Guild Wars 2

Hi im new to this game and currently downloading it, and it says that i dont meet the minimum requirements of Shader model 3.0 capable graphics card. My question is will i still be able to play this game or will i have to try and upgrade my graphics card? Thanks!

You can still play it, there’s an option in game where you can turn off those shaders.

Ok thanks i was getting worried.

What is your graphics card?

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD, I think that what it is.

BuTTeR.5096:

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD, I think that what it is.

It would be best if you can attach your dxdiag. So others could analyze more

It “may” run, but your gameplay is going to be VERY poor with that graphics card in any situation. That is not a gaming graphics card whatsoever.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/716/capturehjb.png/
My dxdiag ^
Is that how I should post it on here?

Click on save all information then attach the Dxdiag.txt here(Click on more posting & formatting options to attach file).

That laptop looks like it will barely run the game. I can see you having huge fps issues in the City’s alone, let alone when tons of players are on-screen.

You can find his graphics specs, go to the “fifth generation” and “Core i3-3×0M”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units

something doesn’t look quite right with that DxDiag you have a 4GB page file and your pc is currently using 3.7GB this suggests to me that you have quite a lot of task running on your pc. It might be worth looking into that aswell as the graphics card issue.

This is my DxDiag the info might be off because im downloading GW2 while listening to music and asking for help. When i played wow it had issues in major cities but after awhile it seemed to work.

To be quite honest I’d look into a decent Discrete video card, it’ll allow you to play with higher, more enjoyable settings/FPS. Your be lucky to see past 30 FPS with that onboard video card as it just doesn’t have the horse power to run GW2 at a good pace.

Do you know how big your power supply is on that PC ? It’s the Box inside the PC with all the wires coming out of it your need to know incase you plan to upgrade the video card.

If you can swing it I’d look into one of these to replace that onboard video.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102984&name=Desktop-Graphics-Cards

Edit
Just took another look at your DxDiag, and noticed Notebook are you trying to run GW2 on a Laptop ? If so then scratch the idea of replacing the video card cause your kind of stuck with what you got :/.

Going to Assume that This is your Laptop ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157117

Yeah that ^ is my laptop. Well if it plays on low settings ill be fine with that until, i can afford to get a another computer.

Nitro.4732:

something doesn’t look quite right with that DxDiag you have a 4GB page file and your pc is currently using 3.7GB this suggests to me that you have quite a lot of task running on your pc. It might be worth looking into that aswell as the graphics card issue.

I noticed that too. He/she’s either got it set manually or he/she’s running out of hard drive space. Either could cause issues.