I got mine from http://www.mmoga.co.uk/ , literally got it 5 minutes later. Not sure how reliable they are though.
It's all CPU based, graphics card does very little.
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I got mine from http://www.mmoga.co.uk/ , literally got it 5 minutes later. Not sure how reliable they are though.
It's all CPU based, graphics card does very little.
Mr. Luchador
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So is it only EU people that can't access the website/login servers?
Littlegator
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What res are your textures at? I've heard that the static bitmaps have the brush stroke effect and actually add a lot to the visual appeal.
People are used to certain specs achieving certain performance feats, and are ignoring the good folks telling them why it's different this time.
Complistic
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I really like the look of it.
Everything on highest settings... I'm just trying to imagine a group sitting around a table and agreeing with that direction. Nothing pulls you out of a world faster than a damn bitmap in the background.... It's 2012!!
Oh lets see, we have distance fog a stones throw away, let's make it worse by putting a crappy bitmap there!
Again, the game is CPU bound. Your GPU will do little to affect performance. It's the reason why changing in game graphic settings have little to no affect on performance.
Expected of course- there are hundreds of thousands of people giving this a shot. I'm just going to keep saying it as often as possible
....you like that shit?
I went ballistic on SWTOR for the same thing. What the hell. Even Wow used one level of detail for near ground and another lower level that you could see for a couple of kilometers. Seriously.
Disclaimer: This says nothing about the gameplay, merely a comment on the engine...... static terrain bitmap....sigh.......
This is the one thorn forseeable in Anet's marketing plan: people who don't bother to read.
flyinpiranha
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For all those people with really expensive cards getting terrible performance, you may trade me your current PC for my C2D e8400 rig and you will get great performance in the beta.
jesus. fucking. christ.
VGChampion
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Glad to know others have performance issues. Thought I was having problems until I realized I was getting the same frame rate under max settings and lowest settings.
Game wise, I love it for the most part. It's taking awhile to get used to how everything works after having played so much WoW off and on but since I already bought it I have no problem learning it. I'm not a huge fan of the personal story quests though. And I wish you were automatically put into the same "server" / overflow as party members. If you want to group up you should have the option to join the overflow to play together.
Game wise, I love it for the most part. It's taking awhile to get used to how everything works after having played so much WoW off and on but since I already bought it I have no problem learning it. I'm not a huge fan of the personal story quests though. And I wish you were automatically put into the same "server" / overflow as party members. If you want to group up you should have the option to join the overflow to play together.
So is it possible to group up at all if you're in different overflows?
dat chain
Also, do those high-res screenshots also use the high-res textures? Because when you go to options it only goes up to medium but i the ones in those screenshots are medium-res.
edit: nevermind, apparently now i can use high textures, huh.
Two different combo things.
Skill chains: Some not all skills have follow-up skills if they connect, like your normal attack whatever it is
Combos (can be cross-profession): Initiator (field) + Finisher (Blast, Projectile, etc) = Combo effect
Mr. Luchador
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So I assume the normal trend of dumping the EU off has continued amongst MMO developers. Seems the only people having connection problems are those in the EU (and we can't access the forums to complain about it!).
OH WOE IS ME(u)!
OH WOE IS ME(u)!
VGChampion
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I partied up with my friend. Our pictures were just a blacked out default party icon saying we were in a party. Once we were finally together our character pictures filled out the black pic and we could see each other in the world.
Try guesting?
BlazingDarkness
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Why is my client redownloading all files from scratch??
They posted a 'solution' about dragging the client files into a new folder and running as administrator but that did nothing
any solutions GAF?
They posted a 'solution' about dragging the client files into a new folder and running as administrator but that did nothing
any solutions GAF?
Which issue exactly?
LumpOfCole
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I'm only getting an average of 35fps. I have an i5-2500k and a GTX 480, and graphics settings are not really affecting anything (except shadows).
Maybe there are chipset drivers I need to update or something.
Maybe there are chipset drivers I need to update or something.
The current build is CPU based, graphics card has nothing, or very little, to do with performance.
Snapshot King
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Sure, I suppose, but I mean, I'm not exactly running a junk CPU here. I find it weird that a game being targeted at the masses would need an i7 or something to run well. Could that be optimizations?
BlazingDarkness
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So how 'bout that beta.
BrettWeir
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Guesting is not available in beta.
Snapshot King
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Were you so quick to reply snarkily that you ignored the last part of my post? Where I ask if if this is just is standard pre-optimization shenanigans?
Yes. Anet has talked openly about it.
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