Guild Wars 2

MikeE.8267:

I’m 46 and still stay up until 3am!!! at times.

Trouble is I cannot get up in a morning either lol. Still a teenager inside. Nice to see there are plenty of other ‘older’ players.

Don’t worry. You aren’t the only one. I usually end up gaming until at least 2am most nights (partly started that habit because the earlier part of the evening was family time, midnight to 2 was the only time I had to myself ). 3am or later is not uncommon on the weekends.

Pah. And they call me old.

Another one of “The Older Gamers” here. Two kids over twenty and three grandkids.

I’ve been playing MMOs since EQ2 (I got into MMOs late). Used to drool over the Pong and Atari systems at the stores. My first game was programmed by hand into a TI calculator. My friend down the street had a Timex/Sinclair ZX80 and could save games onto audio tape. Boy was I jealous.

Until recently, I had an i5-2500K with 4GB RAM and a 6950. I never had any significant problems running any game I threw at it. It couldn’t handle max settings, usually, but most of the time I was running the settings pretty high (with the FPS in the 30-40 range or more). AA and AF were usually the first things I would shut off and they were usually enough.

One thing that I didn’t see mentioned is the resolution that you are trying to run at. Don’t bother trying to run a 6950 at higher than 1920×1080. It just doesn’t have the horsepower. I got my 6950 when I was running at 1680×1050. When I upgraded my monitor to 1920×1080, things slowed down some, but I was still doing OK.

There are some tools that could help you figure out where the bottleneck is. Running the Windows Resource Monitor will help you get an idea if your CPU is slowing you down and a tool such as GPU-Z can give you some information regarding the graphics card.