Guild Wars 2

Thank you for all the information and suggestions everyone, you have all been a great help! I will probably go with the HD 7750 as it fits my budget quite well and seems to be a good quality. I will continue to look into other computer upgrades for long term effect.

Once again, thank you all!

Rampage.7145:

It is a bit old i don’t think the GPU upgrade will give u a enjoyable experience without upgrading the whole motherboard+CPU. Nevertheless, u can get a good radeon hd7750 for 100$ it will serve u well for gaming. And just wait untill u have money to upgrade the rest of ur components, or just gather 400$ at least and get yourself a whole new budget system capable of playing this and other games just fine.

Thanks for the info! I will possibly upgrade other components if it needs it but I didn’t want to spend loads of money on a single part (like the graphics card).

One other thing, if I upgrade the graphics card would it allow me to run the game? Even if it was terrible quality?

If that was possible I would work on upgrading the rest of the system.

AMD Phenom™ 8400 Triple-Core Processor (3 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
- From the GA report.

Well evidently it’s too late for that.

So care to tell me what else needs to be upgraded? I know it isn’t very good at all, and would barely meet the minimum requirements but I would like to try. If it didn’t work out a graphics card would do well for my other games as well so I don’t have much to lose.

Hello! I recently bought GW2 and just found out my graphics card is WAY below the minimum requirements. (Much to my surprise after using the ‘can you run it website’.)

This issue is stopping me from even installing the game. (Downloads 10k kbs, then opens again and closes itself.)

So I believe I have narrowed the issue down to the graphics card. So that’s where I am wondering if some of you could help me out.

My budget is pretty thin and I wouldn’t want to spend any more than 100$(Canadian) if I can help it.

So any ideas of a decent graphics card that is hopefully above the minimum requirements enough to run the game decently? I am lost when it comes to these kinds of things so any help is much appreciated.

Okay thank you for the information! I did manage to get past the ‘download failed (internet connection)’ issue but I am now dealing with the installer window closing. (Turns out I had an antivirus program installed without me knowing.)

I was afraid of the graphics card not being good enough but I suppose a new one will make my other games run better as well.

One other interesting point is that when I went on the ‘can you run it’ website for GW2, it said that all the numbers on my graphics card were the same or better than the minimum requirements.

Once again, thanks a lot for the suggestion and the help!

Cheers.

Still nothing. I have done almost everything that should solve this problem and still nothing. Ran as admin, MSCONFIG, winsock reset, installed the vista service pack 2 along with all other computer updates, I am connect by a cord to my modem and I have no anti virus to disable.

I also found it interesting that before I did the full system restore 2 days ago I did not have this problem and my problem was with the installer window closing after the firs 10,000kb. Just something to note, but I cannot find out what is wrong. It shouldn’t be an internet issue as I managed to download it on another computer.

Completely baffled here as to why this is happening.

You can say that again, I’m getting desperate, I’ve tried everything. Really hope someone posts with a solution soon.

Any ideas as for what I should do next?

Hello! I have recently bought this game (disk version) and I am having trouble downloading it.

I keep getting the message “Download failed! Please check your internet connection and try again.”

I have taken many steps to get it to install but it will not work (Updating drivers, updating windows, turning off firewalls, etc). I know it is not my internet connection because I managed to download the game on another home computer, but was unable to play it there because of video card issues. I also do not have any anti virus software installed so it could not be that. Yesterday I had to do a full system restore, not sure if that would affect it in any way though.

I also did ‘MSCONFIG’ and reset the winsock thing. I am not too good with computers so I am hoping someone can help me out. I really just want to play.