs or a better optimization of the actual client I dont really think that you can do too much OP except get a new system and overclock it.
It is unfortunate but the devs decided to use a modified GW1 engine which uses an antiquated API.
The end user is stuck with the results.

I thought they vamped up the optimization after betas. I do see all cores being utilized.

cesmode.4257:

Sossa.1863:

cesmode.4257:

Hi,
So tons of people participate in the chest evens all over the map. Probably anywhere from 20-50 at any given time. Just curious what your FPS rate is on a boss like Jormag or Shadow Behemoth. Mine drops to an abysmal 5 FPS, maybe 10.

Have yet to see my fps drop below 30 frames.. During most boss events it will be at about 40 or so.
This is at 1920×1080 everything maxed. With native sample , with supersample it will drop 5-10 frames.

System Specs:
3570k @ 4.7 ghz
Sli gtx 670 @ 1300 mhz core clock
and 16 gig ram

You need an overclocked cpu (and a recent one) to be able 2 play this game at a somewhat decent framerate in all situations

Well, geez yah with SLI and 4.7ghz processor I doubt you’d have a lot of trouble.

Its most certainly not the gfx cards thats the important part here .. during gameplay neither of both cards will be used for more than 70% , and on average more like 50%, meaning my cpu is quite badly bottlenecking my gfx cards.. atleast for this game that is..

Like Stormcrow.7513 mentioned this game is poorly optimized so to run it smoothly u have 2 throw immense amounts of cpu power at it. And u can get away with a not so great gfx card.

And if its true what Stormcrow.7513 said about the gw1 engine then u wont have 2 expect any major fps gains with future game patches.

I mean, I know I am due for an upgrade. I just have a deck to build first(its one of those outdoor apparatuses…a grill goes on it..outside…) I have to convince wifey to let me drop 500-800 on some hot parts tho.

Thinking at least an i5 or i7 sandy…
my GFX card is OK, maybe amp it up.
new mobo and ram