Guild Wars 2 Roll Call

[Eddie Teach]

I finished exploring the Black Citadel before lunch without any further issues. Trying to log in now, but it seems login servers are overloaded/busy/down? Launcher doesn't initialize.

I'm playing on medium settings, but the game still looks pretty good.

How good is your vid card?

I'm wondering if this game is playable using the onboard card I got with the system. Just bought the computer a couple months ago, so it should be pretty decent. I hope.

[Syt]

I'm running an nVidia GTX555M in my notebook, 2GB. I can run, say, SWTOR, GTA4, Batman ArkAs, or Civ5 with all bells and whistles.

[frunk]

I have a year and a half old computer and the graphics card wasn't the latest then.  I can run it at a full 1920x1080, but there's just enough stutter that I take it down some.

[Syt]

Oh yeah, I run in 1920x1200, too.

[frunk]

I just got in, and its downloading a patch.  Crossing fingers.

[Syt]

I can log in now, but the game doesn't load. Also, the launcher gives me critical disk write errors if I leave it on too long, two of them during patch download. Either the hd is faulty (already checked, it's fine), or the game's data is corrupted. Guess it's time for a fresh install.

[Syt]

Game runs fine after re-install. Except that after 90 minutes my computer shut down due to CPU overheating. It may be because I have increased the view distance.

[Martinus]

Got my guardian to level 9 and my elementalist to level 10. 

One hint guys - crafting gives ton of xp. Since my mage is more squishy, I found myself a bit stuck at level 9 as I had nowhere to go for new hearts etc. and just grinding in this game gives very little of xp - then I decided to craft a little and discovered three recipes as a tailor - lo and behold, I got about 600 xp per pop and then it gives me 600 xp every time I create one of the items I discovered (a rune of life which is sort of like enchantment in WoW). This is awesome. I got from level 9 to 10 on my elementalist just by crafting.

[Cecil]

What is this overheating you have? I´m running on max and my computer is snoring at this. 

[crazy canuck]

I think I am going to go with a guardian as my first toon.  Not sure about my crafting skills yet.   

[crazy canuck]

Things I really like about this game and why it would be very hard to go back to a traditional MMO.

No node stealing
No quest hubs or quest collecting
dynamic everything

[sbr]

I have been thinking about getting this for a while.  Outside of a couple 10 day trials of WoW and a few solo month-long trips through LoTRO I haven't done the MMO thing before.  I haven't worked much in the last 6 weeks so it likely won't be immediately, but probably soon.

[Berkut]

So is there an American server we are looking to get on?

[Syt]

What is this overheating you have? I´m running on max and my computer is snoring at this. 

My notebook is about a year and a half old (see thread http://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,4863.0.html ). It seems that it's core 4 that the game is taxing the most. I've switched off all the bells and whistles on Win7 (i.e. Aero etc.), cleaned the laptop as best as I can, have sufficient airflow (laptop is about an inch above solid surface), so I'm rather stumped. Gfx card is having no problems.

Guess it's time to bring the thing to the shop and have it professionally cleaned.

[Syt]

Yeah, tried changing the core affinity for GW2 to the first three cores, but now Core 0 and 1 heat up over 90 degrees. Mind you, SWTOR goes into the high 80s, most other games leave the CPU in the 70s (yeah I know that biggest load on MMOs is the CPU).