Guild Wars 2

Guys I need some advice, I’m doing this question here hoping to avoid a @fight between amd & intel fans,

I’m playing with this rig,

Fx-8350 black edition
Sapphire 7950 OC Boost Vapor-X 3GB

The rest is not important, i’m sure it’s not the problem…

I’m running the game at maximum with 45 fps on most areas, 35 in lyon archs and WvW… and everything seems to be fine,

When the zerg starts my fps drops to 25+

My main concerns is that after setting my graphics on medium with no AA I don’t see much difference on the fps, this is due my cpu? I mean, it seems like my gpu can handle this game easily but my cpu is struggling and doing a bottleneck,

Somebody is running with my vga but instead an FX-8350 an I5-3570k?

I’m starting to believe this game is very cpu dependant… i played metro last light and a lot on games and i never had any problem,

Thanks in advance !!

:B

I had the same issue during beta and with other games like Assassins Creed 2 (Console ports usually use more CPU resources then GPU) Sounds like a bottleneck to me. Your graphics card should be able to run it fine. I run a 6870 with 2GB Video ram and i can run the game at maximum graphical settings. with a 3770k Core i7 that goes up to 4.2ghz

The game has probably been optimized since then to use more GPU resources, but from what i can tell its still very CPU dependent. One of my friends can run most games on his pc without a hitch, but as soon as he starts playing gw2 for 15+ minutes his computer just suddenly shuts down (Usually a overheating / CPU issue)

GW2 is heavily CPU dependant and becouse the FX 8350 has slower single thread performance than say a 3570k, thats why u will be getting slightly lower fps than people with Intel CPU’s.
However even a top intel cpu with OC will only manage 20-25 fps in BIG wvw zergs, so if ur close to that then u cant really ask much more of a AMD cpu atm.

I personaly get 20-25 in most zergs and use the following Culling settings.
Character limit: Highest ‘no character culling , see everyone all the time’
Texture Limit : Medium (low in Huge zergs)

Now u may need to go a tad lower on the character limit (to High or Medium) to cull some players from the screen to account for the slower CPU, however if u have that FX 8350 OC’d(~4.5ghz) u will probably be only 5 FPS lower than what i get. So maybe 15-20 FPS in the really big zergs.

Thank you so much guys !!!

In WvW it’s CPU performance that’s limiting your frame rate. The game engine seems to have problems in crowds of players which is why boss chest fights are also poor.

I got the same CPU and a 7970 and have about the same FPS as you. Sadly, until Anet starts optimizing AMD performance for this game, if they ever, which I doubt will happen, the only thing AMD users can do is overclock.