Guild Wars 2

I purchased what I thought was a graphics card upgrade… and as soon as I fired up GW2 I noticed a lower framerate and was very puzzled. My old card was almost 3 years old. So I did a little research (which in retrospect would have been better to do FIRST but…)

http://www.geforce.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/products/shared/lineup.png

I went from a GTX 460 to a GTX 650…. and it seems to be a DOWNGRADE.

Am I reading this correctly? Did I pay 150 bucks for a worse card?

Specs? you uninstalled drivers? Settings you try to run on. card not over heating?

Oh yeah I installed the latest drivers and updated DirectX, standard stuff. I tried the card on lower settings than I typically play and was pretty underwhelmed at the result.

I am just gonna take the thing back. Makes me wonder why they rank them numerically. Oh wait I know EXACTLY why, so unsuspecting shmucks buy them thinking the number rank + 2 years of development = better card.

You can’t assume that a higher number means the card is better. It has a slower memory bus (128 bit vs 256 bit) than the 460 which is why it performs worse.

damianlxl.3621:

Oh yeah I installed the latest drivers and updated DirectX, standard stuff. I tried the card on lower settings than I typically play and was pretty underwhelmed at the result.

I am just gonna take the thing back. Makes me wonder why they rank them numerically. Oh wait I know EXACTLY why, so unsuspecting shmucks buy them thinking the number rank + 2 years of development = better card.

Your thinking is wrong.

Yes it’s newer series a 600 but.

When 400 serioes was out there were few cards. 430/440/450 – these were low end entertaiment card – movies mostly.

460-470 were medium graphic cards for games.

480 was top end.

Same thing worked for 500 and 600 series.
530/540/550 630/640/650 are entertimend low end card.

560/560ti/660/660ti are medium.

570/670 are high and 580/680/590/690 are top end.

It’s your own fault kinda that you dropped from 460 gaming card to 650 non gaming.

for that 150$ you could get ati HD 7850 probably or close to. and it’s far superior.

Here’s a link that shows a comparison of the two
http://www.hwcompare.com/13493/geforce-gtx-460-1gb-vs-geforce-gtx-650/

Ayrilana.1396:

Here’s a link that shows a comparison of the two
http://www.hwcompare.com/13493/geforce-gtx-460-1gb-vs-geforce-gtx-650/

Yeah that explains it. Well thats how you learn, I suppose. I just got my money back so alls well that ends well. Honestly I just wanted to be able to play New Vegas but there is some incompatibility with my system that I have been unable to fix. I was hoping a new card would clear it up.

I dont know anything about ATI in regards to compatibility. I made sure to choose an nvidia GTX because I wanted to make sure it would be compatible with all my other parts. I am kinda terrified to even open the case because it never ends well when I try.

Ty for the help!

Dude the GTX 460 should be able to run GW2 on high settings even the Gtx650 (still while being slower) should, if are experiencing low frame rate there must be some other issue with ur system like, most likelly a slow CPU, what are u full spces?