Guild Wars 2

stormstrike.9147:

Funny you mention sound. When I power up the game and get to the character select, for about 2 seconds it’s normal sound but then it drops. Again about 2 seconds after character select screen a drop in sound. Weird.

I get that as well every time I start the game. Good sound at character select, drops once I’m in the game. Alt-TAB-ing out and back fixes it for me.

I only started playing this weekend and I was ready to give up on the game after the first 2 hours purely because of the control system. Maybe it’s an MMO thing – I’m not used to MMOs and this crazy button mashing multitasking they require.

It was simply impossible to keep moving, dodging, switching weapons AND hitting the skill keys at the same time. I don’t know how people get used to it but I was a mess even after reassigning and trying out different combinations. I couldn’t dodge, I kept mixing up the skill keys, I couldn’t even run around properly in battle.

My solution has been to switch to a 360 controller, as weird as that sounds. And I’m someone who generally hates controllers, I like to play with keyboard and mouse. But it works for me in this case so… that’s what I’m doing.

I have an MSI GT 660R that’s almost 2 years old and it’s still running the game just fine. I’m a student in a TINY dorm so I don’t have a desktop. I play all games on this.

I turned some settings to medium because I don’t want to stress the laptop too much but I haven’t had any issues with overheating. I just bought the game and played for 10h straight this weekend and the laptop remained cool. Don’t have any cooling pads or anything of the sort.

1.73-GHz Intel Core i7-740QM
RAM 4GB
ATI Mobility Radeon HD5800 1GB