Fps?

How high/low will that have to be to make the game run fast?

With 40+ it should prolly run okay I think... I play at 60 all the time so can't really tell.

Ok, Thats good. I got 50 something.

im always at 60 too, ive played at thirty and that is just about bareable

...wow.
frames per second.
wikipedia it.

GW is usually around 20 FPS for me and it seems to run fine (my laptop is old).

FPS is based on how fast your computer/connection/karma is. You can't set it

Standard TV video does ~30 fps, based on extensive tests by important people in the industry that's how fast the human eye can see. Anything more is a waste, anything less will look "choppy"

You can set an upper limit to it with the -fps command switch. Its useful for older systems.

ya my fps is like GW economy it goes up and down and stay down a lot of the time, but then again my laptop only cost like $600 so im not complaining. i would say 35-40+ is pretty good

Spot the casual gamer

The game cant possibly go at something like over 25. If you are getting higher, it means your computer probably has enough power to run it that way if it could. GW is an old game that was made with lower systems in mind.

Also, depends on what settings you run on, high requires more FPS than low if I'm not totally wastd on computers hehe

FPS has nothing to do with your connection. Its mostly dependent on your video card, but also cpu, memory, and hdd can affect fps.

FPS can go well over 200, you won't be able to see it, but you can notice tearing from the screen being updated faster than the monitor refresh rate. Thats why there is a vertical sync option, to limit the fps to below the monitor refresh rate (which is usually 60 or higher) So obviously it can render faster than 25 fps.

Thanks for the info.

That's what I was saying, kinda. You can have 40 fps but you couldn't tell the difference from 30. I doubt the game is built to handle more than say 25. If you're getting more than that, whatever is reporting it is doing so because you have available unused resources.

My FPS is generally between 10-20.....seams to be ok for the most part, although quite often my heros seam to telleport around me...

I need a new computer.....

Guild Wars handles FPS over 200 fps, I can get over 100 easy. That is why they include the vertical scync option and -fps startup command. Those two are to limit fps at refresh rate or below. Refresh rate is usually 60-85 The game reports fps over 25 fps because it is displaying at the fps it is reporting. Guild Wars is not thinking it could go faster than that, it is.

what do you mean "The game reports fps over 25 fps" How?

edit: nvm, I found it. Still not sure I agree though

At fps above monitor refresh rate(60-85) the monitor will not be able to keep up with what the video card is displaying. You will see one portion of the screen from one image and another portion an image that was displayed 1 fps or more before. This is what vertical sync option is for in options. Vertical sync limits your fps to whatever your monitor refresh rate is. Your monitor refresh rate is usually 60 to 85.

Also any game can render much more than 25 fps. Try playing Quake 1 on a new video card, it wouldn't surprise me if it reached close to 300 fps. Especially since I use to get 60 fps more than 10 years ago.