Guild Wars 2

sirsquishy.8531:

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The performance you get by adding an additional card is not 100% its more like 75% at best.

at best it is about 43% to 45%, the scaling is not even close to linear so 75% isnt achievable with 99% of games.

loseridoit.2756:

SLI/CF technology is not that great. It does not double vram. There are driver issues and require vendor help.

I said it is useless today because we are in a strange situation. Single card are powerful.

on the contrary, it actually is great in many circumstances.

in single monitor situations a single card is more than enough, the returns are quite dimished if you crossfire, there are certain exceptions to the rule dependant on the game.

where Crossfire really shines is in Eyefinity setups (of which i currently use and play with), in a crossfire setup with a resolution of 5760×1080, the gains can be as high as 45%, at a minimum 10% to 15% which is still a pretty significant increase in multi-monitor setups, single monitor setups will suffer a bit more, will be a minimum of around 5% to 7% in that ballpark area.

in a case i have personally witnessed two 7990’s in crossfire/quad fire on a single 27’ widescreen monitor running GW2, the gains were fairly negligible and didnt really do anything to prevent framerate slow downs in zergs or world boss fights on ultra settings, in an eyefinity setup, they did provide a better frame rate in GW2, but the cost will be high for running such a setup, and i really do not recommend crossfiring just for playing one game, for multiple other games, sure.

i cannot speak for SLI a whole lot since i havent used Nvidia cards for well, a very long time, but a friend did used to play GW2 on an SLI setup, same thing really, the difference on a single monitor was practically negligible.

currently the OS trend is as follows , it is around about these percentages, this data correlates to machines connected to the internet.

2015 Win8 Win7 Vista WinXP Linux Mac
January 21.0% 52.8% 0.8% 4.7% 5.5% 9.8%

in reality, if they were to port it to another platform, mac would be first, only because of the near 10% they hold atm, linux would be after, though i too wouldnt mind seeing a linux port one day.

havent noticed this before.

do risen have a natural slight resistance to fire spells/actions? what about an armour rating, that would seem more like an appropriate explanation of whats going on to me, but in any case, since i also use the same weapon alot, i would like to know of which one it is

serenke.4806:

I think it would be better to just remove fiery greatsword altogether, since eles are apparently completely unviable without it (based on the above comments). So then ele players could go on and roll a bearbow and feel appreciated.

by doing this, you totally screw the fire elementalists completely, making them much more useless than what they are, such a silly idea to suggest its removal.

Your location: Victoria, Australia

Time and date of incident (plus time zone): UTC +10, from 11AM this morning til 4PM, though it reoccurs anytime i enter the same map

Game World: Desolation.

Brief description of what you’re seeing:
enter The Silverwastes, start fine for about 10 minutes, lag issues hit with differing severity.

least severe being playable but actions and movements being updated on the server are a couple of seconds late.

extreme cases are people jumping backwards and forwards, other players teleporting, being unable to send chat message, open chests or some loot bags, server does not record where i am running, and get hit by alot of enemies not present in the area and die, spells and abilities do not work.

only happends in The Silverwastes, all other areas are fine.

sometimes have this problem in the silverwastes.

not even spamming but i keep getting suppressed.

im getting extremely frustrated and sometimes even livid at this problem.

i will be in silverwastes, doing breach event or vinewrath, half way through the boss fight, the game lags out, boots me to character select, if i go back into the game, i get kicked to an empty map, or i get back in, and the boss is already dead, i then miss out on loot entirely for that event.

to rule out everything that i can be accused of, my PC is a high end rig, and my internet is not laggy since i run on fibre optic lines, heres proof if people dont believe: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4138894131

this happends on every single silverwastes map that i enter, no other map in the game gives me this problem.

i have missed out on so much loot, or bandit chests or events simply because of this silly lag issue.

what gives?

is there no fix for this at all?? a setting i might be missing?

counter to my understanding would mean to counter it’s effects if you are under the effect of fear before using dagger storm, it will not prevent the fear ability from working half way through your dagger storm unless the tooltip for dagger storm says “prevents/immune from fear effects while in use”.

it can be a little hard to understand i suppose, but there is a difference between countering and preventing/immunity.

this isnt the correct place to be posting this.

and to be fair, there is plenty of warning, the ‘Unique’ tag is enough warning, being described as "alone, singular ", you can have as many unique items in inventory as you want, it just means you cannot equip more than 1 of the same item at a time.

hi, ive been having a problem with the latest patch in the main menu and in-game where the GUI is totally shifted onto the right hand side of the screen, before the patch it used to sit right in the middle where it was supposed to be, unfortunately for me, playing on an eyefinity setup this makes it difficult having the GUI in a place where it’s not in direct view underneath my character like usual, i have included 2 screenshots below demonstrating the problem i have as they are pretty large images:

main menu in the wrong place: http://i.imgur.com/yijkGCc.jpg

in-game GUI in the wrong place also: http://i.imgur.com/mRy2zrm.jpg
i have added both of them as an attachment if links are not allowed.

like i said before, it’s only started happening after the latest patch, i searched everywhere in the game options for a fix and found nothing.

Running Windows 7 Ultimate, ASUS HD6950 2GB, 3x 24’inch widescreen monitors, rebooting the game or re-installing doesnt seem to fix the problem, and occurs on every game boot.

is there a solution to fix this problem?

hi, i am currently attempting a re-install of the game due to the many unresolvable problems i was having yesterday while playing, i uninstalled the game and have attempted to re-install, and at a certain point i always get “Download Failed! please check your internet connection and try again (2)” when i open the client again to try to finish the download, it says i have 170 files remaining, and then it downloads 290mb, and then it gives me the “download failed” message again, i have forwarded ports 6112, 6600 and 443 and i still get the same error, i have tried deleting the local.dat and running as administrator and nothing is working……

i have no firewalls installed on my system and i have windows firewall turned off completely.

OS is Win7 ultimate 64bit

i have attempted all the solutions in the above posts except for reseating my graphics card, i have decided to download the game again, but now it cannot complete because the download fails.

the game has never been this bad if ever before the patch :/

having this same problem, tried playing for about 6 hours today and had well over 20 black screens, could not access menu’s or anything, had to force close the game each and every time, it was significantly worse when i was in a dungeon, story line dungeons became very severe, more so than normal dungeons.

have all the latest drivers and updates.

windows7 64bit ultimate
i7 960 3.2ghz
12GB ram
ASUS HD6950 2GB DirectCUII
Sabertooth x58 LGA1366

hello, i am having a very bad case of the black screen issue in GW2, where if i am in a dungeon from anywhere in the span of 5 to 15 minutes, the black screen occurs, this also happends during story line dungeons, i have test various resolutions and graphics settings only to have the same problem, i have also tried the solution in the sticky post above me and that unfortunately did not work.

it is black screening for me so often than i am unable to complete dungeons for story mode due to the black screen happening, having to force close the game and start all over again in the dungeon.

im using Windows 7 ultimate 74 bit with an ASUS ATI HD6950 2GB DirectCUII, all drivers are upto date and the card is not over heating