Guild Wars 2

An FX-6300 is a step back from a Phenom II X6 1075/1090/1100T (maybe some of the others, I forget where the cutoff is). It’s honestly sort of sad.

MrFayth.3546:

Took these this morning, for a different thread.

40-60fps in LA with those settings on an i5 4690k @ 4.2ghz with an r7 260x 2gb @ 1180/1680.

Not sure what to expect with a 6300 OCed but my hopes aren’t high.

FX6300 is 50-65% slower then a 4690K at stock settings. Even with the FX6300 being overclocked it cannot catch up to the Intel i5’s. That’s how bad those FX chips really are.

this really says it all – http://techreport.com/review/26735/overclocking-intel-pentium-g3258-anniversary-edition-processor/3

You bought “beta” Mac support. It will always be “beta” due to it’s dependence on the Cider wrapper. Very few game developers will support Mac natively unless they were first Mac game shops, or they always supported both platforms or they are using a multiplatform game engine that facilitates the creation of a native Mac port.

Otherwise 95% of the games that do run on a Mac is under the Cider emulator. Blame Apple for dismissing game developers for all those years with their underwhelming choice of graphics hardware on their sealed, no upgrades allowed PCs.

You are total right. 95% is way too high. I totally forgot about 3rd party game engines such as Unreal, Source, Unity, id Tech supporting native OS X versions.

But other than Bungie back in the day and Blizzard today with their dragon hoard of cash, I can’t think of a AAA studio that developed a native version of their Windows game for OS X from scratch. The barrier to entry needs to be low in terms of additional development costs, so if you can get it through your licensed game engine then that leaves using Cider as an imperfect but low cost way to support the OS X.

The close nature of the Mac platform should be a positive for game development, like how it is for consoles, but Apple’s use of mid to low end laptop GPUs kneecaps performance with no option to upgrade later. This isn’t fanboyism, I don’t think that laptops in general are not viable gamer platform because their performance is significantly lower with limited or no upgrade path. Doesn’t matter if it’s Windows, OS X or Linux.

Oh, EVE also uses Cider.

https://www.transgaming.com/cider/games?page=3

Anyways here are the published Mac requirements from the HoT page. Note that it still says Mac beta version, nearly 3 years after it’s release.

Mac OS®X 10.8.X or later
Intel® Core™ i5 or better
4 GB RAM or better
NVIDIA® GeForce® 320m, ATI Radeon™ HD 6630M, Intel HD 3000 or better
35 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse/equivalent

The Mac beta version of Guild Wars 2 runs well on the below machines or better. Your results may vary if you’ve upgraded or changed your Mac hardware or are running on lower hardware specifications.

iMac 21.5", 27" (Mid-2010)
iMac 21.5", 27" (Mid-2011)
MacBook Pro 15", 17" (Mid-2010)
MacBook Pro 13", 15", 17" (Early and Late-2011)
MacBook Pro 13", 15" (Mid-2012)
Mac Mini (Mid-2011)

Due to potential changes, system requirements may change over time, and you may be required to upgrade your current system (or obtain a new system) to continue to play the game.
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It’s likely an issue with Cider emulation so there’s nothing ANet can do. You can accept that and move on or not.

Edit: Hate it when I forget to put the no/not in a post. By brain gets ahead of my typing speed.

Due to the new way that Server Population is calculated (it’s based on WvW now), any Servers with Full status won’t be changing their status anytime in the foreseeable future.

Your friend can play PvE with you from any Server, but to join you in WvW would require the rest of the guild to change Servers.

Good luck.

I’ve not seen any evidence of the CS Team making an exception to the Full status of any server.

If you have proof of this, perhaps your friend can update his ticket and show it to the CS Team.

I’m sure that we all hope that everyone is treated equally within the game. Good luck.

You misunderstood. I didn’t imply they changed the status of a Server. I said I’ve not seen any exceptions to the Full Status rule.

Again, if you have proof the CS Team did so, then have your friend update his ticket.

Good luck.

Well, great! Then, your friend can update his ticket. No one on the forums can change the policy, only the CS Team can help your friend.

Good luck.

Ok, so I opened up my Rig to see about reseating my gfx card, I didn’t bother doing this before because I was pretty sure the card was in the PCIe port closest to the CPU. When I looked it was indeed how I thought, but I thought ’I’ll take it out and put it back, with a bit of a blow on the contacts, just like my old Sonic 3 Mega Drive cartridge!’
Lo and behold once I turned my Computer back on it is now showing link speed at x16.
Moral of the Story: take it out and blow on it, that’ll do the trick!

Thanks all for your support!

MrFayth.3546:

In short: No.

It’s not technically a laptop,its a “notebook” which is geared towards low power-use applications

You mean Netbook.

Notebooks ARE laptops….

Endymion.6509:

On low setting it runs ok lol but i play on my laptop mostly. Will they help with less lag in wvw?

Going from your Athlon to a i5-haswell CPU is going to be 100% faster ATLEAST.

Add in the GPU upgrade from your onboard graphics, and its an entirely different experience….you might cry when you experience it…for real.

Hell even a dual core haswell (G3258) is 100% faster then your Athlon, can be gotten cheaper and still give you a better (NOT BEST) experience.

If you have the cash, I would just buy all the parts you want and assemble it yourself. You will get a much better system for the price going that route.

As for the R9 300 series cards, Only the 270 is the 3rd gen rebrand, all the others are 2nd gen (meaning they all come from the R9 200 series). If you are buying a cheap/medium ranged GPU I would suggest one of 2 things.

1. Buy a GTX960
2. Buy a used R9 290 (same price as a new GTX960 if you look around on amazon/Ebay)

the 290 is a top end card (below the 980 above the 970) and that would be my choice if I was building right now. But If I felt the need to buy new I would buy a GTX960, even though its considerably slower, as it would deliver the needed GPU performance for the price.

Okay I stand corrected.

Dell typically uses the cheapest power supply they can (I doubt that it can actually even handle the 460 watts) and pre-built PC’s often come with power supplies that are barely up to task.

There’s a good chance the issue is your power supply if it simply can’t handle the power required of it.

Look at the core speed of your CPU .. 1775 MHz is not the maximum speed
of your CPU i guess, and the lower speed of your GPU bus is maybe just
a direct result from that.

So look at the temperatures of your CPU first. IF in your picture GW2 is really
running. Maybe make also another image where CPU-Z is in front of your
GW2 Window.

That site is pointless.

MrFayth.3546:

Have you cleaned your GPU recently? The vRAM chips onboard usually have their own heatsinks but they aren’t cooled by the fan nearly as well as the GPU Core is(due to them being offset and not directly under the fan).

I would try cleaning the Finstacks on the GPU,they can get obstructed by dust very easily.

Did some cleaning with the remaining canned air (wasn’t extremely dusty, but dusty enough) I had and the anomalies seem to have disappeared. Thank you a ton, again! Very appreciated.

Volmarg, nothing will solve your problem unless you change that cpu.

Beldin.5498:

Ansau.7326:

The game doesn’t care about how many cores you have =/= the game only uses one core.

Thats totally wrong .. it uses 4 cores, else you would never see much more then 25%
CPU utilisation in your task manager.

Quote everything, not just that sentence. And you didn’t even understood the sentence, because what I say and what you say is exactly the same.

Felahr.9830:

building it myself isnt an option..

Building it yourself is the only option, especially if you’re looking to run high settings for world bosses/WvW. If you want the high settings in high traffic areas you’re going to need to be building with used parts. It’s still easily doable, though:

CPU+Mobo (3570k+mobo): $200
GPU (7950): $100
PSU (EVGA SuperNOVA 750W): $75
HDD (W/e): $50
Ram (CL9 1600 MHz): $50
Case (Corsair 200R or something): $50
Windows (/r/microsoftsoftwareswap): $15
Total: $540, so you’ve got room for a decent mechanical KB as well, a Noppoo Lolita Spider 87key with Blues or something

For a prebuilt, I guess you could go for something like:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA27Z2NU7371

And buy a PSU+GPU, a CX430 and used 7850 should work well I guess (Assuming the GPU will fit in the case and assuming it’ll take an ATX PSU).

I guess you could alternatively just wait for some sort of nice deal, but you’re really not getting your money’s worth by getting a prebuilt for $600. Why not build a computer?

You are aware that your example itself could be seen as trolling as well, right?

So, OP wants to troll the Heart of the Mists by pulling the Guild Lord away from where he is supposed to be and wants an option to report as trolls those trying to stop it?

Mindtrick.5190:

ive got a gtx 980 ti and i cant break 144fps to push my 144hz monitor in gw2. In bf4 i get 200+ fps and in counter strike i have to cap my fps i get so much. GW2 is pretty awful with optimization. Its just a bunch of textures layered on top of each other. Build your computer to play other games this one wont even make your gsync kick in half the time.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01YuFT_nARw

Well, maybe because you don’t know that some graphic settings are extremely cpu taxing with minimal graphic improvement.
Turn Reflections to “Sky & Terrain”, shadows to “High” and character limits to “High”.

Also, you’ll need to overclock the cpu as much as you can. At stock it works at only 3.4GHz in HT, quite low for haswell.

heliumbox.3621:

Nothing else changed, drivers up to date, no viruses, only GW hogging CPU usage.

I5 3570k
nvidea 970
8gb ram

never had issues until LA patch.

Any ideas?

Whats the problem with that ? Else people always dream of it that GW2 would
really use 100% of your CPU. Thats more or less what all expect from DX12.

In the end more CPU usage just meants better multithreading. At singlecore times
it was normal when games pushed the CPU to 100%

Zane Hosigawa.6359:

Something has gone terribly wrong after this latest patch for me.

Ping has nothing to do with CPU utilization. Actually 60% is pretty normal for a quad core.

VaLee.5102:

Defrag is only useful for load times, won’t have any performance gains at runtime.

The game is constantly loading data and really doesn’t use much more than 1 GB of video memory. If you use a tool like Process Explorer, you will see the game loading data all the time while wandering around a map, especially a map full of other players. And there are areas in LA that the simple act of turning will hit the HD hard.

And I’m also uses Auslogics DiskDefrag, and Defraggler also has this feature, the ability to defrag just a folder or an individual file. Perfect after a major patch.

Since this week I think it was that they put in the patch that has my 2 ability pulsing at me most of the time (regardless of what I am doing but not all the time) I have has camera lag (jerky as if it can’t keep up when turning or whatever and I never had this issue and am using a 2 GB nvidia card that SHOULD more than keep up and used to).

risen thralls when knocked back seem to be teleporting back to me and the risen brute knock down timer seems to be way faster as I need to be dodging before the attack is telegraphed or i get hit/

not sure what is up these things are occurring at any time of the say whether soloing story missions or WBs or events what have you in PvE.

Just getting VERY frustrating and wondering if i am the only one to notice it before I try support and bother them

MrFayth.3546:

Since you have MSI AB already and even a +20 powerlimit didnt stop the Core Clock Reduction for me,you could disable AMDs factory powersaving/thermal reduction software(PowerTune) which is what automatically controls your Core Clock.

It,in my experience,does a bad job of it. I’d get core clock reductions at the worst possible times(under stress) even with <70c temps.
If your temps are below 80c there’s no reason to not run your full clocks while gaming,right? The dynamic clocks just introduce stuttering.

To start,you’ll want to set custom clock profiles.

Use the sliders to set your Core and Memory MHZ to the default 3D speed (1100core/1625mem for reference 260x’s) and click apply then save to Profile 1.

Next drop the core and mem sliders all the way down,click apply and save to profile 2.

Now open the MSI AB Settings tab and navigate to “Profiles” and save the corresponding 2/3d clocks to the 2d/3d profiles Like this .

Then go to the “General” Tab in the same window and disable PowerTune(called PowerPlay in AB),like so

Now,after a restart,MSI AB should be in control of your clocks and you’ll have a stable,100% speed while gaming at the cost of higher idle(2d) clock rates(150/300 compared to 525/750 with my 260),which doesnt make a huge difference at all.

Also,my Sapphire 260x’s default Fan Profile kicked up way too late,it would wait until +75c before going over 50% fan speed,which is enough speed to keep it from getting hotter but i felt it was too hot still so i made a much more aggressive fan curve . Now the fans spin up much faster and i dont see Gw2 temps get over 70c.

Edit: And my 260x is OC’ed to 1155/1662mhz Core/Mem.

This is the ultimate work around for the power play crap AMD did. But the reference 260x clocks are , Core 1050, Memory 1550.

You can set them above that (Core 1200, Memory 1625), but not much more with out Mofset heatsinks and all that. Those 260x’s like to get hot when OC’d.

Chris Cleary.8017:

There are really two sides to this, and when it comes down to it, you are both right – and you are both wrong. Both sides have the right to complete the task that they set out to do (completing or not completing).

Challenging another player’s play style is the issue here, and since this revolved around an event that was designed to be completed, it is being changed so that the original design of the event can be carried out.

When something in the game (such as this event) changes negatively as this has, we need to step in and remediate the toxicity. The byproduct of this change happens to be that a champion farm is being slowed, but since that was the originating factor for the toxicity, it’s unavoidable.

I encourage players to remember that not everyone has the same goals when they play, and sometimes they will clash.

While you are here, you should address the sweeping changes you have made moving the game toward a gold treadmill.

Why is everything being designed in such a way that it highly encourages buying gems and swapping them for gold?

Maybe if you answered that, less people would accuse you of kitten the Pay 2 Win stuff out to people.

I love the home instance feature, it feels like a new Hall of Monuments with useful additions instead of just trophies. The only thing I think would make it better is the placement of the nodes, if they could be in an area actually designated as ‘yours’. The NPCs and skillpoints and whatnot are fine being randomly placed within the instance, but how about considering a Home area in our Home instance? Honestly, I really dislike the fact that in Divinity’s Reach the home instance nodes are placed in the courtyard of a business. there’s a perfectly good house right across the way that could be used and has a backyard that can have the nodes in it, and its still close to the zone entrance. Who’s idea was it to make us steal resources off the lawn of an Orphanage?! Are you forgetting half the GW player base are huge RPr’s and Lore nerds??