Guild Wars 2

Well even with the latest Intel processors, you aren’t going to get awesome frames in WvW. In the chaotic battles, with an overclock to 4.5Ghz, you’ll still only get 30 FPS. To some this is fine, to others its ridiculous that even the top end hardware available to consumers can’t pull more than 35 frames in the worst case scenario.

You can still stick with AMD if you aren’t fond of switching over to Intel. The FX 8350 overclocked to 4.5+Ghz can achieve close to the same performance in GW2 what an i5 3570K or i7 3770K overclocked to 4.5Ghz can do.

If you still want to go Intel, the i5 3570K is the most optimal CPU for GW2 on the Intel front due to the number of big threads GW2 uses and the price compared to the i7 variant. However, if you do video/audio encoding, the i7 3770K will be the better purchase.

I also don’t know if you want to wait for Intel’s new architecture, Haswell, to come out. It might lower the price of the Ivy Bridge processors. Haswell is due to debut in early June.

Your 6950 is close to a 560Ti according to what I’ve seen. So you should be able to toss everything to max besides super-sampling and get at least 30 frames.

Well then, there is your answer, you get to sit in time-out for a while.

A little bird told me the world is ending.

Free transfers are open to everyone all the time on a one week cooldown timer. Meaning, if you change servers today Dec 26th, you can’t change servers again until Jan 2nd. Free transfers are ending eventually, but no one knows when yet. The cost will depend on the server’s population that you’re transferring to.

I would get the HD 7790, but I can’t say how well the game would run with ‘Supersampling’ and reflections set to ‘All’. If you set it to ‘Native’ and ‘Terrain and Sky’ and likely get 60 FPS or close to it. Turning on the two aforementioned settings will likely kill your FPS since those two are the most GPU intense settings in the game.

You’ll experience lower FPS in more crowded areas like LA, large WvW battles, and large dynamic events because your CPU is very low end.

Goloith.6349:

With your i7 920 you should be able to hit 4-4.2 ghz easily. That’s what I’m running and it helps getting that extra 0.60 ghz out.

I’m running with the following settings:
Tuning Mode: Extreme OC
Ai Overclock Tuner: Manual
BCLK Frequency: 199
PCIE Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: 1595 (I’m using 1600 atm).
(scroll down)
CPU Voltage: 1.30000
QPI/DRAM Core Voltage: 1.31250
(scroll down)
DRAM Bus Voltage: 1.51106
Everything else should be left on auto.

for your memory make sure it’s set to what’s on the memory sticks.

COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus and you’ll get the same results
http://tinyurl.com/bpw59rz

Sadly, not every processor is created equal. Some eat more voltage to get to higher clocks than others to remain stable. For instance, my processor I could only get to 4.1Ghz before I reached what I consider the safe voltage wall.

This is a tough one, for now we’re going to assume you meant 45 on medium not in WvW or large dynamic events, just in normal play.

If you are going for the 1080p screen option, probably not. The 650M which is about the same as the 740M, can’t push all those pixels and make them pretty at the same time. If you get the 720p version of the screen, then I would say that you’ll likely get the performance you desire.

Donari.5237:

Heck, just drag the bigger bag on top of the smaller one in the tab. It will swap it out for you and you can save the smaller bag for an alt or sell it or destroy it or even mail it to a friend if it’s not soul bound.

edit: The stuff in the bag will stay there in the newer bigger one. No need to empty it first.

Made my life easier, thanks!

Computer 1: a 6 year old processor…

Computer 2: a 2 year old processor BUT with the minimum requirements for graphics.

You’re looking on playing on lowest settings with both these machines.

As for what you should be looking for, graphics wise with playing on medium to high, a 560M or AMD equivalent or better.
As for a processor, an i5-3380M or better would do. You’d still have bad frames in a crowded area like LA, and massive battles in WvW.

I’d also recommend a 64 bit version of Win7, and 8GB of RAM.

You’re going to spend quite a bit of money to get a decent laptop to run GW2. With mobility comes a price, a deeper pocket.

DCGoth.7102:

Not certain why I am seeing this; however, I have no access to the Gem Store or any other portions of the BLTP.

Also wondering why I am always directed to the en-gb sites when logging into my account or support. I cannot seem to reach US support. (My IP is Florida).

Not to lead you on a wild goose chase, but I would toss ArenaNet a support ticket to see what they have to say on the matter.

The only thing I could imagine changing is the localization of Windows (assuming you’re on a Windows machine) to English in the United States. It might be set to English in the UK. Other than that I’m not sure what else to recommend.

Do I understand you correctly and that both your CPU and GPU are at 60C when the crash happens? If so, what graphics driver are you running? I recommend getting the latest and greatest at:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista32.aspx (32-bit)
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx (64-bit)

To be honest you might want to consider waiting a month until the latest Intel processors debut. Haswell is expected to perform about 10% better than Ivy Bridge clock for clock due to the new architecture. If you bought today and got an Ivy Bridge, there would be no upgrade path to the latest architecture because the CPU slot changes from Ivy Bridge to Haswell. If I were you that is what I would do, wait it out just a little bit longer.

However, if you have ants in your pants and need something now. I recommend the i5 3570K if you WvW with 100+ man battles or do large dynamic events like dragons often. The ‘K’ signifies that the processor can be overclocked much easier than its non-‘K’ bretheren. The common place people overclock to get 30 frames in WvW battles with 100+ people is 4.5Ghz which I have heard is not hard to reach on Ivy Bridge assuming you have decent cooling for the processor.

I prefer my enclosed water loop solutions like the Corsair H50 to cool my processor. It’s the cheap man’s water cooling.

As for RAM, grab at least 8GB of DDR3 at 1600Mhz or more.

The best performance per dollar for a graphics card is AMD’s 7870XT, however I am a superfan of Nvidia and would suggest a similar option that FourthVariety has suggested above. A GTX 660Ti is plenty to run GW2 at highest settings if you’re playing on a single monitor at 1080p or less. If you’re running a multiple monitor setup, step it up to at least a GTX 670. Also note that Nvidia is releasing their 700 series cards soon, but there is no definite date for that as far as I know so I wouldn’t wait around for them. However, Haswell is for sure launching early June.

As for a power supply, get at least a 650W as to have enough power to supply the system after overclocking, if you choose to ever do so, and have enough power after the power supply starts to degrade because of use. As for brands, I use to buy whatever brand was cheapest and it was always the weakest link in my computer and would have to replace it every year and a half to two years it seemed. Now I have a Corsair power supply and its never given me problems in the four years I have had it.

I was never good at choosing motherboards, so I would go ahead with the ASUS board above. ASUS and Gigabyte make great motherboards, ASUS in particular I have had an awesome experience with because the board for my ancient P4 went through computer ‘hell’ and still survived with leaking capacitors.

I’m assuming you can yank the hard drive(s) and other peripherals from your old computer to use for this new one.

I’m going for a hail mary when I suggest this, but perhaps the game file corrupted and for that one character the game tries to access the corrupted part of the file or, perhaps its a sign the hard drive is deteriorating.

If I were you and have another hard drive, I would copy the game files over and launch it from that hard drive. If it works, it might be a sign that the hard drive is going bad. Run checkdisk to ensure the hard drive’s integrity.

You can also redownload the game on your current hard drive if you don’t have another one. If it works, it was prolly just a bad part of the .dat file. If it doesn’t it might be a sign the hard drive is giving out.

Alternately, it could all be on ArenaNet’s side and it’s a problem with accessing your character from the server.

Ecole.2349:

Ok so it finished and is correcting the errors. This still made me less than happy, and makes me question the previous results

I can’t speak for any of the legitness of the tools you are using. Some registry tools might look and play nice initially, but in reality they’re just malware furthering your problem.

Personally, you have an SSD now, reinstall Windows on it. Now would be as good time as ever since you have an SSD and you won’t regret the boot times of Windows after you do when compared to your old hard drive. I was once a firm believer that an SSD was a super luxury item that wasn’t warranted for. I caved and got one when the price was right (like .50cent per GB) and I’ll never go back. I highly recommend one for any machine, even if it just surfs the internet. The new load times were just amazing, especially compared to coming from some ancient IDE hard drive from the early 2000’s (it just never died).

There are tons of other threads about this issue, check them out for solutions. I heard something like changing the language to German, letting it download, then changing it back to your native language or something resolves the issue.

I vote no, unless we add more hours to the DAY, its a daily and should be on a 24 hour cycle. I too forget to be part of my daily before it resets, granted I’ve never been that close as one salvage with to which I say, click faster. I get angry at myself, and move on to do whatever other things I wanted to do whether it was the next set of dailies or going to play another game.

I do like the idea of rollover dailies/monthlies.

Hmmmm, I’m going to try and avoid blaming the latest patch here. I’m going to start by guessing its an over heating issue. Can you check the temperatures you’re getting and report them back. It will also help if you list your computer specifications.

As for determining the temperature of your CPU/GPU you can use HWMonitor which can be downloaded here:
http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/1.22-setup.exe

Interesting idea, the only problem I see with this is that the people who get there might be tossed into an overflow depending how busy/popular this idea becomes. However, this would make leveling an alt nice and breathe life back into lower level PvE areas.

6GB of RAM is fine, assuming you have 4 sticks where 2 are 2GB each and the other 2 are 1GB each. Otherwise its a slightly strange setup you have.

I haven’t been on to experience the new content yet so I’m a little unaware of what you are referencing content wise, but 30second lag probably has something to do with your network rather than your actual hardware. I would try traceroute to the server’s IP address and see what results are brought back.

You can get the server’s IP by typing /ip like an emote in game. Then open a command prompt in Windows (assuming you’re using Windows) and type “tracert 1.1.1.1” just without the quotes and replacing the fake IP address with the server’s IP address.

One thing that jumps out to me from the information you gave is ‘1GB of DDR3 Graphics Card’. Afaik, most, if not all, lower end (media graphics) cards come with DDR3 RAM instead of GDDR5 RAM which is for medium to high end graphics cards. Which begs the question, what media graphics card are you looking at? Should be something alone the lines of GT 640.

If it is a media graphics card you’re looking at, then it won’t play GW2 very well. Depending on the card, lowest settings might be the best it could do, or if its a higher end media card, you might be able to pull medium settings out of it.

I recommend getting at least a GTX 650Ti to play GW2 at medium-high settings at 1920×1080 at 30+fps.

That’s plenty of RAM.

As long as that is a quality power supply, that would work, but if you’re looking to keep the computer for 5+ years, I would recommend bumping the wattage up some due to power supplies becoming more inefficient over time. Then, if you get a more powerful graphics card, I would definitely recommend getting at least a 550W power supply. If you plan on upgrading parts over the years, make sure you have enough extra wattage to cover those beefier parts. Also, if you plan on overclocking your processor/graphics card make sure to have enough extra power to do so.

Everything else looks alright. With your processor, WvW and a crowded LA might give you some grief with a lower frame rate than you want. However, everywhere else in the game you should be fine.

I’m going to assume you haven’t tried anything yet, so we’ll start with drivers. Latest drivers are found here:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/59645

GrloftheCity.8315:

Thanks for the response!

I’ve attached the traceroute details. It’s been over 10 years since I’ve had any networking experience, but it seems like the connection drops before it makes its way around.

It looks like two different problems here, it timed out prior to reaching ArenaNet’s infrastructure which is something your Internet Service Provider might be able to help with. It also timed out when it got within the Austin, TX area which I believe I heard is where ArenaNet’s servers are located. This is likely a combination of both your Internet Service Provider and ArenaNet’s problem. The last IP you reached as NCSoft written all over it:
http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/64.25.32.82

Just a fun fact, it looks like ArenaNet used the same place for their Guild Wars 1 servers judging from older forum posts from the original game.

Wraith.4103:

Ok I found a way to work. At least worked for me. Here it goes:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

Windows via shortcut
You can execute switches directly from your Guild Wars 2 shortcut:
1. Right click on your Guild Wars 2 shortcut and select ‘Properties’.
2. In the ‘Target Area’ field you will see the location of your Guild Wars 2 executable file: …\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe
3. Write the desired command line arguments after the quote marks, each beginning with a space: “…\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -perf -windowed

OR

Windows via start/run
If you don’t plan on using an argument frequently, it can be easier to use the Windows’ Run command for a single invocation.
1. Click the “Start” button
2. Select “Run” (not required for Windows 7)
3. Enter the path to the GW2.exe in quotes followed by the arguments you wish to use (same as above, but in a single line).
4. Press enter.

I don’t understand how telling people how to use command line switches will help? Perhaps you should list the switches they should use. -windowed doesn’t seem like something most people would want.

This is a known bug with the game as of a few hours ago. This thread should be moved to the bug sub-forum since its not really related to anything in the Technical Support sub-forum.

Jack of Blades.2153:

Well, it is not fully fixed, now i get freezes and crashes on loading screens.
I bet an repair would fix this, how can i run repair for gw2exe?

There are a lot of places around the sub forum with this information, but this is the guide I have found is easiest to follow. It’s for the original game, but the concept is the same. The -repair switch is the one you want.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

cyberpowerpc is where my girlfriend got her build. It was actually cheaper to get it through cyberpowerpc than buy all the parts separately. Normally I’m a huge advocate of building your own, but a prebuilt solution was cheaper for some reason.

With that though, the 610 Nvidia graphics card is trash for games. It goes great with a media center pc, but for gaming you’re going to want at least a GTX 650 Ti / AMD equivalent.

I feel like you can do better than a FX4100 as well at the 750 dollar bracket. The FX 4100 would work for GW2, but it will struggle in crowded areas, like LA/WvW battles/some dynamic events. If I might recommend a few choice CPUs, the FX 8350 or an i5 3570K is what will get you the most out of this game. GW2 currently favors higher single thread performance CPUs, which is where Intel strides ahead. Even with the two processors mentioned above, you will still need to overclock them to get 30fps in the most extreme cases in GW2 (mainly 100+ man WvW battles). However, if you have a burning hatred for Intel, the FX 8350 is the choice on AMD’s side.

No problem. I should also point out that the benchmarks above were done in PvE, not in WvW where people’s systems really start to choke. So if you’re interested in decent performance in WvW, get something that gives a little more horsepower.

Yayap.3180:

Hello, this is not a game breaker I don’t think, and the client still seems to be working fine, I just have a few questions about some files in the GW2 folders.

So, in my main Guild Wars 2 game folder I see Crash.dmp, Gw2.dat, Gw2.exe, and Gw2.tmp.

Is the Crash.dmp something I should delete or be concerned about?

Also, in my Documents GW2 folder, there is a file called Corrupt-b41cb9fd.dat and a CorruptArchive file.

Should I be concerned about any of these, or are they required data files for the game to correct itself or something?
I’m just wondering if I should try to verify the client, delete those files, or just leave them alone..

Aslo, I tried the GW2 Repair instructions for Windows that are in the Support but it’s not letting me do step 5. I cannot add -repair to the end of the Target line; it says it son’t find the source or it doesn’t match up, so I can’t repair..

Any explanation or suggestions are helpful, thanks!

Since the only files needed to run the game from what you listed are gw2.exe and gw2.dat, you can delete the .tmp (temporary), and .dmp (dump) files. The files may regenerate when the game launches, I forget, but the only files critical to Guild Wars 2 are gw2.exe and gw2.dat. You can delete the corrupted stuff.

Follow this:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments
Make sure to make a shortcut of the gw2.exe

Have him delete the existing mail inside his mailbox. You can only have so many messaged before your inbox is full. Your messages are either waiting to be queued into his mailbox or you made a stranger’s day.

Well if turning down the graphical settings without touching the resolution, it sounds like a CPU bottleneck. Running at 2.9Ghz, which is still a little slow, I can see it freezing for a second because of this.

You should try lowering the resolution just temporarily and see if the problem persists.

Likely from what you’re describing, its your CPU that is actually limiting you. 50% load is taken across all your cores, so the ones running GW2 are probably maxing out or very close to maxing out. I would check each individual core’s use before deciding to buy anything.

I do have to say though, a GTX 550Ti is on the lower end of the spectrum for graphics cards. Personally I run a GTX 560 Ti – 448 edition overclocked slightly. I run on highest everything (besides supersampling) and my best FPS in LA and WvW fights is closer to 30fps. This is because I’m running a i7 930 overclocked to 4.1Ghz which is bottlenecking my fps. Everywhere else when its not crowded, I get 50+ fps.

GW2 requires superb single thread performance, even the latest intel/AMD processors are bottlenecked when overclocked.

I don’t know AMD cards well, but I wouldn’t get anything over a GTX 570 or GTX 660Ti, unless you’re going to inject better AA, like SweetFX.

Alkurad.6475:

Hello. I am using a lagre resulition of 3200×1800. Even if I pick “Largest” UI scale, it is still not lagre enough fot my eyes not to hurt =)
Does someone knows if you can adjust UI even bigger?

P.S. I am using it for OGSSAA aka supersampling, so you can downsample to smaller resolution and have extremely sharp and less aliased image =)

Nope, if you could adjust the UI even larger, it would be included as a setting in the UI scale options.

I have heard that is it not worth it. Exotics do drop, precursors can drop, but you can also get L78 rares. I heard rares drop much more often than exotics, thus I would look at it as a few ectos.

Al Capwn.2058:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

I’m puzzled how you even played on your graphics card. I wouldn’t expect anything to run that doesn’t meet the minimum requirements. I would also like to take the time to point out that the processor you plan to get is more of a side-grade component, you’ll get less than twice the performance of your current processor likely. Twice of a little is still a little. If you’re tight on budget than you should still consider AMD and not Intel.

I would wait and save for a computer worth getting. Something like the FX-4300 on an AM3+ motherboard is something you should shoot for for low budget gaming systems. Then, you can hop on a GTX 650Ti Boost or something similar.

Thanks for the tips. I was hoping to just get that CPU as a placeholder until I upgraded to something nicer, but now I’m thinking that may not be a good idea. If I’m going to upgrade, I might as well do it right. I can play the game now with what I have, so I can wait a little longer. I will be sure to take a look at AMD as well. Thanks for the tip.

I just see the 50 dollar celaron as more of a waste than anything. You are right, you can upgrade to a nicer processor, like the i5 3570K or i7 3770K, but those are some costly upgrades AND not the latest from Intel anymore. The 1155 socket dies with Ivy Bridge and the birth of the 1150 socket came with Haswell. So your upgrade path is very limited on the Intel side.

The upgrade path is much nicer on the AMD side with an AM3+ socket. The FX-4300 is only a quad core, but you can upgrade to a FX-6300 (hex core) or FX-8320 (or FX-8350) for an octa core processor. Then, down the road AMD has plans for an FX-9320 and FX-9350 which are buffed up versions of the FX-8320 and FX-8350 respectively. In addition to that, the next incremental architecture upgrade will still use the AM3+ socket.

I drink the Intel Kool-aid, but its hard not denying the limits of the sockets on Intel chipsets. I’ll likely always buy Intel since I’ll make sure I have money for it upfront without upgrading because by the time I need to upgrade I’ll have to buy a new motherboard because the socket and chipset have changed. Unless AMD dethrones the single thread performance crown Intel holds, I’ll stick with Intel. However, for people who need cheap and decent computers with potential upgrade paths, AMD wins.

Gildedaxe.4759:

my previous computer was significantly worse but ran gw2 much better

I’d list your old specifications and maybe we can get a better idea. I’m going to assume your older system ran at a significantly worse resolution as well, thus making the better hardware seem worse.

Before ‘investing’ I would make sure of a few things.

-Download Prime95 and let it run for 30 minutes (I usually run it on whatever one says it gives the most heat generation) or how ever long it takes GW2 to mess up your computer.
-If your computer survives that without shutting down or giving any errors when it is testing your CPU then grab a GPU tester as well, something like MSI’s Kombuster. Running both of these applications at the same time will yield max power use and max temperature. If your system survives this then it is safe to say its probably not a lack of power or overheating (aka no need to invest).

Judging from your description it sounds like something Anet tossed in the recent patch screwed things up for your system. Perhaps try reinstalling the game (delete the gw2.dat and redownload it).

Uhhh, eventually at some point in the process of installing the game it needs to download all the updates since the launch of the game. Might as well download from the internet since the stuff from the disk is mostly ancient news by now.

Looks like the game is having a hard time reading the hard drive. If I were you, I would run a check disk on the hard drive to make sure there is no bad sectors or anything that might lead us to this type of error. Basically right click the hard drive in ‘My Computer’ click ‘Properties’, then go to the ‘Tools’ tab then hit ‘Check now…’ and let the utility program do its thing.

The wiki page on sigils is a good read for some of these topics:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

To answer the question about having two on-critical hit proc sigils:

Path 1 (You don’t crit):
Not much happens.

Path 2 (You crit):
The system checks your main-hand sigil, then rolls a dice to see if it falls within that 30% chance to proc. If it does, then the ability will trigger and a CD starts for ALL on-critical hit sigils. The game will then look to your off-hand sigil. Since its an on-critical hit one, its on CD. GW2 skips it. Once the CD expires, the abilities can trigger again.

Say when you crit and the game rolls a dice for your main-hand sigil and it DOES NOT fall within that 30% chance window. GW2 will look to your off-hand sigil. Since it’s an on-critical hit sigil, it rolls a dice to see if this one triggers. If it triggers, then ALL on-critical hit sigils go on CD. If it does not trigger, then the system waits for you to score another critical hit.

While one on-critical hit sigil is on CD, none others may activate.

Cowrex.9564:

Thanks alot! I’ll go try it out! Not sure why but a year ago I can play GW2 on high with 30-40 FPS.

In one year, a lot of dust can gather in one place. :p

Totally forgot to link this: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268-6.html It’s a benchmark of a bunch of graphics cards when playing GW2. It’s a useful reference when looking at what you want to buy. Tom’s Hardware even did the multiple presets at different resolutions. I’d take a gander at this before deciding which card/performance you’d like.

I still stand next to my GTX 650Ti that I recommended, but as you can see, even the mediocre 500 series cards play the game at decent FPS at the resolution you mentioned.

Another note, I’m not sure if you’re forced to play at such a low resolution because your monitor can’t go any higher or if you choose to play that low since your GPU/CPU are a little outdated, but if you are to increase the resolution you will be asking more from your system. Basically what I’m trying to say is don’t cheap out now on a GTX 550Ti because it plays good at 1280×768 because if/when you upgrade and start playing at 1920×1080 or higher the graphics card will really start to show its mediocreness.

I forgot to mention, I play on 1920×1080, but my siblings only play on 1600×900.

Mirithal.7685:

Thank you very much for the input! That definitely steers me away from purchasing an additional card. I’d much rather save my $500 and just purchase a high-end card that is unreal (later on in the year).

What you mention regarding other games is definitely something I should look at more (I play BF, CoD)… however, I’ll do my own research on that front.

Why do you say low framerate in LA, WvW, heavy PVE, etc. with a SLI configuration (why doesn’t SLI help in these scenarios?)?

It’s because even the nice i7 3770K overclocked to a nice 4.5Ghz is the limiting factor in the CPU configuration. The way GW2 was programmed was kitten poor for multithreads, as a result, GW2 has 3 massive threads and a bunch of small ones. However, if any of those three threads get hung up, your FPS drops to garbage. Ideally, ArenaNet would split these threads in smaller threads, but that requires a lot of engine work.

To answer your original question though, you’ll have one of the best machines to play GW2 in its current state. The best however is still limited to low FPS in crowded LA, crowded dynamic events, and chaotic 100+ man WvW battles because of how the GW2 engine is so inefficient at utilizing the CPU. Low FPS being 30. The GTX 680 is fine for your setup and won’t be the limiting factor.

Here’s to a new (dare I say) DX10/11 engine in 2014. Cheers!

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

no no no, anet must do something to support people with slow or capped connections, after all, they went to all the trouble of supporting windows XP for gw2(an where the majority of people running it are on systems that really cant run the game in any decent fassion)

Bangs head into desk

anet needs 2 sets of servers, 1 for people on xp and slow connections, where they only get sporatic updates and very little direct support, then one for the rest of us…..possibly they could even work out a dx8 code path for those gw1 players who dont want to upgrade their systems that still play gw1 fine :P

Smells strongly of sarcasm…I agree =D

The karma cap used to be 1 million, then they increased it. AFAIK no one has reached the new cap yet.

Sounds like the partition isn’t NTFS and its FAT32. FAT32 limits the size of files stored on the partition to 4GB which Guild Wars 2 is about 4 times the size of that limit. Maybe you’re not a hardcore gamer or only have a few games installed, but 40GB for the partition for games seems kind of small, especially when you consider that Guild Wars 2 is about 15.5GB of that 40GB.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

The difference is that GW1 never added more powerful equipment post-launch.
There were some runes added, but most of them were crap (like those majors that reduced condition duration), and Vitae/Attunements which were mainly just filler for slots you didn’t have a rune in, but none that were inarguably stronger.
Vertical progression beyond what it had at launch being added to the game is what people have a problem with.

I agree, this is what I have a problem with, not a huge problem, it just makes me not want to upgrade until I can get the very best. I liked just getting max gear and then tweaking my play-style to get the best performance of my build.

Getting max gear in GW1 took two weeks at most, even with title grinding.

However, you could say that GW1 had vertical progression if you mean it in reference to how well you can play your 8 skills. I loved my ele for bond/infusing because you had to be ultra conscience about having all your maintainable enchantments up and make sure you energy bar was filled. Your energy bar was more or less the life-force of the group, if it went to zero, people started dying.

Danno.5269:

As the title says i am looking to build an affordable destkop gaming pc that can get 60-80fps normal play and possibly a good 30-40 in wvw.

Not expecting miracles here, but you all know far more than i do.

Graphics card/motherboard/RAM/SSD/Processor. That works.

Thanks in advance. Links to sites welcome.

I’ve read the thread and here is what I think…you won’t be able to get the 40FPS @ lowest WvW detail, and lowest culling (seeing the most amount of people) in WvW zerg battles. Try as you might, even beastly processors like the i7 3930K simply can’t push the game fast enough. You can see 30FPS though if you overclock. You said you were an enthusiast back in the good old days, its time to get back into the ring :p

Since overclocking is necessary to meet your requirements, I would recommend an i5 4670K and get a nicer cooler for it. We’re talking something like a Noctua DH-14 or an AiO water cooling unit, like Corsair’s H60.

After that you’ll want to grab some RAM, 8GB is standard for gaming now a days. Speed, get 1600Mhz+ with timings like 9-X-X-X.

You’ll need a nice power supply to power everything, for that I would recommend a Corsair power supply as I used to buy cheapo units that never seemed to last beyond a year. I’ve been running this same supply for 5 years now, no issues. 650W should be plenty.

Case, grab whatever for now. I was never big into choosing cases.

Graphics card, At least a GTX 650Ti boost for Nvidia. If you have the money, grab a GTX 760 or HD 7870XT.

Grab a motherboard that suits your needs, Gigabyte and ASUS are the reliable players today IMO. All my current and previous boards have been from them, and I have had zero issues with them. Even with some mal-use and sending the boards through electrical surges resulting in some leaking capacitor juice. My first ASUS board still worked till my P4 just wasn’t enough and ditched the LGA 478 club for the LGA 775 club.

Likely an SSD is out of budget at this point, keep it in the back of your head for a future upgrade. For now, stick with hard drives, anything will really do now a days.

After all that you’re likely beyond budget if you don’t find some slick deals. Since you’re building over time, you can wait for some nice deals.

Preferably both; the 240GT isn’t a gaming graphics card, its a media graphics card. It’s also 3 generations old.

Your processor is also about 3 generations old, going to turn 4 in June. My siblings run a similar processor at those frames at 1600×900 with a GTX 650Ti.

If you’re on a budget, upgrading a graphics card now is going to be the cheaper of the two to upgrade. Upgrading the graphics card also allows you to use it when you upgrade your CPU/mobo/RAM to current generation technology.

If I might make a recommendation, a HD 7750/HD 7770/GTX 650Ti for absolute minimum for a graphics card. These will allow for a mix of medium high settings at 1080p.

As for a CPU, there are no CPUs that allow for 30+ fps in chaotic WvW battles of 100+ people at stock settings. In order to achieve 30+ fps in the worst case scenario, you must overclock your processor to get the extra performance required. Many CPUs can achieve this, but the notable ones are:
AMD’s FX 8320/8350
Intel’s i5 2500K/2550K/3570K
Intel’s i7 2600K/2700K/3770K

The ‘K’ on the Intel processors denotes that the processor has an unlocked multiplier making it easier to achieve higher overclocks.

The only reason to get an i7 over an i5 is if you’re going to effectively use the additional computational threads available. A good example of utilizing these would be for audio/video encoding.

MasterofWhispers.9361:

Nope, ram and disks ok.

The next thing I would suggest is sending a support ticket to ArenaNet, I’m not really sure what to say about what could be causing the problem.

If your system is overclocked at all, I would set it to stock clocks and see how everything fares out then.

You sir just got unlucky. If something unexpected happens, like if your computer crashes or a power outage happens while Guild Wars 2 is updating/downloading, then there is a very high chance the game’s data will corrupt and need to be downloaded again. For the future, if this happens again. Create a backup of the gw2.dat file so that you can paste the backup gw2.dat file over the corrupted gw2.dat and patch up from wherever you left off with that backup.