Guild Wars 2

Please help. I just recently bought Guild Wars 2 and i was so excited to play it. When i got on it was super laggy, so i set everything on low and i still get 5-8fps. This shouldn’t be happening. I have played Diablo III, DDO, WoW, LoL, PWI, Minecraft, and a ton others and i can play max settings with 70+fps. On Guild Wars 2 max settings i get 1fps, and on lowest i get 8.
Computer specs are:
2GB RAM
Windows Vista
Dell Inspiron 531
Vision Tek Radeon X1300 1022MB
1680×1050 (32bit 60Hz)
Main Driver is atiumdag.dll,atiumdva.dat,atitmmxx

Please help. Thanks in advance

Time for a new computer ^

Min requirements for GW2

Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better
Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3 OR AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI X1800, Intel HD 3000, or better (256 MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
25 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

So I just need a new computer or something else? What do you recommend? And is it overheating or something? I get 75 degrees celsius

Don’t listen to people telling you to get a new computer. The game isn’t running as well as it should. As noted by numerous posts here in the tech forums, lots of people are having fps problems.

Ouch. Even if and when they do fix the performance issues..that machine won’t run it well, at all.

Yea you’re right. I can see the future patch notes already; “ANet improves performance by approximately 500% to accommodate old rigs”

Windows Vista is such a resource hog. You could probably get a few more FPS if you switched back to XP or forward to Windows 7. ATI X1300 is a little long in the tooth as well.

Trying to run Gw2 on an abacus dude what are you doing? Dude Stahp!

So i guess I’ll wait until Anet fixes performance issues, then buy a new cpu with more ram and thats Windows XP

Just a question, can anyone recommend me a cpu that can run on high settings on gw2?

spawnlink.1856:

Min requirements for GW2

Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better
Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3 OR AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI X1800, Intel HD 3000, or better (256 MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
25 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

LOL. Is that what Arena net states as min?

TDLR: Ignore what any software maker says is MINIMUM required. DO your research, and figure out what the recommended system is. Match hardware to software requirements not the other way around.
…………………….

I would suggest anyone that is planning on playing any game this involved (graphics wise) to ignore any such postings by game makers.
ALways try to find SUGGESTED system. That minimum they list above would lead
one to a sad face and a angry pocket book.

A sane Suggested minimum, which I will pull out of mykitten and based on my own system specs and noted by self game performance) would be:

Intel i5 2500k
8 GB RAM Windows 64 BIT Vista or 7.
Video cards. Something equivalent of Nvidia

Link to what I’d consider bottom end for SATISFACTORY baseline CPU
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-2500K+%40+3.30GHz

(for this game)
ANd for a Vid card a baseline SENSIBLE minimum IMO would be:
Nvidia GTX 560 TI
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU12/372

As a reference the CPU Arena net as listed as bare minimum is listed here:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/mid_range_cpus.html and while they (Intel core 2 DuOs had their hey day that is long past. That is VERY low end for a real game rig these days. I relegated mine to the living room general purpose PC 2 years ago. It was a fine gaming rig in its day, no longer. TIme to move along.

WARNING to you new people new to PC gaming. When a company lists MINIUMUM that does not mean you will see acceptable gaming performance. That is what is just
barely required to run the game at all at the lowest possible settings and not very well.
Take it from a PC gamer doing gaming since the mid 1980’s that I know WTF I’m saying. DO YOUR RESEARCH.

Final note. That card I listed isnt’ what I’d buy today. That is just a reference number
that one can eyeball on a chart. This is just my opinion based on real world numbers not some marketing jack kitten stuff.

My system :
Win 7 64 | 8GB RAM, Asus MB P8Z68-V2 PRO,
CPU: Intel i7-2600K @ default clock
GPU: Nvidia GTX 580 no o/c, Drivers 306.23
Display: Dell U2410 1920×1200,
Runs the game fine but in massive battles WvW I see frame rates drop as low as upper 20’s. That is DANGER zone but playable. (60FPS in PVE at max graphics)

As you can see the system here is stressing in WvW I hate to think what the hell
a core 2 duo would do. Probably make any player rage quit/

Typing this as I watch a slow moving monday night football game.

spawnlink.1856:

Min requirements for GW2

Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better
Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3 OR AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI X1800, Intel HD 3000, or better (256 MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
25 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

LOL. Is that what Arena net states as min?

TDLR: Ignore what any software maker says is MINIMUM required. DO your research, and figure out what the recommended system is. Match hardware to software requirements not the other way around.
…………………….

I would suggest anyone that is planning on playing any game this involved (graphics wise) to ignore any such postings by game makers.
ALways try to find SUGGESTED system. That minimum they list above would lead
one to a sad face and a angry pocket book.

A sane Suggested minimum, which I will pull out of mykitten and based on my own system specs and noted by self game performance) would be:

Intel i5 2500k
8 GB RAM Windows 64 BIT Vista or 7.
Video cards. Something equivalent of Nvidia 560TI performance level

Link to what I’d consider bottom end for SATISFACTORY baseline CPU
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-2500K+%40+3.30GHz

(for this game)
ANd for a Vid card a baseline SENSIBLE minimum IMO would be:
Nvidia GTX 560 TI
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU12/372

As a reference the CPU Arena net as listed as bare minimum is listed here:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/mid_range_cpus.html and while they (Intel core 2 DuOs had their hey day that is long past. That is VERY low end for a real game rig these days. I relegated mine to the living room general purpose PC 2 years ago. It was a fine gaming rig in its day, no longer. TIme to move along.

WARNING to you new people new to PC gaming. When a company lists MINIUMUM that does not mean you will see acceptable gaming performance. That is what is just
barely required to run the game at all at the lowest possible settings and not very well.
Take it from a PC gamer doing gaming since the mid 1980’s that I know WTF I’m saying. DO YOUR RESEARCH.

Final note. That card I listed isnt’ what I’d buy today. That is just a reference number
that one can eyeball on a chart. This is just my opinion based on real world numbers not some marketing jack kitten stuff.

My system :
Win 7 64 | 8GB RAM, Asus MB P8Z68-V2 PRO,
CPU: Intel i7-2600K @ default clock
GPU: Nvidia GTX 580 no o/c, Drivers 306.23
Display: Dell U2410 1920×1200,
Runs the game fine but in massive battles WvW I see frame rates drop as low as upper 20’s. That is DANGER zone but playable. (60FPS in PVE at max graphics)

As you can see the system here is stressing in WvW I hate to think what the hell
a core 2 duo would do. Probably make any player rage quit/

Typing this as I watch a slow moving monday night football game.