During recent beta events, a troubling lag issue cropped up for testers worried that their systems just might not be up to Guild Wars 2. That has been largely laid to rest. Check out what we discovered in our latest Guild Wars 2 column. Leave us your thoughts in the comments.

I spoke with a few of the developers during previous beta events, and it seemed like optimization was near the top of their list of “things to do”. They are trying to make the game run properly on a number of different machines. This can be a tough task, but it involves allowing the graphics to be switched to a large variety of different settings, and also modeling both characters and environments to look amazing, yet easy to render at the same time. Trust me, this is harder than it sounds. On a model, if you need to take out a few polygons, you better have an amazing texture in place to keep the model looking great. And that’s just a part of the battle! The programmers have to do their part as well. What do the programmers do exactly? I’m not actually sure, I’m just a concept artist. I just paint pretty pictures. The point is that there’s a lot of work that goes into making the game work on a variety of different PCs, and ArenaNet is doing it. During the previous events, I took notes to compare how the game ran to measure ArenNets progress. Here’s what I came up with.

Read more of David North's Guild Wars 2: Progress You Can See.

This happened all the time during the first beta event.

Must be your rig.

GW2 is the perfect game and there are no flaws in it.

wish I could comment on this article.....

It would be nice if you guys from mmorpg make a short overview on your different experiences with information about the different computers you own. It should sound like this:

1. I have an i5 and a geforce 560, etc ..... i had this kind of lag in this kind of situation with that kind of ingame settings.

2. I have an i7, and ......

3.

After such a report it would be great to give some hints were players should concentrate their upgrades: new CPU, just more RAM, new graphic card, or is it a good idea to save the game on SSD?

Originally posted by GoldenArrow

Must be your rig.

GW2 is the perfect game and there are no flaws in it.

*scoff*  I concurr! *scoff* *strokes neckbeard*

I still haven't seen a game that has solved this problem yet. Most games turn into lagfests with large scale PvP.

Originally posted by Atlan99

I still haven't seen a game that has solved this problem yet. Most games turn into lagfests with large scale PvP.

mmmmmhhhhmmmm, AION anyone?

buy a new upgrades for this game. as they should !

GW2 shouldnt hold back becouse of cheap-poor -people.

GW2= For the rich!    WoW= for the Poor

ats what i say!  yar!

Originally posted by Whiskeydust



@ninjapwnstar .... You scared???? You can't focus on this thread can you?



What does Tera have to do with this free lag fest of a



Game???

 

Oh hey there :) lol u gunna send me a pvt msg again about how tera wins all? im not scared at all what i think .. is ur scared of me bein right cuz ur so in love with tera u dont wanna be  on a server with 20 ppl when gw2 comes out ;) anyway im done with u have fun failing

It might be worth noticing that it mostly was relative new computers with good setup that had reported dissapointing performance in the last events, leading some to conclude that ArenaNet already had nailed the optimisation for most low-mid end PC with older hardware. And with that it should be easy to have faith in that ArenaNet would catch up with the high end stuff and recent bought equipment.

Atleast with no  sub fee they can use that money to upgrade there PC if need be.

Originally posted by Four0Six

Originally posted by Atlan99

I still haven't seen a game that has solved this problem yet. Most games turn into lagfests with large scale PvP.

mmmmmhhhhmmmm, AION anyone?

Aion, Lineage 2, KoK3 and EVE Online have used various solutions from optimizing the crap out of Unreal 2 to heavily customized supercomputers and net code.

Originally posted by Four0Six

Originally posted by Atlan99

I still haven't seen a game that has solved this problem yet. Most games turn into lagfests with large scale PvP.

mmmmmhhhhmmmm, AION anyone?

 

GW2 runs on quantum computers and has artificial intelligence directing the proxies. Everybody who will play GW2 has 20MB internet connections and GTX 560 installed.

Of course WvW is going to be Aion. Whoever thinks you can get a unlimited amount of people into a zone are wrong. [Mod Edit]

Looking forward to playing this weekend. They got my money , so far solely through advertising and online gaming site reports. 

I haven't played the game, there's no demo, and no one I know has played it. But I pre-ordered. 

The marketing machine is working, definitely.

As for Tera, I tried their open beta and the game's production values are high. Certainly no complaints there, but it wasn't really my style of play and didn't draw me into the gameworld the way I would have liked. 

I'm hoping Guild Wars 2 doesn't disappoint.

Er ..... How is it possible to see the famous "lag / framerate issue" mistake in an official column ?

Lag = internet delay

Framerate issue = system delay

VERY different :)

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Originally posted by k-damage
Er ..... How is it possible to see the famous "lag / framerate issue" mistake in an official column ?Lag = internet delayFramerate issue = system delayVERY different :)

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Yeah, it is rather embarrassing.

Originally posted by k-damage

Er ..... How is it possible to see the famous "lag / framerate issue" mistake in an official column ?

Lag = internet delay

Framerate issue = system delay

VERY different :)

 

I think he was talking of the graphical lag seen on the screen as a result of framerate issues, not the internet lag