GFXSettings.Gw2.exe.xml
The GFXSettings.Gw2.exe.xml file, located in %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/, contains information about the Graphics preferences and is used by the GeForce Experience to 'optimize' your settings. Additionally there is a similar file named GFXSettings.Gw2-64.exe.xml for the 64 bit client version.
The GeForce Experience or a NVIDIA GPU is not required because the game will always read from and write to this file on all systems.
Reading[edit]
There is a slight delay between changing your settings in game and the file being updated. It can update after the following events:
- At startup
- After changing any of the settings in game
- On map change
Altering[edit]
It's possible to alter the file to change your graphic settings when the game isn't running. The values are only read on launch so altering it when the game is still running will have no effect.
You can alter the following values:
- Resolution
- Width
- Height
- RefreshRate (0 for default)
- frameLimit (Frame Limiter)
- unlimited
- 60
- 30
- shadows
- off
- low
- high
- ultra
- reflections
- none
- terrain
- all
- charModelLimit (Character Model Limit)
- lowest
- low
- medium
- high
- highest
- screenMode
- windowed
- fullscreen
- windowed_fullscreen
- antiAliasing
- none
- fxaa
- smaa_low
- smaa_high
- textureDetail
- low
- medium
- high
- animation
- low
- medium
- high
- charModelQuality (Character Model Quality)
- lowest
- low
- medium
- high
- highest
- environment
- low
- medium
- high
- lodDistance
- low
- medium
- high
- ultra
- postProc (Postprocessing)
- low
- medium
- high
- sampling
- subsample
- native
- supersample
- shaders
- low
- medium
- high
- gamma
- value between 0.5 and 3.5
- effectLod
- highResCharacter (High-Res Character Textures)
- bestTextureFiltering
- depthBlur
- verticalSync
- dpiScaling
Deletion[edit]
Deleting the file will cause it to be regenerated upon the next start up of Guild Wars 2 and will not affect your current settings that are kept within Local.dat.
