Guild Wars 2

This is toatly not funny. 4 moths into GW2 and still no ladder system.

1v1 tournament is totaly not funny. getting almost constantly 50+ ranked teams.
>.>

Also Anet should nerf thiefs stealth and fix somehow bunker dnd ele because thats stupid for 1 class to hold off 2-3 zerkers on max dmg.

also portal from mes should be totaly removed form spvp.

And game type ( from hold a points ) should be changed to something else.
cause it’s not funny seeing only bunker builds just to farm this.

This game will seriously will never be fun pvp wise as far as anet don’t balance classes.
cause ppl don’t pick classes they like but those which are most op now.
Thats why msot high end teams got 2 bunker dnd eles/mesmer for portal and shatter/ bunker guard and ocassionaly thief or ranger ( for zerk/bunker)

today I saw only 1 team different from thta above. and I played 15 matches.

Ranger

• Fixed a bug where aquatic ranger pets could sometimes get on land.
• Drake Pet: This pet will now activate its Tail Swipe skill on a regular basis, and the casting time of that skill has been reduced by 1.25 seconds.
• Entangle: This skill’s bleed effects now properly scale with condition damage and duration.
• Sharpening Stone: The number of uses on this skill’s effect will now decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.
• Opening Strikes: The number of uses on this skill’s effect will now decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.

:)

LEt me think:

-Spvp not rewarding meaning You cannot actually farm anything from it and bring it to “open world”
-tpvp have no ladder system yet
-many things are still bugged
-Prices for gems are extremly high and Anet instead of allowing us to buy for exmaple 3000 gems for 10 euro expect us to get 800 gems and by some miracle removegold sellers. You wont get rid of em with those gem prices. seriously.
-many classes are bugged
-bad game engine. to high recommended settings to even post them
-Plain and constantly same gameplay – no warriations in Spvp/Tpvp playstyle ( only capture point )
-no solo queneing for dungeons ( best thing WoW ever implemented )
-to much in game burst / to low hp. they have either to increase hp or decrease burst. getting 1 shot by thiefs isn’t funny after 4 months.
-Legendaries bring actually nothing to the game apart from skins.
-remodeling sux. why ? oh wait you have to get gems to actually get top end stones to transmute gear. Aion in game currency ( gold – kinah ) pay system was best.
-actually plain armor looks. almost all plate armors look the same expect maybe 5-6 skins. same thing applies to medium/might.
-many broken trait lines and bad implementing of skills that should be redesigned long time ago.
-conditions are to easy to stack.
-did i mention actually recommended system requirements for this game ? probably yes.

So overall if x-pack would be given free to recompensate all the stuff that Anet should fix and do and implement or remove i’d take it.

I really enjoyed a lot more blizzard pay to play policy. at least I knew they have enought cash to hire staff that will fix bugs and things constanly.

Kain Francois.4328:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Hey everybody, please keep in mind that we are in the Pacific time zone and most of us just got into the office within the last hour or so.

Take your time!

“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”

~ Shigeru Miyamoto

Seriously You did not just post this ? Good game eventually ? 4 months after realese and still you need i5/i7 Oc’d to 4,5ghz to have 30 fps in WvW.

Rampage.7145:

FX processors are true cuad core processors… get the 4300 tho, it cost about the same and is way better CPU, it will outperform any i3 probably locked low end i5 aswell since FX can be overclocked to 5ghz, and saddly low end intels cannot be overclocked. U will have more money left to go for a decent videocard using AMD cuz, mobo and CPUs are cheaper, notice any AMD mobos are way cheaper then intels, and cheap intel Mobos are a joke since they don’t include any of the good stuff for budget products, so for gaming i think AMD offers a much better platform for low budget u will get more bang for the buck and better performance overall. Any mobo intels offer for lower than 120$ is a joke, same with the CPUs anything below 200$ is just not recomendable for gaming at all.
Remember something when first i3, i5, i7 came out some ppl on the budget got their i3s for gaming, 2 years later those i3s are totally worthless for gaming, u cannot upgrade to the new gen cuz intel change sockets every year so ppl who cannot play games like battlefield on those poor performing CPU have to buy a whole new mobo+CPU combo in order to play a game like battlefield3, in the other hand ppl who bought low budget athlon 2 CPUs can actually still play games cuz those were overclokable, true 3 or 4 core processors. So in 2 years when Dx11 games go mainstream actual i3s processors will be worthless, u won’t be able to cheap upgrade cuz intell will force u to buy a new mobo, while FX cuads will still play those games, and in case u need more cores u just go and buy a new gen CPU which will most likelly still work on the same motherboard.
So yeah for everybody who says intel is competitive at the budget u don’t know what u are talking about, and thanks to AMD and their wonderfull processors u guys can actually build gaming systems atm, cuz during early 90s intel CPUs cost over 3000$ due no competition, without AMD a entry lvl gaming rig would probably cost over 5000$. If u guys want to buy intel stuff it is allright i have a 2600k myself and is a wondefull CPU, just don’t recomend stuff u don’t know nothing about, recomending i3s or locked i5s is a total bullkitten they are useless for budget gaming compared to AMD, and that is not my opinion is a straight fact based on 20+ years of experience building computers and playing games on them.

My i3-3220 would Like to tell You hes outpreforming FX 4300 oc’d to 4.9ghz in Gw2 by huge margin ^.^

Poplolita.2638:

Mrowqa.3861:

Bigest problem witn Crowd control in this game, isn’t CC itself but stupid idea of putting only 3 additional special skills to use.

In most MMO’s player have around 3-6 Skillbard to use. each one can contain up form 8-12 skills.
For exmaple WoW and Aion.

Both have stunning amount of crowd control skills. But noone comaplins for them. Why ? because you don’t have to sacrifice skills X for skill Y just to break from crowd control.

Same goes to Conditions. They are far to powerfull and far to easy to stack ( bleed ) and there are not so many condition removals untill Your a Guardian.

3 special skill slot spaces are far to low as for such game.
Cause either you will take some DPS helpfull skills or stuns etc with blink. or You have to sacrifice that for stun breakers/condi removals or You will simply lose a duel.

Other mmos don’t meet such problems because of much of variety when it comes to skills and skill bars. You have a lot of skills ( Aion on this example had around 60 usefull skills for every class so your 4 skills bard were totaly full ).
And each skill was usefull for every situation whcih made that game really good pvp wise.

Same for WoW. tho here except of Self anti cc skills You have healers. most cc skills have a spell efect like curse which can be dispelled by healer. So you were excluded form combat for that time which took healer to realize that you need a dispell.

This game ( GW2) will never be good and any near good/fair in PvP because it favors to much some classes. Best example is Thief & necro & ranger for condi stacking. I’ve seen many guardians fighting those and losing even while they have best condi removal in game.

I saw good example in Tpvp video not long time ago when warrior got 17 stacks of bleed form thief. Used shake it down and after 2-3 seconds had 10 stacks again.

Another part when this game CC is bad and never should happen is HP pool & burst.

In WoW you need at least 4-7 seconds CC on a healer to kill DPS class ( in Tournaments 3v3/5v5 ) when 2-3 ppl are dpsing same person.

Here (gw2) all you need is proper 100b combo or backstab thief & steal combo to bring someone with 20k hp down in 1-2 seconds.

Worst part is that in most cases You don’t even see it comming.

In WoW thief class could expose himself by standing to close to enemy player.
In gw2 you can even put a kitten in front of enemy while in stealth and he still can’t spot you. You don’t even have a stealth reveal skills while in other MMo’s such skills exist.

[Both have stunning amount of crowd control skills. But noone comaplins for them. Why ? because you don’t have to sacrifice skills X for skill Y just to break from crowd control]

Are you sure about that?

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7764416962
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7764846721
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7763916723

and many more…

If Youd reading skill was proper Youd notice that first guy asks for nerf nevert which has nothing to do about complaining on cc.

Second one is complaing about shockwave dmg form warrior tanks in arenas.

and last one is actually cry to revert again nerf brought by Mists of pandaria making few cc spells ( warlock and mages ones ) being non instant. now they need to spec around 0.5-1s cast.

So please read threads fully before You post

And rest of those threads are made by ppl who never reaches 1500 rating in even 2v2 which means they are like most common ppl on that forum comming and complaining for ccs.

Just like thread creator.

And some ppl still even having 102103102487 skills to remove cc will complain.

You wanna know why ?
Because they are to lazy to look at thier debuff bar to see that they have cc on them and they are to slow on removing it.

Thats why.

And God I sometimes miss fact I blocked my WoW account to play gw2 >.>

Bigest problem witn Crowd control in this game, isn’t CC itself but stupid idea of putting only 3 additional special skills to use.

In most MMO’s player have around 3-6 Skillbard to use. each one can contain up form 8-12 skills.
For exmaple WoW and Aion.

Both have stunning amount of crowd control skills. But noone comaplins for them. Why ? because you don’t have to sacrifice skills X for skill Y just to break from crowd control.

Same goes to Conditions. They are far to powerfull and far to easy to stack ( bleed ) and there are not so many condition removals untill Your a Guardian.

3 special skill slot spaces are far to low as for such game.
Cause either you will take some DPS helpfull skills or stuns etc with blink. or You have to sacrifice that for stun breakers/condi removals or You will simply lose a duel.

Other mmos don’t meet such problems because of much of variety when it comes to skills and skill bars. You have a lot of skills ( Aion on this example had around 60 usefull skills for every class so your 4 skills bard were totaly full ).
And each skill was usefull for every situation whcih made that game really good pvp wise.

Same for WoW. tho here except of Self anti cc skills You have healers. most cc skills have a spell efect like curse which can be dispelled by healer. So you were excluded form combat for that time which took healer to realize that you need a dispell.

This game ( GW2) will never be good and any near good/fair in PvP because it favors to much some classes. Best example is Thief & necro & ranger for condi stacking. I’ve seen many guardians fighting those and losing even while they have best condi removal in game.

I saw good example in Tpvp video not long time ago when warrior got 17 stacks of bleed form thief. Used shake it down and after 2-3 seconds had 10 stacks again.

Another part when this game CC is bad and never should happen is HP pool & burst.

In WoW you need at least 4-7 seconds CC on a healer to kill DPS class ( in Tournaments 3v3/5v5 ) when 2-3 ppl are dpsing same person.

Here (gw2) all you need is proper 100b combo or backstab thief & steal combo to bring someone with 20k hp down in 1-2 seconds.

Worst part is that in most cases You don’t even see it comming.

In WoW thief class could expose himself by standing to close to enemy player.
In gw2 you can even put a kitten in front of enemy while in stealth and he still can’t spot you. You don’t even have a stealth reveal skills while in other MMo’s such skills exist.

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

SolarNova: funny I have looked at alot of compairsons and the i7 980x/990x vs the 8150/8350

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/142?vs=434

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/142?vs=697

note:passmark is not indicative of perf in games, yet thats what your link used….

also the 3960x vs the 990x dosnt show the dif to be that massive(both at stock in all cases)

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/443?vs=444

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/697?vs=701

the 970/980/990x in some cases are very close to or faster then newer chips, espicially the ones that are similar, the 2500k/2600k/3500k/3700k series chips, anand isnt perfect either but it was fast to grab, alot of benches where they use updated encoding software for example show the older first gen i7’s in better light then the newer yet similar models.

but, no, the first gen i7’s and i5’s are not as “slow per core” as the amd bulldozer/piledriver chips are in most benches, they are faster.

on the other hand, stuff like cinebench r11 in many reivews shows the 8350 being faster then the top intel chips that cost a good bit more.

Intels lower end stuffs great if all you wana do is play poorly threaded games and console ports, AMD’s chips start to show their power when you hit stuff like bf3 where the game can take advantage of more cores.

this will give an idea how close the latest intels and the older 900 series are http://www.anandtech.com/show/5091/intel-core-i7-3960x-sandy-bridge-e-review-keeping-the-high-end-alive/5

very close.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx8350-fx8320-fx6300-and-fx4300-tested/2

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2055/5/

http://techreport.com/r.x/amd-fx-8350/bf3-fps.gif

this video has some good info
http://teksyndicate.com/videos/amd-fx-8350-vs-intel-3570k-vs-3770k-vs-3820-gaming-and-xsplit-streaming-benchmarks

and TekSyndicate is great(watch some of their videos, good stuff)

last few links
http://click.hardforum.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimageshack.us%2Fphoto%2Fmy-images%2F21%2Fbfcasbmp.jpg%2F&id=1&match=1&source=none&destination=none

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2948/bf3casbmpmed.jpg
older 8150 but it shows that some games like bf3 take advantage of AMD chips better then others, given time, Anet will hopefully get their act togather and get us a patch that will make the game run better.

mind tho, bf3 is one of the few games whos engine was really written/rewritten to take advantage of more cores, this is the way forward……

for now tho, if the only games you care about are heavly single thread dependant, the best buy is an i3 with HT and clock the crap out of it, why spend more for cores your not gonna use?

I’d like to see You clocking hell out of i3 wihtout burning your system down while it has locked multipliers and only way is to increase bus which in long term may cause many problems to your rig along with ddr3 and usb controllers.

Second of all Every single test out there comparing 8350 vs lets say 3570k are tests which favor more cores.
And still those 8 cores vs basic 4 cores for intel don’t fall back as much as they should.

Why ?

because Intel will preform still faster in single thread scenario allowing it to get more tasks per core.

Best exmaple was givien some time ago when intel cpu ( 3570k vs 8350) done 4-5 tasks per core while amd done 2. while Intel got only 4 cores and no hyper threading vs 8 cores.

Now imagine what would happen to that amd cpu if intel would implement 6 or 8 cores to 3570k instead of 4.

Sad truth is that in every single multithreaded test + most aplications like graphic rendering AMD will outpreform intel because it has more cores.

In most games like bf3(non multiplayer)/ witcher2/ metro2033 and all other graphicaly heavy games ( that are not multiplayer nor mmo’s ) AMD will be close or on par with intel because most of these games are GPU heavy which means that your FPS will be as good as your graphic card is.

While in almost every MMO and first person shooter ( multiplayer mode ) an Intel CPU will and should outshine Any AMD cpu.

Also There is no way you ever should compare an intel 3570/3770 to 8350.

Why ? because intel CPu’s were launched around Q2 of 2012 while piledriver series ( 4300/6300/8350 ) were launched in late Q4 of 2012.

Thats almost half year later.

And now when intel going to launch new CPU’s in late Q1 or early Q2 AMD will fall back again for almost whole year because they announced that new AMD cpu will be out in late 2013.

and thats not a fanboy talk.

Intel is and always was best in games.
While AMD always shined in aplications and rendering.

no.
Fx 8150 would not help.
I’t single core performance is really low. Almost on same level as your current CPU.

If you want to upgrade go for FX 8350. But while You can afford it i’d add few bucks for i5-2500k or i5-3570K which will give you much more FPS increase then any AMD upgrade.

Your amd CPU is serious bottleneck so You won’t see much more fps with this cpu probably.

Hell no don’t listen to that guy.

DOn’t get 4170 fx.

It’s bullkitten CPU.

If you want seriously to go for AMD aim only :
FX 4300/6300/8320/8350.

Others are just waste of your cash and time.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113287&Tpk=4300

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113286&Tpk=6300

Or
Go for Intel i3-3240 which in single core performance will beat any AMD at this point and is relatively cheap. Im having i3-3220 and it works wonders for GW2 =]
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116775

damianlxl.3621:

Oh yeah I installed the latest drivers and updated DirectX, standard stuff. I tried the card on lower settings than I typically play and was pretty underwhelmed at the result.

I am just gonna take the thing back. Makes me wonder why they rank them numerically. Oh wait I know EXACTLY why, so unsuspecting shmucks buy them thinking the number rank + 2 years of development = better card.

Your thinking is wrong.

Yes it’s newer series a 600 but.

When 400 serioes was out there were few cards. 430/440/450 – these were low end entertaiment card – movies mostly.

460-470 were medium graphic cards for games.

480 was top end.

Same thing worked for 500 and 600 series.
530/540/550 630/640/650 are entertimend low end card.

560/560ti/660/660ti are medium.

570/670 are high and 580/680/590/690 are top end.

It’s your own fault kinda that you dropped from 460 gaming card to 650 non gaming.

for that 150$ you could get ati HD 7850 probably or close to. and it’s far superior.

Rampage.7145:

And u guys are also wrong about minimum requiremts, minimum specs guarantee a minimal accpetable gameplay at the lowest settings AKA 15-30 FPS during PVE. Otherwise u could suit the developers for false advertising.

Im not sure where did You got that from but Your wrong.

Minimum requirements mean only that You will be able to “run” / “start” game on that system nothing more.
Recomended settings on other matter allow or should allow You to cap 30 FPS in every single situation.
Due to WvW and CPU performance issues a 30 FPS at all time in case of GW2 would mean an OC recommend which company cannot state.

Thats why GW2 is one of few games that don’t have a recomended sett.

I think most of you know world of warcraft.

And some of You even played it. I did at least. I quit due to huge monthly fees and expansions comming out in 2-3 year difference.

But there was seriously 1 thing I loved in World of warcraft.

Battlegrounds. Even now in mists of Pandaria with new game types it’s just amazing and makes me want to get back to it tho. Payments.

So How Would You feel having in Guild wars 2 Kind of battlegrounds with these kind of game types :

1) Capture flag. Basic XvX match, capping flag. Same as In WoW. Untill You get Your flag back You cannot cap it – points awarded for capping & killing. it would force on players amazing PvP rotations and thinking ahead of how to make teams either to defend flag holder or to attack opposite one.

2) The new Cart capping. it’s crazy. 1 mining cart and whos closer it moves to it’s base location giving points. In guild wars it could be hard to execute but definately it would make a difference in pvp. why ? it would force ppl to first take controll of it and then move with it making maybe kind of amushes for enemy team to prevent them from taking controll of it. This kind of pvp is tricky and still some people might thing it’s booring as current point capping.

3) Alterac valley. Most of ppl heard or played it. 1 big zerg rush to enemy location to kill lord. But before you can kill it you need to weaken it by taking down towers. This kind of battlegound could be very fun and entertaining in Guild wars 2. Why ? Because it would force players to defend thier points from being destroyed and at the same time pushing hard offensive. Even while those points would be destroyed there would be still last hope to save the lord and so on. This open whole new level of pvp for guild wars 2. It could be hard to execute due to CPU problems with many people around. First Client would require a serious fix.

4)Relic/items holding for points. yes it sounds again like cap and hold but this time it’s not some stationary point holding. Person is grabing an item something like flag or so and while holding it it counts points towards victory. Ofcourse it forces many Pvp sitations and more various build allocations. Yes bunker builds would be good but noone would win when both teams would have tons of them. It would force players to swap thier traits and go more offensive. This is to eliminate for exmaple 2 bunker build guardians standing in 1 point while 4-5 ppl of oposite team ( zerk builds ) try to cap it.

This game have a lot of potential. World v World is one of them. Only problem that I’ve meet in WvW is FPS problem. Im sure Anet will fix it someday but for now it’s either getting seriously expensive rigs or staying out of WvW. I know some ppl enjoy WvW even with 15 FPs but for me it’s unplayable.

Question To You is, what kind/types of new battlegrounds/maps Would You like to see or small scale PvP games?

Those specs are very good.

But You could also try to look For MSI/Asus gaming series.
They tend to be cheaper then lenovo and MSI usualy gives better components ( made with more care and from better materials ).

:) just a hint

It doesn’t work like this.

I’ve noticed that game threats every single file as %.

My donload sometimes gone trough form 0-78% in seconds and then stopped at 78% because there was major file which had 300 mb.

So it means that some files/% will go faster and some slower depending on file size

At least this was mine observation

Only a mesmer is so painfull to level up with

First of all.

Get that CPU to 4-4,5GHZ this will help a lot.

Also kepp in mind thses:
LOD distance is almost useless You won’t see it doing almost anythign in game cause it render objects that are very far away. So keep it on low/med.
Reflections are seriously bugged so keep them off ( for Maximum FPS ) or terrain & sky for some minimal fps dips ( difference from none to terrain&sk with your spec should be around 5-10FPs ( theoretical ).
Keep shadows on High ( NOT ULTRA ) Ultra option is bugged.
Keep game In native sampling not supersample ( not many ppl can see difference and it’s serious hit to fps ).

With these options in mind and oc’ing You CPU You should be able to get even minimum 30 FPS in Massive WvW zergs. While keeping 50-60++ FPs in any other given situation

Some characters won’t get posted via Crt+c/ctr+v.

Those People don’t copy paste them but they use special codes for them.

for exmaple holing down alt with hitting on numeric keypad 0228 give you an " ä ".

You need to search google for special windows 7/8 charaters codes

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Using-special-characters-Character-Map-frequently-asked-questions

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html

etc

Post Your system Spec so we can have more view on this matter :P

Well.

Starting form that everyones system is different and those ppl are using different video cards etc. Results Your asking for may be really different.

Someone can tell You he noticed no FPS drop ( while his using a gtx 690 Oc ) and someone can tell You his dps was cut in half ( while using lets say old gtx 470 or 560 ).

The best way to test it out is to try it for Yourself. it won’t take You a lot of time and Youll be certain and 100% sure what result in FPS You will get

And this is very dependant on Your system.
While having lets say i3 + gtx 560 You will/would notice maybe some fps Drop tho while having i7 + gtx 660ti you could notice noone. it’s hard to say.

So basically Whole system is workign properly via HDMI and problem occurs only while running Guild wars 2 ?

How about other games ?
Whats Max resolution Your New LCD covers? It may be caused that You have set Guild wars 2 res to a point which isn’t covered by Your new LCD… I know how it sounds but it’s possible.

If You have other HDMI cable try using it. It may be also caused by some problems with cable itself.

It’s probably Your internet connection.

Cause Lag You described is rather a Internet lag ( abilities not executing etc ) rather then graphical lag/shuttering.

Whats Your in game FPS ?
What Rig do You have ?
What internet connection You use?

more information is needed to assist You with this problem

What drivers You use ? Try going back to 306 smth the stable version.

It’s not problem with 600 series cards cause many ppl who are using them never complained on it apart from CPU bottleneck which may cause a GPU not working properly due to not getting instructions from CPU which in this case may cause shattering etc.

The CPU You have is one trough the roof. Only better would be X version 3960X.

But still a CPU can not work properly for many resons – be damaged somehow or smth like that which makes it not work properly with Gw2 as it’s CPU bound.

Witcher 2 as many other games ( not MMos ) and apart from BF3/ and First person shooters work differently. cause those games are GPU bound and use CPU to some point.

Thats why in these games Youll see low CPU usage and high GPU usage while in GW2 CPU will be capped at 100% while GPU at it’s low state.

Problem may be that Your CPU somehow cannot handle due to manufacture reasons ( some errors/problems ) etc handle game while it’s under so heavy fire.

Check CPu with CPU-z while playing guild wars 2, does it work on proper clocks, try doing stress tests with AIDa64 and other tools for that.

It could also be A DDr3 problem. some ppl suffer such things due to bad memory cubes, try to switching placec of DDR3 ( If you have 16 GB in 4×4 or 2×8 dependable ) try removeing 8 gb ( in case of 4×4 ) and try runnin dual channel. in case of 2×8 try removing 1 cube does that help.

Also I cannot remember did 3930K had an integrated graphic card HD4000 ?
If yes, try to run GUild wars 2 on that Integrated graphics to see how it goes.

What is Your FPS btw ?
When those shutters occur ? while running around? in battle ? in towns ?
We definately need more information about it

In Your case dear friend it’s not a problem with game itself but Your System.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like Im blaming You for.
You didn’t even posted Amount fo FPS You get but nvm with that.

With this rig You should get constant 60 fps apart from Massive WvW ( to keep it over 30 fps You’d need to OC your 3930k and im Sure SOlarNova will tell You same thing)

But lets get to the case.
First of all check your SDD drive for any bad/corrupt/error sectors.
Reinstall drivers – those for intel CPU also and graphic card.
Try If you have possibility to check game fps with single graphic card ( even low one like gtx 260 ) to see if the problem is within Your gtx 690 ( dual GPU SLi ) because this game have problems with SLI.
Try overclocking Your CPu to see does it rise FPS.
Try checking any problems/errors with DDR3 it’s common issue that it may cause problems.
Check Does Your GTX 690 works in x16 PCI-E slot and is it working with proper clocks while playing GW2.

Use repair function on GW2

Guild Wars 2 Repair Instructions for Windows®

If you are having problems running Guild Wars 2, the data archive may have become corrupted. Please follow these steps to verify and repair the archive:

Locate your Gw2.exe file.
Right-click on the file and select Create shortcut.
Rename this new shortcut to Guild Wars 2 Repair.
Right-click on Guild Wars 2 Repair and select Properties.
Locate the Target line and add -repair to the end.
Example: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\gw2.exe” -repair
Click OK.

Double-clicking Guild Wars 2 Repair will begin the repair process. The game will launch when it is complete.

Note: Keep in mind that the verification and repair process will run each time you double-click the Guild Wars 2 Repair shortcut. If you would like to play the game immediately without repairing the archive, double-click on Gw2.exe or another shortcut without the -repair command.

If noone of these help Try reinstalling game first and if that gives no result reinstall system with clean drivers install.

But with the shuttering I would clearly recommend mostly checking all stuff for your GPU – graphic card.

lvl up to 23-24. If You have some gold ( if you don’t invest some real money in gems – trade gems for gold ) and go to Cooking forum, find cheap cooking guide ( ones there which u can get cook from 1-400 in ~2gold ) buy from Black lion a crafting booster.

And lvl 23-24 will turn to 33-35 depending on Your luck with crafting booster.
Buy some green/rare items at 35 and have fun <3

Minimal requirements are requirements that need to run. RUN this game. to just open it and see main menu and character slots.

Minimal requirements do not guarantee That You will SEE minimum of 30 fps At all times with RIG presented in minimal requirements

Squall Leonhart.2075:

not sure i maintain 120 fps

NOT ON THAT HARDWARE YOU AREN’T.

Well he can.

In basic PVE location like for example lvling in normal zones with not many ppl around ( ike 4-10 man events ) Im getting 91 FPS with my i3 CPU.

Tho Youd have to remove our frame limits etc to see those numbers which most ppl don’t do to not overheat thier rigs.

120 fps with 7850 + i7-3770 seems ok in normal basic PvE location.

problem in here is to how to read his " at all times" cause if he plays pve only it might be that fps. In SPvP that Fps also might be true with this cpu & GPU.

In WvW running around solo fighting 1v1 or small groups of max ~10 ppl it might be true.

Some of GTX graphic cards tends to drop MHZ clock speed on COre & memory when they are Overclocked to thier limits to save card from permament damage.

If Your graphic Card drops a lot ot times, Underclock it by ~50 HZ and look how it goes. IF that doesn’t help go back to store and replace card.

also Try -repair function.
You Gw2 files somehow might get corrupted. or lost intergity

Well When You get that mail etc. GO to link in given mail and authenticate logins form that IP in future.

Theres box to check for that specific situation.
While You leave it unchecked it will ask for login premission every single time

What they said.

You cal also ask Person who owns network to change package priority to set it to high for gaming or specific for Your assigned IP adress when You connect to network.

Other way around as Previous posters said is asking him to Cap connection for every person. Other problem is that is theres 50mb conn and 40-50 Computers are plugged in at a time it won’t help at all…

You can also ask owner for dedicated internet connection. Probably will cost You a bit more but maybe it’s worth it ?

As usual.
Faster =}

MSI gamig series with i7 QM version + GTX 660m on borad.

You can also try build You own Alienware but it kinda might cost a bit more.

Basically You want to aim in:
CPU:
i7 ONLY.!!!
Version QM ( CPU with 4 cores or 4 cores/8threads and Turbo boost to 3,4GHZ )
!!!!!!!!!!!!

and for graphic card:
GTX 560m/570m/580m/660m/670m
ati 7850M+

To be honest.

You need A good CPU over good GPU. Which in Your case it mean You need to build full new spec On other socet then 775 ( which core 2 duo is ).

So basically what You want to do is:

Get medicore/low graphic card like HD7770 or GTX650ti
get cheap ram dual channel 8gb ddr3
And spend some good cash on Mobo& CPU.

In that case:

AMD FX 8350 ( still not 100% recomended ) but really cheap. Am3+ motherborads

or
Intel 1155 socet
i3-3240
i5-2500k/2550k/3570k
i7-2600k/2700k/3770k

And get good colling. OC CPU.

And it should be fine.

i3/fx 8350 CPU will allow You to be happy with nice FPS in PVE and SPvP but not In massive WvWvW.
while i5/i7 oc’d to 4-4.5ghz will give you nice fps in WvW with awesome fps in PVE and SPvP.

the graphica cards 650ti & hd7770 will allow You to be happy with medium/high settings.

You can slo try to snatch used or reselled GTX 470/480/560/560ti/570.
or HD 6870/6950/6970

MikeRiv.4031:

SolarNova.1052:

Firstly im affraid OP that ur PC isnt ‘good’ ..not for GW atleast.

However things u can try.
Turn reflections down to terrain and sky. Turn shadows down to High ..Turn Sampling to native.
You got 8gb RAM ..make sure ur using a 64bit OS.
Set GW2 priority in task manager to High.
OC your CPU, GW2 gets most its performance from the CPU’s single thread performance. Thus AMD cpu;s (even their best) ,specialy at stock, dont fair well in WvW and other populated areas.
A slow HDD can also cause issues, if u have 2 HDD’s the same RPM and size ..try using them in RAID0 format to boost the speed, defrag it if u havnt done so in a while. If u have a SSD, put GW2 on that.
Update or Downgrade ur current graphics drivers to see if that helps. If its factory OC’d ..try downclocking it just incase its a unstable OC.

Oh well, my pc isn’t as good as yours, but according to GW2’s system requirements is more than the recommended specs. And maybe you didn’t have the chance to read the complete post, but I stated that I narrowed my graphic settings to the minimum for best performance, and I got the same results. About the cpu, this is the first time I’ve heard about that issue, sounds legit but I’ll do some research on that. The funny thing is that I know I’m not pushing my system to the limit cause the performance monitor says I’m just using like 35% of my RAM memory and my CPU. And I’ve read about pc’s that even beat you specs and got similar issues as I do. Anyway thx for replying, I’ll try to follow some of the advice you just gave me, see if that works.

Im afraid that only thing You can go better then SolarNovas Pc is getting
INTEL CORE i7-3960X version which cost twice as that and gives at max 5% more performance.

The GPU really doesn’t matter untill You have Really good CPU.
I can put graphic sttings full wiht my gtx 260 216 cores and I’d still stay over 30-40 FPS in PVE while havin them on medium gives me over 70-80 FPs in some areas.

Problem of FX bulldozer series is pathetic single core performance. And while this game uses 2-3 threads It doesn’t matter really that You got 6 cores cause only 3 will get utilized.

Fx 4100/6100/8150 Got a single core performance of old Phenom BE. Which even AMD stated was thier biggest mistake.

A Piledriver series on the other hand seems to be doing good. a fx 4300/6300/8320/8350 Give really good ( as for AMD ) single core performance but still when You compare 1 core to 1 core each of them loses to lowest i3’s.

Wanna know When You CPU limits You ? Stand in LA and put setting on low, then on max.

With lowest graphican settings the FPS you’ll notice is max that You will get with that CPU – If Your FPS doesn’t change that muhc from low to high it means that isn’t not Your GPU but CPU. CPU overall can also Limit Your GPU in which case it won’t work as it should by not reciving instructions form CPU.

Yeh cause sims 3 and KoA are demanding games like gw2.

And seriously You mentioned Refund first

“Yes I said Anet better give me support because I am there customer and they need to treat their customers with respect. If you buy a broken TV from best buy and walk back in saying you want a refund and best buy saying “Oh sorry we can’t refund it because you were the one who bought it and now own it, we no longer have any control of it.” Even though you bought it under their name it makes their support look bad if they don’t try to help even if its obvious they can’t. Trying is better then just flat out saying “Your fault, go away.””

Please Man before You post anything new Think of what Your writing before You post anything New.

And yes whole game reinstall is smart idea.
Smarter is using -repair function. But well who cares.

WoW.

How can U compare a broken TV vs a game bought ?
You realize those are 2 totaly different aspects of Law?

First one, the TV is warranty – which You get for every thing You Buy, Even games BUT there is big BUT. You won’t get warranty on the fact that game is not workign properly for You Because You did Not, and i’ll repeat that once again. You did not met minimum requiremets so You cannot Demand anything up on warranty law.

The kind of warranty that aplies to games was meet and mostly introduced during Mass effect 3 release when Creators Made a promise there will be 14 different endings. In reality there were 3-4. So customers bought game with 1 goal to go trought it 14 times to see different endings which in that case werent delivered and they Could ask money back.

The TV itself got warranty for flaws it might have. Flaws that can occur during Using it etc. which are not FAULT of User.

So basically before You come and demand something, please go read some even most simple law books when it comes to warranty and overall Customer service/selling/buying policies.

And You sir. Bought game. You read the term of Use while You installed it. You read minimum requirements on Box itself. And Yet You demand something that noone can help You with because game wasn’t tested On below Minimum requirements.
Now Anet won’t hire whole new team of computer programists Just to investigate Your case.

My friends and my gf love me of the fact I take things to whole new level. Life is never boring with me.

Also it seems that for You it wasn’t sarcasm at all.
Otherwise You wouldn’t delete this post

" bbanfillov.9308:

If the game plays and I am enjoying their game they better kitten well give me support."

Which clearly proves my point.
But Hey. Maybe at some point You realized stupidness of Words You wrote and you decided to delete them and change yours attitude by 180 degree

Are You aware of what are You saying ?

“…or they can just blow of their customers, be known for their crappy service, me writing a review on them making more people not play GW2 and leading up to the grand finale of them losing more players….or they could simply write 50 words to tell me how to improve my performance.”

These are Your words. Like to me it’s sounds like little kid’s raging because he can’t run this game because he didn’t meet minimum requirements ( HD3000 intel graphics ).

Your pc apart from maybe I don’t know, old call of duty won’t handle anything at minimum reuirements after 2010 year game.

So No. It’s not Your computer problem arising from dead or any wierd stuff going on. It’s Your outdated low end integrated graphic card which cannot handle new games in which You clearly trying to play with no minimum requirements.

Solution ?

Get new god kitten rig.

bbanfillov.9308:

I guess simple words that Anet could give me the fix my system could possibly help them in the future with keeping the community and also the budget from me buying content…or they can just blow of their customers, be known for their crappy service, me writing a review on them making more people not play GW2 and leading up to the grand finale of them losing more players….or they could simply write 50 words to tell me how to improve my performance.

You should’t judge Anet so incredibly strong on how they function either that or you had bad customer suppport with a game in the past and think Anet will be the same. But seriously keep your ideas on how Anet will support players to yourselves and actually give useful and potent information and not troll discriptions. Thanks.

Seriously how much of an prick ignorant You are?

You know that HD2000 intel graphic card is far below Minimum game requirements And Yet You come here, yelling around that game doesn’t work as it should, blaming Arena net for thier support in which case they don’t have to do this because: Guess what. You did not bother to meet minimum game requirements and yet You want THEM to or even force them to come here and somehow magicaly make game work for You.

Also they are not blowing anyone off. Why ? because You have brain. There are many informations on BOX of the game. Even in freaking internet itself. Go read forums before You buy something. and Stop Blaming someone who made a wonderfull game and You can’t play it because of ur slackness.

You opinion or review will only show how stupid You are.

Guess what there are ppl with PC rigs that are far beyond minimum requirements and game isn’t working for them properly so they will get support first as they passed first and only needed point. They meet minimum rig that game requires.

In more simple words for You.
Go to a restaurant in which requirement to get serviced is wearing a Suite. And wear a t-kitten. I wanna see You getting serviced there.
Suite – no matter how expensive is, it’s suite in this case You can go buy cheap one, but you have to meet that minimum requirement which suite is. Same with this game. You need minimum PC rig to get serviced by support team because game was designed for that minimum RIg and beyond. NOT BELOW IT.

we just told you how to improve your performance.
get pc that meets minimum requiremets.

bbanfillov.9308:

If the game plays and I am enjoying their game they better kitten well give me support.

No they don’t have to.
You bought this game reading all the stuff from back panel of box, along with minimum requirements.

And as You don’t meet minimum requirements for game to play/start it they don’t have to bother with You because You knew form start, after your read that info and agreed for all terms of use that You don’t meet minimum requirements and yet You decided to get this game.

The fault on Low fps or barely No fps in that case is only Your problem.

I know how harsh that sounds but it’s law itself.

You got 2 options:
- upgrade Your pc getting even lowest possible parts like i3 cpu with low card like ATi HD 7770
- put Your game back to box and uinstall it cause I can’t see anyone with decent IQ play game on 20 fps at all times. Thats just hurtfull for your eyes.

And seriously 500$ for those upgrades which well lemme check.
Intel 1155 Motherboard extreme series 150$ – checked
Intel i5-3570K/i7-2600/2700K – 280-350$ checked

Massive FPS increase upping even to 120 FPS in normal zones and stayin on 60 FPS during events with no massive spike downs with that 660 OC’d and CPU/GPu which will last for at least 2-3 years giving amazing performance vs fx 6100 + stuff You took… not a good deal man… not a good deal…

For that 500$ and work You’ve put into it, every smart man would Just take Intel combo :>

So let me sum it up for You.

You have a 6100 FX AMD CPu. Old bulldozer which even AMD admit it ti was a crap not a CPU.

fx 6100 is compared wel I don’t kno… old Phenoms x4 BE. they are at par with single core performance.

FX 6300 is better. i5-2500k is better. even i3 would be better then that fx 6100.

People with i7-3930K oc’d to 4,5GHZ can’t get constant 50 FPS during massive zergs in WvW Yet You claim that you get constant 50 fps in WvW with BAD, i’ll repeat. B A D CPU which is fx6100.

So please post a screen shot of You having 50 FPS in massive zerg or stop giving false info.
Cause there is serious difference in 50 FPS in wvw while standing and staring in kitten empty field and going to serious Zerg.

I, with my i3-3220 Im getting 60+ FPS in WvW maps staring on fields or castles/forts with no ppl in them spiking down to 23 in massive zergs and i3 is far better then fx 6100.

So please stop feeding wrong/bad info.

In graphican options menu Lower :
Shadows from ultra to high/medium
Reflections from all to terrain & sky or turn them off.

both these options on ultra/max sett will cause You to lose a lot of fps as they are bugged.

So each time You enter zone, your get 3-4 second shutter due to your GPU trying to load every single reflection possible on the map with shadows etc.

10 fps on that CPU is totaly fine.
Intel at some point released 2 types of 2 core CPU’s.
There was mostly knows Core 2 duo E series and dual core series.
Dual core were basically core 2 duo cutt with cache etc so there were much weaker and you couldn’t really oc’ them at all.

I had once duel core 2600 ( or smth like that ) untill i changed to core 2 duo e4600.

With his CPU this fps is normal ( on my e4600 before changing to i3 i had 16 fps constant no matter of graphical sett ).

Nop.
I wouldn’t count on it to run on AMD CPu with 1,9GHz clock.
This is far to low even as for amd CPu.

Truth is that to play this game with fine fps You need Laptop for 1000$ minimum.

With this buget ( which is really really low… ) i’d suggest you go to this site :

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/3074-No-Upgrades-for-5-2-Items-5-2-Transmog-Changes-Blue-Tweets-Setup-of-the-Month

And scroll down. You will have there 2 comp setups “puppy” and “doplhin”
Just swap CPU’’s. Get Puppy most items except CPU& motherboard which Youll take from doplhin ( i3-3320 + Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H ) along with hd7770 this game should run smooth apart WvW and massive events

The spec You posted is totaly good/fine.
Just OC CPU to 4,5ghz on air cooling and Youll be fine.

On Your CPu or GPU ?

CPu to work optimal can’t go past around 70-80Celcius
While some GPu’s will work fine even with around 100Celcius ( mine GPu oc’d works with GW2 at around 75-80C margin. while CPU at 45-50. )

You can also get better cooling, replace some fans in your PC case etc.