Guild Wars 2

There’s a million people playing who aren’t having problems. It’s quite likely it’s not a problem with the quality of the engine.

blocked ports, antivirus, firewall, router issues, overheating, bad drivers

You haven’t listed any of the troubleshooting steps you’ve taken.

If you could play during the pre-release period but not after I would look at firewall/antivirus/router issues. (error 7)

Blocked port issues can be difficult to troubleshoot for most people. Turning off one firewall might cause another to block it. Disabling an antivirus might not really disable it’s network components. Twiddling options in your router might not actually open up the ports you want.

It’s a bit of a nightmare really.

My point is, keep trying. It’s very likely a blocked port. Finding what’s blocking it might not be easy. There’s lots of posts about techniques and tips for this issue.

sirius.8614:

SixBone.4063:

check out this analysis of graphics performance in GW2 over at tomshardware.com

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268.html

I think you should adjust your expectations from your system with just about any modern game. You need to run at min detail level.

The game is unoptimized as hell,period.I don’t whine that i can#t run the game at 60 FPS all the time because that will never happen with my system,fact is the GPU doesn’t get utilised properly and the CPU neither.

Obviously you didn’t read or understand the article.

Your CPU performance is holding back your video card. Because of this your GPU will not be able to run at it’s fullest potential.

Your video card should be adequate for “best performance” settings with your current CPU. Or possible “balanced” if you were to upgrade.

The game is quite optimized for modern hardware and does a great job keeping old systems gaming. Like the previous response, adjust your expectations, your system is at least 3 years old and multiple generations behind current.