(edited by Wildtaco.6029)
FPS drops dont understand
Unfortunately, I don’t think your machine is as good as you think it is. The Pentium 4 is very weak by today’s standards. Even though it’s 3GHz, it’s not going to be nearly as fast as most of today’s 2GHz chips.
The 630 video card is also not going to help you out. It’s a mid-range media card, not a performance gaming card. At best, it will be slow to get the rendering done. At worst, it’s going to make the CPU do extra work to emulate any DirectX features that aren’t implemented in the hardware.
Lastly, the 2GB of RAM is going to hurt. Your operating system is going to be taking up at least half of that, with GW2 wanting to use up at least 1GB on its own. So your computer will be paging memory out to the hard drive all the time, when GW2 is running. That will slow your PC down even more.
As for the good framerates on the character select screen, that’s easy to explain. There is virtually nothing going on there. The PC only has to render a background image, some text, and your character. By all accounts, a very simple scene that is not at all indicative of what things will be like in the game, when the world gets infinitely more complex and there are dozens of other characters that need to be rendered.
a 3ghz p4 is weaker then a 1.6ghz core based celeron or pentium……
check if your system can be upgraded to a core2 based processor, if not, its time to replace the board/cpu/ram…..
anything from the same era made by AMD would run the game far better then that p4…not trying to attack you or belittle you, your systems just very dated, and wasnt all that fast when it was new….
not much we can do to help outside suggest upgrade paths……
AMD FX-8350@4.8ghz on air(SilverArrowSB-E Extreme) , 32gb 1866mhz(10-11-10 cr1)
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but that still doesnt make sense to me ive played games with more high end graphics or whatever then GW2 and they ran just fine so i dont understand this
Unfortunately, I don’t think your machine is as good as you think it is. The Pentium 4 is very weak by today’s standards. Even though it’s 3GHz, it’s not going to be nearly as fast as most of today’s 2GHz chips.
The 630 video card is also not going to help you out. It’s a mid-range media card, not a performance gaming card. At best, it will be slow to get the rendering done. At worst, it’s going to make the CPU do extra work to emulate any DirectX features that aren’t implemented in the hardware.
Lastly, the 2GB of RAM is going to hurt. Your operating system is going to be taking up at least half of that, with GW2 wanting to use up at least 1GB on its own. So your computer will be paging memory out to the hard drive all the time, when GW2 is running. That will slow your PC down even more.
As for the good framerates on the character select screen, that’s easy to explain. There is virtually nothing going on there. The PC only has to render a background image, some text, and your character. By all accounts, a very simple scene that is not at all indicative of what things will be like in the game, when the world gets infinitely more complex and there are dozens of other characters that need to be rendered.
off top of your ehad what do you imagine id need to spend to fix everything or rather buy a decent PC that can handle this stuff
but that still doesnt make sense to me ive played games with more high end graphics or whatever then GW2 and they ran just fine so i dont understand this
the difference is in IPC.
netburst processors used very long pipes and had a high cache miss rate resulting in lower clocked processors with better designs outperforming the chips by miles.