Guild Wars 2

I know GW2 didn’t scale with crossfire in the 32 bit client. I’m using the 64 bit beta client now. I want to know if getting a second gpu for crossfire will improve my FPS. Right now I play on ultra settings, but it’s not smooth. In an empty zone with little clutter I can get 50 to 60 FPS, but in The Grove when it’s empty i get 25 to 30. In big events, which is mostly all I do in HoT I get about 7 to 10 FPS. It’s very choppy and not that enjoyable.

I should say the graphics aren’t all ultra. I think i have shadows set to medium and character limit set to medium. The rest is at max.

current specs is i5 2500k, 16gb ram, radeon 6870 gpu.
Thinking if I should get a second 6870 to crossfire, if it will scale.

It is not true sli/crossfire didn’t work in 32bit client.
Anyway, doing that crossfire is not the best option. Any nowadays low end gpu is quite more powerful than yours.

I wouldn’t bother with sli again, just one good graphics card 980ti ?

A strong single GPU is almost always better than SLI/Crossfire but I wouldnt suggest a +$600 GPU for Gw2,especially seeing as OPs CPU is going on 6 years old.

The absolute minimum GPU I would recommend is an R7 380,which can be had for around $170 and is more than enough for GW2,and most other games, at high settings(Ultra settings in Gw2 is unfeasible for the foreseeable future).

Alright, thanks a lot for all the input. I’ll just see if i can sell my current card and get a new one. Definitely one for under 200 dollars.

So, what about the people that already have 2 cards in crossfire and don’t want to buy 1 better card?

I have 2x R9 290X in crossfire on 2x 4k displays.
When I run 64bit client in fullscreen (needed for crossfire to work) the client simply crashes! Not tested with 32bit client yet..