Game Performance?
GW2 is very cpu heavy so if you want to get better performance upgrade your cpu
GW2 engine is heavily modified engine and poorly optimized one at that since the game engine was built on 2007 era and older pc’s to insure people with low spec computer can play it.
Source gw2 wiki and many many gw2 dev blogs/interviews.
Save your money on a CPU upgrade as you won’t get much more FPS just overclock the one you have to get few more FPS same as a upgrade would get you without overclock.
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Cpu is what’s holding your performance back. But I wouldn’t recommend upgrading just for gw2 unless you are playing it 5+hours/day or doing hardcore WvW. It will get better at some point but I really doubt it’s happening before the console port happens if it ever happens. Because Anet has to fix the kittening Skill lag which keeps getting worse every day.
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I recently upgraded my GPU to a Radeon HD 7950. It’s awesome, runs games at max settings, 50-60fps…Tomb Raider, Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, etc….just about any game…except Guild Wars 2…So here’s a few questions:
1) Why is Guild Wars 2 so difficult for my pc to run? Is this game that poorly optimized? I was playing Elder Scrolls: Online beta, with 100+ people on my screen, max settings, absolutely beautiful…50-60fps. So why is Guild Wars 2 different with a little worse graphics?
2) Should I upgrade my processor? I have what my computer came with when I bought it…it’s an AMD A8-3820 APU Radeon HD 2.5 GHz (Quad-core). Like I said, it runs everything else fine, but Guild Wars 2 brings this thing to its knees. I was using CPU and GPU monitors while sitting in Lion’s Arch, max settings…shadows ultra, supersample, etc. My GPU was under about 30-40% load, while my CPU was under 75-85% load. There really isn’t any change in framerate between native or supersample, either, so I’m assuming my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU in Guild Wars 2.
3) If I should upgrade my processor, what is a good one to upgrade to? I don’t really want to upgrade unless I will be getting 50-60fps anywhere in Guild Wars 2, because it doesn’t really do anything to my other games. At the same time, however, I don’t want to invest too much in a CPU because, as I said, it runs everything else nearly perfectly.
Thank you for your help; much appreciated!
Edit: I have 8GB of RAM if that makes any difference in answers.
Hmm. Sounds like an HP rig. A P7-1225 maybe?
Yes the game is CPU bound. Sometimes very badly. The Shadows and Reflections settings are more CPU intensive than the other graphic options so don’t run Shadows on Ultra and consider if you can live without reflections in the water or just take it down a notch.
Sadly any CPU upgrade will require a motherboard replacement as the A8-3820 is a socket FM1 CPU and the only thing faster is the A8-3850 and good luck finding one. All the newer A series CPUs (APUs as AMD calls them) are socket FM2. And even 16% faster, the A8-3850 is still no where near the performance of a two generation old i5-2400.
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I recently upgraded my GPU to a Radeon HD 7950. It’s awesome, runs games at max settings, 50-60fps…Tomb Raider, Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, etc….just about any game…except Guild Wars 2…So here’s a few questions:
1) Why is Guild Wars 2 so difficult for my pc to run? Is this game that poorly optimized? I was playing Elder Scrolls: Online beta, with 100+ people on my screen, max settings, absolutely beautiful…50-60fps. So why is Guild Wars 2 different with a little worse graphics?
2) Should I upgrade my processor? I have what my computer came with when I bought it…it’s an AMD A8-3820 APU Radeon HD 2.5 GHz (Quad-core). Like I said, it runs everything else fine, but Guild Wars 2 brings this thing to its knees. I was using CPU and GPU monitors while sitting in Lion’s Arch, max settings…shadows ultra, supersample, etc. My GPU was under about 30-40% load, while my CPU was under 75-85% load. There really isn’t any change in framerate between native or supersample, either, so I’m assuming my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU in Guild Wars 2.
3) If I should upgrade my processor, what is a good one to upgrade to? I don’t really want to upgrade unless I will be getting 50-60fps anywhere in Guild Wars 2, because it doesn’t really do anything to my other games. At the same time, however, I don’t want to invest too much in a CPU because, as I said, it runs everything else nearly perfectly.
Thank you for your help; much appreciated!
Edit: I have 8GB of RAM if that makes any difference in answers.
Hmm. Sounds like an HP rig. A P7-1225 maybe?
Yes the game is CPU bound. Sometimes very badly. The Shadows and Reflections settings are more CPU intensive than the other graphic options so don’t run Shadows on Ultra and consider if you can live without reflections in the water or just take it down a notch.
Sadly any CPU upgrade will require a motherboard replacement as the A8-3820 is a socket FM1 CPU and the only thing faster is the A8-3850 and good luck finding one. All the newer A series CPUs (APUs as AMD calls them) are socket FM2. And even 16% faster, the A8-3850 is still no where near the performance of a two generation old i5-2400.
It is an HP rig…but it’s a p7-1247cb….close, though! Thank you for your reply (and everyone else, too)! I appreciate it, and I guess I’m just going to have to live with the crappy framerate at times until Anet decides to decently optimize this game :/