Resolution, settings, and performance Thread

Ok, I just decided to create this thread to help all of those who both have the game, and that don't have the game but are looking to see how well the game would run on their system....

Basically, you should post your system specifications, the resolution and settings at which the game is running at, and how well it runs for you!

(Oh and sorry if this is in the wrong section!)

Me:
AMD Athlon 2500+ (2ghz)
768MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Running at Maximum Quality (No AA/AF) at 1280x1024 resolution - Game runs extremely well, with very little slowdown, if any...

Good call


AMD Athlon 2400 XP (2ghz)
512 Mb Ram (althought my comp registers it as 480)
Built in GeForce 4 MX

Runs at Max Quality - well, but ground looses texture everyonce in a while, and I have to move settings slider
Mid Qualtiy - As above, but less often
Low Quality - Runs perfect

Woah.... pretty crazy how after all these years the Geforce4 MX can still power such games as Guild Wars... even with bloom effects and everything else!

Must be a really optimized game engine, as I think the graphics are absolutely gorgeous.

EDIT - Oh, and I think I know why your comp registers your RAM as 480 instead of 512MB.... your Geforce4 MX is probably integrated, so therefore the PC uses 32 megabytes of it's RAM in order to power the integrated video card. I believe you can change how much video memory is used up by the RAM by going into the BIOS... not sure how much of a difference it would make, though. Probably wouldn't be very noticable.

Specs

AMD 3200+ 64
1600MHZ FSB
1 GIG Dual Channel PC 3200 RAM
Windows XP w/ Sp2 (don't upgrade to windows xp x64.....i beg you)
Nvidia 5200FX 256MB RAM Asylum Edition (overclocked 20%)

Runs everything max but i had to turn reflections off 1024x768 @ 75hz Anti-Aliasing and Antiscopic filtering off (cuz my vido card sux)

Runs flawlessly @ these settings

Haha, nah, don't worry about that... even with my 9800 PRO I find that AA and AF are just a waste of performance for slightly improved visual quality.

I mean, what would you rather prefer? Jagged lines and great performance, or straight lines and greatly reduced performance (most of the time)?

As for me, I think I'll stick with the jaggies.

Pent4 3.0 PCI-E
1.5 Gig Dual Channel 3200
WinXP SP2
WinFast PX6600GT 128MB GDDR3 TDH PCI-Express 16x (retail) SLi Ready

Running everything at max, including the resolution on a 21" LCD. (I can't remember the res ATM... -_-)

Duh... Forgot to say - "It runs with zero problems, everything looks great and theres no flaws."

AMD A64 3000+
512 ddr (going to upgrade to a gig dual chan one of these days)
ATI Radeon 9600XT
Resolution: 1280x1024
Running at Maximum Quality (4xAA/AF(don't know how to change this setting)) - Game runs extremely well, no slowdowns at all.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot to post my resolution

Wow... if it runs that well with 4xAA and AF, then I might have to turn it up a notch. It must look pretty wonderful at those settings...

Oh, and to change AA/AF preferences, go into your ATI control panel, and you should be able to tweak most things by clicking the "3d" tab and just going from there. (I think it's the 3d tab... correct me if I'm wrong)

AMD 2500+ barton
512 3200 ddr ram
ATI 9600 Pro 128MB ram

rez: 1280x1024
visuals: max
AA: max 4x

P4 3.2
1G Ram
Nvidia 6800GT
Xp Sp2

Running with 2xAA and 8xAF at 1650x1050 Widescreen with zero performance issues.

P4 3.2ghz
1 Gig ram
Nvidia 6800 Ultra
SB Audigy 2 PT

Running game on maxed settings for everything. Flawless 60+ fps.

AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2GHz)
1GB PC3200 DDR (Dual channel, running at 800MHz)
Chaintech GeForce FX5900XT 128MB

I run at 1280x1024 at full quality and 3xAA...it only hiccups while caching and then it's smooth.

AMD 2500+ Barton
2 x 256mb PC3200 Dual Channel Memory
XFX Geforce 6600 GT 128MB AGP video card

I run it at 1280x1024, max settings, full quality, 4xaa.

Runs perfect.

Athlon XP 2800 @ 3200
1x 512MB DDR
100GB ATA IDE 133
GeForce 4 MX 440 SDR
Verizon DSL

1024x768
I play at One notch below middle on detail slider, however I can slide it up to one notch below highest and still play fine.

GW runs great on my PC, and it looks fine. I do look to upgrade my vid. card to probably an ATI 9550 or a 9600se to gain DX9 capabilities but GW plays FINE and looks FINE on a GeForce MX 4 440. I've been in PC hardware for over 12 years and I grow a bit tired of people claiming you NEED a NV 6600 GT at least or an ATI 9800 to play GW... it is an online RPG that streams a lot of it's content for goodness sake if the textures were so big as to take advantage of those cards we would all need T1 lines.

Intel P4 3.2
3 Gig of ram (Oh ya)
ATI Radeon X 800XL

Max settings including AA and max res. Works like a dream.

Amd 64-bit 3200+
1gb Ram
Ge Force6 6600 Gt Ddr3 128mb
250gb Maxtor 10,000 Rpm Hdd

Runs Max Quality Perfect.

AMD XP 3000+ @ 2.247ghz
1GB Ram
Leadtek 6600 GT AGP @ 580/1080

2xAF
High Texture Quality
Medium World Quality
Medium Shadown Quality
Full Effects

No slow downs and high frame rates with those settings. I can run max everything but I can see the frame rates drop enough for me to not care for it.

AMD 2800+
512MB DDR 400
ATI 9800 Pro

Max quality, 1024/768, 4X AA.

Runs great.

A64 3000+ / AXP 2.4Ghz (~3550+)
M9600 / 9700PRO
1GB RAM / 1.5GB RAM
1280x800 / 1680x1050

Both systems run the game pretty well, but the 9700PRO is a bit quicker even at the higher res. AA is off on the 9600 but 2X on the 9700 due to the extra headroom.

AF is set to app pref in 3D settings. You all should probably just load up your ATI control panel and go to 3D and make sure it's set to default. Anisotropic Filtering didn't make a noticeable improvement for me but you better believe even if you can't see it, if you force it on it's gonna drain performance.

The game has its own Antialiasing controls so I'd use those instead of the control panel too.

Yeah, I knew about it being allocated to something else, in my case my vid card, but I still figured it would have shown up on the speccies.

Anyway, might I make the suggestion of keeping this thread simple, as the first two posts are? So that people could use it as a quick referance guide.