Guild Wars 2

Hi guys good day. Im having a problem during zerg at wvw I dunno why even i put it at the lowest settings, still my FPS drops at 15-20 "during zerg" and i just noticed that i only experiencing this when lots of people came to my screen.

Here’s my PC specs, i really appreciate for those who will give suggestion in this one...

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 435 (3 CPUs), ~ 2.9GHz
Memory: 6,144MB DDR3 RAM
Video Card: GeForce 9800 GT 512mb (256 bit)
OS: Windows ultimate x64

During normal worlds, I can max the full performance for gw2 without freezing having a45-60 FPS any suggestion hopefully the moderator on this page or any experienced technicians will give suggestion on this one

martinez.5912:

Hi guys good day. Im having a problem during zerg at wvw I dunno why even i put it at the lowest settings, still my FPS drops at 15-20 “during zerg” and i just noticed that i only experiencing this when lots of people came to my screen.

Here’s my PC specs, i really appreciate for those who will give suggestion in this one…

Processor: AMD Athlon™ II X3 435 (3 CPUs), ~ 2.9GHz
Memory: 6,144MB DDR3 RAM
Video Card: GeForce 9800 GT 512mb (256 bit)
OS: Windows ultimate x64

During normal worlds, I can max the full performance for gw2 without freezing having a45-60 FPS any suggestion hopefully the moderator on this page or any experienced technicians will give suggestion on this one

No offense but, you do realize how old your hardware is right? I’m assuming you’re running at a much lower resolution due to the graphics card you’re using in order to achieve those frame rates.

Anyways, likely its your CPU you see bottle necking your system which is why when you get to more crowded areas you’ll see your frame rate drop. The only solution really is to lower your settings that affect CPU usage (resolution included) to the lowest settings and see how that fares out.

If you hate playing at such kitten settings, you can be adventurous and overclock your processor to get a little boost in performance. Likely not enough to warrant too much attention to performance increase, but there will be some.

If you don’t want to try overclocking, you can upgrade your system. At that point, if you still want us to help, we can give advice about what parts to get and what performance you’ll get with said parts. For that, we’ll need a budget though so we can go window shopping for machines we wish we had. :p

Look this is the System requirements for Guild wars 2 sir,
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=684&game=Guild%20Wars%202

as you can see having Core 2 Duo that have only 2.13 Ghz and for AMD is just 2.3 Ghz something~

so i believe my Hardware are old enough but “passed” the system requirements for guildwars 2 (recommended) and i believe i have a major problem in my VGA. but sir you didn’t answer my question precisely.. if my hardware is really the problem here why i manage to maximize all the settings without lagging/freezing in the world map even in Lion Arch having too many people there works fine on me just the zerg thing is my problem that lower my FPS.

And i dont have the Service package 1 (windows 7) x64. You think? if i installed that package can improve this problem during WvW? i just saw that fix in this forum.. and if that works any possible fix for this one and i believe even without overclocking i can play this game because its not high enough not like the other games i played in my PC.

btw thanks for fast reply sir

martinez.5912:

Look this is the System requirements for Guild wars 2 sir,
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=684&game=Guild%20Wars%202

as you can see having Core 2 Duo that have only 2.13 Ghz and for AMD is just 2.3 Ghz something~

so i believe my Hardware are old enough but “passed” the system requirements for guildwars 2 (recommended) and i believe i have a major problem in my VGA. but sir you didn’t answer my question precisely.. if my hardware is really the problem here why i manage to maximize all the settings without lagging/freezing in the world map even in Lion Arch having too many people there works fine on me just the zerg thing is my problem that lower my FPS.

And i dont have the Service package 1 (windows 7) x64. You think? if i installed that package can improve this problem during WvW? i just saw that fix in this forum.. and if that works any possible fix for this one and i believe even without overclocking i can play this game because its not high enough not like the other games i played in my PC.

btw thanks for fast reply sir

About Guild Wars 2’s system requirements. The minimum requirements are there to let you know that the game will launch with those specifications, not that the game will play well at those specifications. ArenaNet has not released any recommended specifications for Guild Wars 2 because there is no consumer machine out there that will perform well enough to meet the standards for what people would call recommended standards. Game debate may have made a best guess for Guild Wars 2’s recommended specifications even though officially none exist.

What most people don’t know is that the Guild Wars 2 engine is based on the Guild Wars 1 engine, which likely started being developed in 2004, maybe earlier depending how long it took them to make the game. The almost decade old engine never had to display more than 16 player avatars at once when in combat, it also had culling in more densely populated areas, examples being cities and PvP outposts. Take an engine that was never designed for having large amounts of people on screen and trying to force it to do so didn’t end up well. You can likely blame either NCSoft or ArenaNet upper management for cutting corners instead of making a whole new engine. Myths aside, the game’s engine sucks for what they advertised the game to do.

I would highly recommend updating everything to current standards, Windows above all due to the security risks from not updating Windows.

My siblings have one of the lowest end processors that can run Guild Wars 2 (C2D E6320 overclocked to 2.0Ghz) and had a similar model 9800GT 512MB version. The 9800GT held them back to 10FPS or so on lowest settings at 1600 by 900 while having a secondary screen driven at the same time at 1024 by 768, once I got them a GTX 650Ti, their FPS in LA is around 30ish FPS on a mix of medium and high settings at the resolutions mentioned above. The game is played on the better resolution. However, they still experience extremely low FPS in dragon events and other large dynamic events and large WvW battles because of their CPU. Proof of this is when in these situations you will see the GPU usage drop to a smaller percentage because the CPU can’t feed it enough data fast enough. Therefore the GPU can’t process as many frames in a second and can’t give you a nice FPS.