Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing Guild Wars 2 since beta. I absolutely love the game, which is what helps me deal with this bull-honky lag I’ve had for a year. I’ve been patient, I’ve dealt with the lag, but I can’t do it anymore. Its driving me crazy.

I bought this Alienware M11x R3 laptop last year, and it is not what I thought it was going to be. I thought I was buying an ultimate gaming laptop but in reality its above average, maybe that.

But the thing is, I go online and search “Alienware M11x R3 guild wars 2” and people run it on medium settings with 25-40 fps (And they complain about that being unplayable, lol, try having 4fps in a fight with a simple champion and 15 while walking around.). I don’t see how they are getting this because my frame-rate is terrible with all the settings down and being in windowed mode. While charging I get 4fps while fighting, and around 15 while walking around. When unplugged I have a constant 15 with razer game booster, which I don’t think that even does anything. I seriously cannot deal with this anymore.

My specs are:

Intel® Core™ i5-2467M CPU @ 1.60 GHz
8 GB Ram
64-bit Operating System
Windows 7
300 GB Hard Drive
Nvidia GeForce G540M Graphics

What can I do to make my game run any better? I’ll take 20fps constantly on low graphics, I don’t care. I just want the game to be playable.

1.6ghz is really slow by today’s standards – are you sure that’s it’s speed?

Flatley.1620:

1.6ghz is really slow by today’s standards – are you sure that’s it’s speed?

Positive. I’m scared of overclocking it also because it gets hot fast.

The 2467m turbo’s itself to 2.3ghz, but it likely downlocks the more cores in use, so ur likely at 2ghz… thats still incredibly slow.
The 540m is also a low end card.

That said…. run some utilisation monitoring software to find out GPu and CPU usuage when u get the low FPS. Get back to us with the results.

Flatley.1620:

1.6ghz is really slow by today’s standards – are you sure that’s it’s speed?

It maybe 1.6 GHz but it outperforms a 2.4GHz Core 2 E6600 desktop.