Guild Wars 2

Your 1080p monitor should be able to output at least 1440p with Nvidia DSR. 1440p starts to get small though.

That being said, I’m not in disagreement with the need for larger interface. I’m in total disagreement with the way the request have been presented.

Surveys of the massive amount of steam users is not speculation. It a market demographic. Anet is in that market.

Anet is not in the habit to catering to the <1%

End of story.

When we regulars get new information regarding this topic, we will inform randoms who come through the techsupport section of it.

Until then, this is the best info we have. From the only sources willing to comment on it(Not Devs).

Edit: The last time this topic was brought up and aggressively bumped/threatened anet salaries can be seen here and the user(thedog.7543) I’ve quoted in this post was one who aggressively bumped and threatened to “stop paying” anet…as you can see, he’s banned.

Maze.3825:

It’s okay to not comment or just say " i don’t know"

So then the techsupport section would be filled with no answers and no useful information at all?

Ok.

At least with his/her replies, you’re getting some information from a person who has been a regular in this section since (before?) launch.

Maze.3825:

Bellelaugh does have an incessant need to poke at apparently every single 4k forum post.
She or he also pretends to have Anet’s protocols for programming delegation in demand.
Question to Behellagh :
Which Anet protocol claims they or any other MMO revises itself based upon some quasi /steam / hardware review ?
Long live 4k dreams and 64bit clients!

Behellagh responds to posts..Almost every post made in the techsupport section. Not just those dealing with 4k.

Belhellagh also responds with a manner that is appropriate in regards to all the dev interaction we’ve seen about 4k UI, which is none as far as I can remember. Though im not searching the forums for this worn out topic at the moment.

There are very few knowledgeable people who frequent the techsupport section, you’re insulting one of them.

These 4k Resolution UI topics never go well.

The OP’s always have an incredible sense of entitlement…I wonder why.

Besides.

Absolutely nothing you have, Darkened.7015, will play this game at a decent FPS in 4k with better than mediocre graphics settings.

Search the forums. This has been beat to death for many months.

Yes I’ve seen many problems like this. Usually it’s related to your PCI-E Interface Link Speed or your Nvidia Drivers(win10+gw2+auto-installed nvidia drivers rarely go well)

PCI-E Link speed is the easiest to check, though. Download GPU-Z and start it up, then start up Gw2 and take a screen shot like This.

Post the screenshot here, you can ignore CPU-Z for the moment.

Just tried to reproduce it in Lions Arch to no avail.

All directions and manners of jumping.

Perhaps you might try a -repair Command Line Argument to make sure it’s not an issue with your client.

That PC fermi linked is 2-3x as powerful in various areas, and cheaper.

And upgrade-able

Recommending a laptop for gaming is just never a good idea, unless OP specifically states it must be a laptop.

And the Gw2 Subreddit is usually a good place to show off artwork.

It’s not bugged for me.

First attempt ever, just a minute ago.

NilSatis.6720:

Also tools such as reshade/sweetfx will no longer work either; no matter how you play.

Uhh..That’s not true.

You might need to remove the old drivers with Display Driver Uninstaller to ensure compatibility/non-conflict.
(near bottom of the page “Download version 15.7.2.2”)

For what it’s worth: Windows automatic driver updates have always gave me trouble.

Have you tried using the -repair command line argument?

I can’t think of a reason this would be happening..I’ve never seen this issue before.

It worked because, for some reason, GW2 will trigger any minor software and/or GPU contact issues and not scale up the PCI-E Link Speed.

Modern operating systems+motherboards automatically scale down, for instance PCI-E 3.0 x16 to PCI-E 1.1 x2, for power saving features. I’m not exactly sure why, I’ve never personally encountered the problem. But I’ve watched it become a prevalent problem in the tech support section.

Someone should write up a PSA..

Did you recently make/join a few groups in quick succession?

There’s a short lock-out on the LFG tool to reduce spam and possible griefing.

Sounds like fillrates are stuggling, then.

Download GPU-Z, start it up then start up GW2 and take a screenshot like this .

(you can ignore CPU-Z for the moment)

fFamous.8720:

Today im update my windows for windows 10, and what i see?

Problem, probably , is what you dont see.

Your brand new Win10 installation is no doubt running a BUNCH of crap compared to what Win7 had going by default.

There’s a whole host of unnecessary services and applications that want to run constantly on win7, even more on win8 and win10. If you’re into some extensive reading on the subject, google for “Blackviper” and go through the tweaks. You might not get back to exactly where you were but you absolutely should gain some performance with these tweaks on a fresh Win10 installation.

caution – If you do not read carefully and follow instructions very closely, you can make your OS unstable or inoperable.

And what are your ingame settings? With things like Character Model Limits/Quality on high or ultra, in a crowded zone like HoTM, those FPS are pretty normal.

After doing some research on the error codes, most of the troubles had stemmed from EU people trying to guest/party with NA players. The rest of the people getting this were apparently trying to make characters before the client was fully downloaded.

What region are you from and what server are you on? Have you let the client fully download/patch before clicking “play”?

All I’m saying is that incessant bumping of a thread with veiled threats about paying their salary will get you banned.

See my quoted user at the bottom of this post

Thedog.7543. He’s not there anymore. Was terminated right after making the posts in that thread. There were many more “Bump” posts from him, and more general insults/threats. But they’re gone because he’s banned.

Did you mean 2560×1440? That a more common aspect ratio, which GW2 natively supports. It does not have an option for 2560×1080. Though you could always play in Windowed Fullscreen mode, the aspect ratio will seem a bit off still.

Yea…I wouldn’t bump this.

Search “Mac Client” and you’ll see this topic has been beat to death for years.

The condescending attitude will get you nothing but a vacation from the forums.

Is no one going to say anything about that account name?

Technically it’s against the ToS to share accounts at all.

But some of us remember Starcraft and Leeloof sharing accounts between upwards of 8 people to hit R15.

Those tests will tell you if its overheating, as they load your CPU to test for stability and…cooling effectiveness.

Seera.5916:

Their old account name if it wasn’t an obvious full name or obvious violation of the name scheme, it could have been the first half of their email, the part before the @ sign.

It’s a latin looking name. Guess it could be an email, though this name was also used for LoL and I don’t see this individual being so ignorant about account safety.. He’s no ordinary player, his other guild has big red arches.

Qugi.2653:

Display name can not change unless it is name against rules or show private information like real name or email. Also every display name has number at the end.

I know it’s just anecdotal evidence that I cant really prove without breaking some ToS but…

Had a certain person invited to one of my guilds and his invited account name, under the roster, is completely different from his account name in friends or guild lists.

It works..It might not make astounding visual differences but you just have to know what to look for.

Comparison album with titles and descriptions

Note: Medium and Low LOD options behaved exactly the same from my testing so Medium was omitted to retain clarity.

Even if it were possible. Gw2 would completely saturate that low powered Jaguar processor.

I’m learning towards Healix’s suggestion.

If Anet banned people who stacked on the pole they’d also have to ban everyone who stacked in a corner on dungeons or used the terrain to easily kill the Champion Risen Gladiator(before the fix).

Can they ban someone for it? Sure. Have they? Never that I’ve heard of.

Person most likely lied because they didn’t want to cheese the fractal too much.

Autodetect is a bad idea in most circumstances. It’s rarely accurate for getting “good” fps,in pretty much any games that have an auto detect, and it’s especially bad in Gw2 because this game will still bring top of the line CPUs+GPUs to <30fps in heavy situations.

Without knowing what auto detect thought was best for your system,there’s a few options that are much more troublesome than others.

• Character limits/quality- These generate the most amount of Draw Calls. More characters=more meshes=more strain on the main Thread used by Gw2. I generally keep these on med/high and high/med(or low) for WVW.

• Supersampling- Pretty self explanatory. If not, a quick google search will tell you why this is such a heavy hitter.

• Shadows- Ultra shadows seem to cause a decent spike in Frame Time Latency for lots of people.

• Reflections- Reflections cause a disproportionate amount of performance loss vs. visual fidelity improvement because of how Anet does water in gw2. Under every map(that ive seen) is a huge body of water. To make a lake or other large body of water,they simple dip the terrain level into the water level. The problem is that the water constantly reflects everything(if set too),even when you cant see any water at all.

There’s more than a few devs who regularly check the techsupport section, and lots of times will reply here. Far more devs in other areas. But that’s mainly because pure tech issues can be rather easily resolved by other players who are fairly savvy in the field and we have lots of those here.

Where as pure game issues(bugs,glitches,confusion) can’t be solved half as effectively by players as by someone with inside information about the game(devs).

It’s true that they do post quite often on the Gw2 Subreddit. Mostly because the voting system makes their comments much more easily visible to a large amount of people(+130k people).

The Gw2 DevTracker subreddit is great to filter out everything but the developer comments made on reddit.

I’m not sure you’ll see a change by switching LOD settings while standing still.

You should see background sprites generate into 3D models from further away with higher settings. But I dont think that effects Sprites/Models already drawn.

You’re not going to get a decent gaming experience, especially for Gw2, from a laptop that’s <$500.

So unless you’re getting one because you’re a student and portability is absolutely needed, I’d go a different route.

^^^

This is a pretty common occurrence it seems.

A screenshot like this would help greatly

Might put up CPU-Z as well, to verify the Core is actually hitting its target clocks.

Your CPU is only operating at 1.6ghz, while a game is running. That’s abnormal/bad.

Have you checked your Windows Power Options to make sure a “power saver” plan isnt active? Have you cleaned your CPU Heatsink since you built the PC years ago?

I had a neat one the other day.

Mapped into a random VB Map, was pretty dead looking,1 commander tag way off.

Almost instantly got the “Miniatures have been hidden due to raising player population” message follow by the Low Map Population notification moments later.

beefjus.9347:

anet tech support helped already.

And?

If you’ve only gone from ~15 to ~35fps still on low settings, even with that CPU, there’s a problem somewhere.

Lots of times a GPU can unseat/lose firm contact when you move your PC around. I imagine you took the GPU out to mount that heatsink, or at least had the oriented in an odd manner(laying on its side).

I’d definitely take that screenshot.

Ansau.7326:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3ajnso/bad_optimalization_in_gw2/csdnn3n

Here you have the answer.

Thanks for linking that! I couldn’t find it a few weeks ago when needed.

That card is a good one!
It’s actually what I recommend for an upgrade for people with systems similar to yours.

And your PSU will do fine with it.

Think you can post a screen shot like this to make sure your card is running its full PCI-E speed? Very commonly we see it running at lower than advertised speeds,even if you havent touched your GPU.

Even if it is running full PCIe 2.0/3.0 @16x, you’re both right about the GPU being the bottleneck. Pretty much everything about the card is a bit too weak for modern AAA games(like Fo4).

The good news: Your CPU is still very much a contender. Especially with a little overclocking! But we wont get into that..yet,if you dont want.

For now,if you’re thinking about upgrading GPU’s we’ll need a bit of info to help you make a smart choice.

• Budget- obviously

• Power Supply Information- If you dont remember what PSU you have in there,you can take the side off your case and there should be a sticker or label on the PSU (the little box your AC Power Cord plugs into). We’re looking for Wattage(e.g. 550watt,600,ect.) and/or and Brand name+ model number.

Glad it’s not only me.. And I never have problems with Gw2.

Next weeks update!

New ascended item available

• Bag of Bowel Brix
  “Our playerbase reacted badly to an (in)action of ours, so we thought this was a good idea.”

Obtainable through forging 4 vials of salt.

Ehhh..Who am I kidding? Anet wouldn’t tell us the recipe for this new and much sought after jab to the community.

I have a feeling its your 640m GPU. They aren’t gaming cards at all. They’re there to ensure smooth HD video playback,not rendering.

That machine wasnt really meant for gaming . I haven’t seen an All-in-One id consider decent for gaming for the price. Your CPU, which Gw2 relies on more than GPU, is still nice but the bottleneck is further down the line: The Graphics Processing Unit.

Here’s a comparison between a ~$100 Nvidia 750 Ti,which id barely consider adequate for Gw2, and your 640m

If you scroll down to the middle section,labeled “differences”, that’s where you’ll find the meat and potatoes of the information.

• Texture Fill rate: 82.64 GigaTexel/s vs 16 GTexel/s

• Pixel Fill rate: 16.32 GigaPixel/s vs 4 GPixel/s

• floating-point performance: 1,728 GigaFLOPS vs 384 GFLOPS

And that’s a low-end gaming GPU. The differences are even more stark when you compare something more mid-level like an Nvidia GTX 960 or AMD r9 380. Both of which can be had for <$200…but this does you no good because it’s an all-in-one PC and the parts are, for the most part, soldered into the Motherboard.

A strong single GPU is almost always better than SLI/Crossfire but I wouldnt suggest a +$600 GPU for Gw2,especially seeing as OPs CPU is going on 6 years old.

The absolute minimum GPU I would recommend is an R7 380,which can be had for around $170 and is more than enough for GW2,and most other games, at high settings(Ultra settings in Gw2 is unfeasible for the foreseeable future).

Stutters when turning the camera in LA? I get quite a bit of that with Ultra Shadows. There are a few graphics options that are less than efficient,so i’ll quote myself from another forum.

• Reflections- They’re heavy hitters considering the performance impact and the visual enhancement. Under each map is a large body of water. To make a lake in an area,they dip the terrain level into the water level. That water is constantly reflecting even if its no where in sight.
• Character Model Limits/Quality- Model Limits impact the main bottleneck in Gw2(Draw Calls/Meshes) the most. I leave them on Med/High and High/Med for WvW
• Shadows- Ultra Shadows seem to cause a nice amount of Frame Time Latencey(Time between frame draws). Not exactly sure if its due to ineffective culling(like the water reflections) or if its just an engine limitation.

And of course SuperSampling. Which i’ll leave to this incredibly old but still accurate article ,from Nvidia, to explain;

“Supersampling” is an antialiasing technique that is simply a brute-force approach and is used in NVIDIA’s GeForce2 GPUs and other modern graphics processors. A graphics processor that uses supersampling renders the screen image at a much higher resolution than the current display mode, and then scales and filters the image to the final resolution before it is sent to the display.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the graphics settings WP runs while making videos,but I’m almost positive they aren’t maxed.

IAmBornLeet.6084:

According to the crash log my memory seems almost full??? But since the notebook is brand new and hardly any programms are installed it shouldnt be the case, right?

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 6470MB/ 8073MB 80%
Paged: 8487MB/ 9993MB 84%
Virtual: 3751MB/ 4095MB 91%
Load: 19%
CommitTotal: 1505MB
CommitLimit: 9993MB
CommitPeak: 1505MB
SystemCache: 603MB
HandleCount: 26116
ProcessCount: 81
ThreadCount: 1423

Depends on the PC. Every prebuilt PC(desktop,laptop,notebook,even tablets) I’ve ever seen comes with a ton of “bloatware” like HP Advisor,Driver Download Managers,Browser Toolbars,ect.

You can usually google “[PC maker here] Bloatware” and come up with a list of programs known to be installed and auto-run on various machines. Here’s one for HP and one for Dell as examples.

Not intimately familiar with Win10,so im not sure how many applications are typically running in a bloat-free system. I know in Win7 Ultimate i have 48 programs running while idling on desktop,including my monitoring programs, and only about 25% RAM Utilization

Have you tried repairing the gw2.dat file using Command Line Arguements ?

If you have the budget for CPU upgrade, you’ll see the most performance from that, but you wont see any noticeable performance upgrade if your motherboard is Socket AM3 and only a slight performance upgrade if its AM3+ and can take an AMD FX8350. And I stress..the performance gained from a Phenom II to a Bulldozer will not be that great in Gw2.

My suggested upgrade path would be at least an Intel i5 4590+compatible motherboard+RAM and leave your 4870 in it for the time being. It is starting to show its age old but Gw2 will still be bottlenecked by the CPU Single Core Performance before the GPU majorly bottlenecked.

I don’t think its possible,currently,to do anything about minion/illusion/turret damage floaters. I know I would greatly enjoy being able to consolidate minion damage into a single 1 sec floater.

Auto attack+conditions+minions..it does get hard to read.