Guild Wars 2

So ya I’ll throw in the customary statement about how I have not had problems with other games, etc etc. I have everything on Best Performance and Im consistantly in the 10-20 fps range. Add other players into the equation and its a big choppy mess. Makes it hard to play a thief. Anyway here it is

A 1.7GHz Clarksfield CPU and a GeForce 435M is just not gonna cut it for Guild Wars 2,
there isn’t much you can do except replace it.

That hardware is old. Very old. Unlike those other games, GW2 isn’t a console port.

deltaconnected.4058:

That hardware is old. Very old. Unlike those other games, GW2 isn’t a console port.

Unlike other games GW2 isnt optimized either…

dont know about very old. I played new games like SWTOR just fine and that was released not even a year ago. I know my system isnt the best but I would expect to play this on its lowest settings. I appreciate the feedback from everyone

The 8800GT of 5 years ago is still 2x better than your 435m. A Phenom x4 9750 of 4 years ago is about equal to your 1.6GHz clarkfield. That looks very old to me.

I’ll repeat what I say in every laptop thread; were there laptops 4 years ago that could play Crysis? Or laptops 8 years ago that could play WoW? If every developer “optimized” for outdated hardware (if you want that, go get an XBox or PS3), we’d still be playing pong on a black and white screen, looking forward to the the Quake 3 launch in 2016.

his specs fall between the min and recommended specs it should be at least playable and 10 fps is not playable.
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=684&game=Guild%20Wars%202

If you extrapolate benchmarks (vantage → 06) from the 435m to the 8800gt to the 7800gs, the 435m is below the minimum.
The CPU cant really compare directly because of turboboost, but on single-threaded apps (superpi) it matches a stock q660, while on multi-threaded it will be ~35% weaker. But because at 2 cores loaded the speed will be 2.2GHz, that may as well be minimum.

deltaconnected.4058:

If you extrapolate benchmarks (vantage -> 06) from the 435m to the 8800gt to the 7800gs, the 435m is below the minimum.
The CPU cant really compare directly because of turboboost, but on single-threaded apps (superpi) it matches a stock q660, while on multi-threaded it will be ~35% weaker. But because at 2 cores loaded the speed will be 2.2GHz, that may as well be minimum.

4 cores will be used playing GW2, which means he’s stuck at 1.7ghz. Which is well under min.