Guild Wars 2

im sick of Anet saying GW2 support SLI, im getting as low as 25 fps in some areas with 2 670’s. I also get disappearing banners in the character creation screen. Yet they keep telling me gw2 supports sli.

your gpus will be only made to do as much work as the CPU allows.

Squall Leonhart.2075:

your gpus will be only made to do as much work as the CPU allows.

a 3570 @ 4.5ghz is not bottlenecking 2 670’s

Whats your gw2 thread cpu %usage at? You’ll be surprised even a 3570 @ 4.5ghz can still choke in heavy areas like LA or WvWvW.

Timmy.9371:

Squall Leonhart.2075:

your gpus will be only made to do as much work as the CPU allows.

a 3570 @ 4.5ghz is not bottlenecking 2 670’s

sadly, in this game, a 3570 at 6Ghz will be bottlenecking 2 670’s.

Its just a poorly optimized game which uses very little cpu power. Yet arena net claim otherwise

This is pretty unsettling. I have a 3D surround setup and 1 gtx 670 now and was planning to sli around Christmas. I get pretty good frames on one now but would another be worth it? I have a i5 2500k @ 4.3ghz

Raijinn.9065:

This is pretty unsettling. I have a 3D surround setup and 1 gtx 670 now and was planning to sli around Christmas. I get pretty good frames on one now but would another be worth it? I have a i5 2500k @ 4.3ghz

If you’re optimizing for this game specifically, Id go with a better processor. I’m running an i7 3280 @ 4ghz and my GTX 670 will sit at 60% most of the time. CPU still holding me up.

The spread of mis-information is disturbing. Timmy is right on, it’s a poorly optimized game. To say that your cpu is bottle necking your rig is an uneducated guess at best. Someone has been has been glancing (not reading) too much hardocp. 2 GTX 670’s in SLI is more than enough power to process what graphically Guild Wars 2 can throw at em. Discreet graphics cards, via the “drivers”, hands off the processing duties in hand with opengl (or if you still use the weak operating systems directX)your 3570 at stock speed would be overkill.

Arena Net team seems to have released this game way too early. The bad camera, unstable fov, sound crashing, event’s and skill points breaking, the net code needs major tweaking still for huge PvP games.(a.k.a WvW) Clearly the game does not support SLI as in use the function, it just doesn’t crash immediately because you have a SLI setup.

Your lack of Read is fail.

op posted that the game isn’t sli supported
this is proven as false.

Stop posting to wrack up post numbers. Read closer yourself kid. I stated they support it simply to not crash with an SLI setup, but does not to fully utilize the function or SLI’d 670’s and 680’s would not only get between 30-40 fps max.

So many mis-informed people here.

When the game isn’t choked by the cpu, SLI scaling is just fine.

I think you people are confused with what “support” means. GW2 supports SLI as in the game will run and use the hardware. Doesn’t say the game will run at X amount of FPS.

Provided the right CPU the full SLI potential can be utilized. However, there isn’t a cpu on the consumer market atm that is able to. How optimize or not the code is a different subject.

Probably a good reason why there isn’t a “recommended system requirement” officially announced, but only a minimum.

Timmy, what frames do you get with only 1 670 enabled?