Guild Wars 2

So I thought I’d play some gw2 now exams are over. Saw the wintersday event. Thought that would be cool. Then went to lions arch. And saw what an unoptimized mess it is. Fps dropped to 20-30 and suddenly I am cpu bottlenecked.
I am using a lenovo y580 with a 660m (clocks are 950 core/2500 memory) and an i7-3630qm.

For example in fort trinity at low settings (best performance) I get about 110-120 fps at 1080p. At the settings I usually use (everything maxed except for no reflections, aa or ultra shadows I get between 35-55 fps. On best appearance default I get about 20-30 fps.

In lions arch I get 31 fps at 1080p and best appearance. 25 at my standard settings, 14 on best appearance (Why do reflections cause such a drop when there is no water? They cause a drop even when you stare at a wall.).
At 1280 × 800 I get 38 fps (gpu usage is 85% instead of 95-99%) on best appearence.

Why do we have such poor optimization? Yes lions arch usually demands more muscle but to go from 118 fps to 31 is absolutely horrible. The game in this area is basically unplayable for many people with a worse cpu.

Speaking as someone with a horrible computer, my usual fps in open world is around 20-30. It drops to 10-20 in Lion’s Arch. I get by pretty fine :P

Still playable on Thinkpad T410 with NVS 3100M & i7-620M processor, including doing Troll’s End jp ^^

Mine is fine too- even in LA, actually I was surprised how smooth it was

you are playing on a laptop with a mobil version graphics card.

what do you expect ?

also do you know why your fps drops. mostly the sheer number of players in lions arch. cpu useage is not just graphics. its player positions, drawing data for armor they use from your HDD etc.

in every mmo ever made the main city hub at peek player times always eats up alot of power, even high end machines can feel it slightly.

same for WvWvW during insane zergs.

also it might be your laptop is set to battery power mode and on energy saving setting and its running at 70% speed to save power. connect it to your mains and set it to high power mode and no energy saveing,

also how old are your gpu drivers ? and you have a 660m not that amazing.