Guild Wars 2

Avelos.6798:

(…)And if you don’t need the Titan, then why are you trying to tell us that there’s no point to having it? Other people want it. You don’t. Stop being so abrasive about it.

Sorry if I was causing mischief, but I’m actually trying hard to keep cool and to be as much objective as I can, usually. Here I was only about sharing my two cents to start with.

Btw, while I tried to recover how the thread turned a bit off-topic, I realized you were actually talking about double Titan SLI at your friend, what makes even 4 Titans in one rig, right? thought you were talking about simple SLI what made me wonder already! >:D
To clarify, if I would buy a card for a new pc atm, I would probably get only one GTX760, but I was even thinking about keeping my GTX560 until it is going to break, lol, but not sure yet. A Titan card is obviously great and I would buy one, but I think it’s a bit too expensive. And then SLI or double SLI is even more expensive, imo the thought of buying 4 of them feels almost like throwing money at the public space in the city, …while laughing with tears in the eye and dancing like David Bowie in the 80s! – Okay I’m exaggerating now, but to buy even only one Titan I’d already need to cross a personal barrier. If you are fine with buying one, go for it and enjoy it, it’s a monster.

But anyway and to get back to topic, I wouldn’t believe until I see it, that a double Titan SLI would make a GW2 Zerg run way better, cause I think it is mostly CPU dependant, as Fermi said.

Fermi.2409:

The fact that you quoted me, said a sentence, and started rambling on about the Titan certainly made it look like you were making your point at me.

Actually I was thinking I would agree to the point you made there and just realized you are not that dude who was telling the story about his friend with the SLI. Hmkay.

Fermi.2409:

So what you’re saying is that in your opinion that much horsepower isn’t needed. The issue is that it’s not a matter of opinion, it’s a matter of fact that you need multiple Titans (or 7990s, or so on and so on). to push higher settings at high resolutions (ie, 7680×1600 or 1440). Hell, even a titan can’t max games at 2160P, which is much more tame then a tri-monitor setup.

Then you say ‘it is hard to believe that someone would do that’. However, it’s a fact that people will. Exactly for the same reason why you would buy a Ferrari or 911 instead of an Prius or a Buick or something else equally godawful – you get a much better experience.

Anywho, I’m not ‘offended’. I don’t really care what you think about a dual Titan setup. And you’re right, it’s horribly cost inefficient- I completely agree. But, games will require that much horsepower once you get to a certain point in terms of resolution, and people will want to play at those resolutions, which means that multi-Titan (or 3/4 CF/SLI high end other GPUs) will be necessary.

Yeah probably people would buy even 6 or more Titans if they could, but still hard to believe someone (a simple gamer) would favor a multiple screen setup under these circumstances. Well, seems I am the only poor peasant here, right?

And yes, my oppinion is that you don’t need that setup. You may need it for your high resolutions, but I don’t need that. Neither the high resolution, nor a Titan SLI. Period.

Fermi.2409:

I know exactly what a Titan is.

If you’re trying to push higher resolutions or multiscreen setups, or maintain 120 FPS/some other higher framerate, additional graphical horsepower can come in handy. There are many people who could use Titan SLI- just because you don’t see the use for it doesn’t mean that other people don’t.

Well I didn’t actually try to explain the Nvidia Titan to you, after you were talking about it. As you probably know there are more people reading this thread, why didn’t that come to your mind?

And don’t worry, I am fine if people would like to run a Titan SLI, even if they only want to send some E-Mails with it or to use it only to tell on Facebook that they got the largest…uh…the fastest computer on earth now, however this is not my taste and also a Titan SLI is pretty darn expensive, what brings my attention to the actual cost efficiency of it.
However you may build it of course and I won’t hold you back to do so, but I am pretty sure you won’t need the horsepower actually, even if you are running 2 displays. Might get handy if you are playing games while downsampling the resolution, but again that is cost unefficient, not to mention the bill you are going to pay in the end for electricity if you are doing so.
To sum it up shortly: it is hard to believe for me someone is really going to do so, as I said.

I am sorry if I offended you by paying only discredit for the most powerful pc setup at the moment, but frankly this is my oppinion and I fear you cannot change that as long it is as it is.

In certain games the Hyperthreading of the 4770 is resulting in worse FPS than it should (yes, while it is outstanding in renderapplications of course). I didn’t hear about if it is affecting GW2 though, but for testing reasons you could try it and disable Hyperthreading just yet.

Fermi.2409:

(…)I find that somewhat hard to believe. A 3820 is outperformed by a 3770k, or even a 4670k when it comes to single threaded power, and both of those CPUs have issues in big zergs. He’s either

I found it already hard to believe that someone would truly run a Titan SLI, except for testing or benchmark issues. Just for information: a Nvidia Titan is an Enthusiast class graficscard and probably the best card of them all atm, cost factor about as much as a complete upper middleclass pc. Running 2 of them at the same time would be something like running a car with an aircraft engine, in my humble oppinion. You get the power, but never actually need it. But anyway, as been said before me: since GW2 is mostly CPU and not GPU dependant, it is probably not helping to stack more graficspower anyway.

Sashimono is probably coming at least when Cantha is going to be playable. I am fine with it, since I really like ancient asian art.

I love the new aspect back-items, not sure why you don’t want anybody to wear them, at least you can get different gear and don’t have to wear them.

Cloaks, yes, would like the option, however I don’t really care very much.

To the Charr: I think Arenanet should rework all the clipping issues on Charrs and Asura, it’s so hard to find armor for Charr that isn’t ugly clipping with the tail or the horns/ for the Asura and their ears. Hell I even had a low-level heavy human helmet that was not clipping with female ears, that was looking so weird.
And the backitems on Charr are like hovering over the backs of the char, what is looking so beta.

Yes please!
And it would be nice if the disabling feature of the pets wouldn’t automatically turn them back on. For example in JPs the camera is going crazy already way too much, I don’t wan’t my chubby-tubby bear to jump in front of my face everytime although I was disabling it.

I support you! Not necessarily the Switching Crystal, but any solution to this problem you are describing would be game-changing in a positive matter!

Also I would like to see backpack items generally as being accountbound. I think since they are what the hat-collection was in GW1, I want to trade the funky back-items with my other heroes.
(Lore-wise I also don’t understand soulbound on touch, etc., see: someone is touching or even only receiving a nice sword, then nobody else can touch it ever again. Sounds a bit like a cursed weapon. – In GW1 you had to go to the blacksmith and customise your weapon to your champ to make it soulbound and give some little additional dmg to it, because o the customisation. That makes much more sense to me.)

yeah probably.
I totally agree, after Arenanet are sending rewards to characters who are celebrating birthday, I would like to know my champs birthdays as well. I hope Anet is going to stick with account-rewards, cause I deleted every character except my main a few days ago, what means my others are going to be Babies. :/