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@"Infusion.7149" said:Generally you upgrade the CPU unless the GPU is absolutely anemic. When GW2 launched the common GPUs were ones such as GTX 560 Ti or HD 6850 so nearly every GPU made since then is much faster unless it's the slow OEM models that aren't for sale whatsoever.
Depends on the generation of i3, honestly. Because the older generations were often dual core. GW2 is very single threaded but you need extra cores for OS or anything else running the background.2nd gen i3 to 4th gen dual cores are within margin , they were all all DDR3 (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Devil's Canyon)
- example CPUs: i3-2100 (3.1GHz) on socket LGA1155, i3-3220 (3.3GHz) on LGA1155 , i3-4130 (3.4GHz) on LGA1150
- per userbenchmark i3-2100 to i3-4130 is about 24% improvement
5th gen i3 only really existed on notebooks , while 6th/7th gen dual cores brought DDR4 (formally known as Skylake and Kaby Lake)
- example CPUs: i3-6100 (3.7GHz) , i3-7100 (3.9GHz) on LGA1151
- per userbenchmark i3-4130 to i3-6100 is +15% improvement , i3-6100 vs i3-7100 is a small +6%
8th gen i3 was up against AMD Ryzen so Intel stepped it up to a full quad core and DDR4 rather than a dual core with hyperthreading, so the physical cores perform better than 2 cores + HT and 9th gen gained turbo that was formally for i5s (formally this generation is known as Coffee Lake)
- example i3-8100 (3.6GHz) , i3-9100 (3.6GHz, 4.2GHz turbo) on LGA 1151
- i3-8100 vs i3-7100 is +16% overall (despite having 4 physical cores) but ~9% improvement in dual core speed
The CPU improvement is mainly going to be from instructions per cycle improvements per generation (i.e. if a CPU is doing 10% more work per GHz then it is 10% faster).
Note the motherboards changed compatibility for Intel sockets every 2 generations , you can't put a 4th into 2nd gen board or a 9th gen in a 7th gen board (people hardware modded to do so on some high end boards but is not recommended).
GT420 is anemic and is using DDR3 rather than GDDR5 , GDDR6, or HBM video memory.
From min spec for Path of Fire:https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201862958-Minimum-System-RequirementsIntel® Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz , Core i3NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTSIntel Iris 5100 or better (512MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
It seems that you would be better off with a GPU upgrade as GT420 exists with 1GB DDR3 VRAM on a really small 128-bit memory bus. It is actually worse than some integrated graphics on Ryzen APUs such as Ryzen 5 2400G.
Let's say you upgrade to :~$130 RX 570 is +2400% vs GT420$130 GTX 1050 , per userbenchmark it would be +1342% of the performance~$100 RX 560 is +1174% vs GT420 per userbenchmark$80 GT 1030 682% faster$80 RX 550 , per userbenchmark it would be 624% faster
If you decide to upgrade your CPU you'd be looking at a CPU , motherboard, RAM (unless you have 6th gen or newer i3), etc.
At this point AMD has decent offerings in the CPU space, anything Ryzen 2nd gen or 3rd gen should be decent whereas 1st gen Ryzen is in line with 4th gen Intel in terms of low thread count performance.
Mine is i3 4160 3,6GHz, LGA 1150 if i'm not mistake, the processor is the minimum requeriment for the game which is 3,6GHz. The game runs okay on minimum resolution on normal maps and laggy(but playable) on expansion maps HOT and POF with this trash vid card xD, what i really want to know is if i upgrade only the vid card with rx 550+ or gtx 960-1050 if i'll be able to run on medium-high on commom maps and at least on medium on expansion maps. I know I dont really have the configuration to run on high - ultra.
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@ShadowCatz.8437 said:
@ancafr.9274 said:Currently I'm running GW2 on a i3 4°, 8GB RAM, vid card GT 420(all on LOW resolution)I want to upgrade but I DO NOT have money to upgrade both processor and vid card at once, so I'd like a couple suggestion on which one I should get first? since GW2 is more about processor so I was thinking maybe upgrade first processor then vid card after but... my video card is old and I laggy on pof and hot maps so perhaps upgrade vid card first so I wont lag on expansion maps?I'll get i5 maybe i7(both 4° gen) but my point is... if i change the processor first will the laggy continue even with a better processor and a weak vid card and vice versa? I really appreciate feedback please. I dont really know where the lag comes if is from my graphic card or processor...Use CPU-Z to get what kind of mainboard, RAM and CPU you have right now. It is a small app that can collect and show this information.What is your budget?Like I said i cannot afford on both and I intend to stay on 4° gem DDR 3 now cuz if i change to any other thing I'll have to upgrade everything motherboard, ram etc etc and i'll spend 3-4x more more forward when things are better for my side and I find a job or something that i can earn some cash i'll upgrade and change to ryzen i watched some videos with this amd ryzen processors and is very interesting plus they are much cheaper and accessible than intel and the performance is almost same.
If we follow every intel upgrade then we will change generation every 16 months.
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@"Crono.4197" said:It's a bit tricky here since both of them are old. Basically if you upgrade CPU, the game will still have low FPS because of bad graphic card and if you upgrade GPU, the CPU won't keep up with it as it's old.
My advice would be to get a decent video card first and until you can afford a better processor, keep all the CPU hogging options to low (like displayed characters, character animations,etc), while keeping the other graphical options around medium.If you mean you have a Haswell i3 (4th generation), then it should have four threads, which is decent enough at the moment, until you can get a better one.
I saw a a couple videos of GW2 running on i3's with rx 550-580 and even gtx 950 but they are 6°- 8° gen, and there are 2 videos here of i3 4° one with far cry 5(dont know if is heavy) with rx 550 high - medium >
and this here with gtx 950 on high-ultra but is just on begginers area where is really slight >.The vid cards I'm considering to get are rx 550-580 2-4GB or gtx 960 - 1050 2GB(in gtx case for lost ark). So if I can play the game at least on medium - high with my processor and a rx 550 for exemple I'll be happy til i get one i5 or i7.
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Currently I'm running GW2 on a i3 4°, 8GB RAM, vid card GT 420(all on LOW resolution) I want to upgrade but I DO NOT have money to upgrade both processor and vid card at once, so I'd like a couple suggestion on which one I should get first? since GW2 is more about processor so I was thinking maybe upgrade first processor then vid card after but... my video card is old and I laggy on pof and hot maps so perhaps upgrade vid card first so I wont lag on expansion maps?
I'll get i5 maybe i7(both 4° gen) but my point is... if i change the processor first will the laggy continue even with a better processor and a weak vid card and vice versa? I really appreciate feedback please. I dont really know where the lag comes if is from my graphic card or processor...
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Well I've decided i'll get a gtx 1050 ti, thx for the feedback o/.
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@maddoctor.2738 said:The game requires -single core- CPU performance. What's the exact part number of your CPU? The 1050 ti will handle the game just fine.
i3 3,60 Ghz but I intend to play Lost Ark in the future. So if I can play GW fine and no lag at all that shall do for now. Now to play on HIGH+ what do I need? cause I cant find the requeriments for HIGH+ anywhere ;(.
What about GTX 660? its cheaper than the 1050 and run lost ark on high...
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@Murshid.9854 said:I have GTX 1050 the SFF edition and I get around 45-60fps with best appearance settings and its handicapped by my core i3 cpu.so the GTX 1050Ti is more than enough for you for ultra not even medium, the game is more of a cpu rather than gpu.
So if is more of CPU than GPU then the case processor isnt? minimun requeriment means the game run ok on lower resolution and recommended for resolution medium- high if i'm not mistake...
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What about balance for PVE content like faster casting? some skills takes 3-4 seconds to cast until there you are already dead, lower cooldown(specially for guardian their CDS are RIDICULOUS LONG). HELL NO! huh xD. They think about PVP but everything they do about PVE is fking NERFS. thumbs down
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@MikeG.6389 said:The '1050 ti' should be more than enough. I still use a 'gtx 970' because I'm poor. It does everything I need it to, though: the game runs on high to ultra settings (except shadows) with ReShade and it's fine. It definitely isn't always 60 fps, but that's okay for me.Your bottleneck will be (and probably already is) your CPU, as i3's are the minimum requirements according to specifications.The game is quite CPU-heavy, which is most noticable in areas with lots of players. I'd consider upgrading that, too, if I had the money.
Thanks, I just noted now that you mention about the requisite and it does says i3 is the minimum requisite so i'll need at least a i5. I'm poor too man when I bought my PC I had to choose between graphic card + so so processor(i3) or better processor(i5) and NO graphic card... and besides the seller cheated me saying the processor was i3 6° and i found out almost 2 years it is 4° LOL. kittens happens xD.
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Which graphic card do I need to play the game on medium without lag? I'm thinking to get a gforce gtx 1050 ti. Currently I play the game on a gt 420(sux i know but is not so bad) on low graphic I have no lag issue but when I move to the expansion maps, HOT, POF etc I lag.. playable but laggy. My PC is a i3 4° 8GB RAM.
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@"Swagger.1459" said:1- No forms of difficulty scaling.
2- The way your professions were designed... https://massivelyop.com/2019/03/28/massively-overthinking-thoughts-on-the-holy-trinity-in-mmos/
“Brianna Royce (@nbrianna, blog): Fun fact: I still remember when “holy trinity” meant tank, healer, and mezzer – the DPS players were a given, the warm bodies that filled out the rest of the group, and not part of the trinity back in the early pre-WoW days of MMO group content. The fact that this shifted over time really says all you need to know about how MMO class and combat design have changed, and not necessarily for the better.
Don’t mistake me; I no longer believe we need or must respect a trinity of either type. But what I truly resent is the loss of class variation and combat flow that naturally accompanied the demise of the classic trinity, specifically the fact that crowd control, buffing, and debuffing classes have all but disappeared in the modern rush to make nearly everyone a damage-dealer, even the healers and tanks.
As an example, I can still think of none better than City of Heroes, which offered all of the old trinity and new trinity class types (and then some) but made none of them actually mandatory to clear content. Yes, tanks and healers and CCers and buffers and debuffers and damage dealers all existed, but it was completely possible to get through the game with no healers, or all healers. With a scrapper tanking ahead of a fleet of corruptors. With a stalker and four controllers. With three bubblers and three tankers. Whatever. I don’t want to see strict trinity MMOs, but I’m even grumpier about the “everyone deeps” MMOs even more, especially when the end result is cluster**** combat where nobody ever has control over the fight. It didn’t have to be that way, but modernish devs keep reinventing the wheel, convinced they can do better. Maybe someday, they will, but so far, nah.”
Note- that "cluster" comment was a link to the GW2 section on MOP.
3- Combining number 1 + 2 ultimately created a toxic environment for instanced content that most people don't want to be part of.
Or maybe people are not interested? or maybe they dont have or dont want to use discord, skype etc etc cause they have a weak PC and they'll LAG if they use? or maybe there is not enough people even asking guild(one of my guilds 'VIP' has more than 2k members, usually 100+ on but when you ask 'help' or let's run t1, t2, etc noone answer)? or maybe when you are running a dungeon with random players 90% of them just GO RUSHING direct to the objective, no communication like ''every man for himself'' and we have to figure out what to do?
^perhaps.
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Lag REMAINS but is better, the latest updated fked the servers =/. And i'm PRETTY SURE it IS NOT my PC issue cause before yesterday update the game was completely normal... I'll just log for gather nodes and daily.
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@Just a flesh wound.3589 said:Servers are down right now, so possibly it was the latest update.
And here was I wondering if was any issue with my PC cause I just changed the cooler processor LOL. Well time to take a break from GW2 and play PS2 retro games hehe.
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GG server I'll back tomorrow because today the game is unplayable, playing WvW and PVE start to fight the screen freezes then 5-10 seconds later I'm dead LOL.
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I see you guys have no clue so I'll take as server issue. Thanks
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Are you guys having LAG ISSUE at Orr and other maps after this LATEST UPDATE or is it just me?
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Hehe long time i didnt check here, thanks for the infos guys.
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@Ayrilana.1396 said:
@ancafr.9274 said:@Ayrilana.1396 said:@ancafr.9274 said:Is 100-150 gold enough to start craft ascend weapons?Yes. It’s around 50G on average to craft an ascended weapon. It may be cheaper or it may be higher depending on which one due to the material type used. I think the bows are the most expensive as they’re towards the upper 50s.Also factor in the cost to get the crafting profession up if you don’t already have it maxed at 500. Most people tend to use gw2crafts.net for this.No I'll have to make it high... but I thought it were 400 for ascend and 500 for legendary?It’s 500 for ascended.Yeah I can see it lol. More gold to spend... ;(
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@Ayrilana.1396 said:
@ancafr.9274 said:Is 100-150 gold enough to start craft ascend weapons?Yes. It’s around 50G on average to craft an ascended weapon. It may be cheaper or it may be higher depending on which one due to the material type used. I think the bows are the most expensive as they’re towards the upper 50s.Also factor in the cost to get the crafting profession up if you don’t already have it maxed at 500. Most people tend to use gw2crafts.net for this.No I'll have to make it high... but I thought it were 400 for ascend and 500 for legendary?
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Is 100-150 gold enough to start craft ascend weapons?
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@DoRi Silvia.4159 said:If you are impatient as me and not place buy order but buy all materials from the tp straight up, I calculated around 70-80g a piece of armorThis is ofcourse not using any materials you have but just outright buying everything buyable through the tp insta buys.
If you are in no rush, place buy orders for all the mats you need and you will be buying much cheaper.
Also to note. If you are crafting you will also need ascended recipes for the correct item you need.A recipe is required for each piece of equip.Ascended recipe can only be bough through the laurel merchant and need 5 laurel + 3 gold per piece. So armors alone for just the recipe is going to cost you 30 laurel and 18gold
Yeah it seems I'll have to spend some gold, first to improve craft to 500 cuz I dont even do craft here, but it worth cuz I'll be able to wear the gears on any character xD. Time for some farming... But first I'll get the trinkets then weapon and last armor.
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The achievments are all hard lol. I was thinking about the Caladbog but must first finish HOT and craft 500 in artificer i think.
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I see, not to mention ascend has the benefit to be shared with all characters. Thanks for the feedback and the help.
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@otto.5684 said:
@ancafr.9274 said:The differece between ascend and exotic for defense status do they really help when soloing world bosses like champs or the difference isnt that big and it's all about player skill? cause some champs I can solo and others dont, I'm full exotic.Difference is about 5%. Unless there is a dps check, no, it makes no difference.For damage the difference is about 500-800+ without trinkets I wanted to know for defence.
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My gt is 420 2gb ram, still doesnt change the fact its old and trashy hehe xD. Now I know where the lag is, thanks.