ShakyJake
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Zindan
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Verdant Brink was the first zone for HoT, and as such, I spent the most time there trying to find my way around solo. Not fun. My experience in all the other HoT zones were simply for Story, then Meta and HP trains, so it was a much more chill experience. Auric Basic and Tangled Depths have been my favorite zones in HoT, and I might end up getting 100% in them both.
Grim1
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Started playing again couple of weeks ago. Mainly WvW. Revenants must have had a buff. See a lot more than the usual zero.
Daidraco
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G/f wanted to play something I wouldnt sperg out on and quit before she's even max lvl. I played this up to max lvl all the way back at release in 2012 and then stopped playing it, then came back and did the same thing again some time later with Heart of Thorns (iirc, Im not sure whats enabled on this account and whats not.)
I figured this time, I would erase my characters and start off on the same page as her with her playing a F2P account (to make sure she likes it.) I have the GW2 offer for a couple expansions on Amazon to get her up a notch if she likes it. But over all, just something we can play together at the same pace. Never mind that I have no idea / forgot - what does what in the game and whats for what and all the questions that come along with an MMO.
My question revolves what addons should we be using? I see Tac0. But what else?
I figured this time, I would erase my characters and start off on the same page as her with her playing a F2P account (to make sure she likes it.) I have the GW2 offer for a couple expansions on Amazon to get her up a notch if she likes it. But over all, just something we can play together at the same pace. Never mind that I have no idea / forgot - what does what in the game and whats for what and all the questions that come along with an MMO.
My question revolves what addons should we be using? I see Tac0. But what else?
Daidraco
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ShakyJake
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I unexpectantly won a bid on a used Radeon 6700 XT. Got it for $375 which appears to be a pretty good deal...for now.
Anyway, I eagerly installed the latest AMD drivers for the card and was greeted by some real shit performance. After some experimenting it appears the Adrenaline software is the culprit. It is absolutely murdering GW2 frame rate. I tried turning off all the fancy options you can run with but made no difference. I had to install just the graphics driver and not the Adrenaline crap.
Anyone here running a Radeon card and have any thoughts?
Anyway, I eagerly installed the latest AMD drivers for the card and was greeted by some real shit performance. After some experimenting it appears the Adrenaline software is the culprit. It is absolutely murdering GW2 frame rate. I tried turning off all the fancy options you can run with but made no difference. I had to install just the graphics driver and not the Adrenaline crap.
Anyone here running a Radeon card and have any thoughts?
So yesterday anet released the preview to the balance patch for next week... the supposed warrior banner and ranger spirit reworks, rework of some of the class uniques into boons, more boon spam... it wasn't received well... Game Update Notes Preview: Profession Skills
Also today someone posted a long discussion between the devs and players on balance stuff from their discord, but the highlights are the lead balance dev doesn't know about thieves and rangers, admits to boosting mirage staff because they hate the axe, and gloating over the salt to be generated from the patch... not exactly the perfect person to be balancing a game through their own bias....
The threads are being scrubbed from the official forums and reddit of course
Also today someone posted a long discussion between the devs and players on balance stuff from their discord, but the highlights are the lead balance dev doesn't know about thieves and rangers, admits to boosting mirage staff because they hate the axe, and gloating over the salt to be generated from the patch... not exactly the perfect person to be balancing a game through their own bias....
The threads are being scrubbed from the official forums and reddit of course
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Mist
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I have an 6800XT with current Adrenaline and drivers, and have no issue whatsoever with GW2. I do not play often, however.
I have disabled RSR, Anti-Lag, Sharpening, Enhanced Sync and VBR in the performance tab. The only thing I have set is Radeon Chill to 60 fps, though.
ShakyJake
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I believe it does, but I'm pretty sure I had disabled everything at one point with no affect. It's possible I missed this one, though.
Like I mentioned above, I'm pretty sure I disabled everything when I was trying to figure out WTF is going on. Also, I have a 165Hz monitor so I'm running the framerate unbound.
Without Adrenaline installed, the game is running much better, but I'm still getting this annoying "hitching". As if the game is buffering in something at points. This is something I never noticed with my previous GTX 1660 Ti. After searching around, I found this post:
Trying this, the game is BUTTER smooth now. Although I did once get some weird artifacting in Orr zones, but later mysteriously disappeared.
Malkav
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Did you enable dx11 rendering in game? Before they added that I used d912y but after they did and I enabled it GW2 finally gave a smooth experience.
It's just the original dx9 rendering that is horrible in this game.
ShakyJake
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Yeah, DX11 is on. Without the Radeon "Adrenaline" software installed the game is reasonably smooth, although there is an occasional stutter that's annoying. There's this Vulkan patch thing similar to d912y that actually makes the game silky smooth, but occasionally causes massive visual artifacts. I had to disable it unfortunately.
The last time I played GW2 was probably 2013-ish. Really enjoyed it but it felt like it lacked the character (more specifically, gear) depth I was used to with other popular MMOs and I eventually let it go.
I know there have been at least a couple of major expansions since then. I'm so desperate for some MMO time that I'm toying with the idea of picking this back up again, although I guess my old accounts are probably gone now.
I know there have been at least a couple of major expansions since then. I'm so desperate for some MMO time that I'm toying with the idea of picking this back up again, although I guess my old accounts are probably gone now.