Guild Wars 2

Not sure what your point is, sapphire is full of people who belong in emerald and amber. Perhaps they should just hide gems at end of match so that people would have to start looking for the actual reasons they lose a match instead of just assuming it is because some people on their team have a different colour gem.

Ow wait, in that case it will just be fault of “weakest meta profession” or whoever has least AP, or any other excuse to not look at what happened but find some arbitrary “reason” for losing, which naturally never involves the player looking for said reason.

#feelsbadman

Stuck on Khylo, I’d love a free legendary for this trouble yes? Getting me outta here will do though

Edit: Escaped after patch, “match in progress now”.

ArcanistSeven.8720:

lol mesmer has no right to complain unless they become nothing but a +1 role that cant 1v1 and can only decap. i dont think a mesmer was ever asked to switch classes for raids after being told their class sucks.

What is raid, I think you are in the wrong subforum.

sirsquishy.8531:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

@sirsquishy
Does hyper threading make a difference for GW2 at all? I am contemplating an i5 because my i7 nehalem far outlived its usefulness before games used many threads. With DX12 on the horizon for some games that might change so games use more threads. However, for GW2 use, isn’t the IPC the same between say the 6600k and 6700k because they run on the same architecture?

In my experience yes, because GW2 will spawn 50+ worker threads. While the core of the game rides on a single management thread for the entire engine, the rest of the game is split into tons of other threads.

A fresh load of GW2 sitting in my ‘banking area’ it has 35 threads spawned, and its using the resources of 5.25 Cores.

On a laptop CPU clocked at 2.2 GHz…. Really? Seriously, really?? Come on, your screenshot proves nothing about GW2 performance on desktop CPU’s and you know it. For starters both the i5 and i7 would be running at around double the clockspeed alone…Your assumption about gaining more then 5% performance is funny, you list the stuff that gives that extra 5% performance like they are seperate benefits. You get HT, you get a little more L3 Cache, the base clock and higher turbo are meaningless since you will OC either model to a nice stable speed and keep it there anyway, and as a result you maybe get 5% more out of the i7. Fermi offers a valid point, if your on a budget, you are better of getting the i5 and a good cooling solution then getting the i7. Simply because that i7 with the boxed cooler won’t even be able to use it’s stock single core turbo on all cores for extended periods of time, let alone an OC. If you got the budget and the 5% extra performance is worth the…well not sure what the price difference is in the US, here in the Netherlands it’s a price difference of about 30%. So yeah, if you got the money and it’s worth it to you, by all means get an i7. If you’re on a budget or just care about bang for buck, an i5 will serve your needs just fine. Because even with that expensive i7, or an even better and more expensive X99 i7 thats overclocked to the max, you will still have poor FPS in WvW or worldbosses. But yeah, next time you want to prove an i7 is worth using, don’t send a screenshot of a laptop i7 okay? Like seriously…

In fact, if you even own the i7 system in your sig (idiotic for gaming, guessing by the storage I suppose you do video editting with it? That would explain the ram and huge amount of storage), how about you post some results with that i7+ 295X2 and the i5 + 295×2 from your sig, and add some FPS shots from ingame as well. I wonder if there would even be a 5% difference in actual gaming.

KingChronicles.7510:

I’m not sure if my setup is too weak to run gw2. I run at an average of 35 fps full screen, but when i do windowed full screen I have it at 90 fps, which confuses me.

GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series X2 Crossfire
Ram: 8GB
CPU: Intel i7 – 2600k @ 3.40ghz

Maybe it does suck idk.

Crossfire does not work in windowed mode, perhaps try turning crossfire off in catalyst and see if you get a similar change in fps. If you do, crossfire support for your cards is the issue, if not, no clue really. Your CPU is a bit older as are your GPU’s, but they’re still plenty fast to run this game, albeit not with all the fancy stuff turned on. One explanation I could think of, is that you are having heat issues while running crossfire. Can check if theres throttling in catalyst as well. Since the 6870 X2 is the only X2 card in the 6800 series I assume you have one of those? I wonder what settings you are using to get 90 fps, if I recall its roughly equal to a single HD6950/70, or single GTX570. The 1gb vram (per core for 2 gb total) kinda cripples it, but if that where causing the issue you wouldn’t see the much better performance in windowed.

Btw, are you sure you arent seeing 90 fps in fullscreen, and 35 in full windowed? That would make a lot more sense given how crossfire is working in one, and not in the other…

TorsoReaper.8530:

Was in a match where i got destroyed by a guy with the title “champion magus” and our team overall lost like 500 to 50 i think. I go to the wiki to look it up. “champion magus, awarded for winning 150 tournaments”. Oh ok, that sounds like a fair match up.

According to Anet, pvp pop is growing really well. No explanation on why we can’t have a solo queue though.

I guess if you had looked beyond a glance, you would known that in game, and on the wiki itself under http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_Conqueror it doesn’t say “tournaments”. It actually says “Win 150 rated arena games as an elementalist.”, whereby both ranked and unranked count as a rated arena game. It’s a title more indicative of time played then of skill to be honest, since even the worst player will eventually get enough wins to get the title even if he is carried by rest of the team every time he gets a win. In fact, him being matched up against you who clearly is new to sPvP, is a pretty strong indicator that this ele is in fact not very good at all.

I just checked, I use two 7870XT’s in crossfire, basicly your 7950’s with 2GB instead of 3GB and crossfire still works fine here. Check that in Catalyst, on the overdrive menu you set energy limits to +20, and ingame, that you use Fullscreen-mode. Crossfire does not, in any game, work in windowed mode, or fullscreen-windowed mode.

If thats not causing your problems, I dont know, all I can say for sure is that with the latest Catalyst drivers 15.7.1 under windows 8.1 Pro x64, Crossfire definately works for me.

Bastuvian, 100% GPU usage doesn’t have to be bad, what fps are you getting and do you use a framelimiter? (either the one in GW2 or the one in Catalyst?) If you are getting more then 60 fps on a regular basis use framelimiter to consume less power, and produce less heat.

On a side note, also noticed the drop in performance since a couple of months here, although in my case it went from a steady 63 (using framelimiter) to drops to 40 and lower, which before would sometimes happen in LA, but not in fractals for example. Now I sometimes see 30 fps in fractals, or dips too around 45 just running around in PvE maps :S Looking at system monitor, I notice a significant increase in CPU load compared to 4-5 months ago, its around 90% just after logging in, and then of course when theres a little bit extra, the framedrops start happening. I noticed this directly after the patch that started construction on the old ruined LA. Before that patch I saw CPU usage of around 60% standing in Posternward, which was my hangout spot back then, upon logging in things felt clunky, and after checking a wopping 30% load increase. At the time it didn’ t bother me that much, since I attributed the change to the scaffolding and other stuff that was placed there, and since they would be temporary I imagined they where perhaps not to well optimized, which I totally understand since it would be a waste of time and resources. However, this has not gone away with the new LA, nor in the rest off the map. Annoyingly, when I look at performance logs I see around 60-70% GPU usage per card during framedrops and sometimes even less, indicating a CPU bottleneck.

Specs.

OS. Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit
CPU: Intel Core I5 3570k @4,4 Ghz
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP 2×4GB, DDR3 1600mhz CL9
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G45
GPUs: 2x Sapphire 7870XT (Tahiti LE) in Crossfire, Catalyst 15.7.1
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB (OS, GW2)
PSU: Corsair CX750M

Running at 2560×1440, best appearance preset minus post processing, which I turned all the way off(I don’t like the look it gives, not sure why but I just hate it).