I’d like to take a moment to correct SolarNova’s response. Expect great FPS in everything but large wvw conflicts.
Those winter’s day town clothes that were around last year. I want a set of dose
Sorry to tell you but CPU is the limiter for guild wars 2. Even the best of intel processors don’t maintain amazing fps at all times. AMD can’t get anywhere near them unless it’s unders pecial circumstances. But if you’re happy with your AMD FX 6300 then that’s fine.
Intel i3 3220 probably get’s better FPS than AMD FX 6300.
Realistically, they trade blows. In general, I’d recommend the 6300 over an i3, even for GW2. That being said, it’s generally not that hard to fit an i5 into the budget.
But then there’s the experimenting in getting the i3 to 4.2 GHz, then the FX 6300 sits back down lmao
Intel i3 3220 probably get’s better FPS than AMD FX 6300. Bottleneck=AMD FX 6300.
I can tell you that if you changed your CPU to intel i5 3570K or something around there, your FPS would double. If not double, then considerably higher.
When it’s not a CPU bound game, AMD FX 6300 is decent.
i’m traveling so these are screenies I posted that are still on the forum from 23 days ago. I’ll take more if you need.
I can vouch for this as my AMD FX-8350 scores a little over half the FPS on the same settings and same scene relatively same amount of players.
Looking at the bank from the mystic forge on black gate he got around 25-30 fps on a single screen, triple screen might be a little less. wvw I don’t know.
This game will take SLI better than crossfire. A friend of mine plays with two GTX 480s and 5760×1080 and an i7 930 at 4 GHz or 3.4 GHz. switches between the two sometimes. At 4 GHz he gets great FPS everywhere save for obvious areas like lion’s arch or wvw but everything else is fantastic he says. He plays with shadows and reflections off too. sometimes single GTX 480.
So yeah for the past ten minutes I’ve clicked and clicked the tonic and have not gotten anything other than the winter’s day dolyak.
I haven’t found anything in the patch notes so why is this happening?
Mine actually just started working finally.
And I just finished submitting a ticket about it.
Nope I’m having the same problem and I’m quite frustrated!
It doesn’t download to my laptop or tower. Exact same problem. Brilliant.
I’m not suggesting it, I’m just pointing something out that it appears numerous people overlook. Recovery Windows installations with PCs that come from stores and are not custom (IE, HP, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Toshiba,) usually come with a recovery partition on the main drive being inaccessible until you want to restore system defaults. DVDs don’t happen anymore as far as I know. They used to back with XP and the early days of Vista.
If you wanted to you could probably find a used GTX 470 somewhere and put that in the computer for now and turn up the visuals and get a better experience from GW2 if you wanted to. Glad to know that the issue is fixed!
Did you try Behellagh’s suggestion of running GPU-Z from techpowerup to see if your GPU is being utilized?
On CPU-Z, on the lower left hand corner of the front tab which is the first to show by default, you’ll find Clocks (Core #0) which represents the status of the first core on your quad core processor. If it reads 2.4 GHz as is your Q6600’s default frequency, it should be fine. If it reads a lower frequency during Guild Wars 2, there’s an issue somewhere.
You can check back whenever you want, Porani. This is the forums after all, topics never die. They just get really old lmao.
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
on the right side of the page there’s some download ones. You can choose the one that requires an install or you can use the one below that that just needs to be unpacked and can be run anywhere.
I already mentioned how you can check it, by using CPU-Z. Small program, no install required version available
I mean that the cpu could be the cause of these fps drops if the processor is not running at the desired speed of 2.4 GHz. It could be running at 800 MHz for all we know.
Actually another thing you could try checking is if your CPU is being throttled down. I think you can check this with CPU-Z which will show the CPU clock at the current moment and any changes.
Could try reinstalling the game or something or deleting the .tmp file in the install directory. Unless you have a download cap like me don’t re-dl it. I’m not sure what your fps drops could be caused by other than what Behellagh and I have said. He might know more.
Okay. A graphics card has a set amount of memory built onto it, like system RAM. It can range from 512 MB with today’s cards to 6 GB like the GTX Titan. Every videogame loads details into the graphics card because it is fast.
Guild Wars 2 is no exception. As you move, new details are loaded into the graphics card’s RAM and then displayed. The process of it loading up is what makes your frame rates dip. And the first time you spin around in the game after start up or Alt Tabbing back into the game, it needs to do this process again. This process is always happening as you move, but the one time you spin around it happens the most. Basically it’s the more that happens such as objects being loaded up onto your screen, the more your fps can drop.
60-70 fps on low settings is definitely playable and enjoyable, but what happens to make it drop to unplayable variety of 20 fps?
when you go out of the game and come back, all of the things previously drawn are no longer drawn. So rotating the camera initially redraws it and that’s where you have frame drops. Do it once, there’s a drop in FPS. Do it twice, there might not be a drop.
Rather than fighting with everyone you’d probably have an easier time reaching a solution by just posting a screenshot of your graphics settings and fps.
If there isn’t a recovery disk there might be a recovery partition. My Windows 8 Asus laptop has one of them.
Same spot from SolarNova’s screenshot on an AMD FX-8350 and max graphics will get 15 frames or lower on Black Gate.
Not a good CPU for CPU bound games but for other games it can be good.
if you didn’t want to spend too much money, you could find a Core 2 quad Q6600. it’s exactly double the performance.
I’ve only heard of the Fermi based cards doing good.
Not really … Guild wars uses 4 cores…. so FX will beat i3…
I highly doubt that. Buddy has a hugely overclocked i3 at around 4.3 GHz, third generation and it slams my FX-8350. I bet at stock clocks it does better.
Overclocked i3 to 4,3Ghz?
I have 3,5GHz at 1.188vcore – thats why i dont OC it… cause it has great P/W.
For other games 3,0Ghz is enough but only need 1.095V
Well, for Guild Wars 2, an i3 at 4.3 GHz is great.
^ A good gaming laptop that can sustain the game, or a desktop.
Only workstation card I’ve seen that is any good in games is the AMD FirePro cards based on the GCN architecture. They’re so good, they might as well be called the hybrid GPU. W9000 FirePro follows closely behind a 7970 GHz Edition.
However for Nvidia, Quadro eats dirt for gaming. Quadro is just for workstation.
You won’t see real performance increases unless you change to a a 64bit version of Windows 7. Might be crashing from conflicts and such or out of memory exceptions.
He’s not looking to resetup the computer like reinstalling windows or anything. We’re talking about simply moving all of the parts from the existing case to a new case.
Yeah you can find some very good quality low cost cases from Cooler Master. Maybe make it look a bit snappy with a side window if you want.
What I’d do with that dell you have is buy a new case for it.
I’m hoping it’s not some dumbed down 5770 or something.
Do you have one of those reference model 5770s? The reference ones have blower fans.
Also did you ever check the frequencies on it?
The Cantaloupe dye looks a bit too pink on the leg piece but I think it definitely goes for a red orange look colour.
I don’t think EVGA Precision would work for an AMD card since EVGA is exclusively NVidia…
Also just to clarify, ATI Radeon HD 5770 hates overclocking with an extreme passion. If the core clock is higher than 825 MHz and the RAM on it is higher than 1200 MHz, you will have problems. Juniper XT had this problem across the board.
Sounds like your 5770 has a major dust problem. Also do you mean 1920×1080?
My old Radeon HD 5770 never went higher than 46.
Keep in mind when you do manage to change the processor in a laptop, you may have to really adjust the cooling with it. Processors go into laptops based on how the laptop’s hardware can cool it. They don’t put i7s in laptops that can’t cool them. Same goes for AMD quad cores.
This is an unstoppable problem. They get banned as people report them.
It happens in every multiplayer game that uses a real life currency to in game currency
Oh well. At least I can get close.
So uh, as the title says… ( ‘-’)
The game doesn’t support crossfire.
I’d actually recommend a third generation i3 3220 or 3225 with 6 or 8 GB DDR3, 500 GB HDD, 400 watt PSU with Radeon HD 7770, an asus LGA 1155 overclock ready board (not an expensive one but I’m sure you’d find something) with a coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo or something.
With the board and CPU combo you could learn overclocking if you so chose and push that i3 to 3.9 GHz (someone in my guild uses an i3 that was massively overclocked at like 4.3 or 4.4 GHz or something and it just blows my FX-8350 out of the water)
you enable crossfire within Catalyst Control Center. But I’d recommend against it as someone with two 7970s, one works far better.
You can change the CPU on most laptops if it’s not soldered onto the board which usually it isn’t. However, the process is lengthy, warranty becomes void as hell, it costs a lot, and you have to really look for a processor that has the same socket and is in the end, better to just buy a replacement laptop or use what you have. The only way you get a new CPU for a laptop is very specific vendors or refurb or buying some dead junker off of ebay.
Not worth it.