FPS Improval, Will this have any effect?

#1 - May 6, 2013, 8:03 p.m.

Hey Guild Wars 2 People, I am brand new to the game (and asking for technical help) and i am only getting 4 FPS in Plains of Ashford, right after the Charr ‘tutorial’ area. I have

Operating System: Windows XP Professional

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz

Memory: 1982MB RAM

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE
Display Memory: 256.0 MB
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC

(Integrated into the Motherboard, 256MB)

So my question is, If i were to buy a 512MB Graphics Card, Would it make any increase in my FPS at all?

Ashley Segovia

#5 - May 7, 2013, 1:21 p.m.

Hi Lone Gamer – As others may have mentioned, upgrading can be tricky and sometimes time consuming business. The most important thing to keep in mind here is to do some research before buying new parts.

Upgrading your graphics card may be good for a little while (though this may not give you a significant performance boost in Guild Wars 2), but ultimately you’re bottlenecking the rest of your system. If you want to add a new card to your system, you’ll want to also make sure that you add more RAM to your system (as it is below min spec) and most especially a CPU upgrade will be in order to see any performance increase since Guild Wars 2 is a very CPU heavy game.

That being said, it is also likely that you’ll need a new motherboard in addition to a new PSU to accommodate all the new hardware and so you’re essentially looking at rebuilding your whole system.