Guild Wars 2

As title says it. Happens on HoT maps, in terms of central Tyria and other stuff ( dunegons, PvP , it works fine, yet…). Was even able to do Tequatl event. Tho here is my question:

Are the new maps not optimized for 32bit OS ( Vista here, yeah I know… ) or should I really upgrade to new OS or even new hardware ( Lenovo IdeaPad y550 back from 2009, 3GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 2,1 Ghz, GeForce GT 13oM ) although so far I was able to play the game, even on medium details with no issues at all ( well, not counting low FPS, got used to it).

I hope Santa gets you a new computer !

Sylaves.8132:

As title says it. Happens on HoT maps, in terms of central Tyria and other stuff ( dunegons, PvP , it works fine, yet…). Was even able to do Tequatl event. Tho here is my question:

Are the new maps not optimized for 32bit OS ( Vista here, yeah I know… ) or should I really upgrade to new OS or even new hardware ( Lenovo IdeaPad y550 back from 2009, 3GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 2,1 Ghz, GeForce GT 13oM ) although so far I was able to play the game, even on medium details with no issues at all ( well, not counting low FPS, got used to it).

I had Vista-64 running on a Core 2 Duo in 2008, and i think you can also use your
key for the 64-bit version. However i recently noticed you can’t download ISOs
for Vista any longer at MS.
Also 3 GB Ram is of course not really enough for GW2 since you don’t even have
enough phsysical memory for the 32-bit client under Win64 to reach the OOM
crash limit so in the end you will have a lot of lags due to swap-file usage.

Personally i would say if you don’t want to upgrade and stay with 32-bit its
even better to downgrade on XP since it uses less memory than Vista or 7.

they should fix the client… you shouldnt have to upgrade.

simple as that.

your machine is above the min specs which means their client is at fault.

if they list it, sell it and market it as a 32 bit game.. and it has 32 bit specs.. they should fix it

oh.. and btw for those of you on the 64 bit client saying you have no problems..

check your process threads..

The game is STILL 32 it.. 32 bit processes etc..

the launcher is 64 bit… but the game and the dat file itself is 32 bit..

always has been.. always will be

the 64 bit launcher just gives it a little more memory via longer strings..

the game sill still crash with the memory leak, OOM error.. but it will just take longer

“I had Vista-64 running on a Core 2 Duo in 2008, and i think you can also use your
key for the 64-bit version. "

there isnt a seperate key or anything other than the 10 meg launcher you have to download.. place it in your GW2 directory and run.. thats it.

No changes have to be made at all to your account, settings or anything.

Like i said above.. the game is still 32 bit, but as a cheap work around to the problem they cant seem to fix, they added a 64 bit launcher, that allocates slightly more memory in the initialization phase… that is ALL they did.

autopsie.6159:

Like i said above.. the game is still 32 bit, but as a cheap work around to the problem they cant seem to fix, they added a 64 bit launcher, that allocates slightly more memory in the initialization phase… that is ALL they did.

No..That’s not true at all

See the lack of *32 ? That denotes it’s running in 64bit.

autopsie.6159:

oh.. and btw for those of you on the 64 bit client saying you have no problems..

check your process threads..

The game is STILL 32 it.. 32 bit processes etc..

the launcher is 64 bit… but the game and the dat file itself is 32 bit..

always has been.. always will be

the 64 bit launcher just gives it a little more memory via longer strings..

the game sill still crash with the memory leak, OOM error.. but it will just take longer

The launcher IS the program .. we only have GW2.exe .. that is the program.
The DAT file is just a virtuell filesystem .. or a database.

Stop talking about things you don’t know.

Beldin.5498:

Stop talking about things you don’t know.

There’s been a lot of this,lately.

Do we have no moderator for this forum?

Not sure the last time i’ve seen anything.