Guild Wars 2

Greetings all!

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks gearing up for my immersion into the world of GW2; reading the lore, studying races and professions, watching video tutorials and spending hours soaking up all the helpful info in this forum. Now I just need your help to ascertain that my gaming laptop (which should arrive in a week or so, hopefully) will be able to run the game smoothly. This is the spec:

Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920×1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3840QM (2.80GHz) 8MB
Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (1 × 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670MX – 3.0GB DDR5 Video RAM – DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory – 1st Hard Disk 250GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD2500BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
SSD CACHE DRIVE 20GB INTEL® 313 mSATA SSD – SLC CACHE DRIVE- SPEED UP HDD
Windows 7 64-bit

I appreciate your comments and look forward to meeting you guys and gals in-game.

Looks like you should be able to run it at the mid-level graphics option, which is plenty nice. Welcome to Tyria!

Many thanks, Maldavos. Exactly what I needed to hear =)
Can’t wait to get started!

U will run the game at the high settings at least, may be no suppersampling and shadows at high, but the GTX670mx is hell of a fast videocard.

Rampage.7145:

U will run the game at the high settings at least, may be no suppersampling and shadows at high, but the GTX670mx is hell of a fast videocard.

Hi Rampage. I’m not tech-savvy at all (which means I don’t really know what supersampling means >.< ), but I plan on running the game at medium settings to start off and play it safe.

I got the impression from reading other threads that GW2 is more demanding on the CPU than the videocard (correct me if I’m wrong). But I’m comforted at hearing that the GTX670MX is a decent card.

Supersampling is a game option, it renders the game at higher resolututions than ur monitor supports, this will make the game textures look a little crisp at a huge performance drop cost (this option is for ppl with really high end Destop videocards tbh). And yeah the game is CPU demanding but ur CPU is pretty decent allready, i don’t think u have any issus playing this game, may be a little low FPS at WvW massive fights or PVE events with tons of ppl, but nothing really unplayable.
Notice i have played this game on a GTX550ti (which is a little slower than the GTX670mx) at high setting just fine.

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Rampage. I will definitely steer clear of supersampling as I’d much rather have smooth performance with ok FPS.