Originally posted by Homitu

Originally posted by BilboDoggins

Originally posted by Deathenger
I would love to see more replys from thoes who are running max graphics and what their specs are. It should provide a good baseline for "current" minimum specs to run max graphics. I'm sporting the same memory, processor not oc'ed and 2x5770's with a similar HD. Be nice to see who has a similar spec and what their performance was like

Its CPU bottlenecked so no matter how good your GPU is its not gonna matter right now.

I have a 6970 2gb GPU and 1090t Black Ed. 3.6 ghz OC and it doesnt matter if I run the game in the lowest or highest settings, the frame rates stay virtually the same.

 

When they optimize it most of these problems should go away but for now most people will get awful-poor performance except those with either REALLY high end CPU's or people who have OC's their CPU's well beyond the default settings. at least 4.0ghz but probably more around 4.5-5ghz which I would NOT recommend trying unless you know what your doing.

They've definitely put much more of the load on the GPU now.  Mine was barely working at all during the first 2 BWEs, but it's getting a good workout this time around.  

I'm using a single 5770, I7 860 clocked at manufacturer settings (2.88GHz) and can run every setting pretty much maxxed (only shaders toned down to medium) without any framerate issues.  There's no in game option to view FPS at the moment, and I haven't gone out of my way to use an external program to find out, but I can confidently estimate that I've kept over 40 fps for the majority of the game and around 25-30 fps during the most stressful moments.  

I noticed the same. Went from 30-40fps in certain areas to 60+ (and with more players around) so there deff working out the kinks. I even saw a few 80+ moments in WvWvW :o (thats with a i5 2500 and a 6850 oc'ed)

Originally posted by Deathenger
I would love to see more replys from thoes who are running max graphics and what their specs are. It should provide a good baseline for "current" minimum specs to run max graphics. I'm sporting the same memory, processor not oc'ed and 2x5770's with a similar HD. Be nice to see who has a similar spec and what their performance was like

Running 5280x1050 with a 7970 overclocked a bit and an i7-950 at 4.2Ghz. All settings maxed in game.

I put up a load of screenshots in this thread here http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/358004/Some-screenshots-from-BWE3.html

I'm running: 

i5-2500k @ 3.3 GHz

8 GB Ram

SSD

ATI 6970

In most areas when I glance down at my fps its about 40 on max everything.  In some DE it drops into the teens and other areas it caps out at 60.

To add, 1080p resolution.

Originally posted by Homitu

They've definitely put much more of the load on the GPU now.  Mine was barely working at all during the first 2 BWEs, but it's getting a good workout this time around.  

As a backup to this post, BWE2 I was seeing about 30% GPU use out of my 6970.  BWE3 it was about 80%.

Hey Guys,

Have ran all 3 BWE's with max settings and not a single hitch.  running win 7 64x, asus mb, i5 2320 w/12g and a gtx 560 ti

Originally posted by QSatu

You have 4.5GHz cpu, that's why you get such nice performance =]

According to some posts from Anet tech support on their forums this weekend, some people who over-clocked their Hardware were expected to get WORSE PERFORMANCE than people who set it to Factory Defaults.  ...this is due to them STILL not completely having the game optimized for all hardware.   AMD users in particular but also a few Nvidia people with newer buggy drivers also had really bad performance despite having really new and expensive hardware.

For me, WvWvW was completely unplayable at 3-4 fps in the large battles yet I have a HD6790 that runs most Unreal-Engine games at a comfy 50-60 FPS on average.  ...this is really concerning to me since there's no way I'm going to afford a new Quad/Hex CPU in time for release so I just have to hope that the new AMD Beta drivers along with Anet, fixes this issue for me b/c my GFX card should be handling 40-man fights in WvWvW (but right now the FANS don't even kick on which tells me it's not even using the GPU right now).

i run everything maxed out (except shadows, which are on medium i think).

i7 920 OC'd to 4.0

gtx 570

6gb ddr3

my perfomance has improved over the BWE's, BWE3 being very smooth in all areas. the biggest change for me going from BWE 2 into 3 was fps in Lion's Arch. went up from something like 20 to ~40ish.

Originally posted by sammyeli

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by sammyeli

Remember Xfire and SLI are not supported so you are just using one GPU also GW 2 is CPU heavy game looking at my loads I have a GTX 580 and it just sits around at 30% load graphics maxed out. They also did tweaking friday night so in certain areas I was getting around 160-190 FPS and in WvWin massive battles roughly around 35+ fps with you know like 200+ players, I do turn shadows off in WvW. 

Also my specs are :-

Intel 990X @ 4GHZ now

12 GB Corsair Dominator running triple channel @ 2030Mhz

GTX 580 OC'c core 850Mhz

2 x 120GB Crucial M4 SSDs Raid 0

Corsair 1200watt PSU

1200W? Lol, why don't you just plug it straight into Tjernobyl?

And I thought my Corsair V2 950W was extreme overkill. :)

Well I initialy bought it because I was going for tri SLI, then I stopped because of IVY bridge, but now I will be doign a full SLI since nVidia will release their own CPU hopefully soon and I will not be spending any money on a new comp until that comes out, so It is a good buy.

 

Also I am ordering full Liquid cooling thats another hit on the PSU, I am going for over kill cooling that includes RAM + Chipset + tri SLI GPU cooling + CPU  and proper air flow through the PC, so it will help out with the extra power.

This i didnt know about, thanks for the heads up :). Really thought nVidia were just sticking to mobile processors.

Originally posted by Zezda

Originally posted by Deathenger
I would love to see more replys from thoes who are running max graphics and what their specs are. It should provide a good baseline for "current" minimum specs to run max graphics. I'm sporting the same memory, processor not oc'ed and 2x5770's with a similar HD. Be nice to see who has a similar spec and what their performance was like

Running 5280x1050 with a 7970 overclocked a bit and an i7-950 at 4.2Ghz. All settings maxed in game.

I put up a load of screenshots in this thread here http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/358004/Some-screenshots-from-BWE3.html

One of these days, someone will get Grass right :)

Honestly, not THAT impressed with the graphics. I'd say it's comparible to what WoW's would be on a newer engine. By WoW I mean the way the art was done made it look better than it actually was which is what this game does. I think TSW has much better eye candy TBH... and planetside 2, once everyone actually gets to experience it first hand, will completely blow you away.

I tweked the graphics to make the game look good and run smooth on my crappy laptop

I7 2.00 GHz

NVIDIA 540M

8 gigs DDR3

1366 X 768 Res

WIN 7 X 64

(No shadows)

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by BilboDoggins

Originally posted by Deathenger
I would love to see more replys from thoes who are running max graphics and what their specs are. It should provide a good baseline for "current" minimum specs to run max graphics. I'm sporting the same memory, processor not oc'ed and 2x5770's with a similar HD. Be nice to see who has a similar spec and what their performance was like

Its CPU bottlenecked so no matter how good your GPU is its not gonna matter right now.

I have a 6970 2gb GPU and 1090t Black Ed. 3.6 ghz OC and it doesnt matter if I run the game in the lowest or highest settings, the frame rates stay virtually the same.

When they optimize it most of these problems should go away but for now most people will get awful-poor performance except those with either REALLY high end CPU's or people who have OC's their CPU's well beyond the default settings. at least 4.0ghz but probably more around 4.5-5ghz which I would NOT recommend trying unless you know what your doing.

They said that the CPU is currently the bottleneck in high end system yes. That does not mean that the GPU don't matter, a bad GPU will still suck. Crossfire was disabled here so your 2 cards doesn´t really help at all at the moment.

My hexacore on the other hand worked surprisingly good here. :) I didn't even clock it up, I decided to try first and see if I had to, but I had great performance all the time (it is water cooled so I had plan to clock it up from 3,2 to 3,8).

But yeah, the engine needs optimization.

Between BWE2 and BWE3 I upgrade from an ATI 4870x2 to a NVIDIA GTX690 and saw very significant performance gains.

Also I run a fairly old chip.  A i7 920 @ 2.67GHz.  With 6GB of RAM.

I was able to run with max settings with acceptable framerates but with occasional wierd problems after a zone in.  I backed everything down to medium, but I did all of the sylvari lands with everything to high and shadows to Ultra.  Not sure what my FPS was but probably in the 40s.

With this set up I can run TSW with almost everything to max settings and get about 50 FPS most of the time.

My conclusion is the GPU does matter.  The CPU does not matter that much.  But mostly likely they are not taking full advantage of all the GPUs a GTX690 could use.  Sure it probably pushes my CPU pretty hard, but in the end having a better CPU probably would do very little.

i7-2700k @ 4.5 GHz
16 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB

Was getting 60-90 fps most of the time in the open world with everything maxed. My fps would peak up to 110+ sometimes. In heavy battles such as big DEs or WvW, I would still stay at a solid 40+ fps. GPU load was around 80-90% mostly.

To compare with BWE2, I was getting 40-70 fps most of the time, and the GPU load was around 40-50%.

Ran it with everything maxed out and had no issues with fps at all at 1920x1080.

COMPUTER SPECS

*Windows 7 - 64 Bit

*Tower: Cooler Master 922 HAF added a few fans

*Processor: Intel Core i5-2500k 3.3ghz OC'ed to 4.4ghz

*Ram: 8GB 1866mhz g.skill sniper series

*Graphics Card: 2 ran in SLI - MSI GTX 560 TI OC'd core's to 950 and memory 2170

*Mother Board: Asrock P67 Extreme4

*Power Supply: CorsairTX 850watt

*Storage: Samsung 830 128gb SSD & Samsung Spinpoint F3 1tb *GW2 is on the SSD

Originally posted by Deathenger
I would love to see more replys from thoes who are running max graphics and what their specs are. It should provide a good baseline for "current" minimum specs to run max graphics. I'm sporting the same memory, processor not oc'ed and 2x5770's with a similar HD. Be nice to see who has a similar spec and what their performance was like

AMD PH II 3,2 x6 Ghz, 480 GTX, 8 gigs DDR3 1333, 4 raided Intel X-25 SSDs.

Excellent performance with maxed out graphics.

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by Deathenger
I would love to see more replys from thoes who are running max graphics and what their specs are. It should provide a good baseline for "current" minimum specs to run max graphics. I'm sporting the same memory, processor not oc'ed and 2x5770's with a similar HD. Be nice to see who has a similar spec and what their performance was like

AMD PH II 3,2 x6 Ghz, 480 GTX, 8 gigs DDR3 1333, 4 raided Intel X-25 SSDs.

Excellent performance with maxed out graphics.

I call bullshit, a pos phenom cant run with excellent performance on max settings. Your cpu is just too shit to run good on only one core.

Its nice we all talk about what our in-game setting is and cards we use but, what are the settings use in the gpu contol panel? anyone running on max setting there?

Originally posted by quickshotz

 

There isnt anything the control panel can really add other then color saturation or other AA methods

There is also the handful of settings where you choose between "high performance", "performance", "quality" and "high quality".   Those do make a difference, I assume.

As far as the thread topic goes, for those asking for performance and system specs.  I get a pretty consistent 100-120 fps in the game when just running around and doing stuff.  It drops as low as 80-90 fps in PvE when doing events where there is a whole lot of other people and other activity around and down to the 60-70 range in very crowded WvWvW areas.  

This is with all settings cranked up to the absolute max in both the games and in the Nvidia control panel.  Except AA, which I do not like the look of, so it is turned off.

Edited to add: I have adaptive vsync turned on in the control panel, so 120 fps is as high as it can go (that's my refresh rate).

My specs are:

• EVGA GEFORCE GTX 690 Video Card
• INTEL I7-3820 3.6 GHZ CPU, Overclocked to 4.3 GHz with liquid cooling
• ASUS X79 RAMPAGE IV EXTREME Motherboard
• 16 GB DDR3/ 2000 MHZ MEMORY 

anyone CRAZY enough to try the game on a Toshiba NB550D netbook? 

Just for the laughs that is :)