Guild Wars 2

Hello,
I have got a little problem with this game. At game-debate.com it says that i can run GW2 on medium/high but I can’t get rid out of 25-35(10-15 in town or at bosses) FPS on lowest details. What should i do? Is there any possibility that i’ll play the game with stable framerate?

My spec:
DualCore AMD Athlon II X2 245, 2900 MHz (14.5 × 200)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT (1 GB)
3.5 GB DDR2-667 of RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit

You’ll want to check the temps of your CPU and GPU to be certain you’re not overheating.

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

That is a nice free piece of software that is great for troubleshooting. Post a screen shot of your temps while running gw2 for about 15 minutes.

Ok. That’s it. Is that bad?

Actually, your frame rate with those specs and settings sounds about right.

Your CPU isn’t overheating. However, if you are using the stock fan/heatsink – it will run cooler with one of the heavier-duty aftermarket ones.

Soooo… what can i do with my spec to run it constantly at around 40 fps? Or what should i invest on?

You can either upgrade or overclock the CPU. Mind you, your GPU is nearing five years old…

Gw2 doesn’t always play nice with overclocked CPUs either though.

Your CPU temperatures are kinda close to their maximum, 6C away, so I would make sure your heat sink is cleaned, proper airflow is present, the heat sink is fully attached, and the thermal paste hasn’t gone bad over the years.
http://products.amd.com/pages/desktopcpudetail.aspx?id=586&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
As people have said above, I would suggest something similar, just in this order:

1) If you feel confident in learning how to overclock your CPU and don’t mind purchasing an aftermarket CPU cooler, I would overclock it. The primary reason being that your CPU is old and not giving you the desired performance in higher end gaming anymore. If you burn it out due to overclocking, no harm no foul, since the aftermarket cooler can likely be ported to a new computer system. Just make sure its compatible with socket AM3/AM3+ (AMD processors) and socket 1155/1150 (Intel processors).

2) The same can be said about your GPU, its so old that if you overclock it and it dies, its time to purchase a new one anyways. Just don’t buy an after market cooler for your GPU, it doesn’t need it since its maximum temperature is 100C or so, so you have plenty of headroom on your GPU temperature.

3) If you choose not to overclock or the overclocking has not given you desired results, then you need to purchase a new computer. I’m not sure if you’re the DIY kind of person or one who is willing to spend extra money to have it prebuilt and might not have the desired components. If you’re the DIY kind of person, the first order of business is upgrading your graphics card. A new graphics card will be compatible with your current system and a new system. So for now, we’ll only upgrade the graphics card and see what you think with the performance of the new card with the old processor. A few things that should be known before I can suggest something is what resolution do you game at? What level of graphic settings do you want to play at? What FPS do you expect to get with the graphic settings?

In addition, we’ll need to know what power supply you have so we can figure out if you’ll need a bigger/better one for a new graphics card.

Thanks for your reply. I know that my spec is very old but i don’t want to waste money on new computer while i’m going to buy new laptop in around 1-1.5 year because i’m going to study. So i’m trying just to play the game with at least low because graphic doesn’t really matter for me. I just want to have fun in this game with stable fps around 35-40 at 1440×900 or if it would be able at 1680×1050. And my power supply is (wait i have to open my PC)

AFQQ.1074:

Thanks for your reply. I know that my spec is very old but i don’t want to waste money on new computer while i’m going to buy new laptop in around 1-1.5 year because i’m going to study. So i’m trying just to play the game with at least low because graphic doesn’t really matter for me. I just want to have fun in this game with stable fps around 35-40 at 1440×900 or if it would be able at 1680×1050. And my power supply is (wait i have to open my PC)

Well the best you can do then is overclock your hardware, there are guides on how to do so online all over the place. Just realize that overclocking has the potential to lower the lifespan of hardware. While I have not encountered any issues with overclocked hardware going bad, others have.

With or without overclocking and regardless of graphic settings, you will see a decreased FPS in crowded areas like large WvW battles and large dynamic events simply because your CPU is a dinosaur.

Hmmm… so i’ll try it tommorow. I hope that it would help me to get FPS increase. My power supply is IBOX SL-8400BTX

AFQQ.1074:

Hmmm… so i’ll try it tommorow. I hope that it would help me to get FPS increase. My power supply is IBOX SL-8400BTX

Looks like a 400W power supply from what I can see on the translated pages from Google. Depending on the graphics card upgrade, you might need a new power supply as well.

Kyllaa.1385:

Gw2 doesn’t always play nice with overclocked CPUs either though.

In what way? I’m curious as I haven’t tried to run the game at standard CPU speeds. Could it result in seeing an FPS drop on an o/c’d CPU?

Some people seem to have some fps drops others have crashes. It doesn’t seem consistent across the board though o.O