Guild Wars 2 - Page 114

15. Can you talk about system requirements at all?

Josh: We’ll have a couple videos up later this week that walk you through all the graphics settings currently in the game and how they affect the framerates and visuals. In brief, the game ran pretty smoothly on my machine (7.5 Windows rating, 3.20 GHz six-core CPU, 8 GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6900). On maxed-out settings I was getting about 15-30 FPS depending on where I was–high population or huge vistas slowed it down. Moving down the graphics settings, I could run 30-60 FPS no problem.

One big thing to note here is that engine optimization is usually being done until the very last second before release (and continuing afterwards, of course) and that the game will actually run smoother at launch than it does in beta.

Gavin: I loved how Guild Wars managed to make a beautiful game with such low requirements. I’m not sure what the bottom end will be with Guild Wars 2, but the game’s visuals scaled well from lowest to highest settings. My home computer (5.9 Windows rating, 2.9 GHz dual-core, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570) ran the game smoothly around 30 fps on maxed-out settings. The only major issues I had with performance were directly related to the amount of players in WvW.

I’d expect this to be surprisingly easy on system requirements upon release, especially given how stunning the world is.

On February 25 2012 15:36 OuchyDathurts wrote:
Q) How did you integrate underwater sections in WvW? I really want to fight people underwater, but I want to make sure there will be other people there.

A) There is a quaggan mercenary camp in each borderland map that can play a pretty cirical part of assaulting or defending the keeps in that map as gaining favor with the quaggans lets them build weather control stations that shower the nearest keep with healing rain for your allies or zaps your enemies with bolts of lighting. I assume that's enough to make people want to fight there

So, how completely kick ass does this sound?


As far as some idea of requirements http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/guild-wars-2-beta-all-your-questions-answered/#comments

On February 25 2012 18:00 kleptako wrote:
When will the first beta invites be send out?

On February 25 2012 18:22 Valashu wrote:
Here's to hoping I get accepted to both the GW2 beta and Team Legacy.

On February 26 2012 09:39 Josh_rakoons wrote:
3-6 hours of my life everyday for absolutely no salary! Sounds great!

On February 27 2012 07:45 ZodaSoda wrote:
I would sign up for the Guild but i prolly dont have less than 200ms ping