Guild Wars 2

Then it only matters to find a good bargain for i7 now

Cheers for you guys ! You helped me a lot to make a decision.

Many thanks for your reply !

This is exactly my point here – will the performance boost be worth of investing? I have read another thread on this forum. There was a statement that even the strongest desktop rigs will not handle WvW “zerg” well.

In my case however the CPU can’t even handle the the PvE well. I am afraid it might spoil this fine game.

Can you advise if my understanding is correct? My CPU can run 4 threads, however each pair share one physical core. The game uses up to 3 threads. When it is hot out there (CPU is 100% busy, 3T are running) 2 of them will run at 50% efficiency (resources sharing). If this is true, quad CPU will indeed give a good kick here.

Hi there and greetings to the whole GW community !

I seek your advice. I’ve recently restarted my GW experience installing the game on a new laptop. It is a unit from the MSI range – GE60 0ND i5-3230M/8GB/GTX660M. For the in-game GFX settings I put my trust in autodetect, which basically lowered all sliders to low. The game works like a charm for most of the time, but yesterday I participated in the “great jungle wurm” event… and it was a slide show battle for me. I reckon it could be even worse on WvW later on (haven’t tried WvW yet).

My laptop might require some tune up.

I read on various sites that GW2 is CPU bound. I’ve done some testing and indeed, my i5 CPU is at its full capacity while GFX still has some juice to offer.

I address my questions to all fellow owners of GTX660m and i7 CPU:
1. How does the GW2 perform on your rig? Can you tell what is your frame rate at big events like jungle worm?
2. How about gfx settings (low/medium/high)?

You see, I am trying to explain purchase of a new CPU to myself

It seems the issue was solved in the latest patch. Good work AN !

Hi,

It seems there is a known bug linked to Black Lion Trading Co fonts. Basically texts are unreadable when the UI is set to small (see the attachment).

I was looking for a fix, but didn’t find anything useful. Is there a way to restore proper display of BLTC without adjusting the UI size?

Looking forward to see your answers !