sorry i have another question

Say I have a 6870 video card...  then I'm on an old Q6600.  6GB of ram DDR2.

If you were to guess, would I struggle playing on 1920x1080?  From my experience in BWE1, it was playable with high/med settings but not entirely smooth, felt rugid at times.  

I think about going lower resolution,  

Originally posted by kluu

sorry i have another question

 

Say I have a 6870 video card...  then I'm on an old Q6600.  6GB of ram DDR2.

 

If you were to guess, would I struggle playing on 1920x1080?  From my experience in BWE1, it was playable with high/med settings but not entirely smooth, felt rugid at times.  

 

I think about going lower resolution,  

I had a comparable CPU and i was struggling on 1680x1050 during mass events, even at lowest settings, upgrade your MB and CPU

Originally posted by kluu

sorry i have another question

 

Say I have a 6870 video card...  then I'm on an old Q6600.  6GB of ram DDR2.

 

If you were to guess, would I struggle playing on 1920x1080?  From my experience in BWE1, it was playable with high/med settings but not entirely smooth, felt rugid at times.  

 

I think about going lower resolution,  

Use the "auto detect" it works well to find out the settings for your computer.

I have a Q9400, which is a bit stronger that your CPU

http://ark.intel.com/products/29765/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q6600-%288M-Cache-2_40-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB%29

http://ark.intel.com/products/35365/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q9400-%286M-Cache-2_66-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB%29

and a 5850 GPU. I was playing on 1920x1080 with the auto-detect settings without issues. In large scale battles in WvWvW performance dropped a bit, but I think it was because the game wasn't using the GPU as much there (oddly enough) I already sent a bug report about it

Originally posted by kluu
Does  SLI work and does the game use multiple cores on the cpu?

I have SLI since a week now. Tried it in the stress-test yesterday evening, but GW2 is still not optimized for GPU usage -> CPU has all cores on 100% and GPUs are on 10% or so >:(

Fun to mention is that when I launch the GW2 loader, both GPUs are showing more activity then in-game (approx 25%). Not sure why that is, but I guess it means that GW2 will support SLI at release.

I have an i7 920 and it runs on all cores.

I also have two HD5770's Crossfired and would realy like to know if these are going to be optimally used. Two HD5770's is fine - one is average, so it will make a lot of difference to me.

Having said that, had a blast in the stress test last night and noticed a real difference to the appearance of the game with the AA finally active.

Would be nice to hear from ANet on this issue.

Originally posted by Reizla

Originally posted by kluu
Does  SLI work and does the game use multiple cores on the cpu?

I have SLI since a week now. Tried it in the stress-test yesterday evening, but GW2 is still not optimized for GPU usage -> CPU has all cores on 100% and GPUs are on 10% or so >:(

Fun to mention is that when I launch the GW2 loader, both GPUs are showing more activity then in-game (approx 25%). Not sure why that is, but I guess it means that GW2 will support SLI at release.

How did you check the activity of your GPU?

MSI Afterburner showed my GPU being used more than 50%

The first "drop" is when I opened the map, the second is when I alt+tabbed take the screenshot.

Originally posted by Caliburn101

I have an i7 920 and it runs on all cores.

I also have two HD5770's Crossfired and would realy like to know if these are going to be optimally used. Two HD5770's is fine - one is average, so it will make a lot of difference to me.

Having said that, had a blast in the stress test last night and noticed a real difference to the appearance of the game with the AA finally active.

Would be nice to hear from ANet on this issue.

I've got the same GPU setup as you have, and in last BWE one of the GPUs was used at some places, mostly underwater. The other one had no activity. I meant to bring up MSI overlay yesterday during the stress test, but time sort of...flew by, and I ended up forgetting about it. I did get better fps though, so I'm assuming one GPU was getting utilized somewhat, but judging by the lack of GPU fan sounds from the rig, having two 5770's is currently not doing much good.

Judging by their wording of "AMD CrossFire™ and NVIDIA® SLI™ are not currently supported.", we'll be getting support for them at some point.

Originally posted by Caliburn101

Two HD5770's is fine - one is average, so it will make a lot of difference to me.

Pretty much why I have always prefered one single high end card than two slower ones. Money wise, you end paying the same (if not less), but you are not annoyed by compatibility and optimization problems.

In my opinion, unless you have a huge resolution (like 3 or more 1280x1200 screens), SLI/CROSSFIRE is pretty much useless and is only asking for unnecessary trouble for minor performance gains.

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

Originally posted by Caliburn101

Two HD5770's is fine - one is average, so it will make a lot of difference to me.

Pretty much why I have always prefered one single high end card than two slower ones. Money wise, you end paying the same (if not less), but you are not annoyed by compatibility and optimization problems.

In my opinion, unless you have a huge resolution (like 3 or more 1280x1200 screens), SLI/CROSSFIRE is pretty much useless and is only asking for unnecessary trouble for minor performance gains.

I bought the rig two years ago for Age of Conan which has very demanding graphics - I just use one screen although it's a biggie, and don't need all the power with GW2, but it would be nice to have high frame rates in WvWvW - it's great everywhere else and perfectly acceptable as it is now in WvWvW anyway....

Fingers crossed it isn't too long before they make it compatible.

Originally posted by Reizla

Originally posted by kluu
Does  SLI work and does the game use multiple cores on the cpu?

I have SLI since a week now. Tried it in the stress-test yesterday evening, but GW2 is still not optimized for GPU usage -> CPU has all cores on 100% and GPUs are on 10% or so >:(

Fun to mention is that when I launch the GW2 loader, both GPUs are showing more activity then in-game (approx 25%). Not sure why that is, but I guess it means that GW2 will support SLI at release.

How is your GPU only 10% when most of the time im at 90%+..... What do you guys use to check? MSI afterburner or PrecisionX?? I have the later.

XFire does not work(last weend i finally managed to play with it on with out the game crapping out on me), and it seems to be utilizing 1-2 Cores since on a quad core CPU with it runnig the overall CPU load never went beyond 40-50% even with junk like Skype, and even an instance of Microsoft SQL running in the backround.

The memory requirements of the game seemed to be improving, it no longer yanks 3.8GB of memory like it did 3-4 beta weekends ago.

It seemes to run pretty stable now on my 7850(OC edition) at around 70FPS with everything set to its highest setting @ 1980x1200.

Originally posted by Epic1oots

Originally posted by Reizla

Originally posted by kluu
Does  SLI work and does the game use multiple cores on the cpu?

I have SLI since a week now. Tried it in the stress-test yesterday evening, but GW2 is still not optimized for GPU usage -> CPU has all cores on 100% and GPUs are on 10% or so >:(

Fun to mention is that when I launch the GW2 loader, both GPUs are showing more activity then in-game (approx 25%). Not sure why that is, but I guess it means that GW2 will support SLI at release.

How is your GPU only 10% when most of the time im at 90%+..... What do you guys use to check? MSI afterburner or PrecisionX?? I have the later.

Yeah I agree, I'm using MSI Afterburner and it shows 70%-90% usage of my GPU. Maybe they have a low-end CPU and high-end GPU so the GPU isn't used much because the CPU is a bottleneck