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My PC performance prediction?
Vaelgard
Member UncommonPosts: 65
in Guild Wars 2
Hi all. I haven't played in any of the betas, and I have heard a lot of performance concerns with mid to low end PCs. I was wondering how you think it would run on my computer. I bought a gaming laptop a couple years ago. It was really good then, but now I wonder. It runs Skyrim really well, TERA meh.. decently, and WoW quite well. I want to make sure I can enjoy GW2 on decent settings!
Specs:
Intel i5 M 430 processor @ 2.27GHz
NVidia Geforce GTS 360M Video Card with 1GB RAM
4GB RAM (not sure the speed of it)
Thanks for your help!
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Don't think you should have much of a problem. My PC is
i5 750 3.0 gHz (OC'd to 3.66)
ATI Radeon 5770 1GB (somewhat OC'd, can't remember exact njumbers of the clock speeds)
4 GB DDR3 Ram
Windows 7 64-bit
And I run all maxed except shadows (medium) and AA off, 1900x1200, and no issues.
Thank you guys very much your computer are almost like mine that means i can play wiht n problome too.
Well the problem is that all the beta's and stress test were Processer locked. Except high end I7's.Some did utilize your GPU but not all. I did see my GPU being utilized and my CPU but not all cores. My Fiance use to run a dual core AMD with a 1g 5 series Ati and she had major issues. We just upgraded her last week to a Quad AMD 8 and a Ati 6 series and her perfomance in the last beta was amazing she had everything maxed with no lagg....
The problem you may face is you will be able to play it mid and enjoy or even high but when you come across tons of texture rendering I.E lots of Peeps/Cities even large bosses you will have major lag.I would say you will be okay as 90% of the CPU's were locked and GPU's weren't being utilized. I do know that if you are running an I7 you won't face any issues as Anet has stated the game was built around the I7 platform so obivously that makes it easier.As for me I ran maxed out on Eyefiinity with all shadows and all rendering. my set up is as follows:
I7990x 3.4 OCd to 4.7
Two 6970's 2 gig XFX on X-fire (game didn't utilize crossfire ;-( but was using 60% of my primary GPU)
24 Gigs of ram @ 2200fsb
200gig SSD (fast load times but not a big diff between mine and my fiances 10k Raptor)
3 30 inch Asus LED's.
Hope it helps and best of luck! P.S This is Anets Minimal specs:Our goal with Guild Wars 2 is to have it run on a wide range of Windows gaming PCs.
Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or better • Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon 64 X2, or better • 2 GB RAM • NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI X1800, Intel HD 3000, or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better) • 25 GB available HDD space • Broadband Internet connection • Keyboard and mouse
Note: Due to potential changes, system requirements may change over time and you may be required to upgrade your current system (or obtain a new system) to continue to play the game.
Guy asks if his laptop will run the game.
Others reply with their Desktop specs.
Makes sense.
Giving him an idea of perfomance based of a system spec is easier then saying Yes it will work or no it won't...As some people cores were being utilized and other's weren't...
Except the OP stated that he was running on a gaming laptop he bought a few years ago.
Interesting that you say that. It's weird actually. It runs things incredibly well at its native resolution (1300whatever x 768) but it has a lot of issues when I try to maximize the resolution for my external monitor at 1920x1080. I wonder how GW2 looks at 1300x768. I know that WoW looks like crap, but Skyrim looks great. Hmmm.
My friend played on my dual core amd 2.8ghz w 6 gigs of ram and an old nvidia card w 256 mb. Though he didn't get the greatest performance it was very playable. I think you will be good but wvwvw is where I could see you having the most problems.
Hope this helps...
See the problem you have is that Skyrim is rendered allready yes it does render as you going on but your cache for your GPU and drive allready have it stored or about to be writing. Yet for G2 as the enviorment is constanty changing you will most likely have issue @ higher res...
Honestly man I think you will be fine as most people can't go off beta as I stated due to CPU lock when the game release it will be optimized..
The GTS 360 is a decent card and will run it at 1366x768 with no problems I'd imagine.
edit: misread
My machine isn't much better or worse than anything I've seen on here. It was running smoothly for me at certain times; but, during peak hours it got a bit laggy; but, I figured it was doing that because it's not fully optimized. Though I did read that some people were having CPU issues. The game was over using their processors. It's suppose to be getting taken care of according to a comment that the devs made on the subject.
LOL.. just had to note that this comment made me lose my soda...
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I have a laptop for my kids that I tested gw2 on, AMD A6-3400, Radeon 6755G2 (which is about the same as the GTS 360M), your processor (i5 M430) is faster.
All settings on Ultra and it ran with some noticeable stuttering, but not as much as I thought.
Ran it with most settings on high, with some tweaked to medium (shadows, etc.) and it ran really well with no noticeable slowdown at all. (Can't recall the FPS, did put -perf on the .exe, I don't want to make up numbers so I won't hazard a guess)
Game looked great for the settings it was on at the native res, (1366 x 768). Obviously looked better on my desktop which I could run all Ultra @ 1920 x 1080 without a sweat, but I wasn't disappointed at all.
You shouldn't have any problems playing, and if you choose to upgrade in the future, at least you can play now.
Thanks for all the help guys. I'm glad that the game looks ok at 1366x768. The reason I asked was that obviously the laptop cards are really optimized for low resolution, plus WoW looks like absolute CRAP at 1366x768, as does TERA. As long as the UI and stuff scale down well enough, I should be happy!
I would expect for you to run on balanced settings fine but may have to move to lowest settings when around a lot of people.
A direct consequence of having only 1 GB ram on the video card.
Well i have DELL XPS 1647
Specs are:
Intel i5 2.4ghz
Ati 4670 mobility 1gb
4gb RAM
In hugely populated areas it runs around 20fps, fairly smooth frame rate with V sync enabled.
Everywhere else it runs around 30fps give or take a few depending on the area.
FYI this is with balanced settings, windowed mode and Sound quality on HQ.
One advice for setting up your PC, choose your settings so you have a good performance during mass events both PvE and PvP.
The biggest mistake you can make is setting up your graphics in an empty zone, and then get sad when you find out that your DPS drops in busy mass events, Because it will happen, thats just how these games work.
So when deciding if hardware is good enough, you should aim for atleast 30fps on lowest settings during mass events.
And i have absolutely now clue what hardware is needed to reach that.
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