I don’t see a whole lot you can do there other than moving up from a GTX 550 Ti. A GTX 650 Ti Boost (yes that’s the name) is about twice as fast. $170 at NewEgg for the 2GB version. Triple plus performance comes in at $420 with a GTX 770 and possibly a PSU upgrade.
I’m sure someone will chime it and recommend gutting the whole system for an OC Haswell based one with dual Titan cards and it’s own power plant complete with cooling towers and miniature climate change protesters picketing around the base.
The OP just needs a better cpu. I am sure the nvidia 550 TI is a capiable graphic card that should perform better fps than the OP currently playing at
What CPU would you recommend for the nvidia 550 TI?
Question for Jazhara – Why would I want to reinstall dx9 runtimes if I’m currently using DirectX11? Are they unrelated?
Guild wars 2 is a Direct X 9 game.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but should I uninstall DirectX 11 and go back to DirectX 9, or can I have both 9 and 11 installed and direct GW2 to only use 9?
UPDATE: Just tried that link above to see if DirectX9 could be installed over 11, and no go. Here’s a screen capture.
Now I’m stuck at “Downloading 0kB” as described here:
I’m having the same problem, same screen appears. I’ve followed every suggestion I could find…updated drivers, used drive sweepers, disabled UAC, uninstalled virus checkers, searched for weird dll files….no luck. I hope someone can figure this out.
UPDATE: I’m not sure why this worked, but I physically removed my Radeon GPU, rebooted, and let the on-board NVIDIA chip take over. (NOTE: I did NOT remove the Radeon driver…just the card itself.) I then executed Gw2.exe and the download started. After confirming that the game would load and run, I then powered off my computer, plugged the Radeon GPU back in, rebooted, and confirmed that the game would still run using the Radeon…..and it does.
