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1. Always play with powercable plugged inn on laptop when gaming 2. Pc specs? need to know if theres switchable graphic or you only have a Intel or Amd apu with onboard graphics 3. When gaming on a laptop, you might consider using Windows Powerplan "High Performance"

In big Cities you will see this, gpu utilisation will drop, and cpu will go up a little, fps will drop in big Cities, no matter what. I had a Ryzen 3600 a few months ago, got around 40-48ish fps in LA, switched to Ryzen 5600X and got around 10-15fps moore in LA with my same settings and DX11 (DX 11 is Godsend for this game) So in Cities, the cpu will be the main workhorse, so higher ipc and coreclock, higher fps. Youre memory will also effect the fps a bit, I tried some testing with some good Samsung b-die, 3200mhz CL14-14-14-34 1T vs 2666mhz cl16- . 3200mhz CL14 gave around 3-5 fps moore. Best fps was achived with 3800mhz CL15, but vdimm had to be 1,52-1,55v. so 3800mhz CL16 seems to be the sweetspot for daily use, 1,46-1,48vdimm is ok vith Samsung b-die, they can take some volts if theres proper airflow.

I made another post about this here https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/96756/ryzen-upgrade-to-3700x-worth-it#latestJust scroll down to my post on that first page. Also a screenshot of that APU during Metrica Boss fight and running around Lions Archhttps://imgur.com/a/lQjLb9n

For a MMO like GW2, single core performance is the most important . Its a old game engine,running DX9 . The new Ryzen 3000 series made a good jump in single core performance, so really any of those will be fine, but also, here is were a few people will not agree, overclock that cpu if you can, the Ryzen 3K series do overclock some, most of them will overclock to 4200-4300mhz all core, but make sure you have proper cpu cooling before you add cpu voltage, thats because we want performance, but with extra voltage comes extra heat, voltage is not the enemy, extra heat is. Also when using Ryzen 3 cpus, make sure you have a decent Ram kit installed to be able to get youre full performance from that cpu. Ramspeed depends, but for good performance, 3200mhz and up is gold for the Ryzen 3 cpus, 3600mhz is kind of optimal.The lover the timings are the better.ALWAYS run dualchannel on the RYZEN 3 series cpu, single channel will kill the performance alot. Some fun fact:I read somewere someone asked if the Ryzen 3000 series APU (cpu + igp on a chip) ex. Ryzen 3400G would run GW2 on 1080p.To me thats unheard of, running a MMO without a graphics card, nah..So, i bought a Ryzen 3 3200g (thats not ZEN 3, but Zen + 12nm cpu- ZEN 2000 series arcitecture)The 3200g is basically a four core ZEN 2+ with Vega 8 onboard, a APU. Slapped that little sucker on a spare motherboard (Msi B450 Gaming Plus MAX)Installed a 3333mhz HyperX 16gb ramkit (2x8gb) on and went to bios to set up first default settings, then later did some overclocking and tested how this cheap APU would run GW2.Did it run GW2 on 1080p without a dedicated graphics card? I bet ya...Lions Arch- running around low setting ofc, around 28-38fpsOpen world pve - 30-50ish fpsWorld boss fight - 15-34ish fps (see attached picture in link) But, was GW2 playable and enjoyable playing without a graphics card?Somewhat yes, sometimes noBecause that apu is using "normal" DDR4 system ram, not dedicated GDDR6 or HBM graphics ram, the bandwith of the graphics will suffer of course.So the latency will be higher, loading graphics will take somewhat longer, but all in all, it was a nice surprice playing with that cheap Ryzen 3 3200g APU. In the end i wanted to max out that APU full potential, so I slapped on a Noctua NH D12S, and added a GTX 1660 Ti i had lying around (I build computers for living part time)The 3200g overclocked to 4275mhz (1,375vcore), DDR3400mhz (CL16) and GTX 1660 Ti 2040mhz boost.To be honest, GW2 is running like a champ on that computer. Playing on medium/high settings, the game never drops below 25fps at worst in big World boss fight.Open world pve anything between 65-100+ fpsOnly four cores, yea I know, but for a budget cpu, its awesome, overclock and you will have up to 10% performance boost for free.Im still using this cpu playing GW2, as my secondary rig. We all love ZEN/Ryzen EDIT,link was wronghttps://valid.x86.fr/hurkc1