Guild Wars 2

love it when people post without reading….

I don’t care about high FPS and image quality, as long as it’s playable. I currently play with a core i5-2320 with that 8500GT, and I bet the game could run better with the intel HD 2500 than that crap card. I get around 20fps when there’s a little action, and that’s on the lowest quality. we got this card for the sole purpose of running dual monitors, and that was like 4 years ago… If I could drop the 8500gt in this computer I would but it’s being used. AFAIK the GT220 is better than this right? and being in canada prices are much higher, and importing can be costly. it’s worth it for more expensive parts but below $50 you have to account shipping and duties. got this GT220 for $41CND with free shipping. it can’t be that bad. I was ready to drop a 7870 GHz ed. but I’d need another psu too, all these things add up and that’s why I settled for a temporary solution. I’ll build a new computer later this year, maybe wait and see what’s in the works for the next gen cpus and gpus.

doesn’t seem logical to me to drop $400 in a computer using a dual core 2.5GHz processor…

never seen a notice that it wouldn’t even install without a videocard, but oh well… I put in the old 8500GT I have from another machine and the installer launched normally. I just found refurb cards for around $50 that should do the trick. GeForce GT220. until I can buy better hardware I’m going to give it a shot. If it’s too crappy then I’ll have to play on the wife’s office computer (core i5) when she’s not using it.

As you can see this is a very tight budget computer, I just revived it because it’s hard drive was bricked (seagate 7200). I unbricked it and wanted to use it to play GW2. it’s the only game I play and I don’t care about picture quality as long as it has above 20fps all the time. I do have a GPU but it’s installed in another machine, I just didn’t feel like removing it just for testing. I ’ll post back to tell if it fixes the issue.

what’s this vista platform update? I have the same problem as the OP. It can’t be only because of the lack of a videocard, the installer just shuts down without further action. I tried running the installer as an admin I get the same result.