G73jh and Guild Wars 2

There will be a Beta Weekend Event starting this Friday (if you pre-purchased the game)
I think we should share our experiences with the game (performance) since it will not be optimized.
I had serious framedrops in the previous beta test (10-15 fps in an area with a handful of people on Medium settings)
but that's probably because it's CPU boud atm.

Who will be playing?

 

I will be playing the game on my G73 extensively enough to test the laptop extensively. I will run my 920xm at 720qm speeds at least once to compare performance data as well.

Afaik, the last beta spanned two week-ends and the second week-end was a stress test so everyone was getting bad framerates regardless of their configurations.

 

In crowded places I get 10-15 fps :s With less people it's playable at around 25-30 fps average, 45-50 in caves. I know they are still optimizing the game

 

Well, after playing the beta, all i can say is that right now, it is impossible to accurately measure performance. The client in it's current form was mostly single threaded and definitely limited by the CPU as my mobility 5870 almost never went over 60% usage regardless of the settings used for the most part. I was getting close to 30 fps in most instances with a few drops in crowded places like divinity's reach or when particle effects were off the charts. I will update this thread with the next beta.

 

Performance is alot better now in this Beta, seems that GPU load is much higher, which is good.

 

My G74 still went to hell in large fights and in some parts of queensdale :'( The games a bit more optimized now, but it still need a lot of work. I shouldnt get three times the fps in arkham city high settings 1080p and double in battlefield 3.

 

I had a pretty solid 30fps (with some minor drops) for the most part on my JH last BWE, no AA, shadows at low, everything else cranked up to max.

 

Hmm I had to OC my GPU a little to get 25-40 with those settings and medium shadows. It mostly stayed around 30fps which feels way too low >< This laptop has spoiled me. In any case, the game looks good but not THAT good.. the game should at least run as well as BF3, which it doesnt.

 

The game is still in beta, there is likely some code that is there for monitoring purposes taking away precious resources. As for shadows, they are still quite a performance hog.

I'll say this again, beta is beta is beta. Wait till release before complaining about performance. If it doesn't perform like it should at release, then it'll be time to complain.

 

I got good performance in the stresstest yesterday (medium settings) 40-50 fps
In crowded places around 30 fps but it never went below that.

 

No AA, Shadows at low, the rest at high/max and i got 30-40fps with very few dips below 30. I'm actually surprised at how smooth the game feels at 30fps.

Small update for the 10/08/2012 stress test: