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Guild Wars 2 Recommended Specs
Half_Man_Half_Toon
Member Posts: 156
in Guild Wars 2
Guys anybody got any good idea of the Guild Wars 2 Specs? I will like to know pls and if Arena Net is reading this people like me want to know this information becouse I want to start building or upgrading my PC to meet and get max graphics on Guild Wars 2 without losing Frames Per Second and also using 64 bit of windows.
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Ask this in the hardware forum of this site. Give them your budget and you'll get a number of well informed suggestions, often with links to the individual components.
Want to know more about GW2 and why there is so much buzz? Start here: Guild Wars 2 Mass Info for the Uninitiated
I think any i5 or i7 with at least 8 GB of RAM and a half-decent GPU will net you what you want. The game doesn't need a Hoover Dam to run. Looks to be on the light side of modern games.
I cant give a reccomendation as they are not done optimizing. Right now they have the majority of the graphics running the resources through the CPU and not the GPU. Stil allot of tweaking left. To give you recommended input of what you need to run at max settings, it would be hard as we could be making you purchases something you really dont need, or recommending something that doesnt really do what we though it would. But if money isnt the issue and you simply cant wait until ArenaNet to finalize a recommended spec, than look at the minimum here https://buy.guildwars2.com/ and use your best guess.
I will say as far as last beta weekend I was running a AMD 965 black edition 3.4 ghrz quad CPU with a EVGA GTX 460, 8 gigs ram, and almost had everthing up to max and it ran great (35 fps). But like I said, GW2 is running primarily from CPU and not much from GPU last BWE.
There's a recommendation for if you're running around alone with not much activity going on and then there's the situations where you have like 100 people in your area with all kinds of spell effects, etc. going off. I'm curious what the recommendation would be for the latter. It has been my understanding that the video card is key when there's all kinds graphical activity going on in your screen. Anybody know if the GTX 560 will suffice those major WvW type combat situations?
I've got the ivy bridge i7 processor (overclocked to 4.2 Ghz), 16GB Ram... the video card is the only cheap part of my system (GTX 560 is considered average these days).
The fuck?
4GB ram is more than enough, i doubt game will consome even 3GB. dont exist any game now that consume 4 GB and certantly will not gonna be GW2.
for cpu i3 21xx is more than ok, gpu is what game want. for example a i3 2120+ gtx 560 ti will have much better fps than i5 2500k + hd6870
For a point of reference. I have an Asus G73s LAPTOP. I was able to play on high settings and I experienced little to no lag or frame drops. I had no complaints in either the 1st BWE or the recent stress test. I spent almost all of my time in WvW by the way.
Since he's going Windows 64 Bit, 8 GB RAM is a good choice, especially when the RAM price is so low.
Go here and find it on the Alphabetical list or type in Guild Wars 2.
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/
You should find out if your system can run it that way. Good for most any game.
before I changed my cpu my PC had 4 gb and it ran fine, but of course 8 gb are better
as i say if PC is just for game and random stuff like net/word/etc you have 4Gb or 8/16GB ram is the same. you can use the 20-25$ to buy a better gpu,cpu, psu, motherboard, etc.
Windows likes RAM. Yes, even Windows 7. So, if you are going for the 64 Bit one, having the extra 4 (from 4 to 8 GB) will make things smoother, and the PC will work better as a whole. Also, it is a very attractive investment for such a small price. Great bang for the buck.
Try it here http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=684&game=Guild%20Wars%202
A 32-bit computer program cannot address more than 2 GB of system memory. So Guild Wars 2 will use less than 2 GB, and possibly a lot less. 4 GB of memory is enough for most people today, and if you have 4 GB, there's no real need to upgrade. But if you're buying a new computer, you might as well get 8 GB just because it's so cheap.
QFT. Real-time graphics rendering is always more processor and GPU intensive than anything else. High amounts of RAM basically just equates to more efficient multitasking across multiple open applications, unless you're specifically doing something which directly requires access to large amounts of memory (i.e. RAM previews in After Effects).
Do some research on that. I did, it doesn't make a lick of difference in any current game. Won't make anything smoother, I even found a video on YouTube of a boot test were the 8g machine booted slower then the 4. We're not there yet. I have 6 in mine and it's more then enough.Oh, I did. While most games will not benefit much directly from more than 4 GB of RAM (most if not all games are still 32-Bit applications), the surplus on a 64 Bit OS can be put to good use, such as helping the GPU store/draw textures and reducing (or eliminating, depending on where you started) graphic artifacts. This is something that doesn't translate very well in benchmarking tests, but the benefits are there, though.
I did some tests when I assembled my PC with 4, 8 and 12 GB of RAM (I have 3x4 Kingston 1600s), and the extra RAM does help in a number of ways, not all of them related to gaming. I also run some physics simulations for my wife, and we need a PC that can multitask efficiently. More RAM is crucial in such cases. If you run more than one display, it will also help.
8 GB is the best cost/benefit for a newer PC with an 64-Bit OS for gamers. 12 GB is a luxury that will be overkill in most cases. 16 GB + is useless for 99.9% Computer Tasks.