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Posted by: Caterwuy.6153

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I have just ordered this laptop and am just wondering what kind of performance should I expect when playing GW2?

Chassis & Display
Optimus Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920×1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3630QM (2.40GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 × 4GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660M – 2.0GB DDR5 Video RAM – DirectX® 11
Memory – 1st Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)

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Posted by: Jazhara Knightmage.4389

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as BigLamb said the videocards good(for a laptop, probably closer to 650 perf if that) the cpu will hold your gw2 fps down, your not gonna wana try WvWvW, you will likely see the low teens (below 20fps) PVE DE’s will have the same problem saddly…

sadly nobody makes a laptop with an intel chip running in excess of 4.4ghz, so your not gonna be able to hold a min of 30ish fps…..

its a nice laptop though….

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Posted by: daimasei.4091

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My laptop is below yours and I can play just fine. 30-60 fps in pve and 20-30 in large WvW battles (14-20 in massive battles).
However some people with powerful GPU/CPU has reported bad performance so it depends on your luck.

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Posted by: Unspec.9017

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as BigLamb said the videocards good(for a laptop, probably closer to 650 perf if that) the cpu will hold your gw2 fps down, your not gonna wana try WvWvW, you will likely see the low teens (below 20fps) PVE DE’s will have the same problem saddly…

sadly nobody makes a laptop with an intel chip running in excess of 4.4ghz, so your not gonna be able to hold a min of 30ish fps…..

its a nice laptop though….

No one makes that kind of laptop chip because laptops can’t handle the heat

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Posted by: Jazhara Knightmage.4389

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Unspec: I know, it was more of a commentary on how poorly this games optimized/programmed for modern hardware.

tera would FLY on that, Aion would FLY on that, WoW would fly on that, Rift would FLY ON THAT. swtor woud FLY ON THAT……..gw2 will crawl on it….

they could make a laptop that could take the heat but battery life would suck, and it would really be more of a DTR then a laptop…..

I have a buddy whos lappy is liquid cooled, its a few years old now but, pretty cool really, dual gfx, very fast cpu, lots of ram……battery life on stock battery 15min….LOL

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Posted by: Unspec.9017

Unspec.9017

Unspec: I know, it was more of a commentary on how poorly this games optimized/programmed for modern hardware.

tera would FLY on that, Aion would FLY on that, WoW would fly on that, Rift would FLY ON THAT. swtor woud FLY ON THAT……..gw2 will crawl on it….

they could make a laptop that could take the heat but battery life would suck, and it would really be more of a DTR then a laptop…..

I have a buddy whos lappy is liquid cooled, its a few years old now but, pretty cool really, dual gfx, very fast cpu, lots of ram……battery life on stock battery 15min….LOL

Why is it that every post you make, bashes on GW2? I know it has its flaws, but you really don’t need to bash on it every time you post

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Posted by: bobberuchi.2541

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I think it sounds pretty good. I also am looking for a new gaming laptop. I decided to go with an MSI model GT70 0ND-444US

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Posted by: Jandus.2834

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Unspec: I know, it was more of a commentary on how poorly this games optimized/programmed for modern hardware.

tera would FLY on that, Aion would FLY on that, WoW would fly on that, Rift would FLY ON THAT. swtor woud FLY ON THAT……..gw2 will crawl on it….

they could make a laptop that could take the heat but battery life would suck, and it would really be more of a DTR then a laptop…..

I have a buddy whos lappy is liquid cooled, its a few years old now but, pretty cool really, dual gfx, very fast cpu, lots of ram……battery life on stock battery 15min….LOL

Completely disagree. I have a comparable gaming laptop (Asus) and GW2 runs very very well. With most things on high in the settings I run at 60+ fps in most areas of the game. LA is 30-40 and WvW varies based upon how many people and what is going on.

There are some laptop brands out there that have very good cooling and play games very well – that’s why they are gaming laptops.

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Posted by: basketcase.3894

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Completely disagree. I have a comparable gaming laptop (Asus) and GW2 runs very very well. With most things on high in the settings I run at 60+ fps in most areas of the game. LA is 30-40 and WvW varies based upon how many people and what is going on.

There are some laptop brands out there that have very good cooling and play games very well – that’s why they are gaming laptops.

It’s a pretty well known issue that GW2 is extremely CPU-bound in large scale WvW (massive events too, they’re just less common). There’s been multiple reports of it on the forums, and it has been openly acknowledged by devs (see the reddit AMA).

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Posted by: Caterwuy.6153

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Dunno, i guess i am just gonna wait for the laptop and find out, i thought the CPU was pretty good for GW2

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Posted by: SolarNova.1052

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It’s a good laptop.

For Gw2 no laptop will be enough to stop WvW from droping below 30 fps, but the ones to look out for to get the best performance are ones wiht the following CPU.
3840QM
3820QM
3740QM
3720QM
3630QM
The 3630Qm is the slowest out of them but the most common found in gaming laptops, the others r usualy found in buisness/tech laptops which only usualy come with media graphics cards. You can find laptops with both a 3840Qm and a good graphcis card like a 7970m but they cost ALOT.

Anyway u will likely find the performance from ur laptop perfectly acceptable in most areas, just dont be surporsed when u enter WvW and get into a big battle ..ur fps will plumit as the CPU bottlenecks(as with all laptops, all stock desktops, and a good portion of OC’ed desktops aswell)

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Posted by: Caterwuy.6153

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It’s a good laptop.

For Gw2 no laptop will be enough to stop WvW from droping below 30 fps, but the ones to look out for to get the best performance are ones wiht the following CPU.
3840QM
3820QM
3740QM
3720QM
3630QM
The 3630Qm is the slowest out of them but the most common found in gaming laptops, the others r usualy found in buisness/tech laptops which only usualy come with media graphics cards. You can find laptops with both a 3840Qm and a good graphcis card like a 7970m but they cost ALOT.

Anyway u will likely find the performance from ur laptop perfectly acceptable in most areas, just dont be surporsed when u enter WvW and get into a big battle ..ur fps will plumit as the CPU bottlenecks(as with all laptops, all stock desktops, and a good portion of OC’ed desktops aswell)

Thx, I hope i can play the game with good fps

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Posted by: Jazhara Knightmage.4389

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Why is it that every post you make, bashes on GW2? I know it has its flaws, but you really don’t need to bash on it every time you post

I dont bash the game, I dont say anything thats not 100% true about the game.

I love the game play, I love the change form games like WoW, but, the client, as the anet dev’s admit, is flawed, it runs like crap, they have had plenty of time to make an improvement but we have seen none.

they dont post blogs or even forums/reddit posts with updates/info about how they are working on fixing the game clients serious flaws……

it makes many people feel that, they really arent taking this problem seriously, that they really just dont care, because, after all, they are making money from sales and gem shop still, they already have peoples money….

again I LOVE THE GAME, but I am also very very very far from impressed by anets handling of the serious flaws the game has….

sorry this upsets you, but its not me “bashing” anet or gw2, its plane and simple fact that the game shouldnt run sub 30fps on any rig that meets min specs at a reasonable res for that rig, it also shouldnt require overclocking top end systems that cost thousands of dollars to keep the game from dropping below 30fps in LA or WvWvW.

no other mmorpg I have ever played came out of beta in a state where systems with cpus in excess of 1 grand required overclocking to make the game playable……gw2 came out last aug, and still requires you clock any modern cpu to at least 4.5 to even have a hope of stable 30fps at any res…….(because the games far far far to cpu bound)

Tera, another mmo known to be a cpu hog(because its unreal engine based) will run on systems marked min spec for this game without any issues, you can turn stuff down and it runs better….for my system, even reflections and shadows dont make a bit of dif to my perf, i run all in game settings MAXXED OUT and get the same fps as when i set it to minimum……thats horrible HORRIBLE…..

this is a big problem for anet if you ask me, Tera is now f2p and not p2w, so you got another very fun mmo thats free and scales very well, vs GW2, a fun game that dosnt scale for kitten……

I am sorry, I think those of us who paid for the game have the right to be upset, and have the right if not the obligation to not only make sure people know this games got serious issues, as well as try and help people work around them.

I also think that the more of us who do so in a mature constructive way, the more pressure will be put on anet to fix their kitten…..

anet will see more money from me and my group of friends when they fix the games perf, and we are talking thousands in a year will come out of the group I play with….and thats not to large a group……imagine across the whole player base how many others have decided to not give anet any more money till they fix their kitten?

the lost revenue is staggering all because somebody made a really bad decision during dev to target XP and to gimp the game in hopes of a console port…..

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