Guild Wars 2

Well I took it apart, reapplied the thermal paste to both the GPU and CPU and I am now getting 40+ FPS using the 635M and temps are staying in the low 80’s.

I also don’t remember removing this cable that comes from the power supply to the motherboard, not sure if that was the power for the GPU or if it was connected to start with, but I plugged that in too.

Seems to be fixed!

Feirlista Xv.1425:

Try setting the laptops power management in Windows to high performance when plugged in then try running the game make sure the power adapter is plugged in

Already tried this, but thanks!

sirsquishy.8531:

Impaler.6204:

I already tried that, but the performance is still the same. One thing I noticed is that in GPU-Z it is barely using any of the memory on the card.

This is a screenshot of GPU-Z while I was standing in Lion’s Arch. Shouldn’t the GPU be using more than 200MB of its 2GB of memory?

And shouldn’t the Core Clock be much higher?

Here is your problem, your 635 is only running at 230Mhz, as opposed to the normal 590Mhz.

Download MSI Afterburner and adjust the power setting to +5 and see if that helps. If it does, then your GPU is stuck in a low power state and needs to be taken out of it. Not sure how to do that with Nvidia GPUs, though.

Is 90-92 Celsius too hot? Do you think it is throttling the GPU because of heat? I will try the Afterburner thing, but maybe the thermal paste needs to be re-applied?

And here is a screenshot of my FPS using the 635m
Notice in the lower right corner that the GPU monitor shows GW2 as being used by the GPU, so it isn’t an issue of getting it to run using it.

An yes the Core Clock is OC’ed a bit, but I had just made that change to see if it made any difference.

Here is a pic of GPU-Z and my framerate when using the Intel HD 4000.

Notice the HD 4000 is using a lot more memory.

I already tried that, but the performance is still the same. One thing I noticed is that in GPU-Z it is barely using any of the memory on the card.

This is a screenshot of GPU-Z while I was standing in Lion’s Arch. Shouldn’t the GPU be using more than 200MB of its 2GB of memory?

And shouldn’t the Core Clock be much higher?

This is an HP BIOS, the settings are pretty limited. Diablo 3 running using the HD 4000 45+ FPS.

So I tried to run Diablo 3 RoS, and the game doesn’t even start, it crashes to desktop…

I am running a repair on the install because I just copied the game over from another laptop. I also read a thread of other people have this issue and they fixed it by disabling the Windows “Secondary Logon” service. I will try that if it still fails after the repair.

I just want to see how another games runs using the GPU.

Ok false alarm, I forgot I had SweetFX installed in the D3 directory, removing that allowed the game to run.

Diablo 3 using the GPU has abysmal performance, like 5-10 FPS slideshow.

I think something is wrong with the GPU

Downgrading drivers had no impact.

I also want to add that this is a fresh Windows 7 x64 install, with all newest drivers and windows updates installed.

Well, I right click the GW2.exe and choose “Run using x adapter,” so I dont think I have em backwards, but I will try the GPU-Z program and see.

Thanks,

Edit: I ran GPU-Z, but I have no idea how to tell which adapter is being used as they both look like they have activity no matter which I am using.

Edit: Ok so I found in the Nvidia Control Panel, there is an option to “Show GPU Activity.” With that enabled, it does show GW2 as running using the 635m, which has poor performance.

I know that there is a huge thread here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-Issue-with-the-9-9-patch-merged with people reporting a drop in FPS since a recent patch, maybe it is affecting me too. I am going to try older drivers to see if it makes any difference.

Yes, this is a laptop.

I am concerned because if you YouTube “635m Guild Wars 2,” there a several videos of people running the game just fine with it.

What would be the point in including an Nvidia graphics adapter in a laptop if the integrated out performs it?

Hello,

Not sure if anyone can help, but I thought the discrete card (635M) would run Guild Wars 2, but this is not the case. The Intel HD 4000 runs it about 3 times as well.

I have a Core i7 3630QM
12GB DDR3
Nvidia GT 635m
7200 RPM HDD

When I run the game using the 635m, I get 16-19 FPS no matter where I am. In a quest area, Lions Arch, etc. Lowering graphics to best performance boosts it to about 21-22 FPS

When I run the game with the Intel HD 4000 I am getting 45+ FPS in Lions Arch. on Medium settings.

This doesn’t seem right? I am not sure what to try besides using an older driver.

Anyone have any insight?

Thanks,

Im not sure if you can transmute exotics, but…

Cant you just get both sets of gear and then use transmutation stones to transfer the stats to the set you want to display? or can you not transmute exotics?

Me and my girlfriend were looking so forward to GW2 after being bored and frustrated with WoW. We pre-purchased the game and played in the betas and we were stoked.

The game releases and we start playing. Were loving it, the classes, music, graphics, art etc… all top notch.

We get to level 80 and just stop logging in because were bored. I think what it ultimately boils down too, is that we grew up with the Holy Trinity and miss it.

I love being a tank or a healer and excelling at my role and being recognized for it. In GW2 its just a zerg fest and playing your class well, doesn’t really matter. I could play my hybrid elementalist healer/dps, but it feels pointless when Guardians and Warriors are getting one shot by abilites in dungeons.

Another turn off for my gf at least was the level 80 medium armor sets are all terrible looking. Whats the point of doing Dungeons for sets of gear we dont want? if the gear made you stronger or had some cool set bonuses or something it might be worth farming the dungeon tokens. As it is now, you pick the set you want to roll in, farm the dungeon, get the armor, and then you dont set foot in the other Dungeons, because its a waste of time.

Oh well, if Blade and Soul ends up being fail, we will probably come back.

And the floodgate of tears has opened!

Seriously, suck it up.

Ticket # 120902-017895

I also have the issue with “Card Validation Failed” I opened a ticket regarding this issue and it was replied to today saying…

“Hello,

Recently you submitted ticket 120902-017895 to the Guild Wars 2 Support Team. In the time since your submission, we’ve addressed several problems that have likely resolved your initial issue or answered your question. Information regarding these changes can be found in the Guild Wars 2 Game Status Updates.

If you are still experiencing a problem with Guild Wars 2, please use the link below to reopen your ticket. Otherwise we will consider your issue resolved and the ticket closed.

Click here to re-open your support ticket.

Thanks,
The Guild Wars 2 Support Team"

I haven’t been home to test it yet, but they are redirecting me to “Game Status Updates” which has no mention of this issue being resolved. Unless I am completely missing it somehwere…

Sabas.8431:

I honestly don’t understand how a game that has a chat filter (one you can disable yea) has such a aggresive behaviour policy.

Look I didn’t get banned, nor did I ever have any problems with GM’s or people in similar positions, though reading through this chat I have 0, zero, nill confidence in the ability of Anet to reasonable deal with a MMO community.

No, what we had in GW1 was not and I repeat NOT an MMO community.
I’m going to agree with many people around here and say that eventhough GW2 as a game is supreme, but the community handling is not going well.

Twitter, reddit, facebook, bans for unthinkable things in MMo terms, these things do not bode well. And I say this as a big fan of GW2.

Thank you for your time.

Bans for unthinkable things? What unthinkable things are you referring to?

I apologize for getting off-topic.

I am glad ArenaNet is taking a firm stance to inappropriate behavior and speech in GW2. They aren’t concerned about the bottom dollar and want to, for the first time in a long time, create a positive gaming environment.

Ralsti.2147:

A white man who uses the n word can’t do that. He is and always will be seen as a member of the dominant class, the slaveowner rather than the slave. The word can never be inclusive, because the two men don’t share that identity.

Good Bye!

Are we really talking about slave owners in 2012?[/quote]

nope, just discussing the underlying psychology and history associated to the word.

Rabbiddog.7690:

Impaler.6204:

Rabbiddog.7690:

Notintheface.3472:

Bellok.4180:

When black people stop using the N word on themselves, will be the day I take that word seriously. I don’t use it personally, but it’s hard to be sympathetic to them when they allow others in their own community to freely abuse it.

/yawn saw that coming. “Context”, google it

The problem is, they often use it in the same ‘context’ when angry at one another. So not accepting this ‘context’ spin. I take the word seriously (I’m Mexican and been called it a few times, by family even). But when it is used by the very same people, and in the same context, who should be the last ones ever using it, it only perpetuates the use of the word by others. You can spin it any way you want, it still comes out the same.

Why would anyone want to use the n word? Who cares?

I don’t understand why non-blacks get so upset when they can’t have something that blacks have. You’ve got plenty of stuff, why can’t you just let it go? I can’t use the word n*, I can’t compete in the Miss Black Universe pageant (for any number of reasons), and I will never appear in a profile in Ebony magazine. So what? I’ve gotten past it, why can’t you?

Get over it.

Apparently you never even read my reply. My response had nothing to do with “wanting” something they have. It was in response to someone claiming that one race using a certain derogatory word is different in context to another race using the same word. When in fact there is no real difference. It had nothing in the least to do with ‘wanting’ something someone else has. Of course if you actually understood the conversation, or read my reply, you might have gotten the point.

Regardless, I’ll just say goodbye to you, and direct my conversations to others.

There is a huge difference. Your obviously culturally unaware.

“The issue is more about the history of the n word and how it was used in American society.

N is a shortening of “Nero,” and became known as a word of abuse during the 1950s and 1960s. Remember that in those days even educated blacks were looked down upon and confined to the ghetto. The word was, and still is, used by non-blacks to diminish blacks.

Blacks use the word differently. It is a diminutive to them as well, but suggests familiarity much as we might call someone named David, Davey. They’re saying don’t get uppity to each other, but the person who says it is also black. He’s the same, so he’s a n* too. The word in that context is diminutive but inclusive, reminding the two black men of their shared identity.

A white man who uses the n word can’t do that. He is and always will be seen as a member of the dominant class, the slaveowner rather than the slave. The word can never be inclusive, because the two men don’t share that identity.

Good Bye!

Rabbiddog.7690:

Notintheface.3472:

Bellok.4180:

When black people stop using the N word on themselves, will be the day I take that word seriously. I don’t use it personally, but it’s hard to be sympathetic to them when they allow others in their own community to freely abuse it.

/yawn saw that coming. “Context”, google it

The problem is, they often use it in the same ‘context’ when angry at one another. So not accepting this ‘context’ spin. I take the word seriously (I’m Mexican and been called it a few times, by family even). But when it is used by the very same people, and in the same context, who should be the last ones ever using it, it only perpetuates the use of the word by others. You can spin it any way you want, it still comes out the same.

Why would anyone want to use the n word? Who cares?

I don’t understand why non-blacks get so upset when they can’t have something that blacks have. You’ve got plenty of stuff, why can’t you just let it go? I can’t use the n* word , I can’t compete in the Miss Black Universe pageant (for any number of reasons), and I will never appear in a profile in Ebony magazine. So what? I’ve gotten past it, why can’t you?

Get over it.

Bellok.4180:

Impaler.6204:

Bellok.4180:

mcl.9240:

Bellok.4180:

mcl.9240:

Bellok.4180:

mcl.9240:

Bellok.4180:

You guys are looking for good behavior in a video game that supports violence, and talks about genocide against a certain race. I just want to point that out. Do you guys realise how silly this sounds? Let’s go kill someone, and then drink tea and discuss philosophy afterwards. That makes sense.

We’re not looking for anything. We’re merely pointing out what ArenaNet’s policies are.

As analogies go, that’s not a particularly strong one. But to entertain it for a second, you’ve obviously never been in the military and dealt with officers. There are many that expect enlisted men to behave in ways that you would consider ridiculous, for exactly the same reasons you cite. And yet those conditions exist, and they exist in a real-world example of the scenario you present, rather than trying to stretch the analogy to videogames.

I spent 4 years in the navy repairing RADAR on F-14’s, and 2 years teaching sailors how to repair cryptographic electronics on board ballistic missile submarines. I am currently employed at Boeing, which deals with the military on a regular basis. The military is different, you follows rules because they will save your life. Following rules for a video game EULA is different because it is not life saving, and those rules in my opinion are always open for discussion.

I can promise you that some butterbar coming out to my position and demanding my boots are clean when I’m knee-deep in mud constantly is not going to save my life. Perhaps my experience in a combat platoon in the Army differs a bit from yours as a Navy technician.

Corporate rules are always open for negotiation. And the corporation who set the rules may always exercise their right to impose the consequences for the rules as set, and “give your suggestions the due consideration they deserve.”

That is why you have two sets of boots, a nice set, and your work set.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t hump my locker to the field.

Maybe you should try, you might get a commendation, and better yet a higher eval that will help you get promoted so that you are no longer just a low life to a butter bar, but someone worth his salt……

LOL, your entire reputation and respect of your fellow peers is based solely on the shine of your boots! You think that butter bar is going to be worrying about how shiny peoples boots are when gunfire and missiles are landing near him?

Worrying about shiny boots is something you would do when your not at war and your on an ego trip.

Listen you follow commands to the T when it comes to an officer, if there is room for significant risk of life when it is un needed you are free to climb up the chain of command. Good luck with that though you are going to end up pissing that person off and will pay for it in the end anyways. Therefore keep your boots shiny, they are responsible for your life.

Your actually very wrong. You don’t follow “an” officers order to the T.

Technically, you only have to follow an officers order to the T, when they are in your direct chain of command. If I’m in Squadron 545 and an officer comes over from Squadron 546, i don’t have to follow his orders. he will have to contact an officer in my chain of command to get his command authorized for me to follow.

The only exception to this rule is in combat. In combat, officers orders are to be followed regardless of chain of command, and all orders must be lawful and in the performance of duties. An officer can not order me to go shine my boots if we are in combat, nor would they.

Bellok.4180:

mcl.9240:

Bellok.4180:

mcl.9240:

Bellok.4180:

mcl.9240:

Bellok.4180:

You guys are looking for good behavior in a video game that supports violence, and talks about genocide against a certain race. I just want to point that out. Do you guys realise how silly this sounds? Let’s go kill someone, and then drink tea and discuss philosophy afterwards. That makes sense.

We’re not looking for anything. We’re merely pointing out what ArenaNet’s policies are.

As analogies go, that’s not a particularly strong one. But to entertain it for a second, you’ve obviously never been in the military and dealt with officers. There are many that expect enlisted men to behave in ways that you would consider ridiculous, for exactly the same reasons you cite. And yet those conditions exist, and they exist in a real-world example of the scenario you present, rather than trying to stretch the analogy to videogames.

I spent 4 years in the navy repairing RADAR on F-14’s, and 2 years teaching sailors how to repair cryptographic electronics on board ballistic missile submarines. I am currently employed at Boeing, which deals with the military on a regular basis. The military is different, you follows rules because they will save your life. Following rules for a video game EULA is different because it is not life saving, and those rules in my opinion are always open for discussion.

I can promise you that some butterbar coming out to my position and demanding my boots are clean when I’m knee-deep in mud constantly is not going to save my life. Perhaps my experience in a combat platoon in the Army differs a bit from yours as a Navy technician.

Corporate rules are always open for negotiation. And the corporation who set the rules may always exercise their right to impose the consequences for the rules as set, and “give your suggestions the due consideration they deserve.”

That is why you have two sets of boots, a nice set, and your work set.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t hump my locker to the field.

Maybe you should try, you might get a commendation, and better yet a higher eval that will help you get promoted so that you are no longer just a low life to a butter bar, but someone worth his salt……

LOL, your entire reputation and respect of your fellow peers is based solely on the shine of your boots! You think that butter bar is going to be worrying about how shiny peoples boots are when gunfire and missiles are landing near him?

Worrying about shiny boots is something you would do when your not at war and your on an ego trip.

Gnivil.5789:

Can someone just answer me, from a completely objective standpoint, what exactly is wrong with swearing (as long as you’re not using it to directly offending someone such as “You’re an f-ing s- head”)?

If your saying it for all players to see, then no. If your saying it in party or guild to someone you know wont be offended, i don’t see why not.

I would like to hear if people are getting banned for swearing in party/whisper/guild or if they were in /map.

CalvinHobbes.3541:

Impaler.6204:

I applaud ArenaNet for bringing down the hammer on immaturity and inappropriate behavior in a MMO.

This type of moderation has been severely lacking in MMO’s, for once I don’t have to turn off chat and people will be talking about the game or other topics like mature and respectable adults.

WoW has spawned a breed of human that thinks they can say whatever they want online, with no ramifications. Hopefully this is a good wake up call for them.

Yeah, bring down the hammer on dirty words so we can go about killing everything we want in peace, like respectable adults. How dare people try to disrupt our game of glorified violence with their potty mouths.

Well said.

I applaud ArenaNet for bringing down the hammer on immaturity and inappropriate behavior in a MMO.

This type of moderation has been severely lacking in MMO’s, for once I don’t have to turn off chat and people will be talking about the game or other topics like mature and respectable adults.

WoW has spawned a breed of human that thinks they can say whatever they want online, with no ramifications. Hopefully this is a good wake up call for them.