Guild Wars 2

Hi,

My videocard (9800gt) stopped working. It gave me error 43. So now im looking for a new videocard. And i was wondering if a Radeon HD 7770 would perform well enough for GW2?

If i had the money, id go for something better. But this choice is based on price vs performance. So hopefully this card would work well as a replacement.

Thank you.

GW2 runs perfectly fine on a potato GPU (I can almost max it on my old 5770, which btw is pretty similar to that 7770 you are talking about), unless you OC like crazy the CPU will be the bottleneck.

Until they fix their game that is…

actually Spiuk, the 7770’s tend to be alot closer to the 6870/5850 then the 5770.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/kittenml

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/20.html

and yes, the 7770 is a perfect choice for a cheap gpu to play real games on, I personally wouldnt go below that, and if you can swing it look for a 7870 on sale( i got mine fro 210usd each a while back on newegg!!!!)

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

actually Spiuk, the 7770’s tend to be alot closer to the 6870/5850 then the 5770.

I thought the 7770 was a rebrand of the 6770 (which is rebrand of the 5770…), glad to see they are moving away from that lame practice.

nope that was the orignal word that was leaked but, it turned out they went with GCN rather then the older designs from the 5 and 6 series, the 7770 is a nice card for the price, I went with 7870’s because I got a good deal and they got a NICE perf boost from the 12.11beta11 drivers!!!!(10% on average, some games a good bit more!!!)

Yeah the hd 7770 will run this game at high settings easy, u don’t really need more for GW2, and i think is the best bang for the buck right now, nevertheless the Gtx650ti preforms really well may be a little faster (nothing noticeable) but it offers physx which some games use, it is also a great bang for the buck card, 10-20$ expensive tho, so is up to u. If u play a game on a regular basis which uses physx i would go for the GTX. Personally i like radeons cards the most, i think image quality is overall better (very subjective), also the performance per $ is usually better.

yes the radeon 7770 HD is a very solid choice, i got mine for 100 dollars over christmas, the xfx version. it does very well in gw2, only time you need to turn down the settings from ultra is in very intensive WvW battles, (which is a result of my crappy CPU), so really u can get away with max on 7770

note: the 650 can be slightly faster but if you enable physx on it, many times it takes a large hit in perf(infact so do the 670 and 680 in alot of physx titles) its a known issue, I think its a driver thing, probably to much power being given to physx to little to everything else.

very few titles use hardware physx(more use physx without hardware support then with it, meaning having a gpu that can run physx dosnt do you any good with them as they dont support that feature)

last time I looked it was something like 11 total titles using hardware physx the rest all used software mode only no hardware mode support.

nvidia need to grow up and just put physx out as an open platform using directcompute or opencl to run the physx code rather then cuda….would drive more developers to use it……many avoid it due to it being so locked in by nvidia and the games nv have played with stuff like by default limiting cpu driven physx to 1 core(had to know how to compile it to use multi cores)…….childish stuff like that drives me crazy.

nVidia make some good stuff, but they also have some really kitteny things they do……

Well yeah but if u are a borderlands or a batman fan u may want to play en with physx, they look much honestly, better particle effects and stuff. If u don’t care about that just stick to the radeon which is cheaper ofc.

Personally, I wish the Physx wasn’t included in the Nvidia Cards, but rather sold as a 4x/8x addon card. THEN run it as an open development platform. The fact the physx is on the same Card as your GPU has always bothered me. Heat and power draw from it plays largely into the performance hit, as well as the 16x PCI-E lanes that has to be shared between the Physx and GPU together. Software, while might attribute to it some of the performance issues, would only really be optimization issues.

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

note: the 650 can be slightly faster but if you enable physx on it, many times it takes a large hit in perf(infact so do the 670 and 680 in alot of physx titles) its a known issue, I think its a driver thing, probably to much power being given to physx to little to everything else.

very few titles use hardware physx(more use physx without hardware support then with it, meaning having a gpu that can run physx dosnt do you any good with them as they dont support that feature)

last time I looked it was something like 11 total titles using hardware physx the rest all used software mode only no hardware mode support.

nvidia need to grow up and just put physx out as an open platform using directcompute or opencl to run the physx code rather then cuda….would drive more developers to use it……many avoid it due to it being so locked in by nvidia and the games nv have played with stuff like by default limiting cpu driven physx to 1 core(had to know how to compile it to use multi cores)…….childish stuff like that drives me crazy.

nVidia make some good stuff, but they also have some really kitteny things they do……

sirsquishy.8531:

Personally, I wish the Physx wasn’t included in the Nvidia Cards, but rather sold as a 4x/8x addon card. THEN run it as an open development platform. The fact the physx is on the same Card as your GPU has always bothered me. Heat and power draw from it plays largely into the performance hit, as well as the 16x PCI-E lanes that has to be shared between the Physx and GPU together. Software, while might attribute to it some of the performance issues, would only really be optimization issues.

i think you dont understand how physx works now, its nologer done on a seperate chip, nvidia bought the company that created it then ported physx to their own gpus, meaning its run on the same chip as the game is being rendered on.

its got nothing to do with heat but with to much of the chips resorces being allocated to physx.

with modern gpu’s theres is ZERO need for a seperate card or seperate chip, its just a matter of optimizing how its used and allowing it to work on non-nVidia gpu’s.

Also note: currently physx is accelerated via CUDA, nv could port that over to opencl or directcompute pretty easily or open the platform and allow somebody else to do the work.

the dont because, its a small selling point that may get them a few more videocard sales here and there……