Ideal settings for good gw performance?

I'm afraid this might first come off as a whine post, which I really don't intend, but if it does, please forgive me. The request for help will be here.

First off, my computer is 2ghz, has 1gb of RAM, and I have 128 mb RADEON 9600. Not exactly a $5,000 computer, but certainly not a poor one either.

Guildwars isnt exactly a taxing game. Or rather, it shouldn't be. But it is. My computer could handle 40+ people trying to swarm my group in dark age of camelot, resplendent with all the special effects that entails. During the beta events my computer was handling the 6 team matches in tombs when I had 300something ram, a much older video card, and a slower processor.

So, umm, not be an ass, but guildwars really has no damn right to lag so much when I gvg. But it does. My performance seems to collapse in heroes arena or in guild versus guild matches, and it makes no sense. I restart my computer before gvg every time and close all non essential programs except guildwars and ventrilo, yet my fps is still crappy and I still have many many moments in every match where my screen goes to about 2fps for a bit.

The worst part is, turning down all of my settings doesn't seem to help. While I always play with the lowest settings possible (because it just makes sense that it would help with the lag problem) I have tested a couple of times turning my settings all the way up, and my computers performance seems pretty close to identical.

I'm not the only one in my guild with this issue. We all seem to be having bad fps in guild versus guild games, and every once and a while one of our members is completely screwed by the collapse in a gvg match.

I really don't know what to do. Is there something I should turn on or off that I'm missing here? Will turning on anti aliasing magically make all of my lag problems go away?

Help~

Wow, that's kinda strange because;

I have an AMD Athlon 2400+ which is 2.0GHz in Clock Speed (same as yours), 1GB of Kingston RAM (probably not same manufacturer RAM), and an ATI Sapphire Radeon 9250 128MB AGP 8x, and I can play Full Quality with no lag were ever I am.

Try running some Spyware and Virus scans.

I read the title to this thread...and thought to myself. Ideal? Good Performance?

Well...I was thinking what "I" would need....that would be a NAP first. A cool Beverage....a full stomach. Oh and a fresh pack of smokes....

I will do so, but I reformatted very recently so I'm kind of doubtful of it helping. It is wierd though that you can play perfectly fine at full quality:O

Well I think it is Ram more then Vid Card....when it comes to lag.

you are so funny Doood! I agree completely with the NAP part...espcially if I'm gonna tackle workingon the puter hehe=)

your comp is way better than mine. i had it running b4 with a celeron, 9250 ati, and 256 ram and it did lag when it first loaded but got alot better.

what type of connection are you using, broadband or dial-up. thats the only thing i can figure that can be wrong.some of my friends play with dial-up fine so it could be that the vent server is bad. check the ping next time your on vent.

well, Guild Wars has to render more than you actually see, Its poor coding on Arena Nets part to be honest....

all the "no go" areas (such as Heros Ascent, where the guards are blocking you getting further up) they have a virtual 'invisable' cube around them, with a transparent texture, even though you cant physically SEE it, your card still has to render it.... It still renders EVERYTHING behind them, and through the other side... It does this on all maps (I have watched the poly count, and experimented with this several times)

Ok, yes, Guild wars runs fine on a radeon 9250, 2ghz machine...

I have everything on full, and anti aliasing, im running an XP3200+, 1GB of cheap, unbranded ram (big mistake), and a Radeon x1600, I only get about 15-28 FPS at any given time..... If I ran it at these settings on an 9800, i'd be on about 5 FPS

Its a more demanding game than you think..

Recently, alot of the Factions updates have created more lag (Specially since its constantly downloading in the background, this can cause low frame rates too, if it doesnt know where the people are, it cant draw them there )

the PvP Character creation screen lags, The character Selection screen lags, I ALWAYS lag on the Zaishen the First time I go in (heros ascent) every day (Every other time its fine)

so yeah.... draw your own conclusions... :/

anti virus and adaware didnt help.

@ poster above me,

I have been having this exact same problem.
I wanted to know if it was just my computer, so I went on another game I used to play before GW... worked fine.

During the betas, Guild wars would FLY on this computer. Even after release for about 2 months. I could navigate farmilliar places with my eyes closed, the game was that smooth.

Now, those same farmilliar places I have trouble getting around in because my game has rediculous choppiness and delay on actions I want done WHEN I INPUT THEM.
It is definately a major problem, this is not a bad computer. I run the game at minimum settings JUST to be able to play... and I don't think it would make much difference if I were to run it on max settings anyways!

I confess that several times I have considered just dropping the game because of the retarded lag, but I've stuck it out this far in hopes ANet will redeem themselves.
I'm still waiting.

On my other computer, with 1 gig of ram, 3 Ghz processor, and all that jazz, the game runs fine. Problem is, I don't have access to that computer all the time (only a few times a week), so I have to make due with this one.

Please do something, ANet, this is getting rediculous.

Isn't anti-aliasing making it even heavier for your pc?



I have an AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1 GB of ram, GeForce 6600 GT 256 mb and it's ALWAYS choppy at the Zaishen spirits in the beginning, God knows why

This may sound hard to believe, but I did find the way to fix it:

Find the sound quality bar, drag it all the way to zero.

Its as if I gained a gigabyte of RAM.

I don't know why this worked.

Stoned out of my face with a nice bag o weed, a nice cool beverage and plenty of gauses usually makes my guild wars performance rocket

whats your connection like? I lag sometimes when i forget to turn off my downloads :P

What are gauses?