Guild Wars 2

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Solicia.2861:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Solicia.2861:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

That RAM speed shouldn’t be an issue. My sibling’s build runs a dated system with DDR2 RAM @ 667MHz. Due to the ‘double data rate’ multiple your 333 by 2 and account for some round off errors and you come out with the same speed as my sibling’s build which runs the game. It doesn’t run the game well, but well enough at 25+ FPS.

I figured as much, but as I don’t know the rest of your siblings specs, hard to compare, but this particular build should NOT be getting 25+ fps, but should be MUCH closer to 60 fps (should honestly be higher than that I think, but I’m very content at 60).

This game is only a part of the reason I’m upgrading the processor, the other part is I just really wanted too.

My bad, they’re running a C2D E6320 overclocked slightly to 2.0Ghz, a GTX 650Ti, and 2GB of RAM.

Yea, if that’s your build, and you’re getting about 25 fps, there isn’t ANY reason I shouldn’t be doubling that, and to be getting around that on low settings at my build? Yea, shenanigans ensues.

Parts just came in for new computer, I’m starting building it up on saturday, watch my blood pressure soar if this game doesn’t break 60 fps >->

Well prepare to find ways to reduce your blood pressure. If you’re expecting 60FPS in all areas of the game you are in for a surprise because you won’t be able to in large dynamic events and chaotic WvW battles of 100+ people. No one can…unless you have a supercomputer handy from what I hear.

Computer built, and indeed getting my 60fps in game (though it seems to not like shadows, which is understandable, most games don’t.

I understand WvW is a massive undertaking, so not expecting full frames in that on this build, but I’m expecting at least 20-30 if they are as massive as I hear.

I’m still disappointed that still very good processor couldn’t push the game, really does seem like poor coding. Processor’s are important, sure, but the graphics card should be doing a good chunk of the work.

Oh well, onward to blow things up!

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Solicia.2861:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

That RAM speed shouldn’t be an issue. My sibling’s build runs a dated system with DDR2 RAM @ 667MHz. Due to the ‘double data rate’ multiple your 333 by 2 and account for some round off errors and you come out with the same speed as my sibling’s build which runs the game. It doesn’t run the game well, but well enough at 25+ FPS.

I figured as much, but as I don’t know the rest of your siblings specs, hard to compare, but this particular build should NOT be getting 25+ fps, but should be MUCH closer to 60 fps (should honestly be higher than that I think, but I’m very content at 60).

This game is only a part of the reason I’m upgrading the processor, the other part is I just really wanted too.

My bad, they’re running a C2D E6320 overclocked slightly to 2.0Ghz, a GTX 650Ti, and 2GB of RAM.

Yea, if that’s your build, and you’re getting about 25 fps, there isn’t ANY reason I shouldn’t be doubling that, and to be getting around that on low settings at my build? Yea, shenanigans ensues.

Parts just came in for new computer, I’m starting building it up on saturday, watch my blood pressure soar if this game doesn’t break 60 fps >→

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

That RAM speed shouldn’t be an issue. My sibling’s build runs a dated system with DDR2 RAM @ 667MHz. Due to the ‘double data rate’ multiple your 333 by 2 and account for some round off errors and you come out with the same speed as my sibling’s build which runs the game. It doesn’t run the game well, but well enough at 25+ FPS.

I figured as much, but as I don’t know the rest of your siblings specs, hard to compare, but this particular build should NOT be getting 25+ fps, but should be MUCH closer to 60 fps (should honestly be higher than that I think, but I’m very content at 60).

This game is only a part of the reason I’m upgrading the processor, the other part is I just really wanted too.

Alright, well, been dealing with their tech support. And they had me download and send a copy of my “speccy” to them (This was after sending screen shots in game, screen shots of GPU-Z and CPU-Z, and using their Game Advisor). It shows my ram running at 333Mhz (is only DDR2), and it can run at 400MHz, that this is probably the cause.

I SINCERELY doubt that extra 67MHz on 8GB of ram is going to bring this game up to proper speed, but while I’m fairly knowledgeable about computers, I can’t say I’m fluent with Ram speeds and how they affect GW2, so maybe I am wrong.

I was interested in upgrading anyway, so I just purchased myself an i7-3770 ivy bridge, set to 3.4GHz (turboboost brings it to 3.9GHz), the asrock p77 extreme4 board, and 16GB (2×8GB) of pc12800 DDR3 ram. This will be combined with my GTX 660 Ti, and I will be using liquid cooling on the processor.

I’ll be kitten if this doesn’t run at ridiculously fast speeds, and severely kitten .

…I’m slightly confused, this isn’t a low end processor by any means, the Intel Core 2 Extreme Q6850 @ 3.00GHz to give you exactly what it reads…but your saying this is a weak processor?

Just hard to believe, I can pull 40-50 fps on the original crysis at one setting below max with this same processor, and Tomb Raider runs at a solid 60 fps with no hiccups (well, except for the issue with hair tesselations, but that’s another problem all together).

I didn’t think this game took THAT much processing power…did it?

EDIT:

Just as a side note, I’ve checked to make sure, and yes, the pci express slot IS staying at 2.0, so it isn’t the power saving mode of the computer trying to kick in causing it.

So to start with, my system:

windows 7 64bit

intel quad core 3GHz processor (the QX6850 if I remember the number right, a model or two just before the i-series came out)

GTX 660 Ti geforce card

The problem:

I can’t seem to break 30 fps for the life of me. I’ve tried everything from tinkering with the settings to setting everything to bare minimum, the fps just doesn’t move.

The odd thing is, is that the fps difference between max and min settings is only 1-5 fps, so I’m unsure what’s going on here.

I’ve tried adjusting while in a town, and while in a fighting area.

Any ideas?