Guild Wars 2

Right, I did a soft format on the laptop. Basicly restored to factory defaults without losing files. This included a clean install of GW and everything else basicly.

From the start CCC worked and switchable GFX too. Game does not crash on High Performance.
Now I either still have something wrong or the limit of my laptop is reached.

Settings are on Medium/Low (I do want a bit of eyecandy too mind <.<) Shadow, postrpocessing etc are on low. The extra boxes are not ticked. And ingame in Sparkfly Fen (not a very busy zone) I reach 23 FPS.

I can’t say I’m very happy with that, if people on similar/same setup as me play on 40-60 and unless they put their game to full kittenty GFX with everything off and on low I’m really confused what the hell is making me have these issues.

I have tried this, but every driver I wanted to download from that site denied me the download and redirected me to AMD site itself. Those drivers there for my model of laptop also were different versions than the one mentioned here above.

As a result:
The Intel drivers FOR my model = install did not work because it said my laptop did not meet the requirements.
AMD drivers = Installed perfectly and seems my Intel GPU is working anyway.

Now I am still not capable of running GW on the dedicated GPU of AMD because each time I select “High performance” on the switchable gfx GW1 refuses to launch and I get immediate crash errors even before I get to log in. This is getting increasingly frustrating to run on 15 FPS knowing I could have twice (if not more) but my computer won’t let me.

I spent all this money to replace an old crashing machine that gave me nothing but trouble and in the end the quality of my gaming experience is not even improved. The problem of switchable graphics is apparently common but now that I know the solution and it won’t work I’m getting rather irritated with it.

And another update on the situation. If I go into CCC switchable gfx and put GW onto high performance it won’t let me launch the game. If I put it on power saving it will work just “fine” on 15-20 FPS in Divinity’s Reach/Login screen. This still feels awfully low and I want to fix the crashing problem. Do I have to turn Intel lower instead?

Well, I can get my laptop to run on the correct GPU now. But it seems that my game keeps crashing instead after having updated all drivers of Intel HD and Radeon HD. So one issue fixed and several new ones created.

I did the latter on the Intel GPU. I have not been able to access my AMD GPU thusfar and not been able to make the game/laptop run on it either it actually is marked as “blocked” everywhere.

I’ve not been into BIOS yet and for some odd reasons can’t access CCC either

This indeed seems to be the problem, now it’s quite the search in how to switch it around because it seems there are many who have the same issue and haven’t found a way to set their games to the AMD either. Right now working on drivers and other required programs to perhaps be more fortunate.

I am at a loss what may be wrong with my laptop and the way it’s running GW2. I understand that laptops are not the strongest for games but I purchased this not even a month ago and still GW runs on 9-12 FPS while mainly on medium settings. Some options are even fully disabled. Infact it makes little to no difference if I use low or medium considering the FPS remains the same.

I run on these specs:
HP HEWLETT PACKARD G7-2392SB Pavillon Intel Core i5-3230M

Processor:
Intel Core i5-3230M (2,6 GHz)

RAM:
8 GB DDR3-RAM

Gfx card:
Radeon HD 7670M

HDD
Sata, 1TB – 5400 rpm

Anyone any suggestions what may be the issue? Or where to look for possible solutions because I am seriously doubting a new setup would run at the same FPS as the 5 year old machine I just replaced for the reason that it made my game unplayable.