Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Since update ~3-5 days ago.
All audio output has ceased completely!
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Kill “awesomium_process.exe” in the task manager, a built-in web browser process spawned by GW2, and see if that increases your performance. (It did for me.)
Doing that even enabled anti-aliasing, which didn’t work previously. :-p I mean real AA, not the crappy built-in FXAA.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well, game without sound is a pretty big bug, any solution yet?
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I don’t know if it’s intended, but apparently quickness (or w/e speeds you up) works on executing the finishing move on someone in downed state.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Suddenly GW no longer outputs any sound/music/whatever. Started yesterday I think. It’s completely quiet, I checked the audio options (I didn’t change them in the first place though) and they’re all fine, game should play sounds like usual.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Ok, so I was getting mediocre fps only on my GTX 570, also, antialiasing didn’t really seem to work, edges flickered, and everything looked not-so-superb in general despite me trying to force highest settings in the graphics driver.
Well.
Until I killed the process “awesomium_process.exe” that gets spawned by GW2. :-p
Suddenly after I changed task back into the game, it runs smoother (turning around especially), antialiasing worked at highest level like I never saw it before, the game suddenly looks more awesomium, err awesome.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
For basically everyone around, skills stopped working, dodging still worked though. Like, you press a skill hotkey and it keeps flashing but nothing happens.
This actually lasted for like 20 minutes, in completely different situations all over the battleground. I stopped playing then because of this, so I’m not sure how much longer this was going on.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I don’t think it’s Arenanet’s business on what monitor setup your PC runs.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well, I think it should definitely break root if it breaks stun, after all it only runs for 3s and has a 75s cd. It seems like a bug like this, in my opinion.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
You could also fix the possible RTL freeze maybe, by making it end smoother (no small delay at the end, which it currently has actually).
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Please remove the character freeze that happens for a moment after casting Tidal Wave, thanks!
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
a) I already mentioned this, but just now I even lost BOTH dodge-rolls without Evasive Arcana proccing although I was continously under enemy fire, PLEASE PLEASE fix!
b) I initiated a dodge-roll, and although my character was already on it I was killed by some bigger hit, although I should obviously have dodged that one. Was definitely not a latency issue from my side.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Try turning off reflections, it fixes another bug (transparent floor) but who knows, maybe it works for you too?
Also, I have really bad edge flickering. When I enter the TP room in Lion’s Arch and move towards the NPCs the pattern of the floor texture and the staircases of the stairs behind the TP NPCs are a crazy flicker fest. FXAA reduces it only slightly, but it remains crazy flicker show. Even Halflife 2 in 2004 already had better antialiasing that would completely eliminate edge flickering, come on Arenanet.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
here:
mage = less hp, less armor, more complicated handling, less damage, actually
on the plus side, it’s probably awesome for ADH*doubleclicks daggers somewhere in inventory*D people.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
When you try to leave the main gate of your realm’s borderlands’ starter zones there’s a good chance a loading screen appears that tells you you were just zoning in to this borderlands, and there’s an even better chance it won’t go away but forces you to ALT+F4. After last realm reset yesterday night this is the first time this occurred to me.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
It seems the “trigger on roll” skills and some other types of skills attempt to only activate when they think you’re in combat. Problem is, sometimes they’re wrong, ie they don’t trigger although you’re clearly in combat. This happens rarely but is that more annoying. Also, these skills/sigils should just trigger independently of whether you’re in combat or not, problem+annoyances solved! I mean who cares if you get healed for 350 when out of combat? I don’t understand why these restrictions to combat-only activation are in place in the first place. It’s just terribly prone to glitching out when you rely on it.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
It doesn’t make invulnerabe to suffering from condition damage, and while it breaks stun it doesn’t break root.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
If a player teleports away via waypoints or zoning in general (entering borderlands), add some visual effect for when he disappears, instead of just him being gone apruptly, it looks pretty lame and is sometimes confusing even.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I don’t remember which skill it was, but my elementalist got hit for 14k damage in one hit by a warrior too, and I had actually toughness gear stacked to avoid getting 2-shotted.. didn’t work out :-p
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Hm, quoting doesn’t seem to work, so @previous poster who said toughness helps, well.. I stacked toughness gear on my elementalist and still got 2-shotted by a warrior (1 hit being 14k damage), so, yeah..
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Oh hey, same problem here with GTX 570, latest drivers 306.97 installed from scratch (used driversweeper before).
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Cause it would be nice that if you stacked exotic toughness gear, it actually prevents you from just getting two shotted, with one hit already being 14k.. which it didn’t prevent for me.
Alternatively, since we’re much squishier than warriors, how about you give us a 20k crit skill too? Should roughly make up for it.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
It was one of the worse, greedy design choices that wasn’t thought through at all. Like “oh how can we eliminate REALLY much money from the pool?”.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
on 4:3 (1600×1200) I found fov 110 vastly superior
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I’ve multi-boxed other games. I have no problems with multi-boxers. If there is a live person there, controlling all the characters, I don’t mind that at all.
The automated, scripted bots should be nuked though
Well except that multi-boxing also consists of bots: You control one character, the other 4 (or w/e) are just bots that automatically analyse and copy the movement of the one human-controlled character. For all we know they might even just as well automatically copy the movement of any other human-controlled character that is moving nearby in the game.
If you want multi-boxing that isn’t botting but really human-controlled, I suggest you plug in 5 keyboards into your PC and get really busy. I guess 2 hands, 2 feet and 1 nose might work..
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Awesome idea, a card game or dice game you could play in taverns with other players..
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Escorted dolyaks, speeding them up and stuff -> no reward.
Stayed at supply camp for 20 minutes -> no reward.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the events even tell us to defend them, right? So why is there absolutely no reward for our time investment and efforts? Dolyak escort is pretty tedious you know.
I can’t really play 6 hours in a row or anything, so I have to think how to use my available spare time, so the only answer you, Arenanet, make plausible is “do not defend anything” basically.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
This seems to point into a very specific direction, at least until someone has an opposing case to report.
(As a side note: I recommend Q6600 users to overclock to 3GHz anyway, which is very easily done: Base clock 333 and multiplier x9.)
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I overclocked it to 3 GHz, which improved the fps somewhat, but still not great. I’m surprised a quad-core cpu running at 3GHz is performing this poorly in GW2 actually.
Anyway, here’s how you do it easily on AMI BIOS:
Enter your BIOS and change the CPU base clock from 266 to 333, keep the multiplier at 9, also disable “Spread Spectrum” in the BIOS in case it’s on (just reduces performance).
That’s it, enjoy your 3GHz rig.
Some people are apparently able to go as high as 3.6GHz by increasing various voltages and manipulating timings, but that’s pretty hard and maybe not the best idea. 3GHz is easily achievable though and poses no prob for any CPU stepping.
(Apparently 3.2GHz is pretty popular, people either do 400MHzx8 or 355MHzx9 for that.)
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
-Sometimes when I look upwards while on a slope the floor will become transparent, happened in WvW.
-Anti-aliasing doesn’t work although I have it enabled and all settings on high, game looks really bad like this, like from the 90es or something (half-life 2 in 2004 already provided excellent AA).
-Thin structures like stair cases flicker badly when I move, again 90es retro look..
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
wow sounds awesome. Since you said your rig is somewhat older, what’s your CPU please?
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well, I just had a look at CPU performance of an Ivy Bridge i5-3450, and it doesn’t look like its performance would explain a difference in frame rates of a factor 4, at most a factor of 2 maybe. Which is of course already not small. But yeah, maybe Arenanet should just release official requirement specs..
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Also, why is the game not antialiased and when I run towards a staircase the (thin) stairs flicker badly? I have everything on highest settings.. guys come on this was already much better in 2004 in HALF-LIFE 2
Edit: Graphics bug in wvw: Running up some slope suddenly erased the floor texture, which made it remotely look as if there was a giant canyon in front of me.
eww, and inside a keep some wooden upper floor also suddenly turned transparent in a similar situation..
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well, my cpu load isn’t even at 90% or anything, I measured it. It’s more like 65% or so. I guess it could happen though if GW2 makes poor utilization of Quadcore cpus AND had a badly optimized engine in general (come on it doesn’t look like it requires more than this CPU..for what?) :/
Anyway, my system exceeds the requirements by far while each single component on its own at least matches them or is better, so if that’s really the cause then I’m kitten off at Arenanet for lying there.. 10 fps when turning around is NOT “recommended requirement”!
Edit: Actually, it changes between running just at low fps and then having bad hiccups when I’m actually turning around by say 360°, where it really goes to like 2 fps or something, if that helps in any way..
Edit: I must correct my statements above: I got the “recomemnded specs” from a gaming site, so I naturally assumed that those were given by arenanet, but it seems that site just made it up, if arenanet actually hasnt released official reqs.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I ran a 3d-mark and I got a gfx score of 5374, which is pretty close to the expected average performance of GTX 570 cards which would be 5830 according to charts on futuremark.com. 3d-mark also actually confirmed that my system seems to be running fine. So it seems GW2 is somehow faulty? Why is it running at 1/4 of the expected performance, and why isn’t it antialiasing? o_O
Edit: If I turn my character around, I even drop as low as 10 fps…
Edit2: If I choose “best performance” and everything looks like minecraft, I get better fps, but can still drop down to as low as 22. xD
Edit3: PCI-e slot is running at 16x according to GPU-Z, so that’s fine.
Edit4: I followed the sticky instructions in this forum for nvidia cards, but it didn’t help. Except the game looks pretty bad now^^.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
What’s up with that? Metro 2033 on Ultra settings runs super smooth, as expected from these system specs. But in GW2 I get like 14-18 fps although there are maybe just 10 people around me (idling on Lion’s Arch overflow a bit). (And I checked CPU load, it’s not maxed out or anything). According to a GW2 performance chart I saw somewhere I should be getting like 50-60 fps.
Another odd thing I noticed: Anti-aliasing doesn’t seem to work, my character in the character overview screen shows aliased diagonal lines, so the graphics don’t even look that great. I have installed the latest version of Nvidia drivers for the 500 series (and DX11). In general, my sys specs fulfil the recommended requirements of GW2.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Don’t make the mistake of going full toughness, because you will still get 2-shotted by a warrior as it happened to me (14k+ in one hit).
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
My elementalist in exotic cleric gear, which gives toughness+healing (afaik healing is supposed to reduce crit damage, not 100% sure though, still, I was stacking toughness just to avoid being insta-gibbed), was two-shotted by a warrior for >14k damage in one hit, yet the highest crit my ele as the squishiest of all classes managed to ever get was like 6k (in berserker’s gear, where he gets one-shotted by rabbits) and that was probably against some level 20 player who go upscaled because it was so rare, so yeah, nothing surprises me anymore. I dunno how much longer I’m gonna play this kitten really.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Btw, Valve stated on their Steam-for-Linux blog that after optimizing the graphics drivers they found Linux to actually outperform Windows =P
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well I thought about it, and change of plans:
I guess I’ll go all berserker set, glass cannon style then. If I can get two-hitted anyway in exotic thoughness/healing gear, why not get one-hitted but have some fun first. ^^
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Maybe Arenanet could no longer keep us in the dark and throw us an enlightening bone of information about the badge-aquirement mechanics? Thanks!
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Well I imagine it would affect other classes too, not just elementalist. Maybe they just shouldn’t have released the game before it was actually done, I guess.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Hm, if badges depend on kills/damage you do that means there is no room for support builds and instead everyone should change his gear to glass cannon (and a few protective spells) I guess. That would be pretty awful design by Arenanet though if it’s really true. Any official word on this?
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
If only the combat log would actually work in the way that it showed information about rune procs and all the stuff it shows in other MMOs, would make testing that much easier.
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Do these suggestions actually get read? ^^
I mean, even if Arenanet is interesting in them, there are just so overwhelmingly many of them, I was wondering if it actually makes sense to post here..
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
Ok I was actually expecting people to respond like “lol you only have that few badges, just what are you doing” but it seems it’s normal that it doesn’t rain badges on you ^^ phew
Colin ‘The Liar’ Johanson: “Everyone, including casual gamers, by 80 should have the
best statistical loot in the game. We want everyone on equal power base.”
I have everything on highest settings.. guys come on this was already much better in 2004 in HALF-LIFE 2