Guild Wars 2

Jeremy Soule makes stunningly beautiful music. The Bastila Theme from KotOR and Guild Wars Factions Theme are some of my absolute favorite pieces of media in the world, let alone music. And he has plenty of other fantastic material. Now it’s fine if you don’t see the beauty as each eye beholds beauty differently. But don’t come here to trash-talk Soule when so many find beauty in his music.

Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93 GHz 2.94 GHz
ATI Radeon HD 5670 (drivers catalyst 12.8)
8.00 GB Ram

In general small group or solo play I get 50 frames until I swing to any side and then drop down to 20 very quickly. WvW or zone bosses with large crowds drop me to a slideshow, and this is completely regardless of video settings. I’ve tried the absolute lowest of the low and the highest of the high on the highest and lowest resolutions, and this makes about 4 fps difference normally or none with lots of players. Regardless of settings, turning while I’m out in the open halves my framerate and crowds mean a slideshow. WvW at any settings is currently straight-up unplayable for me, and zone bosses are only playable because of their predictable and slow nature.

I realize that my CPU isn’t hugely past the minimum recommended, but this seems like a disappointing and inappropriate performance for a system that’s well above minimum reqs and can run many other modern games very smoothly. I can provide additional information as needed and look forward to hopefully having this alleviated to some degree. Because this game is so awesome besides that.