Guild Wars 2

Similar to whatever lava effect is at the entrance to CoF, or in the Lava Fractal. Insta-FPS drop if you happen to be facing the mystery texture/spot.

Personally, my FPS is cut in half when this happens.. and I’m talking with a 3570k and a GTX680. Somewhat concerning as the CoF/Lava spots have been common knowledge since launch and were never fixed, don’t let it spread!

Im on a 570 and nothing happens (steady 100~120), but general tip, game is pretty poorly optimized so shadows and reflection can ruin your fps.

I have the same problem in some parts of Southsun Cove; I’ve noticed it a ton in the area near the geysers jumping puzzle – an area where some red mist is at. This red mist seems to cause horrendous lag – that or something near it. I think they made the texture for the mist effects a bit too high resolution and spammed a bit too many of them in one place…

In general, this game is very badly optimized and needs a lot of work done before it runs even as well as games that have better graphics than it…

Obviously referring to max settings. It happens to everybody, you just haven’t noticed or haven’t been to the problem areas.

i have the same issua in CoF entrance and certain lava spots. have the same issua in CoE at the giant holographic image at entrance. outside the secret lab in metrca that needs that power crystal to open. and the shaman world boss area in iron marches, and the human vs charr fractal. these exact locations cause issues.

everywhere else in the world is 60 fps on max with vsync on

i also found whats causing the issue.

animations set to high casuses a 50% loss in fps and stuttering, same as medium.
setting it to low boom 60 fps no stuttering or issue in said locations.

i7 2700k @4.5ghz HT turned off (no differance on or off)
16GB corsair vengence ram @1600
MSI GTX 670
gigabyte mobo

so to recap in certain areas on the nvidia 600 cards there is an issue with animations on high in few locations,
when set to low very playable and also i dont see much diffrance between high and low. the openworld is fine mostly (2 locations)

however no issue for me in southsn regarding lava.

krixis.9538:

i have the same issua in CoF entrance and certain lava spots. have the same issua in CoE at the giant holographic image at entrance. outside the secret lab in metrca that needs that power crystal to open. and the shaman world boss area in iron marches, and the human vs charr fractal. these exact locations cause issues.

everywhere else in the world is 60 fps on max with vsync on

i also found whats causing the issue.

animations set to high casuses a 50% loss in fps and stuttering, same as medium.
setting it to low boom 60 fps no stuttering or issue in said locations.

i7 2700k @4.5ghz HT turned off (no differance on or off)
16GB corsair vengence ram @1600
MSI GTX 670
gigabyte mobo

so to recap in certain areas on the nvidia 600 cards there is an issue with animations on high in few locations,
when set to low very playable and also i dont see much diffrance between high and low. the openworld is fine mostly (2 locations)

however no issue for me in southsn regarding lava.

Ah yes, I had forgotten about the CoF entrance. I have the exact same problem – it’s usually when I look up to where Gaheron Baelfire was standing at the start of story mode – far up in the center at the top of the map. If I look at that area, my game loses a ton of fps (like 50-75%). Normally, I’m at 60fps in the area and have no problems – but looking right there, I get the some of the worst lag imaginable.

There’s also an area near the entrance to Queensdale, just outside of Divinity’s Reach – a nearby cave with pirates or bandits in it… When I go near it (only sometimes – it seems random), my fps drops to 1-2 all the way down from 60. I’m not sure what in the world causes this – but it makes no sense to me at all.

Glad I am not the only one. Good call on CoF entrance, it is definitely a very similar problem to that.