Guild Wars 2

Great, will try it out – thanks!

And yeah, I’ve been debating upgrading my OS as well, but I’ll probably wait to do so until I can afford replacing my aging HD…

Edit: just tried installing 14.4 but it says that I can’t because it’s not compatible. Any known workarounds?

One last thing – because I’m runnin Vista, AMD recommends that I use version 13.12 of the driver, but I think that’s mostly due to a catalyst compatibility issue. Think I should still try and find somewhere to download 14.4 version 2?

Thanks Squishy. I deleted the Nvidia drivers but will try running DDU and reinstalling to make sure.

Any idea if overclocking my CPU to, say, 4.0 mhz would give me much of an increase? Just ordered a new heatsink/fan (needed one anyway) so when it arrives I think I’ll try it out and see.

Hi all,

My old GPU melted last week so I got an upgrade. I went from an Nvidia 560ti to an AMD R9 270 – a fairly significant upgrade (the new card is something like 20% more powerful/faster according to most benchmarks).

After playing around with it last night (latest drivers, etc.) I loaded up the game with the exact same settings and seem to have no performance increase at best, and a slight decrease at worst. I used to run almost everything at “high” settings except character model limit and quality, both set to medium (nothing at “ultra”) at native render sampling and a resolution of 1920×1080. When soloing my framerates were in the 30’s pretty consistently, and that would obviously drop in a WvW zerg, in Lion’s Arch, doing Teq, etc., and I was ok with that.

Last night my FPS were more consistently in the 20’s and it seemed noticeably worse. It’s possible that it’s no worse than it was before and I just had an expectation that isn’t being met so it seems worse, but regardless, I was hoping for a performance increase! Under “settings preset” I chose the “auto detect” and it turned a couple of graphic options UP, nothing down. Still lousy framerates.

I’m wondering now if my CPU is bottlenecking me. I’ve got an AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 Ghz Quad Core in there now, a few years old. Am thinking about trying to overclock it as I can’t really afford a new CPU atm.

Btw, 8 gigs of DDR3 ram.

Do I need a new CPU or is there a different problem that I’m not seeing?

Thanks.

Mad props to YB fighting us in TC borderlands last night around 11-12 Mountain time. You guys took half of the map incredibly quickly and had us scrambling until we finally got organized and started hitting back. We took back a few camps and then flanked you at the bay right as you took out the outer south wall, at which point we had a really great back and forth at the inner wall – you finally forced us to retreat inside and we were able to hold against the push (thank goodness for a reinforced gate) and chased you out. I’m guessing most of you left the land at that point because we met little resistance as we reclaimed what you’d taken, but it was a great night! Definitely the best week of WvW to date – this is what I hoped it would be like!