Guild Wars 2

Specs are very relevant to the conversation. More importantly though, just because you’re computer meets the bare minimum requirements doesn’t mean your going to run it very well. Many things can affect computer performance negatively, effectively negating your hardware performance.

Driver status
Running processes
Over-active antivirus
Dusty/poorly ventilated case (excessive heat)
So on and so forth….

These things are the responsibility of the pc owner to take care of, a software company can’t possibly optimize for any of this. It’s no different for a car owner to maintain their vehicle if they want to legally drive it on the street.

I understand many people haven’t an idea to fix any of these issues but they need to understand the issues before demanding fixes from a publisher.

After some cleanup and updates I’m running GW2 on a $350 laptop at 35-40 fps (except wvw) I don’t expect nearly the level of performance of my desktop but with a little work I’m happy with its performance now if I want to game away from home.

Laptop is a hp dv6 and vision system