Guild Wars 2

sirsquishy.8531:

Hatter.9540:

I did find
http://h20386.www2.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=F5C51EA&opt=ABU&sel=PCNB#merch-tech-specs
which was under the ‘entertainment and multimedia’ section. It’s not as good but still affordable ect. Doesn’t seem too bad

Can’t reach the page, can you post the specs and the cost?

Processor family
Intel® Core™ i5 processor
Processor
Intel® Core™ i5-4200U with Intel HD Graphics 4400 (1.6 GHz, 3 MB cache, 2 cores)
4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM (1 × 4 GB)
intel HD Graphics 4400

sorry for the delay

sirsquishy.8531:

Hatter.9540:

locx.6412:

sirsquishy”

STAY AWAY form 1366×768. The 768 is NOT tall enough to manipulate Excel Spreadsheets

Getting terribly OT here, but what are you basing this on? I have a tablet/laptop hybrid with 1366×768 resolution and Excel opens up 20×20 grid with toolbar visible. Granted I don’t use Excel too much but what is it lacking in 768 pixels that it gains at 900? Just curious.

I don’t fully understand what you mean, basing what on exactly??

He was just asking why my opinion is the way it is for the different resolutions and ‘office work’.

Oh my goodness, my bad. I’m in my own world haha, sorry !!

locx.6412:

sirsquishy”

STAY AWAY form 1366×768. The 768 is NOT tall enough to manipulate Excel Spreadsheets

Getting terribly OT here, but what are you basing this on? I have a tablet/laptop hybrid with 1366×768 resolution and Excel opens up 20×20 grid with toolbar visible. Granted I don’t use Excel too much but what is it lacking in 768 pixels that it gains at 900? Just curious.

I don’t fully understand what you mean, basing what on exactly??

I did find
http://h20386.www2.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=F5C51EA&opt=ABU&sel=PCNB#merch-tech-specs
which was under the ‘entertainment and multimedia’ section. It’s not as good but still affordable ect. Doesn’t seem too bad

sirsquishy.8531:

best I could find, again, http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/E2E34AV?HP-ENVY-15t-j100-Quad-Edition-Notebook-PC-ENERGY-STAR-

i7-4700MQ Processor
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 740M Graphics with 2048MB of dedicated video memory
1080P
8GB Ram
$834.99

If they would let me drop the i7 down to an i5, that would be 734.99 (like the IBM i found before xmas).

But, there you have it. new, that is the price to expect (734.99 for an i5, or 834.99 for an i7).

Well thats fantastic ! To me thats just over £500.
I’m just trying to find it on a UK site now but i don’t believe we have it as silly as that sounds.
Why must there always be obstacles

sirsquishy.8531:

Hatter.9540:

sirsquishy.8531:

Wow look at what I found;

http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/tabelle_18.jpg <- Just the chart
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Guild-Wars-2-Benchmarked.81604.0.html <- Full on Performance review!

A chart of CPU/GPU combos and FPS performance for GW2. This should be used as a buying guild vs performance that you want :-)

Haha!! That’s so good in this situation !! And as for that laptop its http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-aspire-v5-571p-15-6-touchscreen-laptop-silver-21414702-pdt.html
But i don’t think it’s any good :’( and thats outta my price range….
dang

No, that has the Intel HD graphics. While is ok on Medium to Low, it will bomb in Zerg and large open world events (My Work laptop is setup exactly like the one you linked….trust me, dont buy it).

wow, aside what you said earlier i don’t think theres much way of me being able to play unfortunately. I just don’t have the right sort of cash i’ve pushed my budget to around 550 and i’m not having much luck. I just want something that plays smoothly on medium graphics and doesn’t crash when theres a large amount of player around.
Who knows, maybe after uni i’ll be able to afford one and play guild wars 3….

sirsquishy.8531:

Wow look at what I found;

http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/tabelle_18.jpg <- Just the chart
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Guild-Wars-2-Benchmarked.81604.0.html <- Full on Performance review!

A chart of CPU/GPU combos and FPS performance for GW2. This should be used as a buying guild vs performance that you want :-)

Haha!! That’s so good in this situation !! And as for that laptop its http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-aspire-v5-571p-15-6-touchscreen-laptop-silver-21414702-pdt.html
But i don’t think it’s any good :’( and thats outta my price range….
dang

sirsquishy.8531:

Hatter.9540:

Hi! I’m just looking for a little bit of advice…
I bought GW2 a while ago hoping to play but my macbook wasn’t up to standard
I’m (hopefully) purchasing a windows laptop next week, I believe i’ve found one but I don’t really understand much.
It has:
AMD quad core A8 4555M processor (1.6 GHZ, 4MB cache)
AMD Radeon HD 7600G
1TB storage
8GB memory

I’m just looking for a little help in knowing whether it will run smoothly with the game.

Thankyou!

Hatter.

While the HD7600 is ‘ok’ for graphics, that APU/CPU is not strong enough. You want something from AMD Clocked atleast at 2.0ghz (and then you will overclock that to 2.6ghz via K10Stat)

BUT…I would currently stay away from AMD Based CPUs for this game. They do not stand up to the i3/i5 when just talking about GW2.

Even my laptop (DV6z-6c00) which is finely tuned cannot get more then 8-12FPS in a full on zerg in this game. yet I will get 60-75FPS almost everywhere else (30FPS in LA looking at the fountain). And that’s with my 1.8Ghz CPU overclock to 2.8Ghz, and my GPU overclocked from 600Core/800Memory to 740Core/920Memory. (1080P LCD, I run a 1600×900 Resolution for GW2)

I would suggest looking into a laptop that has an i5 and a medium grade Nvidia GPU (650 or 750…ect). I have not seen any laptops with an i5 and AMD GPU (7690, or higher) for less then 1k USD right now.

Everyone seems to have similar answers, like i said i have basic understanding about these kinds of things and have never had much knowledge on AMD CPU’s, in fact someone did tell me to steer clear. My price range is around 400 to 450 so theres not much chance of me being able to get an amazing one, I’m a student so I cant break the bank. Do you have any suggestions??
Also, Is 8GB required or is 4 okay as well??

Thankyou for your help!

Hi! I’m just looking for a little bit of advice…
I bought GW2 a while ago hoping to play but my macbook wasn’t up to standard
I’m (hopefully) purchasing a windows laptop next week, I believe i’ve found one but I don’t really understand much.
It has:
AMD quad core A8 4555M processor (1.6 GHZ, 4MB cache)
AMD Radeon HD 7600G
1TB storage
8GB memory

I’m just looking for a little help in knowing whether it will run smoothly with the game.

Thankyou!

Hatter.