Guild Wars 2

Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00 GHz
8g Ram
1 TB Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

Right now i can run everything at max at 20-25 fps but i want to increase that to 50-60 fps.
I was told before that if i just upgraded my graphics card i can, so if that is the situation what are some good graphics cards (NVIDIA preferred) that i could get? I’m looking for one in the price range of $100-$150…

I am assuming you are on a notebook? Typically, you can’t really upgrade graphic cards on a notebook/laptop. There is a semi-hack to use a desktop graphic card as an external unit via the express port. If you going that route look at this link pick something within your budget that scores above 2500.

It’s an Alienware, so it’s designed for just plug and play with graphics cards

Kacey.3052:

It’s an Alienware, so it’s designed for just plug and play with graphics cards

pick a card from this in your budget that scores above 2500

Hi Kacey,

You are using a laptop if I’m not mistaken (Indicated by the mobile “M Series” CPU/GPU combo). The only way for you to upgrade would be to buy a new laptop.

You’re best bet to save money would be to stop trying to run the game on absolutely max details and sacrifice a few things to gain a balance between looks and performance.

for example a lot of the settings can be disabled or put to low with a few on High and you would be hard pressed to tell the difference.

Update: I noticed you confirmed that you were using a laptop but have the availability to change out graphics. Even though you have this option I reckon the reason your experience low FPS is because of a mixture of things such as, CPU bound processes in the game, culling issues, and large population due to the christmas event, max settings (including terrain and shadow settings which are bugged and cause low fps). The CTX460M is still a powerful graphics card but your CPU is what is being used the most in this game and with a single thread performance of 2.0GHz, thats what I would look into first.

kirito.4138:

Kacey.3052:

It’s an Alienware, so it’s designed for just plug and play with graphics cards

pick a card from this in your budget that scores above 2500

thank you very much!

kirito.4138:

Kacey.3052:

It’s an Alienware, so it’s designed for just plug and play with graphics cards

pick a card from this in your budget that scores above 2500

Please note a large selection of graphics cards on that list are for desktop applications only. Please because careful in your choice.

Nitro.4732:

kirito.4138:

Kacey.3052:

It’s an Alienware, so it’s designed for just plug and play with graphics cards

pick a card from this in your budget that scores above 2500

Please note a large selection of graphics cards on that list are for desktop applications only. Please because careful in your choice.

I will thank you!

A new graphcis card will indeed help in Pve ..
But if that fps is what ur getting in places like LA or WvW, then no GPU will help u.

That will be down to the CPU ..of which no Laptop CPU currently out will be able to fix.