Guild Wars 2

Master dobe told you to kick post processing’s kitten , doe.

Safari.3021:

All this talk of GPU, GPU makes little to no difference once you get past a certain tier of card.

I went from a 295 GTX to a 660ti to a 670 and noticed 0 difference in fps with this game.

What makes the difference is CPU clock speed, I went from a stock i7 920 to a 3770k clocked at 4.6ghz and thats when i saw a decent increase in fps, but then it was only 10-15 fps over the old i7.

Currently I get a solid 60-61 fps in div reach or LA, everything Max

The ssd helps, when I tested, loading a fully populated LA on a samsung spinpoint f1 took 93 seconds, but on my ocz vertex 4 it takes 12 seconds.

That might be somewhat related to the 660ti only being slightly faster (although much more efficient) than the gtx 295 and the 670 only being slightly faster than the 660ti. Either way the OP should stay well above 60-120 fps at all times, zergs aside.

Unholy Griefing Fisters.

ftfy

You should have ranged like I suggested.

Uhm, did you try setting your energy saving options (control panel) to maximum performance? A friend has only got to around 50% cpu and gpu load due to energy saving mode.

It was quite a challenge to kill the four silvers northwest of brie solo without consumables. But not really hard to be honest. Lupicus was a challenge over 2 years ago, too, when his mechanics were not really known (except from our grand master weth) and I suffered of constant 0,5-1.0s delay. What I’d think of as challenging right now would be solo’ing two frenzying lupi’s at the same time. Alternatively 10 in a group, with mechanics requiring to kill them within a ten second frame.

Edit: northeast…

We just need to chill out unless dungeons take over 20 minutes. They are still quicker than gw1 dungeons.

Because most gw1 dungeons obviously took 30+ minutes in a group of 8 when you could solo them in 3-9 minutes.

Mostlikely just the instance server crashing, that happens quite often.

Dungeons have two recipes for trinkets and one exotic backpiece to drop.

I would still like to see (as in screenshot or video) a recipe drop from a non-endboss in a path unlike ta/se p1.

I have not done anything but grabbing dailies in the last few weeks, so it hasn’t been me. I didn’t even know you can read other players inventories, just gold, wvw supply and alike.

That’s one stupid (as in low IQ or inability to think) white knight fighting there, too.

I got 15 operatives creeds and all from brie, 7 stargazer pendant recipes from the jotun and a dozen colossus fang recipes, aside of a few howling king claw recipes and some random ones of dungeons I never play. All from endbosses. :x

Yeah, but in dungeons where the last boss drops loot?

I have got about 25 dungeon recipes and saw another 100 dropping, they all came from last bosses. I’d like to see a champ drop a recipe, because right now this sounds highly unlikely to me.

*cry but i only play warrior why no love us

If you had a car that could theoretically drive 300mph with jet turbines which is limited to 100mph under normal circumstances and one that could theoretically drive 250mph which reliably gets up to 175mph, which would you use for a race?

Miku Lawrence.6329:

We got a kittening winner :
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2xsd41/does_arenanet_punishes_people_who_scam_sellers/

Is that really surprising you? I mean his name is “HartUndTief” which means “HardAndDeep”.

I took like 20 videos of getting kicked out of own instances in the last month. About 50/50 chance. And there isn’t going to be done anything anyway, temporary bans wouldn’t do kitten, must be perma bans to keep people from doing that.

xDudisx.5914:

Dub.1273:

Just make sure you never try ele, because once you do and see the huge difference in efficiency, you might never want to touch your warrior or guardian again.

Warrior is still very effective with their unique support from banners.

One warrior makes sense, after that they become wasted party slots. Same for guardian.

Just make sure you never try ele, because once you do and see the huge difference in efficiency, you might never want to touch your warrior or guardian again.

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Gaile Gray.6029:

definitely on their radar.

you mean … table?

Trashcan?

Nikaido.3457:

By week two I will definitely be starting a lawsuit here. Although I’m not sure if it’ll lead to anything being in France and anet being in the US.

It wouldn’t lead to anything anyway because they have all and any rights to ban you.

I’ve been “permanently” banned for that twice already, too. It took me 3 weeks each to get an answer from them and not a single refund was given.

Your gw1 password is your gw2 password in case you connected them. If not, this is absolutely the wrong place to post. Just make another ticket.

What resolution do you play on? Because I can’t set it up for 1440p or 4k, my monitor ain’t big enough.:/

The esp automatically checks for your monitors native resolution and uses settings for that.

You could probably find out what dll’s gw2 loads upon character select and rename it to that and place it in the gw2 folder. Other than that, a script to quick start them would be easier.

Slight red floater circles are just drawn to easier see their position, solid yellow circles are drawn when the floater is below 50% health and solid red circles are drawn when floaters health is below 25%.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Dub.1273:

And since all that is barely ever met, plus the fact that most fights don’t take very long it just happens that elementalists deal up to twice the damage of other professions.

Guess I’ll never understand why all those theoretical numbers are so beloved when they have pretty much no relation to what’s really happening.

yea its pretty obvious that the math is wrong because it doesnt show that warrior is top dps forever and always

warrior best

4 war 1 mes dps cant be wrong huh

Wethospu.6437:

They work against hatchlings.

:-(
Let my pets alone!

And since all that is barely ever met, plus the fact that most fights don’t take very long it just happens that elementalists deal up to twice the damage of other professions.

Guess I’ll never understand why all those theoretical numbers are so beloved when they have pretty much no relation to what’s really happening.

EcoRI.9273:

uwsc in gw1 required these summoning stones for parties and very dedicated roles. These summoning stones are dropped upon completion of uw. Granted these summoning stones can be bought but overall it was not that bad. I mainly played pvp in gw1 so I didn’t really have time to get those stones so i bought like 150 of them from people, which then allowed me to join “good” pugs. I never knew speed clearing existed in gw1 so I can’t tell how much slower it was compared to an organized group. Again I was able to carry my own weight in uwsc as there were alot of videos on youtube to show what tera sins should do in a pug group. I wonder if anybody has required 250 pristine relics for their fotm pug groups :-\

Good pug runs took about 2-3 times as long as good casual guild runs.

Meanwhile soloing ac p1-3 takes about 35 min total.

:x

Zenith.7301:

DonQuack.9025:

Zenith.7301:

This is not new to GW2. If you played GW1 and went to Domain of Anguish or PvP’d, you would have noticed Guild Wars contains some of the nastiest instanced dungeon communities around.

DOA? Thats your example? psshhh.

Lightbringer rank raging is worse than anything this game has had. People comment on zerker cheese here, they haven’t seen the imbagon crap.

In gw1 pugs were almost generally playing so horrible and kittened tactics that you wouldn’t even think of pugging.

Dwg in fow, ursan in uw. It doesn’t really surprise me there have been paragons in doa.

Or enemy skills…

hybrid.5027:

dlonie.6547:

I kittening love these guys in the API CDI. Like, honest answers, straightforward discussion, and real communication. Not sanitized PC bullkitty non-answers, but actual discussion towards a common goal.

Amazing. Didn’t think this company was capable of such things.

That’s because the API program is actually collaborative and community driven, as opposed to normal game content which is a “take it or leave it” proposition.

Meanwhile 99,5% of gw2’s api are absolutely useless. Who the kitten needs an API for item descriptions??? After all there is gw2w with more accurate information.

No, you’d be able to see and join them optimally, but would get kicked out of the dungeon once you enter it with non x-gear equipped, as well as be a free kick to anyone attempting.

Cmon, AP or level filters? What we need are gear and trait filters.

mambastik.8735:

Dub.1273:

mambastik.8735:

Newly built desktop Jan 2015. The R9 290 (stock) is maxing out at 100% usage with low cpu usage, which is unusual since most complaints about this cpu-intensive game are that there is minimal gpu usage.

I have completely opposite, but normal, readings when gaming on my laptop (2011 AMD Llano A8-3500m + 6750m), with expected high cpu/low gpu readings. Great thing about high cpu usage on my laptop is that I can overclock the thing from base 1.5ghz to 2.7ghz resulting in substantial amount of fps gain. The frustrating thing about my desktop’s low cpu usage, any amount of overclock gets no fps gain.

That’s normal with an as strong cpu as the i7 4770k. I personally tried everything from 3.2ghz/HT off to 4.8ghz/HT on and there was no change in framerates, which is normal because the gpu is running at it’s limit. It’s still strange that you’re only getting 50 fps, you should be experiencing at least over 90 fps average. Have you by any chance enabled some kind of frame limiter? Like nvidia inspector or ingame, or whatever software AMD may provide? Given, that should also drop your gpu usage, but it’s probably applied after processing.

Have you tried running gw2 at low resolutions, just for a test?

Might have confused me with OP. Apologies if I’ve highjacked the thread. I myself have i5-4690k with R9 290. I’m getting 18fps in Black Citadel with all settings max, with an embarrassingly low 20fps running around an empty Hoelbrak. CPU is running pretty cool at low 50s, even dipping to high 40s, feels like it’s not even being stressed

I wondered if it was any drivers or AMD Gaming Evolved or anything else, so I did a clean Windows 8.1 install. Before I did anything else, I installed GW2 straight out of the clean Win8.1, even before doing any updates. I was still having the same performance before and after installing all those cpu/gpu drivers, all those dx, .net, c++ runtime environments, etc.

Yeah, I mistook you for the OP, haha.
Well, what goes for the i7 4770k does also go for the i5 4690k. Either have no problem handling any existing games at any settings, so this is really strange. Does the gpu max out load? You could try to set the energy saving mode (system control → system and security → energy options) to highest performance and see if that helps.

I would love to see this on a p1 lupicus.
Kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick.

Wethospu.6437:

The dark side is my master.

Father Wethospu has spoken.

Nikaido.3457:

I prefer it when they say it upfront so that you don’t join their lfg.
Unlike this one where nothing was said until we reached it:

Interrupt his phase change so it’s p1, p1, p3.

Once something is on the internet it never disappears. Question is, if that thing has literally any use. I don’t think it has.

Possibly temperatures of either your gpu or cpu. Download coretemp and msi afterburner and watch them while “playing”, given your pc doesn’t always crash.

mambastik.8735:

Newly built desktop Jan 2015. The R9 290 (stock) is maxing out at 100% usage with low cpu usage, which is unusual since most complaints about this cpu-intensive game are that there is minimal gpu usage.

I have completely opposite, but normal, readings when gaming on my laptop (2011 AMD Llano A8-3500m + 6750m), with expected high cpu/low gpu readings. Great thing about high cpu usage on my laptop is that I can overclock the thing from base 1.5ghz to 2.7ghz resulting in substantial amount of fps gain. The frustrating thing about my desktop’s low cpu usage, any amount of overclock gets no fps gain.

That’s normal with an as strong cpu as the i7 4770k. I personally tried everything from 3.2ghz/HT off to 4.8ghz/HT on and there was no change in framerates, which is normal because the gpu is running at it’s limit. It’s still strange that you’re only getting 50 fps, you should be experiencing at least over 90 fps average. Have you by any chance enabled some kind of frame limiter? Like nvidia inspector or ingame, or whatever software AMD may provide? Given, that should also drop your gpu usage, but it’s probably applied after processing.

Have you tried running gw2 at low resolutions, just for a test?

Behellagh.1468:

Dub.1273:

Behellagh.1468:

The OS assigns a thread to run on a core. I didn’t say exclusively or until it’s done as other threads get may share a core. Think of cores as tellers at a bank being fed by a line of threads/customers. There is a maximum time any thread can monopolize a core while other threads are waiting to run. They then are sent to the back of the line (generalization) when their time limit expires or until their execution is blocked due to inaccessibility to a shared resource (waiting on data from the hard drive for instance).

Uhh, no. The OS does in fact schedule what thread is getting processing time, but it does not assign a thread to a specific core to be executed on. One millisecond thread A may run on core 1, the next millisecond it may run on core 4.

It does assign it even if it’s for a millisecond and if no other thread is waiting it will stay there. Yes I’m generalizing but like I said I’m not teaching a class on OS design, multithreaded software development or processor architecture.

Right, but software doesn’t give a flying cupcake if it’s a one core supporting 8 threads or a 8 core supporting 8 threads. That doesn’t change any of it’s code. My first post was about software “being made to especially run on virtual cores”, which is not true.

Except the inclusion of code that determines how many worker threads it spins off based on the number of cores the OS is reporting. And since the OS is fooled to report HT “virtual” cores as real cores it lists those as well so boom, the software has been written to use all cores including virtual ones. It simply maximizes performance by only generating worker threads equal to the number of reported cores rather than always spin of X worker threads.

Again generalizing for the masses.

Yeah, you probably meant the right things, how you expressed them indicated a “permanent thread to core assignment” and programs being specifically built for virtual cores, which isn’t the case.

Jerus.4350:

So, GemFX… Anyone have any tips on getting it to run on Windows 8.1?

Updated my c++/.net stuff, still getting a message that it’s unable to load sweetfx/gemfx in my logfile and I can’t get the game to load while I have it set up (have to delete the .dlls).

Tried finding info on it but no luck so far.

I wanna make my dungeons look even prettier.

You’ll need to have all the stuff in the bin folder unless you launch the game without patch ui.

This sounds dirty.

It’s probably the motherboard being unable to properly support the fx 8350 with steady power. For the fx 8xxx line, 990fx boards are recommended. Try to disable the turbo clock and see if that fixes the issue, although it might come at the cost of a couple fps.

Behellagh.1468:

The OS assigns a thread to run on a core. I didn’t say exclusively or until it’s done as other threads get may share a core. Think of cores as tellers at a bank being fed by a line of threads/customers. There is a maximum time any thread can monopolize a core while other threads are waiting to run. They then are sent to the back of the line (generalization) when their time limit expires or until their execution is blocked due to inaccessibility to a shared resource (waiting on data from the hard drive for instance).

Uhh, no. The OS does in fact schedule what thread is getting processing time, but it does not assign a thread to a specific core to be executed on. One millisecond thread A may run on core 1, the next millisecond it may run on core 4.

Behellagh.1468:

I do stand by my statement that on a quad core CPU, a single threaded program can only use 25% of the total performance of a quad core CPU. It may run a bit on each core but the sum can’t exceed 25% because at any time it’s running on only one core at a time at any given instance.

Yeah, right. If it was possible to somehow get all cores working on a single thread, that would make development so much easier. One can dream at least, though.

Behellagh.1468:

Programs such as Cinebench or POVRay or a video compression software are written to first determine the number of cores, real and virtual, that is being reported to the OS and then launch duplicate processing threads of identical code each working on a subset of the data. Sure some of these programs you can force to launch whatever number of process threads irregardless of the number of cores, such as 8 threads on a dual core, but to get maximum performance it’s best to only have the right number of threads for the number of cores as switching threads eats into performance. So yes, code can be written to use all cores present. But it’s a lot easier to do when you can divide that data set and have identical worker threads process each data set.

Right, but software doesn’t give a flying cupcake if it’s a one core supporting 8 threads or a 8 core supporting 8 threads. That doesn’t change any of it’s code. My first post was about software “being made to especially run on virtual cores”, which is not true.

Behellagh.1468:

I do agree with you that usage % is a macroscopic number representing the percentage of time during that sample period that a individual core/CPU is running Vs idling. But the true meaning really doesn’t matter in this discussion.

But since this isn’t a board of CS majors discussing the nuances of OS design or techniques to maximize multithreaded software, I chose to simplify the concepts to a degree.

Yeah I understand that, I’d just try to avoid false statements or at least leave a hint that it isn’t really how it works. The former wasn’t directed at you, by the way (I’m sure you already knew that) but a general statement so people don’t get to wrong ideas about it or use cpu usage in a wrong context.

But that one ain’t sad.

I’never seen a sad panda when doing that, not even any panda at aol.

Where is my panda???