Curse

Demonomania · Dec 30, 2006, 07:12 AM // 07:12

I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ with 1GB of DDR400 along with a Radeon 9800 Pro.

What kind of cpu usage should I expect from Guild Wars: Nightfall? I played prophecies quite a bit about 6 months ago and never really checked to see how much was being used, but now when I run GW, gw.exe takes up more than 90% of my CPU most of the time, as well as using a large amount of RAM (which should be expected). I realize that I am not too far over the "Recommended Specs", but I still don't think that this game would take up so much processing power.

The game runs fine with little or no lag (mostly when loading new zones etc). It is a fresh install of both GW and Nightfall, so it's probably still loading things in the background, but I just wanted to see if I should be worried about this (overloading cpu?) or something.

Thanks.

-Demon

Sentao Nugra · Dec 30, 2006, 07:41 AM // 07:41

Seems totally normal, I'm running a 1.86GHz Core 2 with GW pulling 48 percent of the processing or about 96 percent of a single 1.86GHz processor.

Other Specs:
1x EvGA 7900GT KO
1GB Kingston DDR2800

GW Settings:
Res: 1440x900
Refresh: 75hz
4x AA
Max Quality

Demonomania · Dec 30, 2006, 07:53 AM // 07:53

Ok good.

My video settings are lower.. but then again 7900gt puts the 9800 pro to shame anyday.

Thanks for the tip.

Yanman.be · Dec 30, 2006, 10:16 AM // 10:16

Gw also uses maximum CPU it can get.

My HT processor will allow 50% though.