Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

I am looking for ways in which to improve my performance.

Most of the time I don’t have any issues but during big boss fights my fps drops way below acceptable levels and I have to play wvw at lowest settings when even the smallest zerg is nearby.

Preferably, I would like to avoid buying a new motherboard. I realise that any improvements would be limited if I don’t but I would rather save that for when I get a new pc. I am thinking a faster cpu would help though.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Strutter.2719:

Hi guys,

I am looking for ways in which to improve my performance.

Most of the time I don’t have any issues but during big boss fights my fps drops way below acceptable levels and I have to play wvw at lowest settings when even the smallest zerg is nearby.

Preferably, I would like to avoid buying a new motherboard. I realise that any improvements would be limited if I don’t but I would rather save that for when I get a new pc. I am thinking a faster cpu would help though.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

A few things to help
native sampling
lower reflections
lower shadows
lower LOS
lower wvwvw character quality
lower wvwvw popoulation on your scrren
lower animations

Of course you can go more extreme with settings
lower shaders

lower the resolution to display less on the screen

Buy a better cpu and I hope you have an am3+ mobo to get vishera cpu

I don’t see a whole lot you can do there other than moving up from a GTX 550 Ti. A GTX 650 Ti Boost (yes that’s the name) is about twice as fast. $170 at NewEgg for the 2GB version. Triple plus performance comes in at $420 with a GTX 770 and possibly a PSU upgrade. And at some point before that you will likely be CPU bound anyways.

I’m sure someone will chime it and recommend gutting the whole system for an OC Haswell based one with dual Titan cards and it’s own power plant complete with cooling towers and miniature climate change protesters picketing around the base.

Edit: Yes you could upgrade your CPU from the 2.8GHz 1055T hex core to a 3.4GHz 965 quad core. If you were doing a lot of video compression or raytracing or any other application that could take advantage of those two additional cores, you will lose performance in those apps. However the 20% boost in clock speed will help gaming performance as long as the game isn’t being limited by an older video card.

Behellagh.1468:

I don’t see a whole lot you can do there other than moving up from a GTX 550 Ti. A GTX 650 Ti Boost (yes that’s the name) is about twice as fast. $170 at NewEgg for the 2GB version. Triple plus performance comes in at $420 with a GTX 770 and possibly a PSU upgrade.

I’m sure someone will chime it and recommend gutting the whole system for an OC Haswell based one with dual Titan cards and it’s own power plant complete with cooling towers and miniature climate change protesters picketing around the base.

The OP just needs a better cpu. I am sure the nvidia 550 TI is a capiable graphic card that should perform better fps than the OP currently playing at

loseridoit.2756:

Behellagh.1468:

I don’t see a whole lot you can do there other than moving up from a GTX 550 Ti. A GTX 650 Ti Boost (yes that’s the name) is about twice as fast. $170 at NewEgg for the 2GB version. Triple plus performance comes in at $420 with a GTX 770 and possibly a PSU upgrade.

I’m sure someone will chime it and recommend gutting the whole system for an OC Haswell based one with dual Titan cards and it’s own power plant complete with cooling towers and miniature climate change protesters picketing around the base.

The OP just needs a better cpu. I am sure the nvidia 550 TI is a capiable graphic card that should perform better fps than the OP currently playing at

What CPU would you recommend for the nvidia 550 TI?

Krys Qinan.1067:

loseridoit.2756:

Behellagh.1468:

I don’t see a whole lot you can do there other than moving up from a GTX 550 Ti. A GTX 650 Ti Boost (yes that’s the name) is about twice as fast. $170 at NewEgg for the 2GB version. Triple plus performance comes in at $420 with a GTX 770 and possibly a PSU upgrade.

I’m sure someone will chime it and recommend gutting the whole system for an OC Haswell based one with dual Titan cards and it’s own power plant complete with cooling towers and miniature climate change protesters picketing around the base.

The OP just needs a better cpu. I am sure the nvidia 550 TI is a capiable graphic card that should perform better fps than the OP currently playing at

What CPU would you recommend for the nvidia 550 TI?

Everyone will recommend the same cpu for this game.
i5-3570K

Haswell is coming out and system builders are waiting until the benchmarks are out

It is not about cpu compatibility with the gpu but the problem with the game being cpu bottlenecked

i recommended vishera for the OP because the OP probably has a am3+ mobo

But since we don’t know for sure, that his MB is Socket AM3+, it would be negligent on our part to recommend it.

Also if he does go as far as upgrading his MB then the obvious choice is Intel simply because if a game is CPU bound, Intel’s cpus simply perform better.

Here’s the Tom’s Hardware article on GW2 performance across CPUs and GPUs. Note they aren’t testing zergs or boss events. Plus this was back when the game was new.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268.html