Guild Wars 2

I know you can see your FPS if you press escape and go to options (not sure where your ping is, though), but I’d really like to see them both in the top right corner of my screen constantly. This would not only be great in WvW when adjusting your settings to reduce lag as much as possible, but also in PvE so you know when you have lag spikes or have lagged out completely.

I know Call of Duty 1 to 4 (dunno about the newer ones, never played them) had the option where you could enable an FPS monitor in the top right corner of your screen so you knew exactly and immediately what your FPS rate was in certain areas, and a lagometer in the mid-right corner which updated you regularly on your PING so you knew whether it was safe to rush in or better to stay in defense (see attachment). I also knew exactly when it was time to reduce the graphics settings or reset my router/cut off rest of the family.

If this has already been suggested before, I apologize and hope you will implement it soon. If not, what do you guys think of it? I personally think it would be a great addition to the game.

I agree, a way to get FPS and ping shown directly on the screen while actively playing would be VERY helpful

I wholeheartedly give this proposal a “/SIGNED”…

I would really like this, being an all round player I have to add a fps that is just a bit to low in pve is you are melee is really irritation also. Especially during have movement encounters you will notice the difference between 30 and 20-25 fps and 20-25 fps and in my opinion an fps op 30+ is best for gameing since the actions will be moving smooth while lower they just a bit off making it bit awful to look at.

The FPS meter is currently in the bottom right corner of the options panel.

There is no way to check ping other than directly checking the application’s latency. For example, by going to the system’s resource monitor and check the Latency of the gw2.exe application.

I could use the good ol’ ping led brought back from GW1.

• Color indicates latency: 0…250 green, 251…500 yellow, >500 red.
• Hovering over it shows tooltip panel with:
  • FPS
  • Latency
  • Server-side IP (for troubleshooting purposes)

Additionally, rick clicking on it should show a context menu with the following options:

• Show FPS – Numeric FPS appears next to the led.
• Show latency – Numeric latency appears next to the led.
• Show signal strength – Available on wireless connection, an additional 5-bar icon shows wireless signal strength.
• Show battery – Available on batter-powered systems like laptops when running on battery power, and additional battery icon indicating stages of battery charge.

Hahaha, don’t forget the lightning bolt over the LED meant it was background downloading stuff.

League of Legends has this where the FPS is up in a corner along with the ping to the servers. I would love to have this information available to me in the extreme rare case that I had legit latency issues.

However, with the way the current game runs, I would be interested to see my pings in WvW with all the skill activation latency and what not.

@ Mithran, I know where the FPS meter in the options panel is, but always having to go to options to see what your FPS is in certain areas is just stupid. Although I do agree they could at least give us back that ping led from GW1 – it wasn’t perfect, but at least you knew where you stood.