Phenom II x4 955 BE (quad) OC'd to 4.0ghz on air (not much, but not bad)

Completely removed than reinstalled latest 12.8 drivers for 6870, tonight using MSI/FuMark,built in CCC util to overclock and test 6870 to push max performance in prep for Friday night.

CCcleaner OCZ Agility III SSD drive (where GW2 is installed)

Going to play with memory timings/speed a bit tonight too (Kingston HyperX 8gb 1333mhz) going to try and push up a bit.

Originally posted by Loke666
How long since you installed Windows on the computer? If it was over a year ago you might consider reinstalling it (and then get new drivers). Windows tends to fill with crap

QFT

Often when reinstalling issues that you've been trying to fix for some time are automagically solved.

Personally I wipe my drive and do a clean install of windows starting out with all the latest drivers (and only installing programs when I use them the first time), before every mmo launch and then make a backup straight after so for some period of time (until most drivers and most used software are outdated again) can just recover a backup whenever I can't get a software easily resolved (recovering a backup is like 15-20 mins. on my machine so why bother trying to find the issue anyways as it will almost always take longer). So very late tonight or tomorrow that's what I'm gonna do so I can have my machine all fresh for GW2 on saturday morning.

Originally posted by SonicTHI

 

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Originally posted by seridan

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Originally posted by s4nder The game seems to be extremely CPU dependent at this point, only people with 5 GHz Ivy Bridge i7-s are reporting 60+ fps even in big fights.

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This is false. The limiting factor is always the GPU, unless your CPU is dual core. Even a low grade Quad Core can handle the game, the settings depend on the GPU only

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The limiting factor in GW2 is the CPU up to i5:

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The following chart contains data from recent stress tests that was pulled from players playing Guild Wars 2 on systems with an Intel Core i5 processor or better (ensuring the data reflects graphics card performance differences only).

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That is NOT what he said and it is wrong to infer that from his statement.

Originally posted by Aerowyn
with that setup with some things turned down you should be able to hit 60 fps.. i'd try the 305 series drivers like others above said.. take reflections to off or at least terrain & sky.. make sure supersampling is not on, also turn off vsync. I'd also turn post processing off. If still having issues mess with shadows and see if it helps

Ya i already had most of those settings off, way less options than the auto-detect btw. Auto-detect always seems out of whack in most games though.

GW2 is def favoring Intel and Nvidia over AMD.

Makes me sad :(

Hopefully drivers/tweaks in a few weeks will make things a little more equal.

Phenom II x4 955 BE quad OC'd to 4.1ghz

XFX AMD Radeon 6870 1GB DDR5 OC'd to 950 mhz Core 1150 mhz Mem.

So far, haven't been able to touch 60 fps on anything but medium-ish settings at 1080p :(

Originally posted by BadSpock

GW2 is def favoring Intel and Nvidia over AMD.

Makes me sad :(

Hopefully drivers/tweaks in a few weeks will make things a little more equal.

Phenom II x4 955 BE quad OC'd to 4.1ghz

XFX AMD Radeon 6870 1GB DDR5 OC'd to 950 mhz Core 1150 mhz Mem.

So far, haven't been able to touch 60 fps on anything but medium-ish settings at 1080p :(

I have to be honest, I haven't really payed much attention to this Nvidia vs AMD thing but it just seems that a significant number of games have issues with AMD cards. On the other hand, any major game release almost always gets an optimized driver from Nvidia.

For example, I'm usually getting 40-60 fps with a GTX 460SE. It does dip bellow 30 at times but very rarely. I set everything to max except for shadows, which I have on high, no vsync and native texture sampling, running on 1920x1080. On a side note, I haven't even felt the need to upgrade my video card because almost every game runs on either max or near max settings.

Originally posted by BadSpock

GW2 is def favoring Intel and Nvidia over AMD.

Makes me sad :(

Hopefully drivers/tweaks in a few weeks will make things a little more equal.

Phenom II x4 955 BE quad OC'd to 4.1ghz

XFX AMD Radeon 6870 1GB DDR5 OC'd to 950 mhz Core 1150 mhz Mem.

So far, haven't been able to touch 60 fps on anything but medium-ish settings at 1080p :(

Sort of wrong, GW2 favors Intel CPU and AMD GPUs more than nVidia GPUs. That's not bad performance for a 6870 though, since it was a mid ranged card when it was originally released.