Guild Wars 2

I will preface this by saying that I’ve never built my own rig, but I’ve been doing my research and what I’ve come up with seems like a decent setup to me, but those of you with some expertise might be able to tell me something I didn’t know. I’m planning to keep my budget $6-700~ish and am pretty solidly sold on the CPU/graphics card; it’s the other stuff that I’m not as sure about.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1FUST

If you have any suggestions for components that might work better with those, I’d really appreciate it! What I have currently is total crap (4 fps max in an abandoned area with all settings as low as possible levels of crap) and am mostly looking to get the best in my budget that I’ll be able to upgrade as need be along the line.

aspirine.6852:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

aspirine.6852:

Time to upgrade that PC from 2010?
For me the best part of this update.

You people actually managed to make me facepalm in real life. That’s quite an accomplishment, it really takes grand levels of ignorance for that.

Facepalm all you want. It’s not ignorance, I just do not care if he or you have some kittenty PC and want to play the best looking mmo around.

No one is saying that everyone should be able to play the “best looking MMO around,” people are saying that if we were able to play the game just fine before this patch, we should at least have the OPTION to continue to play it successfully. You can continue to play on your super fancy expensive PC with all the shinies and a million people but not everyone can/wants to.

I have an older PC, and I know fully well I’m not going to experience optimal gameplay… ever. I have every single graphics setting on as low as it can go, I have the lowest settings for character limit/detail, and still in cities/zergs my FPS slows to a crawl (as I expected with the announcement of no more culling). I’ve even turned off “show all player names” and yet they show if they’re beyond a certain radius, making it impossible to see anything. I understand that system requirements change and I’ve taken that in stride with my years of MMO experience, but I am a poor college student and use GW2 as a small escape from my multitude of mental health problems (and I know I’m not the only person that this provides reprieve for). I want to keep playing it so badly as I work towards my goals in my personal life, but when my system gets completely bogged down it kind of… bums me out. All that it takes to make this better would be a simple enable/disable culling option.

So, please ANet devs, enable culling again for those of us whose systems appreciate it. It goes beyond a video game we can turn off/on, for some of us.

WvW is beyond painful on my computer even with everything always set to the lowest settings, so I’m really hoping this doesn’t mean the entire game will be near impossible for me to play. That’d be a huge dissapointment.