Resolution, settings, and performance Thread - Guild Wars Guru archive powered by Guild Wars Legacy

Chubz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia, USA

03 May 2005 at 14:47 - 1

Ok, I just decided to create this thread to help all of those who both have the game, and that don't have the game but are looking to see how well the game would run on their system....

Basically, you should post your system specifications, the resolution and settings at which the game is running at, and how well it runs for you!

(Oh and sorry if this is in the wrong section!)

Me:
AMD Athlon 2500+ (2ghz)
768MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Running at Maximum Quality (No AA/AF) at 1280x1024 resolution - Game runs extremely well, with very little slowdown, if any...

Horogan Sivoris

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

UK baby

03 May 2005 at 14:51 - 2

Good call

AMD Athlon 2400 XP (2ghz)
512 Mb Ram (althought my comp registers it as 480)
Built in GeForce 4 MX

Runs at Max Quality - well, but ground looses texture everyonce in a while, and I have to move settings slider
Mid Qualtiy - As above, but less often
Low Quality - Runs perfect

Chubz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia, USA

03 May 2005 at 14:54 - 3

Quote:

Originally Posted by Horogan Sivoris

Good call

AMD Athlon 2400 XP (2ghz)
512 Mb Ram (althought my comp registers it as 480)
Built in GeForce 4 MX

Runs at Max Quality - well, but ground looses texture everyonce in a while, and I have to move settings slider
Mid Qualtiy - As above, but less often
Low Quality - Runs perfect

Woah.... pretty crazy how after all these years the Geforce4 MX can still power such games as Guild Wars... even with bloom effects and everything else!

Must be a really optimized game engine, as I think the graphics are absolutely gorgeous.

EDIT - Oh, and I think I know why your comp registers your RAM as 480 instead of 512MB.... your Geforce4 MX is probably integrated, so therefore the PC uses 32 megabytes of it's RAM in order to power the integrated video card. I believe you can change how much video memory is used up by the RAM by going into the BIOS... not sure how much of a difference it would make, though. Probably wouldn't be very noticable.

Warr

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

The Nether

03 May 2005 at 15:06 - 4

Specs

AMD 3200+ 64
1600MHZ FSB
1 GIG Dual Channel PC 3200 RAM
Windows XP w/ Sp2 (don't upgrade to windows xp x64.....i beg you)
Nvidia 5200FX 256MB RAM Asylum Edition (overclocked 20%)

Runs everything max but i had to turn reflections off 1024x768 @ 75hz Anti-Aliasing and Antiscopic filtering off (cuz my vido card sux)

Runs flawlessly @ these settings

Chubz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia, USA

03 May 2005 at 15:10 - 5

Quote:

Originally Posted by Warr

Anti-Aliasing and Antiscopic filtering off (cuz my vido card sux)

Haha, nah, don't worry about that... even with my 9800 PRO I find that AA and AF are just a waste of performance for slightly improved visual quality.

I mean, what would you rather prefer? Jagged lines and great performance, or straight lines and greatly reduced performance (most of the time)?

As for me, I think I'll stick with the jaggies.

EnDinG

Keyboard + Mouse > Pen

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/W

03 May 2005 at 15:16 - 6

Pent4 3.0 PCI-E
1.5 Gig Dual Channel 3200
WinXP SP2
WinFast PX6600GT 128MB GDDR3 TDH PCI-Express 16x (retail) SLi Ready

Running everything at max, including the resolution on a 21" LCD. (I can't remember the res ATM... -_-)

Duh... Forgot to say - "It runs with zero problems, everything looks great and theres no flaws."

beJames

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

03 May 2005 at 15:21 - 7

AMD A64 3000+
512 ddr (going to upgrade to a gig dual chan one of these days)
ATI Radeon 9600XT
Resolution: 1280x1024
Running at Maximum Quality (4xAA/AF(don't know how to change this setting)) - Game runs extremely well, no slowdowns at all.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot to post my resolution

Chubz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia, USA

03 May 2005 at 15:24 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by beJames

AMD A64 3000+
512 ddr (going to upgrade to a gig dual chan one of these days)
ATI Radeon 9600XT
Running at Maximum Quality (4xAA/AF(don't know how to change this setting)) - Game runs extremely well, no slowdowns at all.

Wow... if it runs that well with 4xAA and AF, then I might have to turn it up a notch. It must look pretty wonderful at those settings...

Oh, and to change AA/AF preferences, go into your ATI control panel, and you should be able to tweak most things by clicking the "3d" tab and just going from there. (I think it's the 3d tab... correct me if I'm wrong)

|HM|FragMan

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

03 May 2005 at 15:27 - 9

AMD 2500+ barton
512 3200 ddr ram
ATI 9600 Pro 128MB ram

rez: 1280x1024
visuals: max
AA: max 4x

spoon

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2005

03 May 2005 at 15:35 - 10

P4 3.2
1G Ram
Nvidia 6800GT
Xp Sp2

Running with 2xAA and 8xAF at 1650x1050 Widescreen with zero performance issues.

Twilight Doll

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

03 May 2005 at 16:01 - 11

P4 3.2ghz
1 Gig ram
Nvidia 6800 Ultra
SB Audigy 2 PT

Running game on maxed settings for everything. Flawless 60+ fps.

Lunarbunny

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Seattle, WA, USA [PST | GMT -8]

Ready and Willing [RAWR]

03 May 2005 at 16:05 - 12

AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2GHz)
1GB PC3200 DDR (Dual channel, running at 800MHz)
Chaintech GeForce FX5900XT 128MB

I run at 1280x1024 at full quality and 3xAA...it only hiccups while caching and then it's smooth.

Lib

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

03 May 2005 at 16:10 - 13

AMD 2500+ Barton
2 x 256mb PC3200 Dual Channel Memory
XFX Geforce 6600 GT 128MB AGP video card

I run it at 1280x1024, max settings, full quality, 4xaa.

Runs perfect.

Bruenor

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

03 May 2005 at 17:01 - 14

Athlon XP 2800 @ 3200
1x 512MB DDR
100GB ATA IDE 133
GeForce 4 MX 440 SDR
Verizon DSL

1024x768
I play at One notch below middle on detail slider, however I can slide it up to one notch below highest and still play fine.

GW runs great on my PC, and it looks fine. I do look to upgrade my vid. card to probably an ATI 9550 or a 9600se to gain DX9 capabilities but GW plays FINE and looks FINE on a GeForce MX 4 440. I've been in PC hardware for over 12 years and I grow a bit tired of people claiming you NEED a NV 6600 GT at least or an ATI 9800 to play GW... it is an online RPG that streams a lot of it's content for goodness sake if the textures were so big as to take advantage of those cards we would all need T1 lines.

Ranam

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

03 May 2005 at 17:06 - 15

Intel P4 3.2
3 Gig of ram (Oh ya)
ATI Radeon X 800XL

Max settings including AA and max res. Works like a dream.

KillersKarma

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

Home

03 May 2005 at 17:11 - 16

Amd 64-bit 3200+
1gb Ram
Ge Force6 6600 Gt Ddr3 128mb
250gb Maxtor 10,000 Rpm Hdd

Runs Max Quality Perfect.

Despoiler

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

03 May 2005 at 19:19 - 17

AMD XP 3000+ @ 2.247ghz
1GB Ram
Leadtek 6600 GT AGP @ 580/1080

2xAF
High Texture Quality
Medium World Quality
Medium Shadown Quality
Full Effects

No slow downs and high frame rates with those settings. I can run max everything but I can see the frame rates drop enough for me to not care for it.

DarkParrot

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Maine, USA

Onyx Dragons

Mo/Me

03 May 2005 at 19:54 - 18

AMD 2800+
512MB DDR 400
ATI 9800 Pro

Max quality, 1024/768, 4X AA.

Runs great.

swaaye

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

03 May 2005 at 20:03 - 19

A64 3000+ / AXP 2.4Ghz (~3550+)
M9600 / 9700PRO
1GB RAM / 1.5GB RAM
1280x800 / 1680x1050

Both systems run the game pretty well, but the 9700PRO is a bit quicker even at the higher res. AA is off on the 9600 but 2X on the 9700 due to the extra headroom.

AF is set to app pref in 3D settings. You all should probably just load up your ATI control panel and go to 3D and make sure it's set to default. Anisotropic Filtering didn't make a noticeable improvement for me but you better believe even if you can't see it, if you force it on it's gonna drain performance.

The game has its own Antialiasing controls so I'd use those instead of the control panel too.

Horogan Sivoris

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

UK baby

03 May 2005 at 21:00 - 20

Yeah, I knew about it being allocated to something else, in my case my vid card, but I still figured it would have shown up on the speccies.

Anyway, might I make the suggestion of keeping this thread simple, as the first two posts are? So that people could use it as a quick referance guide.

vempire

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Vancouver, BC Canada

03 May 2005 at 21:01 - 21

P4 3.0
1GB PC4000 Shikatronics DDR
BFG 6800OC 128MB

1280x1024, 4xAA, 8xAF, v-sync on, everything maxed in-game.

The game runs flawlessly. No slow downs at all.

MedicalEntropy

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

03 May 2005 at 23:03 - 22

Athlon 64 3200+ 754 Socket 1MB L2 Cache 200 mhz bus OCed to 210mhz
ATI X800XT Platinum Edition
1gig of Corsair XMS Pro RAM
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Raid-0 2X 160g Maxtor

Everything runs... Flawless. No slowdown except maybe in window mode, but that's normal. Got this awesome computer for 2450 USD back in July 2004.

Akshara

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

03 May 2005 at 23:26 - 23

Athlon 64 3000+ 754
512Mb DDR PC3200 Corsair XMSXL
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 128Mb
Sceptre KomodoIV 19" LCD

Runs excellent at:
1280x1024 (native resolution)
70hz
Anti-aliasing: Off
Terrain Quality: High
Reflections: Default
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Medium
Post-process effects enabled
Radeon 3D set to Balanced

The shadows can be set to high with little performance hit, though it does run slightly smoother on medium. Enabling 2x anti-aliasing is where things start to get jerky with lower framerates.

Serafita Kayin

Exclusive Reclusive

Join Date: May 2005

Tuscaloosa, AL

Seraph's Pinion (wing)

R/Me

04 May 2005 at 01:50 - 24

Athlon 64 3000+ @2700 MHz
1 GB dual channel DDR, PC 4400
Chaintech VNF4-Ultra engineering sample
Chaintech SE6600 6600GT overclocked more than 50%, engineering sample
Danger Den water kit (all custom 1/2")

All settings as far as I choose to take them-in other words, always max, including AA and AF.

r0tc0d

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

04 May 2005 at 01:55 - 25

Athlon 64 3500+ 1000 FSB 2.2 Ghz
1 Gig Kingston PCI3200
Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT 256 MB

running 1024 by 768, Maximum quality (4xAA, Full Antiscropic)

No video lag ever... Latency lag everyonce in awhile, but very rarely.

ShadeZeRO

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Florida

04 May 2005 at 01:57 - 26

Athlon64 [754] 3400+ @2400Mhz (1mb Clawhammer, its 2.2stock)
1 GB Corsair XMS TwinX DDR, PC4400
ASUS K8V SE Deluxe
Sapphire X850XT Platinum Edition

Settings are 100% Max
1600x1200
Anti-aliasing: 4x Temporal
Terrain Quality: High
Reflections: High (the bottom one, i forgot what is called)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Post-process effects: Disables (I crash with it on)

PieXags

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

The Infinite Representation Of Pie And Its Many Brilliances

04 May 2005 at 02:25 - 27

Alright, I don't yet own the game but I'd like to see if my assumptions are anywhere in the right ballpark.

Pentium 4 3.0Ghz
ATI Radeon 128MB 9800 Pro
1.00GB dual channel DDR

I'm hoping to run it on 1024x768 no AA/AF, high/maximum settings for terrain, textures, shadows, particle effects and what not. This game from what I read seems to be pretty easy on one's system despite how great it looks. Hopefully this setup will allow a good experience with no lag, eh?

cannonfodder

Tech Monkeh Mod

Join Date: May 2005

Good Old North East of England

Mo/Me

04 May 2005 at 09:46 - 28

AMD64 3500(winchester)@2.4ghz
1gig of ddr3500 kingmax
xfx6800gt

settings at 1280x1024 all at max

plays like a dream

vindicus

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

04 May 2005 at 11:48 - 29

Intel P4 3.20ghz
Corsair value ram 1024 DDR [400]
Asus P5P800 motherboard
AIW 9800pro 128M
36Gig 10k Sata HD

Got the pc a month ago... got guild wars friday

1024x768
details high
texture high
shadow medium

game is semi unplayable

will get 65-70fps for 5-6 minutes then it will drop to 5-15fps for 1 or 2 minutes

no clue what the problem is.

800x600
all "low"

works fine. lol

Principa Discordia

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

England.

04 May 2005 at 12:33 - 30

Asus K8V-SE K8T800 Motherboard
AMD Athlon64 3400+ Socket 754 @ 2.4GHz
2Gb OCZ Platinum PC3200 RAM
Chaintech Nvidia Geforce 6600GT 128mB DDR3

Playing in 1280x960 (desktop resolution) in full detail with 4x full-screen antialiasing and forced 16x anisotropic filtering. No visual lag to speak of, ever. The only thing I have disabled is the post-process effects option, because frankly, bloom annoys me and gives me headaches. =)

For some reason, though, I drop to 5fps when recording a video with fraps even with the half-size setting. Any ideas?

Snowman

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wales, UK

Devils Scorpions

W/E

04 May 2005 at 12:35 - 31

Alienware AREA 51.

P4 3.46extreme (1000+ FSB)
1gig DDR-II (533)
Twin Seagate 160gig on RAID 0
PNY NVIDIA 6800 ULTRA (256mb)
21" Diamontron Screen.

Settings
1600x1200
4x AA
All other settings on max

100hz refresh rate!!!!! this is the first game I know that has an ingame option for this, with VSYNC makes a hell of a difference.. much smoother.

Everything runs very smooth.. but it does lag a bit in town areas.. and times when battle gets a bit intense, if its too distracting them I turn it down to 1280 85hz and its peachy

Alienware really kicks ass with this game and my Screenshots are superb quality.. excelent for when I make my GW website

The Snowman

Necro Batai

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Missouri

04 May 2005 at 12:39 - 32

Some games and i do belive Guild wars is one of them have problems when Anti-Alisasing is enabled. I have an ATI 9200 with it dissabled and set res at 1024x768 and it works great. So i suggest disable Anti-Alisasing and see if that helps.

Chubz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia, USA

04 May 2005 at 15:18 - 33

Quote:

Originally Posted by PieXags

Alright, I don't yet own the game but I'd like to see if my assumptions are anywhere in the right ballpark.

Pentium 4 3.0Ghz
ATI Radeon 128MB 9800 Pro
1.00GB dual channel DDR

I'm hoping to run it on 1024x768 no AA/AF, high/maximum settings for terrain, textures, shadows, particle effects and what not. This game from what I read seems to be pretty easy on one's system despite how great it looks. Hopefully this setup will allow a good experience with no lag, eh?

Haha, oh yes, easily... heck, my specs are lower than yours and I'm running it on 1280x1024 with those settings.

Don't worry man, this game isn't that hard on your video card... and it still looks great!

Serafita Kayin

Exclusive Reclusive

Join Date: May 2005

Tuscaloosa, AL

Seraph's Pinion (wing)

R/Me

04 May 2005 at 16:26 - 34

Necro Batai, if you're trying to run AA/AF witht hat kind of card, that's your problem.

A 9200 is only slightly faster than a monkey with a dry-erase board.

Snowman

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wales, UK

Devils Scorpions

W/E

04 May 2005 at 16:48 - 35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Serafita Kayin

Necro Batai, if you're trying to run AA/AF witht hat kind of card, that's your problem.

A 9200 is only slightly faster than a monkey with a dry-erase board.

And its an ATI card.. which in my (proffesional) opinion is less reliable in terms of compatability.

where are my worms?

The Snowman

Tavvra

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

04 May 2005 at 16:58 - 36

I got an E-machine....... Need a I say more?

Lol J/K

AMD XP 3200
1.5 Gig PC3200
Geforce 5700 256Meg
250gig Seagate
70gig Western Digitial 10k RPM
21in CRT Mag
21in LCD Plasma (secondary on DVI)

I can run GW at full settings, 1024x with AAx4 with no lag and it looks amazing, with no AA it still looks amazing but I haven't seen a difference in performence.

beJames

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

04 May 2005 at 17:40 - 37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chubz

Wow... if it runs that well with 4xAA and AF, then I might have to turn it up a notch. It must look pretty wonderful at those settings...

Oh, and to change AA/AF preferences, go into your ATI control panel, and you should be able to tweak most things by clicking the "3d" tab and just going from there. (I think it's the 3d tab... correct me if I'm wrong)

Thanks Chubz, I just tried it at 6/16 AA/AF lagged abit at the start to gather up the players and such. But after the first minute or so, the game ran fine and much more beautiful! But I rather keep my AA/AF at it's bare minimum 4/2 (I guess) because I also run winamp, and other programs while playing.
Don't wanna overload my comp oo;

Chubz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia, USA

04 May 2005 at 20:41 - 38

Quote:

Originally Posted by beJames

Thanks Chubz, I just tried it at 6/16 AA/AF lagged abit at the start to gather up the players and such. But after the first minute or so, the game ran fine and much more beautiful! But I rather keep my AA/AF at it's bare minimum 4/2 (I guess) because I also run winamp, and other programs while playing.
Don't wanna overload my comp oo;

Yeah, too much AA/AF can really be a burden on your graphics card... that's why I just simply never use it. On more graphics-intensive PC games out there (especially first-person shooters) it really cripples performance.

Serafita Kayin

Exclusive Reclusive

Join Date: May 2005

Tuscaloosa, AL

Seraph's Pinion (wing)

R/Me

04 May 2005 at 21:31 - 39

I'm runnin maxed, but I've seen precious little that could attempt to lag my setup...

Akshara

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

04 May 2005 at 22:41 - 40

Quote:

Originally Posted by PieXags

Alright, I don't yet own the game but I'd like to see if my assumptions are anywhere in the right ballpark.

Pentium 4 3.0Ghz
ATI Radeon 128MB 9800 Pro
1.00GB dual channel DDR

I'm hoping to run it on 1024x768 no AA/AF, high/maximum settings for terrain, textures, shadows, particle effects and what not. This game from what I read seems to be pretty easy on one's system despite how great it looks. Hopefully this setup will allow a good experience with no lag, eh?

Your system is more powerful than mine (posted earlier), and I can run with the settings you describe at 1280x1024 very smoothly. Since you have a 9800 Pro, I'd bet that those settings with even AA enabled would run very smoothly at 1024x768.