jokke.6239 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Surprised to see such high min specs for this expansion. That's more powerful than a GTX 1050 TI. My PC died not long ago, bought a new (used) PC with a GTX 1050, thought it would be fine for Guild Wars 2. Apparently not xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solvar.7953 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1050 will probably be fine - perf looks comparable to 680. It is also hard to know exactly why they came up with that minimum (maybe it is the amount of memory on the card, or api versions it supports, or something else). Few games go into detailed releases of all the video cards & combos. All it really means is that anything later than gtx 680 is supported - earlier cards may work, but if they don't, Anet will point at the minimum specs. Later cards will work and be supported, but performance may not be great depending on lots of factors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asum.4960 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 What's listed here is significantly lower, but even then, a GTX 680 would be a 10 year old card - I don't think that qualifies as "high", even for a 9 year old game update. But as @Solvar.7953 said, specs slightly below are likely to work, it's just not a guarantee. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawdler.8521 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Worst case scenario - go into options, tick the dx11 beta. Does your game still run? Then yeah it'll run EoD. Its not like we're getting UE5 with 12gb vram and raytracing support as requirement for EoD. Its still same old GW2, same old tech. If it runs worse in parts its for the same reasons every expansion runs worse in parts - they just add more stuff to the maps, larger meta encounters, more effects. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokke.6239 Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 15 minutes ago, Asum.4960 said: What's listed here is significantly lower, but even then, a GTX 680 would be a 10 year old card - I don't think that qualifies as "high", even for a 9 year old game update. But as @Solvar.7953 said, specs slightly below are likely to work, it's just not a guarantee. Well a high end old card that still performs better than 1050ti etc, except for lower VRAM. But yeah hopefully it's just to be safe so people won't complain about the game running badly on their older hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokke.6239 Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Dawdler.8521 said: Worst case scenario - go into options, tick the dx11 beta. Does your game still run? Then yeah it'll run EoD. Its not like we're getting UE5 with 12gb vram and raytracing support as requirement for EoD. Its still same old GW2, same old tech. If it runs worse in parts its for the same reasons every expansion runs worse in parts - they just add more stuff to the maps, larger meta encounters, more effects. Yeah runs allright. 40-50 FPS on 1440p on highest settings with the usual fps killer settings turned down. Haven't played zerg's though, just world completion and stuff. Edited January 7, 2022 by jokke.6239 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameepa.6793 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I'm playing with 10 year old 760 which is slower than that 680 card and the game works everywhere fine enough for me and will work in EoD too, so no worries :) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokke.6239 Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Ameepa.6793 said: I'm playing with 10 year old 760 which is slower than that 680 card and the game works everywhere fine enough for me and will work in EoD too, so no worries 🙂 Allright, good to hear. Thought the expansion might be much more demanding than previous content since they upped the requirements, but doesn't seem to be expactation here. Guess we'll have to wait and see. Anyway, played the game on lowest graphics with 10-25 fps for over 4k hours for the first 2 years of the game, so I guess I'll manage 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarius.9285 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 of course. The game mostly relies on CPU power, so you don't need a powerful GPU 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jin.8501 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Lol high min specs = decade old tech 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokke.6239 Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 5 hours ago, Jin.8501 said: Lol high min specs = decade old tech Not that simple as "tech 1 decade old". Most AAA games min requirements doesn't even go above a 1050 TI yet still .. And 680 is still more powerful than that card Yes a 10 year old card is still better than most required minimum specs, so in context it is in fact surprisingly high minimum requirements, even more so for a game like Guild Wars 2 that isn't very demanding on graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokke.6239 Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 This was not a rant or me complaining, was just surprised to see that. I hope everything will be fine with a 1050. If not, i'm not mad. Guess I'll just have to upgrade again at some point. Hopefully it will mean much prettier graphics in return then :P? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobInTheLunchroom.8605 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I play the game just fine with a 750 ti, a far less powerful card than the 680. Don't worry about it, the game will run on anything lmao. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCatz.8437 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 On 1/7/2022 at 5:30 AM, jokke.6239 said: Surprised to see such high min specs for this expansion. That's more powerful than a GTX 1050 TI. My PC died not long ago, bought a new (used) PC with a GTX 1050, thought it would be fine for Guild Wars 2. Apparently not xD Where did you read about minimum requirments for End of Dragons? According to GW2 help page they state: Quote Operating System Windows® 7 or better (64 bit only) Processor Intel® i3 2.8 GHz AMD Phenom II x4 2.8 GHz Video NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 250 ATI Radeon HD 5770 Intel Iris Plus 640 or better Memory 6 GB of RAM Storage 55 GB available HDD space Internet Broadband Internet connection Input Keyboard and mouse DirectX DirectX 9 https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201862958-Minimum-System-Requirements Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokke.6239 Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 24 minutes ago, ShadowCatz.8437 said: Where did you read about minimum requirments for End of Dragons? According to GW2 help page they state: https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201862958-Minimum-System-Requirements End of Dragons pre purchase page 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakeneko.5826 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 On 1/7/2022 at 6:30 AM, jokke.6239 said: Surprised to see such high min specs for this expansion. That's more powerful than a GTX 1050 TI. My PC died not long ago, bought a new (used) PC with a GTX 1050, thought it would be fine for Guild Wars 2. Apparently not xD Reasonable, considering game is CPU and not GPU heavy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury ranique.2170 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 GW2 has always ran fine on most integrated Intel graphics (even though they are below the required specs). I doubt they raise it so far for EoD that t won't run on older GTX's. The only thing I can imagine is that dx11 will be required to be turned on, but even that is not likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jin.8501 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 14 hours ago, jokke.6239 said: Not that simple as "tech 1 decade old". Most AAA games min requirements doesn't even go above a 1050 TI yet still .. And 680 is still more powerful than that card Yes a 10 year old card is still better than most required minimum specs, so in context it is in fact surprisingly high minimum requirements, even more so for a game like Guild Wars 2 that isn't very demanding on graphics. Take 1050ti any day over 680 unless it's 4GB edition and not even then. Performance difference is minimal while 1050ti is somewhat modern and well supported 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokke.6239 Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 3 hours ago, Jin.8501 said: Take 1050ti any day over 680 unless it's 4GB edition and not even then. Performance difference is minimal while 1050ti is somewhat modern and well supported Well yeah ofc. 680 could die any second if you have one, given how old it is. Still 10% more performance than a 1050 TI though, except for the lower VRAM. Not sure how much that matters for GW2 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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