Guild Wars 2

Is it possible that the new TP is more CPU bounded than the previous version, or it is just post-patch lag, bad performance, etc…?

Because I now have a terrible load time for the tp and its pages, which I never had in the old TP. My CPU is far from being the best and I know that, but the game itself still runs pretty much the same, but the new TP is just awful to me. I like the new features it has and I would like to take advantage of them, but like this it is just dread. It takes like 3x more for me to do anything on it, that I even see myself avoiding to use it.

I think we are more bound by connection and server speed than our CPUs. If you watched the PoI video last week that showed off the UI, it was very quick but that was over a local network (likely 1Gb) on a private TP with limited player load (likely none). If resources are being pulled from the game files then drive performance may also be an issue (I imagine their setups are on SSDs).

It’s bandwidth. Every time I want to buy/sell something it has to download a pretty large background image. Same for the confirmation after selling. Why can’t these files be loaded from the client files like the item images, or cached across sessions, or just make them a lot smaller?

It can’t see how it is bandwith, because I rarely have problems with bandwith. I have 30Mb optic fiber contracted from the ISP and my download speed is most of the time around 3mb/s. If it is bandwith related, it is only concerning the TP servers, which is weird.
I have seen videos of other people using the new TP and it runs so fast compared to mine, that’s why I find it odd that it might be a bandwith thing. Still what do I know, I ain’t a bandwith expert

Perim.8563:

It’s bandwidth. Every time I want to buy/sell something it has to download a pretty large background image. Same for the confirmation after selling. Why can’t these files be loaded from the client files like the item images, or cached across sessions, or just make them a lot smaller?

The TP is a website. You’re loading a website into your game.

Yes, while it can and should be cached (then do a diff-check to see if it needs updating), the first time it’s loaded will take a while.

Yes CPU is busier with this new TP.

The real change is that it now uses a Chrome Engine instead of Internet Explorer .. don’t
know if the “bad evil” MS Browser uses less CPU.

Or maybe its also just the fact that it shows the results much fast now most of the time
and so it has more spikes on CPU load.