Guild Wars 2

I wouldn’t wish myself on a pick up group :P The few dungeons I have done were mostly people from my old guild who could 4-man the dungeon while I tried to keep up.

Thanks for the kind offer Falunel, though you don’t have to – one of my friends from another game has offered to teach me about dungeons. So far I’ve been stuck at the rolling ball things in CoF for the past few minutes. I’m not sure I’m cut out for dungeons, lol.

Are D/D elementalists sturdy? I play a guardian and I die if I look at myself cross-eyed in the mirror.

Edit – repair costs seem to be a fraction of what I remember them being. Weren’t they 23s per death at one point? I recall having repair costs of 1g or more after dungeon runs.

Thanks for the replies! So far I’m having some success with running around, gathering mats, and selling them, though it seems that prices on my server have sort of crashed. I think I’ll take a stab at the world bosses too. I remember going to the swamp area to fight the tea kettle dragon.

I tried doing an Orr temple run (Grenth, I think) earlier on… Did not end well, haha. There was a champion mob that just ran around one-shotting us.

A lot of people have told me that dungeons are the best (and in some cases, only) way to make money, but my experiences with dungeons is that you’ll wipe on every trash pull at least once. Unless you’re all warriors, of course. I’ve just avoided them for the most part because my repair costs tended to outweigh the end reward. Then again, I haven’t attempted dungeons since near the game launch – were they changed?

How are you supposed to make gold? I’ve been trying to do Orr events but I die multiple times on them. I’ve got a little over 1g right now and I don’t know how long it’s going to last.

I must say, WvW is a lot more interesting when you aren’t trying to play it at 2 AM. XD

I keep finding sieges in entertaining locations. Where do you guys find these spots?

The one time I can’t sleep and actually feel like playing GW2, we’re pushed into our own spawn.

Is it usually like this? >_>

Sorry for the double post but…

I took apart the computer and looked around inside. The computer’s previous owner had the 5670 plugged into a 4x slot. I moved it to the 16x slot and I am now enjoying 40-50FPS where I had 20 before.

Thanks for the help, everyone!

Both video cards support PCI-E 2.0.

They’re just running at 1×.

I just checked the BIOS and there are no options that mention PCI-E.

The other video card’s running 2.0×1 as well.

Are there motherboards with two slow slots?

Tried using the display with the good GPU, no difference.

My previous computer had a 4670 with 256 MB of VRAM, and it performed better than a 5670 with 1GB of VRAM. It just feels a little bit off.

… Hmm, I think I found the problem. It’s a PCI-E 2.0×16 that’s running at 2.0×1 – I don’t think that should be happening.

So you are saying the HD 5450 256mb has higher FPS than your HD 5670 1GB?

Not quite, the previous computer I had used a HD 4670 with 256 MB. It had 3 GB of RAM and a 3.06 GHz processor, too. It performed better than this one I’m using right now.

Intel i5-2500k CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs)
16 GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit, Service Pack 1
ATI Radeon HD 5450 and ATI Radeon HD 5670

I get about 5-15 FPS in town and 5-30 FPS out in the world. When I have the map open, or when I’m at the character selection screen, it’s at 60 FPS where I have it capped.

I’ve looked through that CPU, GPU, and FPS FAQ thread, it seems that I have a GPU bottleneck – it’s running at 100% GPU load all the time. This setup I have uses two displays, but I’m quite sure that I made GW2 run on the display powered by the 5670. I’ve tried swapping the monitors around… doesn’t seem to help.

The computer I used to play on had a video card with 256 MB of dedicated VRAM, but I got better framerate on it – around a solid 25-40 outside of World v World or events with lots of people. I believe the 5670 I’m using has 1 GB of dedicated VRAM. I’ve also tried the small tweaks that I’ve found on these forums that made GW2 playable on my old computer, but they won’t work on this one. Not sure what’s going on.

Oh, I remember the first boss. We spammed cripple on her, stood up on the ledge, waited for her to come up, then jumped down. Rinse and repeat. It was pretty funny.

The spiders don’t seem very slow. I actually think they move at 110-125% of normal movement speed. I couldn’t outrun/outdodge them them.

Hmm, I think I misinterpreted your statement, I thought you meant that the last boss was hell but still easier than the previous bosses.

I haven’t seen anyone in that set, then again I didn’t know what it looked like up until now.

It isn’t possible to do the corpse run, there’s just too much distance between the waypoint and the boss and generally people die at the same time because there’s 20+ adds running around hitting everyone for 1k a hit and dropping poison. It doesn’t seem mathematically possible to complete the fight when about 10 spiders appear at once, and you have about 8k health. If you get focused it’s almost certified death.

I suggested having 2 people doing nothing but add control and the other 3 on the boss, but by that time everyone had gotten sick of the instance and was either afk or offline.

… If the last boss is hell, what’s the first one?

We’ve been sitting in the instance dead for the past hour or so, can’t get past the second boss and we’ve been through 2 or 3 people already. There are also no threads about TA storyline in this forum (just explorable) Now I’m hearing that the final boss fight is bugged and uncompleteable.

How do you kill the bosses, if it’s at all possible?

I don’t dance whenever I’m idling because of that annoying humming

It’s a real shame, I like dancing.

Cyan.6815:

Male ponytails too, please.

Yes please! My guardian needs a ponytail. Everyone says he has girly hair…

Not sure if a ponytail would fix that. XD

Hmm, the game asks for 2.0 ghz, he has 2.6 ghz? Going off the numbers he should have enough, and the processor is dual core…

Oh. His is a Pentium, not an Intel. Did not see that bit e.e

Dont give up hope just yet, there seems to be an issue with gw2 and core 2 processors. I have the same issue on my core 2 duo processor. And some other people with better pcs and core 2 processors are also having problems with fps.

Could be worse though. You could be on a mac :p

Funny how a cpu that exceeds minimum game requirements is being called “not remotely decent”…

IMO, if a system meets the minimum requirements, it should at least be playable. On low settings maybe, but playable.

I really hope so. My computer exceeds minimum requirements but it is very hard to play with this fps.

Male human guardian doesn’t have an audio component for Hold The Line either.

I’m not 100% sure if this is the case, but GW2 seems to have issues with Intel Core 2 things. There’s a thread full of other people using Core 2 processors that are reporting bad framerate issues, and I ran into a player ingame on my server last night who had low FPS and a Core 2 processor.

Tanira.8157:

It’s probably both. My E8500 @4.05Ghz slowed my GTX285 a lot,
but a 256MB card might be a bottleneck too.
I’m seeing VRAM usage up in the 700s MB from time to time, although much of the time as low as 350-400

My GPU load is around 60-75% when I’m playing GW2. It doesn’t seem stressed by any means. I can even get Skyrim (512 MB VRAM minimum requirement) to run on my computer, even though I technically shouldn’t be able to run it at all, my video card being the sole reason.

Things don’t add up to me and I’m starting to suspect an issue between the CPU and GW2’s coding.

Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 at 3.06 GHz.

5-8 FPS in world v world and large fights, high 20s FPS doing nothing in town.

90-100% CPU usage whenever GW2’s active.

I have a low-end video card (256 MB) and only 3 GB of RAM, but that shouldn’t have such a huge impact on performance.

Is it a problem with the CPU?

Raukcaran.2590:

I do entirely agree with the no loot/credit thing, and have found it very hard to do WvWvW. I can’t just waltz in there with my greatsword – I might get a group of people to half health, then they all turn on me and I DIE and have to walk back for 15 minutes. Scepter + torch works okay for me as a ranged weapon. It’s not as great as an engineer might have, but it’s okay. Staff, as has been previously stated, is for support only, which I love doing, but I just don’t get any credit for it in WvWvW. In sPvP, I can support, so long as I stand in the right place. So, I just don’t do WvWvW on my guardian anymore, which I wish I could do. (I have other complaints about WvWvW, but those aren’t very important in this matter).

But I have never been blamed for not healing enough or something, in any WvWvW, sPvP, or dungeon. Whenever bad things happen, most people tend to agree that either we’re all (or most of us) at fault, or there’s one or two people at fault, but not because they weren’t healing enough. Maybe they walked into an attack they shouldn’t have, or something.

I like to run into a pack with my greatsword, Leap of Faith in, then do the whirling attack, and run away before I die. Not sure if it’s very effective but it’s fun watching people scatter.

I was speaking in a more general term, not just for GW2. Back when I played GW1, whenever there was a group wipe it was really common to see the healer being blamed for “not healing enough” or being “bad” or whatever. Support players don’t really shine as much, they’re just … there. In the background. Doing their thing. And the result is that some people take them for granted.

What’s nice about GW2 is that no one’s forced to play that thankless role, unless they’re a guardian in a long-range fight. Which is kind of unfair. I’m pretty sure if warriors were as weak at range as Guardians were, they’d be unhappy too.

Now if providing enough healing or buffs to allies qualified you to get loot drops, I wouldn’t mind as much… >.>

Raukcaran.2590:

It’s not entirely thankless. The people we help do appreciate it, because while our heals may not be of a true ‘healer’ status, we can still pull off some pretty clutch heals and utility things.

Not always. What I find is that when a group does poorly, the healers/support are usually the first blamed. When a group does well, the damage dealers are usually the first to be praised.

What’s worse is that healers/support don’t get any loot from combat.

My guardian. He likes hugs.

I am envious of all of your computers and their ability to take non-pixellated and blurry screenshots. :<

I’m a little sad that I can’t run with a melee/range setup. I use a Greatsword/Staff combination, if I can’t melee (or if my framerate’s too low to melee) I’ll just pull my staff out and plop that Symbol on people whenever it comes off recharge.

About 500 damage a tick… yay.

The only thing it’s really good for is interrupting people who are bandaging.

Agreed with OP. Most of the male Human quips have made me chuckle at some point or try to repeat what I did in order to make my character say it again.

My personal favorite is one from completing a dungeon… “That was fun! Let’s do it again!”

I was like WHOA BUDDY THIS COULD BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT.

I’m 99% sure that a while back, my computer’s video card was a regular ATI Radeon 4670 with 512 MB of RAM, I actually did a bit of a double-take when I saw the Mobility in its title… Maybe I wasn’t reading hard enough.

You cannot compare those games to GW2.

GW2 literally has 100’s of other ppl running around near you and will tax your system much more.

I merely found it a little amusing that I can run a game requiring 512 MB of dedicated video memory without trouble, but not a game requiring 256 MB. It’s just a bit odd, if you get what I mean.

Does anyone know if it’s still possible to do that thing that lets you convert disk space to extra system memory? I’m thinking of giving it a try.

I’ve tried the game on 3 PC’s and it still runs like crap (10-25 FPS on lowest or max), all we can do is wait for a patch.

Yeah, I’ve read a few threads where people with much better computers than mine are reporting framerate issues. Which is why I’m remaining hopeful, even though I’ve got this sinking feeling that it’s my computer that’s the problem. XD

Guardian here, I’ve never had trouble with lack of damage. Just pick up a greatsword and start whacking.

If you have any more questions about the guardian class, I’ll be happy to help. I’m only in the 60s range but I think I know a decent amount about levelling as a guardian.

I think you need a pink hat, personally

DerpinDerp.5437:

I don’t want to be rude, but that’s a terrible computer and I’m not surprised GW2 runs terribly. By “other” games on “higher details” I will assume you mean BF3 on the bare minimum settings?

World of Warcraft running Good settings (on average, I’ve got some settings higher and some lower from recommended based on personal preference)
Diablo 3 on High detail
Skyrim around Medium settings (again on average, I fiddled with things a bit)

What strikes me as odd is that according to System Requirements Lab, my computer shouldn’t be able to run Skyrim at all.

Maybe GW2 runs solely off Dedicated Video Memory which I only have 256 MB of… I have 1523 MB of Total Available Graphics Memory. Not sure if that’s significant.

3.1 GHz processor
3.1 GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 with 256 MB Dedicated Video RAM
Windows 7 32-bit through Boot Camp

FPS is around high 20s normally, around 2-9 in World V World or large fights. I can run other games just fine on higher detail levels without performance issues, which strikes me as kind of odd…

I’m using a slightly dated iMac running Windows 7 32-bit through BootCamp.

3.1 GHz processor
3.1 GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 with 256 MB Dedicated Video RAM

I’m usually hovering around the high 20s for framerate, even with everything as low as it can go, in World v World or large boss fights I’m usually watching a slideshow. I downloaded the drivers for my video card through that ATI downloader but I’m not sure if it even installed (I didn’t get prompted to reboot, which I think is a little strange) I also can’t run Firefox at the same time as GW2 because if I do, I get performance issues with both of them.

Strangely enough, I can run Skyrim at pretty good detail settings, and Diablo 3 on medium-high quality without low framerate or stuttering. GW2 seems to chew my computer up and spit it out. What’s really odd is that System Requirements Labs failed my computer for Skyrim due to the video card, but it passed for GW2 and said that it would run very well.

Someone mentioned that GW2 is still running on the GW1 engine and hasn’t been optimised, but I’m worried that it’s my computer that has the issues. Anything I can do to fix this?