Guild Wars 2

I have a Windows 7 computer with these specs i get an average of 10-15 FPS in lions arch, 20-25 in low populated areas, and maybe …1-5 fps while fighting something like claw of jormag or any other group fight. I tried WvW once, got 1 fps, locked up, had to log out to be able to get anything going again. even in a few dungeons ive dropped to only 10 fps.

Processor Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz, 2600 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 6.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 3.74 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.42 GB

Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Resolution 1920 × 1080 × 60 hertz

Tech support gave me an automated email that I am sure any one with an fps issue has seen, I have adjusted all settings to what I was directed to do so. System requirements labs website says my pc should be running this game pretty well, but its not.

Ive got everything on low, with native sampling (it was recommended that way by support) – the 60 fps shown on that screen is on the character select menu, the only time i actually get decent fps

If any one has any suggestions, comments, hints, tips please – im all ears.

InfiniteTaco.2396:

Processor Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz, 2600 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

Truth is, that’s not decent. At all. It was decent 4 and a half years ago, and based on what I’ve been reading, the framerate you get seems about right.
The GW2 minimum requirements being too low is a different story.

No is not, would be if he play in “High”, but in low he should have more perfomance, the issue right now that it doesnt matter if you put the game in low or high, the fps only change 3-4 fps.

People should learn that Minium Requeriments mean play at game in “low” with a good perfomance at least (40-60 fps ), the issue is that or the game is poor optimiced ( yes ) or thar arena.net lie with Minium Requeriments ( im starting think that yes too ).

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better

Thats the CPU that GW2 need, and with this in low it should work at stable perfomance but low, that how minimum requeriments normally works in all games, people should learn that you dont have to have a i5-i7 to play a game with a 7 years old engine improved with good framerate.

If the game run bad is for the poor perfomance or that simple arena.net lies, choose either one, and if the game run like should run, arena.net need to change the " Minimum requeriments" because many people that dont follow the forums will bought the game thinking that they suprass the requeriments and they will found a unplayable game at “low settings”, and you will have angry costumer with high possibilities that they wont buy another GW game again, and to Arena.net is scamming the players.

InfiniteTaco.2396:

Processor Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz, 2600 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 6.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 3.74 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.42 GB

Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Resolution 1920 × 1080 × 60 hertz

That, my friend, is obviously below the requirement this game demands. Even though you have a pretty good GPU, but your processor really worn the whole thing down and as you know that GW2 is known as a very CPU-demanding.
Fear not, you can still improve your FPS by terminating unnecessary background processes & etc (I myself have been using Gamebooster by IOBit to help me improve the game’s performance).
But just one thing, if you don’t install any extra cooling for your CPU, it may get up to 70 degree and above which caused you an auto shutdown due to overheating.

Hope it helps!

The CPU is the cause, more than likely. It’s not good. I don’t think it even reaches min requirements, as it’s not newer than a core 2 duo.

Just to be sure, make sure all your drivers are up to date (sound, GPU, chipset).

If playing at a lower resolution makes the game run better, then there’s not much else you can do other than upgrade Mobo / RAM / CPU

What exactly is decent?

E6600-E8400-E8500 was decent from that CPU generation, Q6600 was decent, you have neither of those.

GTX 550 Ti is the top of the crap cards of 500 series, crap card means, they are made for HD videos and 3-6 year old games, aka World of Warcraft and League of Legends or generally, for running everything Low, without shadows etc etc.

Your performance is highly accurate to be honest, nothing wrong about it, time for an upgrade.

Whether your PC is too kitteny to run the game, or GW2 is poorly optimized, the only solution atm is an upgrade. I would recommend you to low your res if possible. On my system the things I notice that give the most trouble are the Shadows, and Reflections. Everything else only makes a diff of 5-7fps between low and ultra.

Try going into your Bios and disabling Intel Speed Step Tech. I found disabling this let my cpu run at max (i7 960 @ 3.2) without the system scaling it down when it decided to. My fps went from being all over the place as low as 10 (high as 70) to a more consistent 50-70fps ( I was using a Raedon 6870 1gb card )

I wouldn’t really recommend that, Oaknheart. It’s not a good long term fix and it can cause problems.

The only problem in disabling SpeedStep is a few extra cents on your monthly power bill…

So if we disable speed step then your CPU runs at 100% all the time? Doesn’t seem healthy

No. It keeps it at it’s highest multiplier 100% of the time. Google is your friend.

deltaconnected.4058:

No. It keeps it at it’s highest multiplier 100% of the time. Google is your friend.

That’s pretty much exactly the same thing.

Potential Fix (for some users)

I spent all day on this. I don’t have as good a rig as many of you on here, BUT I am running the game on high at around 30-40fps (which is plenty fluid enough for me). I only use x2 SLi Nvidia 260GTX cards. I haven’t done much in the way of large scale battles yet as I am still fairly new.

I was getting and average FPS of between 5-10. This was the same no matter what settings I put into the game. After hours of troubleshooting I nailed it down to the CPU. even though there was plenty of spare memory the game wasn’t using it (no idea why this was). So I downloaded the NVidia System Monitor and System Tools (you won’t need these, it was just to help me fact find).

I opened up the Nvidia Settings and changed them to run GW2 through my GPU instead of my CPU. Just for good measure I also got a game booster (I use iOrbit, but there are others) to close down all background processes whilst the game is running.

This solved the issue for me. I understand that this won’t work for everyone, but i can now play the game without it looking like I’m on a CCTV camera! I can now run the game on almost max graphics with around 30-40 fps. I’m sure there will be a better solution soon, but anything that alleviates pressure on your CPU should do the trick. The ultimate solution is get a better CPU. I’m still on a dual core, but properly configured (or overclocked) it does more than enough for me.

If the fps drops during large scale events or battles I simply plan to lower the settings, which my FPS now responds to

If this helps just one of you I’ll be happy – good luck guys

“Processor Pentium® Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz, 2600 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)”

Not even remotely decent for this game, I’m sorry. Throw in an i5 and overclock to 4.2 or above.

Funny how a cpu that exceeds minimum game requirements is being called “not remotely decent”…

IMO, if a system meets the minimum requirements, it should at least be playable. On low settings maybe, but playable.

You have to give a little to get a little. Realizing your CPU isn’t the best and this game is CPU heavy. You’ll never be able to push 1920×1080. The CPU still has to feed the video card what to render and full fill all the normal demands the game puts on it. Lower your resolution to something more manageable like 800×600 / 1024×768 maybe even 1280×720.

At 1920×1080 your CPU is the bottleneck its not able to feed the videocard and the game so your FPS suffers. You should notice improvements at lower resolutions.

Revenant.4906:

Funny how a cpu that exceeds minimum game requirements is being called “not remotely decent”…

IMO, if a system meets the minimum requirements, it should at least be playable. On low settings maybe, but playable.

Pentium dual-core and Core 2 Duo are not the same. One meets the minimum, one falls short.

GonzoNeo.4965:

No is not, would be if he play in “High”, but in low he should have more perfomance, the issue right now that it doesnt matter if you put the game in low or high, the fps only change 3-4 fps.

People should learn that Minium Requeriments mean play at game in “low” with a good perfomance at least (40-60 fps ), the issue is that or the game is poor optimiced ( yes ) or thar arena.net lie with Minium Requeriments ( im starting think that yes too ).

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better

Thats the CPU that GW2 need, and with this in low it should work at stable perfomance but low, that how minimum requeriments normally works in all games, people should learn that you dont have to have a i5-i7 to play a game with a 7 years old engine improved with good framerate.

If the game run bad is for the poor perfomance or that simple arena.net lies, choose either one, and if the game run like should run, arena.net need to change the " Minimum requeriments" because many people that dont follow the forums will bought the game thinking that they suprass the requeriments and they will found a unplayable game at “low settings”, and you will have angry costumer with high possibilities that they wont buy another GW game again, and to Arena.net is scamming the players.

Anet doesn’t lie about system spec. Game were tested by millions of users across the world with millions of system. Only 0.05% of the user out of 2millions will have FPS issues.

OP: the CPU is very old. 2 cores… 2008 Pentium.

He should be able to run everything on Mid except the Shadows and Sampling to Low or Native. Most of the settings are CPU bound. The higher you over clock the CPU, the better FPS you get.

Revenant.4906:

Funny how a cpu that exceeds minimum game requirements is being called “not remotely decent”…

IMO, if a system meets the minimum requirements, it should at least be playable. On low settings maybe, but playable.

His CPU doesn’t meet min requirements. It’s nowhere close. A core2duo is vastly superior to the one in the system specified.

DJRiful.3749:

GonzoNeo.4965:

No is not, would be if he play in “High”, but in low he should have more perfomance, the issue right now that it doesnt matter if you put the game in low or high, the fps only change 3-4 fps.

People should learn that Minium Requeriments mean play at game in “low” with a good perfomance at least (40-60 fps ), the issue is that or the game is poor optimiced ( yes ) or thar arena.net lie with Minium Requeriments ( im starting think that yes too ).

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better

Thats the CPU that GW2 need, and with this in low it should work at stable perfomance but low, that how minimum requeriments normally works in all games, people should learn that you dont have to have a i5-i7 to play a game with a 7 years old engine improved with good framerate.

If the game run bad is for the poor perfomance or that simple arena.net lies, choose either one, and if the game run like should run, arena.net need to change the " Minimum requeriments" because many people that dont follow the forums will bought the game thinking that they suprass the requeriments and they will found a unplayable game at “low settings”, and you will have angry costumer with high possibilities that they wont buy another GW game again, and to Arena.net is scamming the players.

Anet doesn’t lie about system spec. Game were tested by millions of users across the world with millions of system. Only 0.05% of the user out of 2millions will have FPS issues.

OP: the CPU is very old. 2 cores… 2008 Pentium.

He should be able to run everything on Mid except the Shadows and Sampling to Low or Native. Most of the settings are CPU bound. The higher you over clock the CPU, the better FPS you get.

First all sorry for my english.

Tell me, you think that this game will run smotthly (40-60fps ) at low with the minium requeriments after see the tech support forum ? You think that if you would have this spec the game will run fine in your PC ?

Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI Radeon™ X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
25 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

If someone put this system here telling that the game is unplayable the people will tell , " buy another pc", " CPU 5 years old " etc….But no, the game should be playable smoth at lowest config, if you cant play with a that system you are lying your costumers.

Becuase that is the meaning of Minium Requeriments, no install the game and play 10 fps at lowest.

I have a system muuuuuch better than the minimum requeriments and i play after the 12/9 patch at 15-35 fps when im alone in the map, it doesnt matter if i put the game in high or low, the first game that i saw that it doesnt matter what config you use, nothing change.

That is not how work a minimum requeriments, the people that buy a PC game dont have to see the forum game to see if is true or not that the game will run in his system, they will check the requeriments in the box and they will buy it . But many people will buy the game with a system over the requreimenst and will be unplayable at the lowest graphic.

I think that say " buuh 4 years CPU etc…" forget that the game use a improved version of GW1 engine, a game with more of 7 years old, and the GW1 perfomance was much better.

I still remember, "if you play at GW1 in high with good fps, you will play GW2 in medium without no issues ".

Well i play GW1 at highest at 180 fps, where is my "no issues " ?

PD: You have to tell me where you get that 0.05% ? That the people dont post it in the Official forums dont mean that they dont exist, i have many friends with perfomance issues with good specs and they dont go post it in the forums, and casual players dont give a kitten if the game run at 30fps or 120fps.

It’s people like you that complain about there “Decent PCs” It’s old trash don’t expect it to run max at 1080p, come on man. Your Fps is accurate. Same goes for people who are on Pre-builts/Gaming Laptops you get what you pay for the only people who should be complaining are people with Mid-range to High end PCs.

GonzoNeo.4965 you have to understand that when they list a minimum requirement, they don’t intend people to be playing the game at high resolutions :P. Try moving to the lowest possible resolution in game + with the lowest game settings you should get better fps :P.

Hmm, the game asks for 2.0 ghz, he has 2.6 ghz? Going off the numbers he should have enough, and the processor is dual core…

Oh. His is a Pentium, not an Intel. Did not see that bit e.e

GonzoNeo.4965:

That is not how work a minimum requeriments, the people that buy a PC game dont have to see the forum game to see if is true or not that the game will run in his system, they will check the requeriments in the box and they will buy it . But many people will buy the game with a system over the requreimenst and will be unplayable at the lowest graphic.

Minimum: The least or smallest amount or quantity possible, attainable, or required.
Recommended: Put forward with approval as being suitable for a particular purpose or role.
^ From google.

The specs GW2 listed make zero promises on how well it will run, what settings it will run at, and if you will be happy with how it runs. If you skewed this definition to convince yourself that your piece of garbage PC can play the game, that’s your own fault.

GonzoNeo.4965:

I still remember, "if you play at GW1 in high with good fps, you will play GW2 in medium without no issues ".

End-products axe things from the design phase all the time. What ever happened to the companion system? What about Borderland 2’s TXAA? What if I said I’d give you $20 for free but never did?