Guild Wars 2

I just recently upgraded my xfx 6870 to the Sapphire HD 7970 Dual X Ive only had it for 2 weeks but i can say that it runs anything that you throw at it…. Maxed and keeps its cool too.
While playing the standard games of now, bioshock infinite, bf3 dlc, crysis 3, farcry 3, hitman absolution etc etc. I get constant 60fps on maxed And it looks stunning.

As for gw2 it runs ultra, constant 60fps in tons of mobs pve/pvp arena. Although if you do WvWvW or Extreme boss events, shatterer/Jormag (or jorlag rather) expect frames to drop to the low 30s 20s maxed, of course though this is quite normal considering the amount that needs to be rendered. I assure you 7970 will play gw2 at ultra settings.

Ive never used a nvidia card before and dont know much about the performance of the 680 but i love my 7970, it runs all my games great and has good cooling, what more to want? So i say again 7970 will run gw2 at ultra i know myself.

Also disregard Any comments about overclocking, if this is your first build you dont want to worry about overclocking right after you install windows into your new pc, you should be able to blast gw2 and any other games.

Side note: Personally i dont recommend using cards amd/nvidia alike with xfx coolers, IMO they are not very good, i only had to upgrade my 6870 because it died and some friends with xfx cards say they get pretty hot, but thats just my opinion.

Espionage.3685:

Ecliptic.5408:

Arenanet are kittens. They couldn’t give a single kitten about the game. Think about all of the current fixes (albeit most don’t work) posted on the Internet about the FPS problem. They are all posted by gw2 players.

Now turn to arena net, they won’t help the players with their FPS problems, try posting up any fixes or even acknowledge the fact that their game is dated or broken. They tell you that you need better hardware that your CPU sucks and NEEDS to be better, that your graphics card also sucks and doesn’t work with the game and that it’s very “odd” to have FPS problems even though the next 100 people are having these issues.

Anet will sit in their office scratching their balls and counting their money and there is nothing you can do about it.

(My comment seems pretty harsh but I’m god kitten angry at arena net right now)

In my case, I get great FPS during PvE (great being above 40 FPS 90% of the time; average 55 FPS). My CPU sucks also (Phenom II X3 720), but it’s OC’d to 3.5GHz currently. I have a Radeon HD 7850 that also seems to handle the game fine to an extent.

Certainly there is room for improvement on ANet’s end, but there is probably plenty of things the end-user can do to make their own experience better in the meantime. For example, lower some in-game settings (I’ve seen people complain of FPS, and meanwhile they never turned down any in-game settings from max…). Do some OS tweaks, update drivers, etc.

My CPU is pretty sub-par most likely compared to what most people have, and I get acceptable FPS. My computer is heavily tweaked as well to do so though.

I have tried alot of things to get gw2 running at a stable FPS. Turning stuff off in the BIOS, ocing my card and CPU etc. The game when I play it at lowest setting averages at about 35 FPS while in low populated PVE. Playable? Yes. Enjoyable? No. (the game on low settings looks worse than wow and low resolution hurts my eyes, add the low FPS and it just sucks)
I’m giving the game a break for a bit.
If anet ever begins to plan on fixing the FPS, I have DOTA 2 to play in the meantime.

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

Oh Ecliptic, I and so many others agree with you…

its why nobody I know will be buying gems or any expantion if they dont fix the performance of the game.

they need to change the minimum specs to something like

Min specs
Intel i5 3570k@4.5ghz or AMD 8350@4.5ghz or better.

that would help alot, it would cut into sales so they wont do that….

I really do think the dev’s most likely would like to go back and fix the game, but, management are more interested in quagan backpacks and other crap for the gem shop…

somebody should put up a kickstarter for GW2 perf fixes……

goal of say 500k-1.5million, to go toward paying anet to hire a team to rebuild the client with dx11 and proper threading, to rebuild it so it scales to lower hardware as well as higher…..

honestly, I would kick in for that…..as would most gw2 players!!!

The kickstarter idea seems like a good way to get the issues ironed about but tbh it’s uncalled for.

I would support that kickstarter. But It’s such a dick move to have the devs need more money to fix something that shouldn’t of even been in the game in the first place. Come on they are still making good money of gw2 sales 6 months in. It’s as if we have to fix their fault for them (by giving them money to fund the process).

I’d still like to see this issue fixed but kickstarter seems impractical something else must be done. Rather than giving money to the devs. Think moar!

The download after the disk is about 10 gigabytes. I recently installed the game from the disk onto my friends pc and he had to download the 10 gigabytes.

Arenanet are kittens. They couldn’t give a single kitten about the game. Think about all of the current fixes (albeit most don’t work) posted on the Internet about the FPS problem. They are all posted by gw2 players.

Now turn to arena net, they won’t help the players with their FPS problems, try posting up any fixes or even acknowledge the fact that their game is dated or broken. They tell you that you need better hardware that your CPU sucks and NEEDS to be better, that your graphics card also sucks and doesn’t work with the game and that it’s very “odd” to have FPS problems even though the next 100 people are having these issues.

Anet will sit in their office scratching their balls and counting their money and there is nothing you can do about it.

(My comment seems pretty harsh but I’m god kitten angry at arena net right now)

I have a raedeon HD6800 and also the 13.2 beta drivers and i get between 24-40 fps when in pve with no other players around.

daimasei.4091:

For those with AMD Radeon try the new Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3. It’s supposedly optimized for GW2 and I have 0 issues with it (at least for now).

Daimasei I have a Raedeon and I only see a slight performance difference with the Catalyst 13.2 beta 5, is there anything that you did because this god kitten FPS problem is getting out of hand.