Should perform some memory tests for bad sectors. RAM with bad sectors perform exactly as expected until it hits a bad sector then it is just problems after problems.
Being more helpful than a link to a website, I’ll tell you that it will play it. You’ll likely be able to get away with playing on low to medium settings. It won’t be absolute bottom of the barrel, though. Someone I know plays on a 1.6 GHz APU and manages 15 FPS at the best of times on low so you can maybe guess how much you’ll get with that dedicated graphics card. On the same settings as the other person I’d wager you’ll easily get into the 40 range in non player heavy areas.
In wvw, it will suffer big time. You’ll want to play it on low in that area.
If Behellagh sees this thread he can give you more insight as he games on an APU as well.
Your GPU is fine. You should have gotten an i5 processor like a 3570K or 4670K instead of the AMD FX processor. Your visual performance is going to suffer a huge hit in Guild Wars 2.
I run with an i7 4770K sometimes clocked to 4.4 GHz for giggles and with two R9 290X (Asus DirectCU II with factory overclocks) in crossfire and the game makes it grind to a halt. This is what an MMO does. It requires the absolute raw processing power. When you want to demonstrate the differences between an AMD processor and an Intel processor, running an MMO will show the huge differences very clearly like night and day. AMD FX CPU is decent in any other kind of game except this kind. Even an i3 is going to smack the AMD FX-8350 around. I was using one and just hated it for this game.
You may get slightly better performance without FXAA. I personally don’t like it because the further away something it is, the more blurry. That’s what FXAA is, a bit of a fake method to anti-aliasing by adding a blur filter. It’s cheap but it provides almost the same results.
Actually being game-debate.com, those specs are pretty dead on. They meticulously pick apart a game and get feedback by as much as thousands of users with different specs and narrow it down to the lowest and highest. Considering as well they have had almost 2 years to refine the GD adjusted specs.
And the specs on the back of the box for Guild Wars 2 are accurate for a mid range PC at the time of testing for lows and highs. The low system requirements are well enough for maximum 30 fps on low settings while the high is maybe 30 fps on max settings. or 20 fps. Regardless, it’s still playable if you’re not an overly picky person.
In response to seeing the original post of this thread, there have been some ‘improvements’ made apparently over the past year. To my irritation, however, there has been lack of details on what exactly has been improved. They said literally “Improvements to the game’s performance have been made!” and didn’t go into details. Could give it a try. Considering your Pentium is probably on par, or faster than, the rated ‘Recommended’ specs for Guild Wars 2 I’d have to imagine you could find playable settings while still having a bit of eye candy..
The core usage readings you’re getting are normal. Most people will report 70% use on something like an i7 on one core and the rest of them being around 20-40%
As the game is CPU bound mostly, the more GHz the processor has, the more FPS you’ll get (not to say that it’s purely CPU bound or anything, attach a crap GPU and you’ll see it grind to a halt)
I’m an individual that prefers the pretty side of the game and don’t mind it going to the 30 range. I run my game on max settings without FXAA.
if they were still 5 gold a piece I’d swipe them up just for the sake of collecting temporary availability recipes. But the mats… yeah I bought the helms.
And suddenly I find myself starting to grind for another 800 tokens for the wind helm now.
Also yes I can now confirm as well: buying one unlocks all three weight classes.
Now I have to decide if I want the crafting station recipes or two helm skins…uuuuugh such decision to make. I’m kicking myself in the teeth that I did not stop at the other maps to buy the recipe— wait I think I bought two of the three.
Oh good. I only have 1600 tokens, I don’t think I’m willing to grind away another 800 (already did a grind for 1600 after getting the meta) so I’ll buy the two I like.
Okay so I’m sure we’ve all taken a look at the vendor that is taking tokens for current and past living story content rewards. I really like this idea that this was done. Let’s other people get in on things they missed.
Anyway, my question regarding the nine skins are, if I buy one, does it unlock the same skin across all three weight classes or just one? Someone told me it unlocks heavy, medium, and light no matter which one I buy.
I just need some clarification.
Sun helm’s kinda tempting but the maintenance stations… hnng.
Don’t worry I was the same when I got my first ridiculously high end gaming system. I came from an Emachines with a Pentium 2.93 GHz HT prescott processor with 2 GB of RAM and a Radeon HD 3650 to then an AMD Athlon X2 64bit 4600+ w/ 5 GB of RAM and a Radeon HD 5770 to ultimately this machine I have in my specs. (It started out as a Phenom 2 quad with a 7970, then two 7970s, then FX 8350, then intel i7 4770K with 7970s and now R9 290Xs) It’s an amazing feeling every day I look at my computer because I look at it and I’m like “I bought that. I’m proud of that.”
Nothing is on your end OR Anet’s for the matter. It’s how an MMO works. It requires raw processing power to handle it. To even further your FPS you’d need to seriously overclock your i7.
Okay then this laptop should have absolutely no problem running this game. I’m completely unsure what the issue is. I’m lined up to buy an MSI GT60 with a Haswell CPU and a relatively current gen mobile graphics card and it was confirmed to run on it. I’m baffled why this is not the case for you.
A lot of things I’ve read about this is that it’s mostly helped AMD users and when it helped Intel users, there was a boost for a temporary period of time. I actually don’t think it’s needed when you can instead just set the computer’s power profile to High Performance. It’s pretty self explanatory but one of the things it also does is disable core parking.
I did before… None of the things I tried worked. I even went to get in contact with yahoo support, my ISP on two different fronts, the whole nine yards. I guess I’ll just take my 50 lbs gaming computer (ow my back ) to my friend’s house and get it going finally (as well as hang out with him because hauling this much hardware is not worth it without visiting xD)
I know I’m not receiving them because I try the email sender to change my password as a basis to test and it does not show. None come through even after adding the addresses to whitelisting if whatever I did is it which was adding filters to inbox, contacts, etc. If I send in a ticket, I just receive the confirmation that it was received. Or when they respond. I receive it. I do not receive anything else.
Every single email regarding guild wars 2 that was not sent by an actual person (GW2 support for example) stopped being sent when my IP changed a month ago.
really as the title says.
I have one of these and my IP changes and it completely screwed up email authentication for me. The only way I fixed it was connecting my computer to the internet at a friend’s place who has STATIC IP internet.
Forgot to state that I do not receive emails with it when it is not working.
America always had better prices than Canada 4770K is just under $370 on newegg (Boo, newegg. Screw that place) I buy local but it’s about the same price anyway but with overnight shipping.
Sirsquishy’s information is pretty good. We’re always talking about this kind of stuff :P
I’d recommend his info too. My own, if you wanted maximum performance without breaking the bank or two you could possibly go for Intel 9 chipset and an i7 4790K which will reportedly be shipping with a 4.1 GHz base clock which is a substantial jump from the previous 3.5 GHz from the past four generations.
New Intel board and Intel CPU. Reuse all of what else you have. If you want, grab 8 GB of RAM so the operating system is not taking away from RAM that can be used with GW2.
If you want an i7, I recommend waiting for Intel i7 4790K. It’s reported to be clocked at 4.1 GHz instead of the 3.5 GHz like the last four generations. It’ll need an Intel 9 series chipset board.
not only that but it’s thermal design will be better, it’s voltage controller will be offloaded onto the board, and it’s overclockability will be amazing like Sandybridge. Can you say 5 GHz on air cooling? I sure can.
Sirsquishy’s information is pretty good. We’re always talking about this kind of stuff :P
I’d recommend his info too. My own, if you wanted maximum performance without breaking the bank or two you could possibly go for Intel 9 chipset and an i7 4790K which will reportedly be shipping with a 4.1 GHz base clock which is a substantial jump from the previous 3.5 GHz from the past four generations.
New Intel board and Intel CPU. Reuse all of what else you have. If you want, grab 8 GB of RAM so the operating system is not taking away from RAM that can be used with GW2.
It’s your GPU. GeForce GT 610 is, when it comes to gaming, a piece of crap to say the least.
It’s not meant for gaming at all. The rest of the PC is potentially good. I’d upgrade that GT 610 to maybe a GTX 750 because it’s very low power, great price for performance and will run on almost any system as long as it has a pci express slot. the RAM is fine though at 6 GB it’ll be great but for a free computer you got for a birthday, it’s not bad.
Obviously you’re quite uneducated, Bee. Tell my two R9 290Xs that they’re being bottlenecked by an i7 4770K at 3.9 GHz in a DX 11 title while they crank out at least 200 FPS in the better situations but otherwise there’s no bottleneck unless I were using an AMD FX-8350.
I enabled Mantle in BF4 and there was literally no difference for me. Now stop changing the topic. Go make your own thread. This is not another stupid API thread.
Of course it’s very good. It’s designed around what people want at this point in time. Performance from just using the computer to games. I list i7 and FX8350 because both have 8 threads.
Better start getting signatures for a new API because as far as anyone can see, it’s not going to happen. And those games are optimized to work with AMD FX. And you know what’s funny? The i7 4770K I have still did better in both of those games than my FX-8350.
The GE60, which is the Apache Pro, uses a Maxwell GTX 860M. It’s far better than the Kepler GTX 860M which I’m not even sure why it exists. But since the GS60 Ghost just has a Kepler GTX 860M, it’s not really an option. It’s like I said, a neutered GTX 770M. 870M is the better option.
See if it’s backwards compatible. I’d skip the FX-8350 and go to a Phenom II 965BE if you can find one.
Also for the record Crossfire does nothing for this game but hurt it with AMD processors. Had 7970s with FX-8350. Did nothing but kill performance. No increase with two R9 290X and i7 4770K either.
Thanks for the help! The Msi Gs60 ghost is Kepler and so is the Msi Gs60 Ghost Pro… So the ghost pro is better to pick up? Also thank you for the help!!
Yeah. Ghost Pro is the best. Or any Ghost unit that has the i7 4700HQ and GTX 870M.
) to my friend’s house and get it going finally (as well as hang out with him because hauling this much hardware is not worth it without visiting xD)