Guild Wars 2

Hey all! Thanks in advance for any help! I am about to buy a new laptop (and yes it has to be a laptop on account on me having to travel a lot) and I have about 750$ to spend on it.. The Lenovo Y410p looks like the best option for the money Here is the link

What are your thoughts? Are there better options out there for the money? I know I can’t expect to max out gw2 on this, but any opinions on how it would run? Thanks sooo much!!
-Evo

It’ll run GW2 just fine, even in WvW if you knock the settings down a decent bit.

As for how it is for the dollar, it’s a pretty nice deal. If you bought refurbished, you could possibly get something better, but I prefer my computer/components be new.

As another personal point of preference, I’d opt for the 510p as opposed to the 410 because it’s a little bigger. Also, the 1080P version is only $800 atm, although it only has a 750M as opposed to a 755. Still, I’d go for the larger one.

I won’t be surprised if someone comes in here and says “That will play Guild Wars 2 OKAY but not GREAT” because their idea of playable is 50 FPS or more (playable FPS is really personal preference. It could be 22 FPS, it could be 75 FPS). No, it’ll play it great with high settings with much more intense settings turned down a bit.

Anyway, I’d go for the 1600×900 res version. It’s got a higher resolution along with a superior GPU to the one that Fermi is suggesting, the 510P with the GT 750M. When you go into 1080P for Guild Wars 2, suddenly the system demand goes up with it and it hits hard at 1080P so I have read. You’d be better off sticking with the 410P 1366×768 or 1600×900 version with a GT755M in my opinion, where you have that extra power, and still decent resolution to get enjoyable frame rates and playability out of the game.

The Intel i7-4700MQ will make short work of the game and with shadows / reflections turned off, I’d say that it will handle things like Zerg Vs. Zerg fairly well. My i7 3630QM does so I don’t see why the i7-4700MQ wouldn’t.

Avelos.6798:

When you go into 1080P for Guild Wars 2, suddenly the system demand goes up with it and it hits hard at 1080P so I have read.

Going up from slightly lower resolutions? I’m actually curious about this, going to go test it right now.

Edit: Doesn’t seem much more demanding at all. I didn’t really see any appreciable change in framerate going from 1080P to 1024×768 (in steps).

Avelos.6798:

You’d be better off sticking with the 410P 1366×768 or 1600×900 version with a GT755M in my opinion, where you have that extra power, and still decent resolution to get enjoyable frame rates and playability out of the game.

Eh, my friend’s got the 1080P Y510 with the 750M and he’s been playing it fine@1080, although ‘fine’ for framerate is probably 30 FPS. Still, I wouldn’t be excessively worried about running the game fine, even in WvW; CPU power is a much bigger issue.

That being said, it is somewhat a matter of personal preference. Like I said, I’d much rather have the extra 1.6" of screen and higher resolution as opposed to the slightly higher performance.

yeah buddy of mine is gaming on a slightly older Dell laptop with an i7 2720QM with a GT525M. Guild Wars 2 plays pretty decent on it at the resolution of 1366×768 which is the laptop’s native. At 1080P I wouldn’t expect anything more than 15 fps out of it though.

Settings auto detect of course.