[Official] Guild Wars 2 Discussion, Video & Screenshot Thread - Page 251

Good to hear

Welp, the end of that confusion is fixed!

GW2 doesnt support hyper-threading, does it?

Does any game really support hyper threading? If the game needs 4 threads, it will use the "hyperthreads" on an i3 because it supports 4 threads and the i3 only has 2 otherwise. If the game needs only 4 threads and you use a 2600k, you probably won't see any improvement from hyperthreading because it can handle 4 threads either way.

That said, the beta was very, VERY CPU intensive because they haven't done too much optimization yet. I would assume good old fashion horse power would help you much more than thread count. I played on my sig rig (HT enabled) and played smoothly in all but the largest encounters.

You mean multi-threading?

hmmm...no i meant Hyper...like virtual cores.

Not sure if its just beta, but i was checking my cpu usage and it looked like the typical single threaded usage lol.. was 90% usage on core 3 @ 5.1Ghz cores 1,2 and 4 had very similar loading/usage at maybe 20-35% ?
I hope to see better optimization, my guess is they haven't compiled with support for much extensions.

But it ran smooth when i was on the main instance (not overflow) overflow was kinda mehh, and laggy/server performance....think the server lag/performance had more of an impact on gameplay more than anything.
Playing late night on the main server instance was smooth as butter.
I do expect alot of server performance tweaks leading up to release though

And damn.. i really want to play more

I remember callsignvega getting well distributed usage on his SB-E cpu, meaning the game recognizes multiple cores. Lets hope its well threaded ala BF3 .

mhmm, how should we compare the currency to gw1's currency (which only involves coins and platina)? or is there no way of comparing I'd just like to know what each coin really stands for (how many bronze coins = silver coins, etc). Has anyone got an idea about this?