Guild Wars 2

Riku.4821:

Again, future proof. If you don’t want to spend alot often, you spend it all up front.

You can still spend a bit every couple years and come out ahead, though, with a medium investment. Not that you can ever really futureproof a computer, though.

Riku.4821:

Also $1100 or so isn’t low end budget

I never said it was. $1100 for a tower actually starts breaking into the higher end.

Riku.4821:

And I am sick of bad drivers and lower performance for a still high price.

Oh come on. AMD’s drivers are fine these days and they have objectively better cards at many/most price points.

beefjus.9347:

I would have suggested a 380x cause it’s a 1080p monster, but I didn’t want the OP to suffer on nvidia optimised games like Witcher 3, etc…

I mean the 380x is a great card but if you’re going for something 970 level I was just pointing out that a 390 is generally a better buy.

Riku.4821:

I’d like to say that I view it more for cheapest best pc for longevity

The thing is, there’s literally nothing “cheapest” about what you recommended. Seriously, a 5820k? Cheapest best PC for longevity has an i5 and a midrange GPU you can upgrade in 2-3 years.

Riku.4821:

and not cheap throw together to save money. But to be fair, this is a PC to play mainly gw2, I play gw2, and games like the witcher 3 and skyrim maxed out and graphical mods while maintaining stable 60fps.

Well of course. If your build is like what you recommended it’s well into the high-end computer realm. Not one part you recommended is even slightly below the top end.

Riku.4821:

Lastly on terms of the 390x better than the 970, my justification is that the r9 200 series doesn’t exist in my opinion as they are just terrible. I am glad I got rid of my 290x, and now I have a 980 ti and spare 390x still in the box.

What? The R9 series is great. In general they give you way more GPU for your dollar, not to mention some of the scummy stuff that’s been happening with nVidia lately.

Not to mention, if you hate AMD so much why did you even buy a 390x? That sounds super dumb.

Riku.4821:

Best performance/price items
CPU: I7 4790k/5820k

This would be an i5, especially for games and especially for GW2. Quickly looking at prices a 4690k would be the best bang for your buck by a long shot.

Riku.4821:

Ram: Corsair Vengeance

Just get the cheapest 1600 MHz CL9 ram you can, you don’t see worthwhile gains going above that.

Riku.4821:

Cooler: Corsair h100iGtx I believe is the one you want.

This is overkill, get a 212 Evo or similar unless you’re pushing for a super high OC. A Noctua DH-15 is generally a better deal anyways iirc

Riku.4821:

Monitor, Asus monitors are generally nice. Get a 1080/1440p 60/120refreah rate monitor.

Just note that their stands are absolute garbage, my monitor wobbled all over the place until I put some books under both sides.

Riku.4821:

• the higher the gpu the better the performance. With one of the two CPUs you can handle any high end gpu, without bottlenecking. Sadly I do have a mint condition 390x to sell but I probably couldn’t get it to you haha. But anything from AMD above 390x should do it.

Really? Anything above a 390x is way too much for 99.99% of people. Hell, even a 390 is more then most people need. Realistically a 380 or a 960 is going to be more then enough for the TC.

Riku.4821:

And anything from Nvidia above 970 should do it in my opinion. If you want future proof. NVIDIA 980ti and i7 6700k with a 1000watt psu.

It’s interesting that you said that the minimum for AMD is a more powerful card then what you suggested for nVidia. Also, a 1000W PSU is ridiculously more then you could ever need; even a Fury X with a high-end i7 tops out under 500W.

Riku.4821:

When PC building you want to get the best price for performance on everything then spend everything else you saved on a Gpu.

I’d say that you’re better off with a good CPU+everything else and a slightly more meh GPU then a high-end GPU and a lower end CPU since a CPU will realistically last you longer then a GPU. My friend is a good example of this, he just upgraded his 6950 to a 390 while his 3570k is still more then ample.

You’re suggesting a good computer, but it’s just multiple steps above what most people these days would want or need. You don’t even see a gain from going to an i5 to an i7 in 99% of games these days.

Personally, I’d go with what Belial said, although a basic Z97 mobo would probably be a good buy if you really want to overclock, and I’d take a look at R9 380s- it’s slightly below a 960 but you might be able to get one a good step cheaper.

On another note, it might be worth considering some used hardware. My computer was $575 (not counting OS because I never should’ve paid full price for it), and the CPU+mobo+GPU were purchased used; something new but roughly similar (weaker GPU, smaller HDD) runs ~$690:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gx38pg

Even if you can grab a used GPU you can get a long more bang for your buck; my 280x was $120. You really can’t argue with that sort of deal.

That being said, the part list above would be my recommendation. The PSU is total overkill but it’s a high quality unit, which is one of the most important things to consider. A 960 would be a bit more powerful for ~$15 more but it’ll be a reference model and you won’t really need the additional power. If you’re not planning on overclocking, get an MSI H81M-E33 or one of the equivalent boards (They’ve got basically the same name), get rid of the 212 Evo, and swap to a non-K CPU:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/CvJk23

Go with Beefjus’s but get a 390 instead of a 970. It’s a better card and will cost less.

Or, if you’re only really going to play GW2, get a 380(x). A 390 is far above what you need to run GW2 on ultra/1080P

Yeah, my .dat is 25.7GB total right now

Ansau.7326:

This setting is only available for cpus with 4 or more cores.

Which is the dumbest thing ever, for the record. I’m just happy I was still able to turn on the setting with my i3

GW2 does have a folder, should be in C:\Program Files\ or C:\Program Files (x86) if you used the default install path

Yeah, I can’t imagine gaming on two monitors. That seems super annoying

Yeah you’ll be fine

Innerlite.7385:

If anyone wants to chime in on how you move the character, this is hard to explain for me, I can’t seem to get the hang of walking on beams and narrow paths. Like in jumping puzzles and such. Do players just get really good at using the movement keys? Or are you lining up the walk path with the mouse somehow? Do players use the mouse to steer at all?

You want to be using the mouse to look around/turn (default RMB) and WASD or some similar cluster of keys for movement. Using keyboard turns is honestly really subpar and, if you’re using it, holds you back quite a bit

Innerlite.7385:

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Does anyone want to get specific about mouse use and how to improve my steering? ***********

Just get used to using the mouse to turn yourself. Hold RMB and move the mouse to turn the camera/your character, and set your mouse sensitivity/the turn sensitivity to a point where it’s comfortable for you to turn and look around

Personally I use:
1-5 weapon attacks
F1 heal
F2 utility 1
Mouse 5 utility 2
F3 utility 3
Mouse 4 ultimate (w/e it’s called, utility 4)
V profession skill 1
Mouse 2 profession skill 2
Mouse 3 profession skill 3
F4 profession skill 4
F5 profession skill 5
F dodge
Z action button
Push to talk is M1 (middle click)

QEWASD to move, RMB to look around, R to autorun when needed and the rest don’t really matter.

It’s the most comfortable way I’ve found by a mile. I can’t stand the 99% of keybinds people recommend where you move skills to places like QERFVCXZ.

I’ve got a mouse with 4 additional buttons, which helps a great deal. Getting used to pushing buttons instead of clicking is just a matter of doing it for a while. Imo, just make up your own, though. What’s best for someone else won’t necessarily be the best for you.

Clean out your computer with some compressed air. Get in/around the fans, anywhere you see dust, and ideally clean out your heatsinks as well. Additionally, make sure your computer has decent airflow in/out and isn’t crammed into some tiny little corner or shelf.

Beldin.5498:

There is your answer. Do you really wonder about overheating when you overclock for over 1 GHz ?

It’s fine if you’ve got an aftermarket heatsink. I’ve been running at 4.5/4.6 without issues, my friend with a 3570k does 4.8, my brother does 4.5 on his 4690k.

The i5 is the way to go, you really won’t get much improvement from the i7. Whichever you get, though, make sure to overclock it; GW2 loves single threaded performance which increases linearly with clockrate

Just make it show both the character name and the account name when you hover over them and it’ll be problem solved.

vespers.1759:

I’m getting this too. Some areas of the game are simply broken. The ogre lane in TD simply does not work for me. When I go in by FPS isntantly drops from 40 or so to 10 and the audio bugs out. Some areas of VB are similar. I’ve also noticed that sometimes my FPS in maps that are usually good like AB are sometimes just horrible (not large group fights either). I haven’t changed anything about my computer, so what’s happening?

specs:
7870
8350
8gb RAM
1tb WD blue ezex
Win 7
1080p

I feel like it might be an optimization issue because i should be able to run this game just fine.

GW2 requires pretty beefy single threaded performance to run well, which is something your FX-8350 lacks. Getting huge dips on AMD-based systems is pretty much par for the course (for any system, really). I agree you should be able to run the game much better, but that’s just not how it is.

I’m not sure about having issues in random parts of maps, though are you wandering close to large events, even if you aren’t personally participating in them?

Somewhere in the 70s is a perfectly reasonable GPU temperature

Push your CPU to at least 4.5 GHz and don’t do anything else. You won’t see any gain from upgrading your GPU (a 770 is more then enough to play GW2 on ultra/1080P/60FPS and a new CPU would only net you a 20-30% gain, at best.

Aomine.5012:

It’s not the matter of feeling, it’s hard statistical fact.

Except the statistical facts never backed up them being 2nd lowest (or Mesmer being lowest, for that matter).

Aomine.5012:

\Mesmer always have one of the lowest dps in PVE, on par with Guardian.
It’s fact.

High burst =/= high dps. It’s totally different thing.

What? Guardians have always been midtier DPSwise but they bring loads to the table in addition to their DPS. Not to mention the fact that theoretically a Phantasm Mesmer can kick out loads of damage, the main issue being getting the Phantasms up and keeping them up.

So yeah, it’s not fact.

There’s no need to be rude. That’s pretty much what it comes down to. Make sure to salvage/sell all of your loot and you should be fine, assuming you’re doing HoT stuff or SW where you can expect a decent amount of loot

Between HoT stuff, doing fractals every couple of days, and doing a dungeon or a fww dungeons daily before the nerf for a couple months I was able to craft Bolt with the cash/mats I had on hand earlier this week.

Latency is the most important thing. A 1 mbps connection is more then enough as long as your latency is/stays low enough.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Regardless, such rules do exist, and consumers have a choice to consent, or walk away.

Or just ignore it and do whatever which works out fine in the overwhelmingly vast majority of cases

That performance is on par to what you should expect. As for the internet speed, 10 MBps != 10 mbps

Looks like you just have character models set to minimum quality. Increase the setting and it will look better. I strongly doubt it’ll run well at all on higher settings with a 5450, though. My spare PC has one atm and it’s lacking to say the least.

Kyon.9735:

you still support toxic exclusion in the game. No more point in arguing.

I’d argue that forced inclusion is a great deal more toxic then allowing people to play with exactly who they want to play with, but that’s just me.

Just for the record, you shouldn’t need to worry about keeping your stuff not under max load (theoretically the cooling should be capable of handling it; for example, my GPU maxes out at ~75 under 100% load).

Assuming you built that recently (or at least moderately recently) you should be fine, but you’re clearly not. How many case fans do you have and in what configuration? Can you give us a picture of where your computer is so we can actually see how closed in it is?

Don’t buy from best buy, they’re not the best buy at all. Build your own or configure one at something like ecollegepc.com unless you’re willing to wait for a good sale on a prebuilt (which happen on occasion, but somewhat rarely).

Warlord.9074:

I read that nomads was best. Going to go signet guard with nomads and get mad if anyone questions it and come on forum and complain then quit game.

Make sure you use staff, though. It’s the best weapon in the game

Eirdyne.9843:

In general I look at anyone and anything that asks me to use a DPS meter as the same thing as saying a liar, a cheat, and a sloth riding on everyone else’s coattails.

Why the hate? Did a DPS meter kill your mother or something?

Eirdyne.9843:

On the other hand, I do understand the laziness that leads to their use. IF your group of people are not running the right traits, skills, weapons, and armor to do the task at hand, that’ a real problem.

The laziness? How, exactly, does using a DPS meter make you lazy?

Not to mention, how are you going to know what the right traits, skills, or weapons are if you aren’t able to measure your performance objectively?

Eirdyne.9843:

If you think you’re resolving that by using a DPS meter you’re not even on the same page as the problem. You’re having some sort of delusion that spreadsheets are a productive activity when you should be getting people to use the right traits, weapons, skills, and armor necessary to accomplish the task at hand.

And how do you get people to use the right traits, weapons, and tools if you have no way of proving what that is? The spreadsheets are a great base, but physical reality might prevent some of their implementation.

Eirdyne.9843:

DPS meters are nothing except an abusive tool for trolls and the most low-life players a community has to exclude the rest of the community from the game by the low-life’s sheer incompetence.

Again, why the hate? You have this ridiculously negative view of DPS meters and the people who use them. It’s ridiculous.

Eirdyne.9843:

A game that allows DPS meters deserves to fail for all of the abuse it has then allowed and in fact promoted as a result.

I honestly can’t tell if you’re trolling or what

sirsquishy.8531:

You are better off buying a G3258 and a half way decent motherboard then buying an AMD board for that FX8350.

That depends on what it’s going to be used for imo. For exclusively GW2 you’d be better off with the pentium but for general use/gaming I’d stick with the 8350 if I already had it

Vienna.1579:

@MrFayth.3546
You speak from your own perspective. Your claims are mostly a ‘’mythology ’’, since all what you have write is depending on your wallet in the first place. Not all people have rich parents or have at their disposal 1000 Euro to spend on a computer which would run new games for a longer time.

Are you serious? My computer was US$575 and will run games on at least high settings at 1080P/60FPS for years to come; as it is right now I can run most stuff on Ultra/max. It doesn’t take $1000+ to get a good gaming computer. Hell, you can outperform the consoles at their price point pretty handily these days, especially when you factor in the higher cost of console games and the fact that you need to pay for online (which is honestly laughable).

Vienna.1579:

At the same time is the claim from Feirlista Xv.1425 false that people with AMD processors have problems with GW2. Some people have problems – difference.

AMD’s low performance in GW2 is well documented. Their CPUs lack the single-core performance to keep up with Intel CPUs in this game. This is a fact, it’s not some falso claim.

Vienna.1579:

The same as some people with Pentium i series have problems in GW2, there gives many topics where Intel users complain about low frame rate,..

Yeah, because nothing can really maintain 60 FPS in this game. However, a decently clocked i5 can keep 25-30 pretty much everywhere while an FX-8350 can’t.

Vienna.1579:

I use an Amd Fx processor, no problems with GW2, the same as you can check 100’s of videos on YouTube from people who use AMD processors and have no problems at all in GW2.

You may not find issure with the performance you’re getting but GW2 factually runs far worse then it “should” on AMD CPUs.

Vienna.1579:

@Fermi.2409, This is the definition of what I wrote, not all have so much money to upgrade their pc’s every year.

Except you don’t need to upgrade your computer every year. If you get something roughly equivalent to the current consoles you’ll match/exceed their performance for years to come. If you really just want to run games for years to come, you can get away with something cheaper then that. If you want higher settings, you can still do that for <$600, especially on the used market.

The parts I suggested to the TC are enough to run GW2 pretty well (some slight issues in zergs but you really need an i5 to be all right there) and he’ll be <$200. That’s not even a lot of money for something like a computer that brings loads of entertainment value.

Vienna.1579:

At the same time if he is thinking about to buy a new computer,rather buy Amd Fx series is cheaper as Pentium i series. you have youtube, check it for yourself what they offer for less money.

First off, what the kitten is a “Pentium i series”. That’s not a thing. Secondly, AMD’s CPUs are all right for what they are, but they really pale in comparison to what Intel offers. Even an FX-6300 is going to fall behind an OC’d Pentium G3258 :

http://anandtech.com/bench/product/699?vs=1265

G3258s love overclocking; 4.5 GHz is easy (my brother got 4.8GHz on an MSI H81M-E33 ffs) and due to linear gains from OCing it’ll beat out that FX-6300 in multithreaded performance while having a MASSIVE edge in singlethreaded performance, which GW2 requires to run. A more fair comparison, with a cheaper quad-core AMD CPU just pushes things further in the Pentium’s favor.

AMD has a place when using heavily multithreaded apps and/or if you don’t really want to overclock (which is ridiculous, you’re just missing out on loads of free performance), but when it comes to a low-cost computer Intel flies ahead, especially for stuff like GW2 that require good single-threaded performance.

It honestly makes me a bit sad. I’m a huge AMD fan and would’ve loved to pick up one of their CPUs but they really just can’t compete with an i5, especially when I got mine+the motherboard for $200.

Finally, instead of telling me to “go see what AMD has” with youtube or whatever, maybe you should look up some benchmarks yourself instead of trying to infrom people from a position of ignorance.

Leamas.5803:

For video card, you can get an nVidia 750gtx pretty cheap these days (Probably about $100usd) which I think would more than suit your needs. If you dig around you might still find some 500 or 600 series cards around for marginally cheaper, but I’d stick model 50 or better if you can swing it. So 550, 650, 750, etc. With the motherboard, it probably has a PCIe 2.0 slot (But you may want to confirm this), which according to Tom’s Hardware is fine for a PCIe 3.0 card.

Yeah, PCI2.0 16x is fine for current cards, especially something that TC would be looking at on a budget. That being said, while the 750ti is a good buy at $100 new (and I think it’s even been much lower), when you’re looking to spend as little as possible you really should go on the used market; ~$60-65 should buy you a used 7850, which outperforms a 750ti. If the TC did want to spend $100 on a card, you can get something like a 7950 for $90-100 which would handily beat a 750ti.

Vukorep.3081:

1) Do people even understand what “math-in-a-void” means or are they all just copy pasting it form nemesis 3 part video how zerker meta is a lie? Also have they actually watched and understood all 3 parts of his videos

Were videos 2 and 3 nonsensical ramblings riddled with bad math like the first one? The first one was legitimately ridiculous, especially when it came to his methods/measurements.

As for a DPS meter, I want them in the game. I’ve never seen them “introduce elitism” or really mean much besides being a way to measure yourself against others and possibly correct your performance if it’s lackluster. That being said, I see nothing wrong with booting people from a part if they aren’t contributing. Anyone with any sense (read that as any you would actually want to raid with) will be able to realize that you bring other things to the table even if your DPS is somewhat low if you’re actually doing so.

I actually saw some improvement myself from using a DPS meter; back in the day when I hit 55 in Allods I thought I was hot kitten, even though I was awful. A couple days of work at rotations/situational skill usage and I went from being a hugely subpar DPS to a top 1-2 DPS in the party while easily being able to offtank if needed (as a physical DPS Paladin).

Vienna.1579:

At the same time keep in mind the possibility of a console, which is significantly cheaper variant for playing new games for a longer time as the constant upgrading of Pc’s to play video games.

Constant upgrading to play video games? You just need to upgrade every year or two if you want to keep playing on max settings. If you just want to play games you can buy one computer and be fine.

Vienna.1579:

In essence you do not need a new computer, as long you don’t want to play new pc games on it, probably you can still run Photoshop,…well. A new computer with which you could play new video games would cost you around 500 euro (without a monitor).

The TC doesn’t have a lot of money to throw around, so he’ll want to go for the used market. If he can reuse his RAM he’s looking at ~$130-150 to upgrade to a decent level, if not it’ll be $150-180.

TC, you’ll want to hit the /r/hardwareswap subreddit and look for a used Pentium G3258 and a motherboard to go with it (~$80) and kitten-60 GPU, something like a 260x or, if you get lucky, maybe a 7850. It’ll be more then enough to run this game and pretty much any other one out there smoothly.

If you need a new PSU, grab a Corsair CX430 (not used, should be $20-25, it’s constantly on sale) and if you need new RAM (if your current stuff isn’t DDR3) just grab the cheapest 1600 MHz stuff you can buy, either 4 or 8 gb.

Yeah, upgrading from a 2500k isn’t worth it these days. Is old but far from weak. Just OC it, you should be able to get 4.5+ GHz easily.
Not to mention that a CPU/GPU upgrade wouldn’t really decrease loading times

If you’re unsure of how to build a computer, go and look up Newegg’s how to build a PC guide on YouTube (or one of the million guides out there).

As for GPU, even if you go with new everything else it’ll be worth checking the used market. Here in the US you can get fantastic deals on used cards; my 280x was $120 shipped. Something new/comparable much closer to $200

10. All 80s. I had one of each class, then decided I wanted another Revenant, an Asuran.

pandachan.4325:

Yikes that’s pretty bad. Receiving an explanation is the least that they could do.

Meh. That’s generally not something that belongs on the forums, honestly; that sort of discussion should be between the banned person and support (although that does also seem to be an issue here…). 99% of the time the person knows what they did, though, so it’s really just a useless exercise.

Ellieanna.5027:

You missed the very important part of my post, so I’ll say it again.

We don’t know the whole story.

Somone else claimed that they were innocent in a gold scheme. He was friends with a gold seller. Went to that persons house, logged in his account. Even send gold back and forth. And feels he was banned wrong.

We don’t know the whole story.

The guy you are trying to defend could be lying out of his teeth.
Anet could have found accounts with the same name, birthday, IP use. And banned all of those.

We don’t know the whole story.

You missed literally the first part of the first sentence of my post, so I’ll say it again.

Fermi.2409:

Just taking things at face value

Siphaed.9235:

A better example would be if someone purchased season pass to a football team’s games. The then get banned from the home team stadium for drunken rowdiness that also gets them booted mid-game on the season opener. They would NOT get a refund for any of their additional tickets for the season pass, that is for sure (although they could try to scalp them, illegal as that is).

Yeah, but you’ll still have your tickets; you just can’t use them. You can still sell them on (not necessarily illegal, actually)/give them to friends to do/whatever. You just can’t go in the park yourself.

And I’d say it comes down to how you view accounts. I don’t see an account as a service. An account is an independent thing used by someone to (in this case) play a game.

Siphaed.9235:

Now when they say that you -the player- can get permanently banned from the game, they do mean you -the individual user- can get banned. Which is to say that when you’re caught cheating on one of multiple accounts, that reflects that you -the player user- are a cheater who they do not want playing their game with ANY account. Period.

The thing is, banning accounts from the game is completely fair. I just don’t see banning all of someone’s accounts- essentially banning someone from the game- as a fair thing to do unless all of those have themselves broken the rules or been part of a rule breaking action (like the exploiting I mentioned before). If you’re investigating to see if an account should be banned, it should be judged on the merits of that account unless it was involved in some illicit stuff.

Gode Fridus:

So let’s not pretend that it is the account that is doing something that is not allowed and that other accounts of the same person should not be effected: it is the person behind the account that is doing this.

I’m not pretending that the account is doing something disallowed. I’m saying that someone is doing it on a given account and unless those actions are being used to benefit other accounts only the accounts involved in the rulebreaking should be subject to punishment.

At the end of the day, it’s purely a matter of opinion, though. No one is going to change anyone else’s mind here.

Qugi.2653:

Fermi.2409:

The same person with two accounts violated the rules; they should be punished.

Fix that for you.

Which is where the disagreement lies. Banning all of someone’s accounts accounts because they broke the rules on some of them is ridiculous with a couple of possible exceptions (for example, abusing exploits on one account to feed gold/materials to a main account).

Say I have 3 accounts and decided to share one with a friend. I get caught. Do I deserve to have all of my accounts banned or just the one that was shared/had the rules broken? Personally, I’m solidly in the “just the one account, if at all” camp. The ToS are agreed to on a per account basis; how can they be applied across multiple accounts?

Ellieanna.5027:

It wasn’t his friend logging on his computer, he actually said he logged into his friend’s account on his computer. That is a HUGE difference.

Just taking things at face value, that’s interesting that it would get his account banned at all; if anything, I’d think it would be the friend’s account. Not that they’d even be able to get you for account sharing unless you’re a moron and admit to it ingame or the login location of the account bounces around the country at a rate faster then it’s possible to travel and they have some reason to look at it.

Qugi.2653:

If someone cheat on 1 or 2 account might cheat in future on other account.

So now you’re looking to punish people for what they might do? What’s next, punishing thought crime?

Two accounts violated the rules; they should be punished. However, the rest have done nothing wrong by Gaile’s own admission. How is it fair to punish those accounts for something they haven’t even done?

And, while I’m sure this has been considered, they may not even be the dude’s accounts. I would hope that they thought of the fact that one person could have 5 accounts on the same IP or 5 people could have 5 accounts on the same IP because they share a computer.

No, you can’t create more characters on other servers. Your server is bound to your account, and the account only has 6 character slots; character slots are by account, not by server.

However, (now that I understand what you’re after a little better) all you need to do is get character slot expansions from the gem shop. They’re 800 gems each. You’ll be able to just swap gold for gems and buy them, up to a limit of 64 character slots (for the account).

All of your characters are on the same server, since your account is tied to your server, not your characters.

I’m guessing you want to play WvW on other servers, since that’s really the only thing you can’t do (you can already do any PvE/sPvP with people from any server), in which case your best bet is going to be to just make a new account and associate it with a different server.

Even if someone is cheating with 2 accounts it seems ridiculous to me to ban everything of theirs.

Imagine if someone had 10 books. 8 were purchased, 2 were stolen. The police go in and take away all 10 books. It just doesn’t seem right imo

I’m not having any issues at all. I’m running sweetfx and these settings:

http://i.imgur.com/x4SY0Y5.jpg

Ansau.7326:

Well, you put a very low end MB with a low end cooler, you’ll be lucky getting stable 4.3-4.4GHz.

The motherboard is a kitteneap, yes, but it’ll be perfectly fine for a 4.6+ GHz overclock if you’ve got the cooling for it. The 212 Evo is the best in the price bracket, and the TC will be getting a higher end cooler anyways; he’ll be able to get 4.6 GHz just fine.

Ansau.7326:

With that in mid, the gains are more than 5%, since that is comparing Haswell with 1600 ram vs Skylake with 2133 ram

Ram speed isn’t going to make a difference, though, over 1600 MHz (maybe 1866?); 1-2 frames at the most over 1600. Linus made a video about it, if you want some proof.

Ansau.7326:

But here I pair Skylake with high speed ram and also a good MB and a good cooler that will be able to reach easily 4.6-4.7GHz

Like I said, TC will be opting for a higher end cooler anyways. 4.6-4.7 would be completely reasonable for him. Honestly, if he got a decently binned CPU that 212 Evo would’ve been fine for 4.5 GHz.

Ansau.7326:

Overall the gains can be around 15%, with a much better motherboard with tons of more features.

The only advantage to that motherboard is the higher feature count, which isn’t really worth doubling the price. If you really want a higher end mobo on the 4690k build you’re looking at like $90-100; I can’t find anything <$110 that’s any good for Skylake. You’re going to be getting equal clocks either way, so it’s going to be ~5-7% more performance, at best. Really not worth the additional investment.

If the prices were a bit closer, Skylake would be the way to go, but with a $150 gap it’s just not worth it.

World War III.3869:

Skylake opens up better upgrade options down the road

By the time a 4690k is having issues a 6600k will have issues as well, and you’ll be better off getting something new then buying a 6700k/other 1151 upgrade.

Oh, I definitely did. Sorry for that, I thought it was the other dude with the APU+6970. Definitely an all right PC, but far from the level where maxing everything should be a given where I can definitely see where you’d be annoyed.

Sorry for that, I’ll leave the post but other people reading it please note that it was a case of mistaken specs

StoryMode.8256:

GW2 might not play nicely with those settings, then why do they have them?

Because some people actually have the computers to handle them, at least most of the time.

StoryMode.8256:

I’m not arguing with you, I pretty much know that’s the problem… but I feel like with my setup I really really shouldn’t…. everything is within my power to run all that easily.

Apparently not. And you’re running a relatively low-end CPU (~i3-2100 to i3-3220 level; better multithreaded performance but lower singlethreaded performance) with a fairly dated graphics card; it’s not unreasonable that you can’t run demanding games at high/max settings and get 60 FPS everywhere.

StoryMode.8256:

So ANET just needs to optimize it better. I get a nice stable 60 FPS+ when the conditions are just right…

Yes, they should optimize it better, but even if they do it’ll still be a demanding game. When you’ve got 100 people on screen chucking spells everywhere framerates are bound to go down

StoryMode.8256:

I feel like I shouldn’t have to lower my quality/experience =/ I -want- to be able to see everyone, the reflections., all the shadows, and every little shader effect. IDK..

Then upgrade your computer. Simple.

StoryMode.8256:

I can do it just fine with every other game… ah well….

Such as? I’m sorry, but most new games aren’t running at Ultra/1080P/60FPS on that computer; even high would be pushing it. Even with my i5+my 7850 (a much, much more powerful and a bit stronger GPU) didn’t come close to that.

StoryMode.8256:

I can’t play their game at the max settings they defined… doesn’t make sense to me and they need to fix it.

That’s a super entitled attitude to have, especially when your computer isn’t really particularly high end; realistically, it’s midrange at best. If you want to max stuff, you need higher-end hardware. While the game could use more optimization, you’re also not putting your best effort in to get the performance you desire.

The reason is that you’re spending extra money for literally no gain. If more ram will be useful later, just buy it then; it should be cheaper then, anyways. But, for the time being, you’re not getting anything from dropping the extra money on the 16 GB.

That 40 GBP (in the US, at least) would be enough to push you to a higher tier GPU, buy an SSD, grab a nicer CPU cooler, etc. There are just so many better ways to spend it.

Ansau.7326:

Since you’re building a new pc, I’d go for skylake with high speed ddr4:

You’re paying another $150 (20%) to gain like 5% performance. It’s really not worth going for Skylake, given the price difference between it and Haswell.

MrH.2591:

get yourself 16GB

16 GB of ram is a total waste of money these days, though. There’s no reason to go above 8 for gaming.