Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if my setup is too weak to run gw2. I run at an average of 35 fps full screen, but when i do windowed full screen I have it at 90 fps, which confuses me.

GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series X2 Crossfire
Ram: 8GB
CPU: Intel i7 – 2600k @ 3.40ghz

Maybe it does suck idk.

I’d say it is just the work load the system has to process, it is a GPU and CPU extensive game after all.
the GPU is lacking but the CPU is decent.

In terms of the 35/90 fps difference that is a little funny.

KingChronicles.7510:

I’m not sure if my setup is too weak to run gw2. I run at an average of 35 fps full screen, but when i do windowed full screen I have it at 90 fps, which confuses me.

GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series X2 Crossfire
Ram: 8GB
CPU: Intel i7 – 2600k @ 3.40ghz

Maybe it does suck idk.

Crossfire does not work in windowed mode, perhaps try turning crossfire off in catalyst and see if you get a similar change in fps. If you do, crossfire support for your cards is the issue, if not, no clue really. Your CPU is a bit older as are your GPU’s, but they’re still plenty fast to run this game, albeit not with all the fancy stuff turned on. One explanation I could think of, is that you are having heat issues while running crossfire. Can check if theres throttling in catalyst as well. Since the 6870 X2 is the only X2 card in the 6800 series I assume you have one of those? I wonder what settings you are using to get 90 fps, if I recall its roughly equal to a single HD6950/70, or single GTX570. The 1gb vram (per core for 2 gb total) kinda cripples it, but if that where causing the issue you wouldn’t see the much better performance in windowed.

Btw, are you sure you arent seeing 90 fps in fullscreen, and 35 in full windowed? That would make a lot more sense given how crossfire is working in one, and not in the other…