So i’ve owned Guild Wars 2 for nearly a year now and ever since I bought it I’ve had issues with low frame rate, even on lowest settings. My rig is pretty decent, It’s capable of running games like Crysis 3 on Ultra, Specs will be bellow. So at first I decided to just ignore the problem and hope it would get better after a few updates, but it never did. I decided to do some research and I found that quite a few people have FPS issues and I noticed they all had AMD FX-8000 series CPU’s. So it would be safe to assume the game isn’t optimized to handle all 8 cores.
I decided to do a bit of a field test and see what my GPU usage was while running the game on ultra, I’ll attach a picture of the test but what i found was the game ran at about 30% on average. It jumped to the 40’s towards the end and ran as low as 20% at some points but GPU usage should be at 100% with a game as graphically advanced as guild wars 2. Later I took my GPU over to my friends house and tried out the game with an Intel 2600 CPU (Quad-Core) to find i was getting a 30-40 FPS boost in most areas.
ArenaNet, I love you guys but you really need to fix this. This is a game thousands of people play daily and people shouldn’t have to suffer though 5-10 FPS whenever they encounter a zerg in WvW just because they have an 8-Core. Anyway, I really hope this problem gets fixed soon. Guild Wars 2 is my favorite game and while I would probably consider buying an Intel just to play it at high FPS I would rather spend that money in the Gem store.
Specifications:
CPU: AMD FX-8150
GPU: Sapphire HD 7970 GHZ Edition (6 gigabytes VRAM)
RAM: 16 gigabytes DDR3
PSU: 1000w
(Guild Wars 2 installed on an OCZ Agility 3 SSD)
