Guild Wars 2

Firstly can you guys clear some thing up for me?

What is up with Nvidia and GW2?
I’ve heard their cards don’t work as well as AMD and that there are driver problems which cause FPS problems?
Is this all true? If so is it worth getting a worse AMD card than a better Nvidia one?

Back to the main point. I want a card that can run GW2 on high settings with above 60FPs on average.
At the moment I have a 7750 1GB which is ok, it averages about 55FPS on medium settings with no shadows.
Here are my requirements:
I only have 1×6-pin power for the card
Around £90 to spend, flexible
Good FPS on high settings.

Additional info:
i5 760 4x@2.8/3.33Ghz
8GB ram
500w PSU

I don’t know about nVidia problems. Your budget is tiny. Not even sure you could get your present card at that price (well looking at aria you can). On the AMD side that budget will get you an HD 7770 and on the nVidia side a GTX 650 (not Ti, not Ti Boost) and neither of those I would call an upgrade worth spending money on (well to be fair the HD 7770 does have around a 25% improvement over the HD 7750, I guess that could be considered worth the money).

Edit: Well if you can push your budget a bit higher then the 1GB HD 7790 is in the £115-125 range. It’s like 60% faster than the HD 7750.

Well, if I were you I would wait for more cash and pony up for a new powersupply that has more than 1 PCIe connector…then that will open up some more powerful cards worth upgrading to.

Unless this problem with Nvidia is within-the-past-week-recent, then there is no actual problem and its a problem isolated to the user proclaiming such problem. I run an Nvidia card and my siblings run Nvidia cards. All of us don’t have problems running the game and run at the expected range of FPS for our CPU/GPU combo.

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Well, if I were you I would wait for more cash and pony up for a new powersupply that has more than 1 PCIe connector…then that will open up some more powerful cards worth upgrading to.

Unless this problem with Nvidia is within-the-past-week-recent, then there is no actual problem and its a problem isolated to the user proclaiming such problem. I run an Nvidia card and my siblings run Nvidia cards. All of us don’t have problems running the game and run at the expected range of FPS for our CPU/GPU combo.

Indeed, a PSU with only one PCIe might not even have enough power on the 12v rail to power a good card, though you need to list specs to tell. I also run NV and get around 114FPS in PvE and don’t often go under 60FPS in WvW and when I do it’s due to CPU restrictions and not GPU. Once they allow use of more threads from the game it will do much better for people with 3+ cores. You should also check to see what your GPU is loading at to make sure it’s the bottleneck.

TinkTinkPOOF.9201:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Well, if I were you I would wait for more cash and pony up for a new powersupply that has more than 1 PCIe connector…then that will open up some more powerful cards worth upgrading to.

Unless this problem with Nvidia is within-the-past-week-recent, then there is no actual problem and its a problem isolated to the user proclaiming such problem. I run an Nvidia card and my siblings run Nvidia cards. All of us don’t have problems running the game and run at the expected range of FPS for our CPU/GPU combo.

Indeed, a PSU with only one PCIe might not even have enough power on the 12v rail to power a good card, though you need to list specs to tell. I also run NV and get around 114FPS in PvE and don’t often go under 60FPS in WvW and when I do it’s due to CPU restrictions and not GPU. Once they allow use of more threads from the game it will do much better for people with 3+ cores. You should also check to see what your GPU is loading at to make sure it’s the bottleneck.

^^^^^^^ Is good information! Although it should have no problem running a 7770 never spend the money for a small upgrade always go big or go home. If you could post a link to the EXACT power supply you have or list the brand and model# that would help. For the video card if the PSU can handle it a 7850 would be a good upgrade and afordable if you could sell the card you have. Also the above could very well be right about the i5 760 being the problem if your motherboard does not have locked BIOS like some box store brands have it will overclock to 4.0 easy, this will require a aftermarket cooler for it. Not something to try if you are not sure of your PC skills but a tech savey friend could help. Some of these people got a overclock to 4.8 GHz
http://www.overclock.net/t/858385/the-i5-760-oc-club