Guild Wars 2

Everytime you release new content involving mass farming, what I start thinking isn’t “Oh how nice, new content released, I’m looking forward to play it and get as many tokens/whatever I can in order to purchase new armor ^O^” but it’s rather “Oh kitten, another zergfest slide show, I hope my pc doesn’t burn out of it. Will do the minimum necessary to get achievements then screw it”.

I have given up on farming previous events involving these kinds of zergs with all those shiny aoe spam because they literally destroy my fps. I usually have stable 56-60 fps but whenever I take part to one of these events, it feels more like a slide show rather than a game.

I’ve put all the animations and silly settings to low, even went as far as to remove names from everyone and put to lowest the characters limit (Basically I see 10/9372893823 players with no name) but it’s useless. My pc is supposedly good enough (intel core i7) to hold this game and I have no problem outside LA.

Sorry to say, but I see no reason why I should play my game with horrendous graphics, not being able to see anyone and feeling like I’m playing a slide show. Either tune down all those fire and smoke effects or reduce the amount of people that can join one map in order to reduce all the mass AoE spam, because it’s silly. The only reason I “had” to join LA event was to get enough mats for the back item. Now that I have everything, I have no motivation to join it again “for fun” because I have no fun in doing it with the fps lag.

PS:
What’s up with mobs damage? 24.7k battle standard, lol, seriously? It’s just a banner, did they stick it up my kitten ? Also, molten alliance being immune inside those huge fire field lol

PS2:
Here a screenshot of Kasmeer’s panties
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I was having the same problem and my i7 (920) was getting too hot causing the clock multiplier to drop from x21 or so down to x12 or so to cool off. Turns out one of the feet of my stock cooler had come loose and I wasn’t getting proper cooling and it was really only showing up in these zerg situations.

So if you can, see if you can watch your cpu core temperatures and your clock multipliers while you are doing this event.

I drop from 3.6k MHz (x36) to 2.4k MHz (x24). Temperature is around 70-80°C, doesn’t go below that

Games are GPU intensive not CPU, a core i5 will run the game fine. The key is to have a decent GPU card. I run a core i7 3770k (overkill for gaming) with a Nvidia GTX680. My resolution is 5997×1200 and it does drop to 22-27 fps during these events. You need a good graphics card. Also all my in game settings are maxed. The game runs fine for me. I also agree with what SkabSavage said.

Open up a support ticket. I was having freezing issues due to my cpu auto-overclocking. Obviously that is a different issue but the support tech was able to solve it for me.

That being said, careful with the entitled “ANET should change the game for me because I am special” attitude. There are a few hundred thousand people playing this game who are not experiencing issues. If your computer can’t handle it, that isn’t ANET’s fault.

Running 1600×900 on medium settings with Nvidia GeForce GT 635M with NO PROBLEMS at all outside of LA event.

Problems arise 3-4 mins after having entered LA; from there my fps just get lower and lower, eventually reaching 15 fps and the game becomes horrible.

That is your biggest problem right there. A Nvidia GeForce GT 635M is an old low end card. I’m not surprised you are having issues.

“Old”… bought this pc this year and never had problems. Ok

Try cleaning out your pc with some compressed air, see if that helps. The reason I mention the cpu in this, when my cpu was overheating, it was also causing my gpu usage to drop, so I was getting like 7 fps in zergs, and my gpu usage was never climbing above 10-15% even with a gtx 660.

If you aren’t concerned about heat, you can also plug your laptop in, turn off core parking for a little bit.

The gtx635m is a mobile part and has less power than a desktop gpu counter part. Most CPU’s in laptops are also throttled down PC parts to conserve power and less heat. Most laptops are not well tuned for gaming unless they are a “gaming laptop” like an alienware or others. Also Nvidia is now in the 700 series so it could be considered old. The GTX660 is a good card and does sound like some kind of throttling is going on.

If I wasn’t clear about my end, I bought a new heat sink for my tower and it solved all my problems. That probably isn’t a solution for his laptop.

But cleaning out any dust/cat hair clogged fans and maybe disabling hyper threading, running the game while plugged in, and maybe disabling core parking, may clear up a bunch of frame issues. Compressed air is the first line of defense.

A lot of laptops behave differently when plugged in vs. battery in their power settings, even when fully charged. All this can be changed in the power settings in the control panel, but really, just plug it in, and make sure you have adequate cooling.

I recently repaired a laptop that was set to not use more than 30% of the cpu while on battery.

iCore7 4770, Nvidia 760 w/2 gig ram, 16 gig system RAM, @ 1900 × 1200 with all details turned up, and in an LA zerg fest it REALLY slows down to around 25 fps, though I normally am at 55-60 fps.

To be honest, my computer used to handle zergs on highest settings no problem. Queen’s Jubilee? Farmed for hours straight with no hiccup. Since the EOTM patch, and maybe just before then, but this is the most accurate time I can link to, I’ve had frame rate like putty and random DCs constantly. It’s really frustrating, but I’ve checked out my PC and the problem doesn’t appear to be at my end.

You shouldn’t play on notebooks since they have a weak graphic card (the M noting the ‘mobile’ version). I have a tower with GTX670 @ 1920×1200 and 16 GB of RAM with full details and never problems during such events (usually 25-60 fps constantly).

This thread is interesting….I have an older MSI MB, with a low end AMD Phenom II quad core processor. I have 12 GB of RAM clocked at 1333, and two old ATI Radeon 5770s in Crossfire. I can zerg with the best of them. I don’t get 60FPS, but 30 is pretty standard. If your CPUs are downclocking, you guys have way too much going on in the background.

I have my case fans running through Speedfan, and they spool up after I’m in game and the GPUs start heating up. I have six hard drives in the case with all of this going on. Oh and did I mention that I don’t have a fan on my CPU heat sink?

There is something seriously wrong if the game becomes unplayable for you guys. I have no issues and I have been playing since Beta.

Metallus.7690:

“Old”… bought this pc this year and never had problems. Ok

You may have bought your laptop this year and that’s fine. The card was released in April 2012. By GPU standards that is old, and like other people have commented, laptops/mobile cards do not have the same power that a desktop/regular GPU will have.

Mobile cards are not the same as regular GPU. So something like a 660M is much less powerful than a real 660 card.

I’m running this game with i7 4770k at 3.5~4.2GHz (Auto OC function via Mobo; I don’t feel the need to manually OC it higher yet), 16GB RAM, and NVIDIA 780. I still get some minor FPS drops during large events but that’s probably because of my internet connection lagging behind with loading every single detail and action from other players and mobs. I’m using 50Mbps cable service via WiFi which is fast but unstable at times. Probably also because I have the settings at Ultra HD at all times.

Op, you’re having issues of some sort. I have a Sony VAIO laptop running a Q770 i7 quad core at 1.73 GHz and an NVidia GT425M graphics card that I had to tune down to keep my laptop from crashing (known issue with the 400 series of mobile cards), running 6 gigs of RAM. I run on medium settings with shadows off and will sit around mid to high 30’s outside of zergs and probably around mid 20’s in the LA zergs, sounds like you’ve got much better hardware than me too.

I would, as others have suggested, clean everything out, open up as much of your computer as you’re fully comfortable with doing and use some compressed air to clean away the dust. Make sure to focus on cleaning out the fans, heat sink fins, and case vents. You will also want to make sure your graphics card drivers are up to date. Check the manufacturer’s website, they generally make it pretty easy to update (NVidia has an auto detect feature which will check which card you have and your driver version, and let you update it from there). If problems still exist watch your processor temps, you may have some broken down thermal paste causing overheat issues. Monitoring those temps can help point you in the right direction, though your description would suggest a GPU concern. If temps are stable you may try over clocking your GPU, but that’s a risky endeavour, in my book at least.

I hope you can resolve your issues, good luck!

Niko Stark.8932:

Mobile cards are not the same as regular GPU. So something like a 660M is much less powerful than a real 660 card.

I’m running this game with i7 4770k at 3.5~4.2GHz (Auto OC function via Mobo; I don’t feel the need to manually OC it higher yet), 16GB RAM, and NVIDIA 780. I still get some minor FPS drops during large events but that’s probably because of my internet connection lagging behind with loading every single detail and action from other players and mobs. I’m using 50Mbps cable service via WiFi which is fast but unstable at times.

I just wanted to say I’m pretty jelly, and a little mad to bro… :-P

Razamatazz.9628:

Op, you’re having issues of some sort. I have a Sony VAIO laptop running a Q770 i7 quad core at 1.73 GHz and an NVidia GT425M graphics card that I had to tune down to keep my laptop from crashing (known issue with the 400 series of mobile cards), running 6 gigs of RAM. I run on medium settings with shadows off and will sit around mid to high 30’s outside of zergs and probably around mid 20’s in the LA zergs, sounds like you’ve got much better hardware than me too.

I would, as others have suggested, clean everything out, open up as much of your computer as you’re fully comfortable with doing and use some compressed air to clean away the dust. Make sure to focus on cleaning out the fans, heat sink fins, and case vents. You will also want to make sure your graphics card drivers are up to date. Check the manufacturer’s website, they generally make it pretty easy to update (NVidia has an auto detect feature which will check which card you have and your driver version, and let you update it from there). If problems still exist watch your processor temps, you may have some broken down thermal paste causing overheat issues. Monitoring those temps can help point you in the right direction, though your description would suggest a GPU concern. If temps are stable you may try over clocking your GPU, but that’s a risky endeavour, in my book at least.

I hope you can resolve your issues, good luck!

Definitely would not recommend OCing a laptop. Just a really horrible idea.

I had an Asus G75 before and those are known for having excellent heat management but I never dared to OC it.

Indeed, I had to under clock mine just to get it to run, but some people are brave folk. I wouldn’t personally even OC a desktop, let alone a laptop. As I said risky business.

Metallus.7690:

Running 1600×900 on medium settings with Nvidia GeForce GT 635M with NO PROBLEMS at all outside of LA event.

Problems arise 3-4 mins after having entered LA; from there my fps just get lower and lower, eventually reaching 15 fps and the game becomes horrible.

The 635M is based on technology from 2010 – and I believe the 635M was the entry level card in the 6XX series. Only the 670M, 675M and 680M were decent for gaming.

If you have a look at this list – you’ll see there are 153 more powerful laptop/notebook graphics cards out right now.

You’ll also see that the site suggests you may be able to play games on “low” settings.

Maybe set your graphics to the lowest possible and you might be okay.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html