Guild Wars 2

Ok cool! I posted this same question on another forum and I got roughly the same answer that I should upgrade my GPU. That’s deffinatly something I can do, do you think my processor/ram is fine for most games It’s just my GPU holding me back?

Also how hard is upgrading a GPU with a Dell XPS 630 and the motherboard that comes with it?

I’d say my budget is probably £200 so about $300

Heya, I know theres hundreds of these FPS related threads, Im not going to sit here and whine about the FPS problems I just need some advice.

I bought the game a couple of days ago, I’d been saving up for it as I’ve been looking forward to it for months! I was so excited I finally installed it and started playing I chose the settings that It gave me for my computer which where mostly high a few mediums, however as soon as I started playing I noticed the FPS wasnt quite what I wanted, It was averaging 20/25 And as soon as there where a few players around it would drop down instantly. World v World v World was below 10FPS when it was busy, I changed the settings to as low as they could be, It was slightly better but still I’d preffer not to have to play at the lowest settings as It’s not half as enjoyable!

My stats for my PC are as follows.

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad-Core Processor Q9550 (2.83Ghz, 1333MHz FSB, 12MB cache)

4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [4×1024]

Hard Drive 1TB NCQ SATA (2×500GB) 7200Rpm Dual HDD Config Raid 0 Stripe

Single 1GB DDR3 nVidia® GeForce™ GTX285 graphics card

PCI Card Ageia PhysX 128MB

Integrated HDA 7.1 Dolby Digital Audio

I’ve attached pictures of my results from CPU Z, Im not sure If you need them but they might make it a bit easier to understand

I’ve got a Dell XPS 630 which I bought about 3 years ago, I’d love to be able to play this game on High Graphics with no issues regarding my FPS, I was wondering is this possible with my current system or do I need to upgrade the system, If so what would you suggest I try and upgrade, I dont have a huge budget!

Thanks allot, Louis.

I bought the game a couple of days ago, I’d been saving up for it as I’ve been looking forward to it for months! I was so excited I finally installed it and started playing I chose the settings that It gave me for my computer which where mostly high a few mediums, however as soon as I started playing I noticed the FPS wasnt quite what I wanted, It was averaging 20/25 And as soon as there where a few players around it would drop down instantly. World v World v World was below 10FPS when it was busy, I changed the settings to as low as they could be, It was slightly better but still I’d preffer not to have to play at the lowest settings as It’s not half as enjoyable!

My stats for my PC are as follows.

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad-Core Processor Q9550 (2.83Ghz, 1333MHz FSB, 12MB cache)

4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [4×1024]

Hard Drive 1TB NCQ SATA (2×500GB) 7200Rpm Dual HDD Config Raid 0 Stripe

Single 1GB DDR3 nVidia® GeForce™ GTX285 graphics card

PCI Card Ageia PhysX 128MB

Integrated HDA 7.1 Dolby Digital Audio

I’ve also got pictures of my results from CPU Z, Im not sure If you need them but they might make it a bit easier to understand

If theres anything you can help me with please do, I really would love to be able to play this game on reasonable graphics with a nice steady FPS (30+) If theres anything you can suggest I’m more than willing to try it!

I want to be able to run this game on High Settings, if my computer isnt good enough to do so, please let me know and I’ll try to upgrade it!.

Thanks allot, Louis.