Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

Since patch, my graphics, mainly on character models have been reduced to.. well, lets say undesireable levels!

As you can see from the screenies my character looked SMOKING HAWT shiny before patch, but now he looks like a kitten WoW character model.

Any idea why, when my settings are mainly on high, would my models look like this?

Thanks

Before patch: Back http://i.imgur.com/BjhM9
Before patch: Front http://i.imgur.com/HJwzw
After patch: Front http://i.imgur.com/fCWfE
After patch: Back http://i.imgur.com/2BFkR

Ok, thanks for that, tried that and nothing as of yet.

Now, I am very new to the current Windows, I have used Mactintosh pretty much for the last 6 years so I am a bit rusty. Also, I am running Bootcamp, just so that you are aware.

3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5
8GB (two 4GB) memory
1TB hard drive1
AMD Radeon HD6900M

Now: opening the catalyst control center and not changing ANY settings actually refreshed my graphics and everything is back to normal. For sake of completeness however, please could we continue to see if I should change anyting? If you dont mind?

Thanks for all your help on this.

Current graphics settings (apologies, bit of a noob): http://imgur.com/Mn7Kk

Looks like your Shader- and some other settings are on low. Can you post your Ingame-Graphic-Settings, please? :-)

Hi mate,

Thanks for the response:

http://imgur.com/N7sjS

EDIT: I understand there is low FPS on this but I have kept them high to re-iterate the point that the models should surely be showing up as they originally were (pre-patch, when they were on lower).

I dont mind turning down environment detail if there is some kind of graphics cap, as long as the character models remain high and shiny!

Okay, this is a strange thing … With those settings your game should look way MORE better. But try this config (even for more performance!):

Animation: High
Anti-Aliasing: None
Environment: High
LOD-Distance: High
Reflections: None
Textures: High
Render Sampling: Native/Supersample
Shadows: High
Shaders: High
Post-Processing: Depends on your own feeling, what looks better to you

[  ] Best Texture Filtering
[x] Depth Blur
[x] High-Res Character Textures
[  ] Vertical-Sync

Can you post a screenshot of your Graphicscard-Settings also, please? :-)

damonsmithies.8236:

Current graphics settings (apologies, bit of a noob): http://imgur.com/Mn7Kk

I don’t know why, but your drivers are looking a bit old to me. But you have a Mobile Graphics Card, so … I don’t know. In some cases the included Laptop Driver worked WAY MORE better than the current ones. On my old Laptop the current drivers caused heavy issues with my graphics. Your graphics-settings are okay this way.

Glad I could help you anyways and if you have any further questions: just ask ;-)

Metalphreek.6470:

damonsmithies.8236:

Current graphics settings (apologies, bit of a noob): http://imgur.com/Mn7Kk

I don’t know why, but your drivers are looking a bit old to me. But you have a Mobile Graphics Card, so … I don’t know. In some cases the included Laptop Driver worked WAY MORE better than the current ones. On my old Laptop the current drivers caused heavy issues with my graphics. Your graphics-settings are okay this way.

Glad I could help you anyways and if you have any further questions: just ask ;-)

Well thanks again. I always struggle to update my drivers successfully and I am scared of breaking things. Can you back drivers up? Also where is best toget them from and do I just search the graphics card name?

Best and safest way for Laptop-Graphics are the official ones from the Laptop-manufacturer Website for your Laptop.

I suddenly started having this issue too, as of the past few days. Even if I max out everything my character model looks like something drawn up out of base settings wow as well. It seems like checking the high res character model box isn’t working anymore.
System specs:
Processor AMD Athlon™ II X4 640 Processor

Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5570
Gaming graphics 2815 MB Total available graphics memory
Primary hard disk 836GB Free (931GB Total)
Windows 7 Home Premium

System
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Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Model M68MT-S2P
Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 1165 GB
Disk partition (C:) 836 GB Free (931 GB Total)
Media drive (D:) CD/DVD
Disk partition (E:) 37 GB Free (98 GB Total)
Disk partition (F:) 43 GB Free (136 GB Total)

Graphics
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Display adapter type ATI Radeon HD 5570
Total available graphics memory 2815 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1791 MB
Display adapter driver version 9.2.0.0
Primary monitor resolution 1280×1024
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
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Network Adapter D-Link DWA-552 XtremeN Desktop Adapter

Reading back over it I see my video driver suddenly reverted to an older version, and I’m hoping that’s the problem. Going to update it and see if that fixes the problem.

I had to install a fresh driver and disable every setting in the driver utility (or set to application specific) and only then did it fix itself. Not sure what that was all about, but at least it’s looking better now. My fps is a lot lower than it used to be though