AMD FX series isn’t really the best for GW2 because it lacks the single threaded performance that I read about pretty much everywhere on the tech support forums related to this. For that Crown Pavillion area, turn off Shadows and FPS will be increased.
Use GPU-z (please find on google) to determine whether your GPU is working in optimum settings, that the motherboard’s slot is in x16 lane mode and not x8 or even x4, check that your GPU use is not below what seems normal and that your CPU is being utilized (not sure what you could use to check that) and check temperatures to make sure nothing is clocking down to avoid heat damage (Not saying make sure things run hot and stuff but I mean, sometimes things could clock down just because whatever reason.
Other than that… I don’t really know what’s up
Will it ‘run’ yes.
Will it be playable. Depends on ur deffinaition. You wont want to be anywhere near populated areas.
No, it’ll be playable. One of my friends has a laptop with the first generation APU where it is an AMD A8-3520MX(?) and it’s playable because the internal crossfire is disabled so the game graphics is computed by the dedicated graphics card.
The GPU should handle lowest settings at that resolution. The CPU however will not handle any populated places.
I’m sure it’ll handle populated areas. In fact, that same friend of mine does wvw on the laptop. It’s not the best but it still can do it with very tweaked settings. Things like shadows and reflections should be left off and other CPU heavy things.
The 7670M will however handle the game around the medium level, maybe some settings on high. The ones that don’t require huge power anyway.
Remember, disable the internal crossfire between the APU and dedicated card!
I hope to sweet Christ that they’re not REMOVING culling entirely, but rather implementing a setting to adjust the intensity from full to off and multiple settings in between. I can see not having culling at all being a horribly huge problem for some buddies of mine with lower spec computers.
I hope to sweet Christ that they’re not REMOVING culling entirely, but rather implementing a setting to adjust the intensity from full to off and multiple settings in between. I can see not having culling at all being a horribly huge problem for some buddies of mine with lower spec computers.
Okay so I’m about to try the -nosound.
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Tried it now, and it looks like I got maybe around 2 frames increase, 1 or 2 frames per second. It does not appear that my sound is a problem but maybe I can try without an AV eventually. I just don’t really want to do that because I have a download cap and can only download so much. It sucks but I wanna give this all a try though.
Hey dude! I run AVG myself here and have an AMD system so I wanted to give this a try with my AMD FX-8350. Rather than removing AVG completely, do you think I can do more than just add a scan exception to my Guild Wars 2 directory on my AV?
Also, where are the caches located on the C drive?
Um… you better off going for Intel 3570k lines and up Z77 board. It will costs you a few pounds but really the performance vs that X4 is night and day for GW2 specifically CPU bound game. Then you can grab a GTX 660Ti or something.
I had X4 CPU, 3570k, 3770k and 9800GT, HD6970, GTX680 etc etc.
If he’s getting good performance on what his current specs are and he’s happy with it then I don’t see the need for him to upgrade.
Can’t generally upgrade laptops unless they’re a gaming laptop and have that sort of ability. Some laptops can change the dedicated graphics card if they already have one to something of similar power. Most of them are designed to handle specifically what goes into them, or lower.
I just like to do this sort of thing because it makes people mad :P PLAY THE GAME; MAKE PEOPLE MAD
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PROFIT!
You enjoy kitten ing people off? This game really attracted some weird guys.
Oh no. It’s just fun because some people take the game way too seriously.
yep just like trolls are fun…to beat
So would I be a troll for playing the game and beating said event as it should be? Where, a lot of people are farming something for their own personal gain?
Would I be a troll for playing the game?
I’m gonna go do those events now because it makes people mad.
Some events you can’t do much about; especially alone. If farmers choose to stand aside, unfortunately its their prerogative and a design flaw on A-net’s part (rewarding deliberate failure), But, with some others, even alone, you absolutely can!
Take the Aetherblade event for example (the one with the Aetherblade ship). It is solo-able and if you succeed, the zerg doesn’t get to milk the event for multiple champions. Even if they’ve arrived, you can end it faster by taking out as many vets and normal ones as quickly as you can. Its completing an event legitimately and you cannot be banned for it. Report anyone who sends threatening messages.
Another example that you can so something about are the ones that need to be completed in order NOT to spawn a champion. There are some out there, I won’t go into which and where. Again, you are completing an event legitimately. Nothing wrong with that.
Some would call this being a skritthead. LOL. Perhaps, but its fighting fire with fire.
Part of me want to do that, but i prefer the “if i want to do the event i do it”, if someone act like a toxic farmer then i report him, the game will be better without them.
I just like to do this sort of thing because it makes people mad :P PLAY THE GAME; MAKE PEOPLE MAD
The RNG is a get rich quick for people with luck. I throw the occasional 4 weapons into the forge. If I get a precursor, guess what? I’m selling it. This a chance I take, one that is very little cost, about the equivalent of buying a scratch ticket and hoping for the best.
If you have the funds for (or the mats to craft) 1600 greatswords to throw away in one giant gamble of whats a fortune in this game when you could have just bought it, even if you needed a bit more funds, its your own fault. You wanted a shortcut, it failed.
it’s just I see too many threads here and in other game’s tech sections where an OP asks for a system with a $1000 budget only to get responses in the $1200-1500 range or ask what kind of upgrade they could do with $200 and get responses in the $500 range.
i5 3570K is a fantastic processor to upgrade to. a 4670K is not needed unless you wanted to keep your computer up to hardware date or something. A fair many people I know use 3570K and they say it’s great for GW2
So ANet should think to fix this too, instead if my GPU will melt i will ask ANet to pay the bill for my laptop couse minimu requirement are long way underm my laptop level.
ANet’s not responsible for any damages that can occur by a user’s persistence to play a game that may harm their machine.
So yea i would advise same as above however if u don want a Nvidia 660ti the equivalent AMD is a 7870XT/LE, anything lower and its a downgrade form a 660ti.
Pretty sure the 660 Ti equivalent from AMD is a 7870 GHz Edition. 7870 XT is Tahiti material from the 7900 series.
i5 3570K, and any cooler if you want one (optional, 3570K ships with one)
If you don’t plan on overclocking, then you could use a non-overclockable processor like an i5 3470 or even 3450. That may bring the price down by maybe 30 or 40. I haven’t checked the prices in a while
A gigabyte Z77 motherboard or other brand equivalent, like MSi or Asus, etc.
8 GB DDR3 1333 or 1600 whichever, or even 6 GB. that could take an extra 20 bucks off.
GTX 660Ti or equivalent
650 watt PSU Corsair or equivalent,
regular case and chassis to carry it
DVD drive if desired (Woo, 20-30 dollars for an extremely common model)
And of course, Windows 7 or Windows 8, unless you have product key ready to go.
This is about the usual build I commonly hear about people having. If it’s not a GTX 660 Ti though, it’s like a Radeon HD 7770 or 7790 or 7850.
This’ll play the game very good and should be around 1,000 to 1,200.
The performance is not bad. Of course, it’s not as good as intel as it favors the single threaded performance that Intel has but the AMD FX-8350 handles it well enough. World Versus World can see FPS hammered all the way down to as low as 8 FPS in my experience (that’s with shadows on ultra) and I sometimes can see upwards of 90 in some PVE areas without V/sync. I’ve gotten mine up to 4.7 GHz and FPS increase was fairly decent though I removed it because I wanted to.
I got mine paired with 7970s over here and 1600 16 GB DRR3.
AMD FX-8350 is a decent processor. Not the best, but decent. I jumped from a Phenom II 975BE 3.6 GHz (ran it a 3.8 most of the time for 2 months before upgrade)
In PVE areas the frame rate should be around 50-60 (vsync on). I got an FX-8350 myself.
In cities the usual drop to 30 fps on heavy times is normal as well.
I turned reflections to terrain and sky and it helped a lot. I leave Super Sampling on render samples and shadows on ultra. I have no performance change on render sampling (and it looks so much better with it!)
but yeah that fps actually sounds kinda normal to be honest. gw2 hates the AMDs
Well, from what I’ve heard, Phenom II kinda kicked Core 2 around and that the release of the i3, i5, and i7 was Intel’s response and so far AMD has not been able to beat it.
