Guild Wars 2

Hello, I did a bug report and checked the forums and google but I saw nothing so I’m asking here if anyone has horrible lag in the swamp fractal? I’ve only encountered such lag in a small portion of the story mode of the Sorrow’s Embrace dungeon, but it wasn’t as frustrating as it is in the Swamp Fractal. I can’t even help my teammates. I just have to sit it out either until we swim the underground cave and fight moss man or we reroll.

I went into fractals recently solo to test and tweak settings. In the swampland fractal. Namely, the will of the wisp return activity. I found out if the field of view is slightly overhead or I see the rolling fog, my framerate drops to 1 frame every 1-2 seconds. The fps indicator said it was 4fps, but it was like watching a slide show. At lowest graphic settings however, (1024 resolution, subsample, all other graphics options set to lowest) i found out that I got an fps boost to about 11-12fps when I adjust the field of view to simply look at the trees only instead 3/4 overhead view. I’ll adjust my playstyle to that field of view, but it’s difficult while participating in this activity.

I read on another site that Robert Hrouda made this fractal. I am requesting that the heavy graphical effects be dissabled on lowest environmental and/or shader setting. Also please disable dynamic environmental shadows when the graphics are set to the lowest. I love this game but I can barely play it as intended. I really wish I had a more high-end machine to play on, but my income is drastically low.

Turn the settings down in your options tab.

In a run the other day a guy was lagging so bad when he would pick up a wisp it would cause him to drop it right away and reset it. He finally said the lag was too bad he had to drop out and he left. So, it isn’t just you unless that was you I was partied with the other day.

cranked.3812:

Turn the settings down in your options tab.

In a run the other day a guy was lagging so bad when he would pick up a wisp it would cause him to drop it right away and reset it. He finally said the lag was too bad he had to drop out and he left. So, it isn’t just you unless that was you I was partied with the other day.

Haha cranked it wasn’t me. I’d just sit on the sidelines before I ever broke a party or dropped out. It does make me feel useless though because I can only help in the swampman boss fight. My settings are the lowest they’ll go, I even set it to subsample at a 1024×768 resolution to beat the lag in this particular fractal, but I still get it. I’m tinkering with the config files now and maybe adding some command line arguments that might help. I’ll update this thread if I learn anything but thanks for your comment!