Guild Wars 2

I installed gw2 on a old computer and as expected it runs slow. Bu I noticed icons, sounds, and just about everything loads super slow. Once everything is loaded the fps is pretty smooth. However I walk 10 feet in a direction and the frames stutter until everything is loaded. I took this as a harddrive problem.

I scanned with defraggler and it says gw2 has 1099 fragmentations. Will running defraggler improve this issue?

It certainly never hurts to defrag.

Good luck.

I’m no tech wizard, but if you’re struggling with loading you might be limited because of your RAM.

I was playing around with my 8GB RAM laptop and didn’t set one of the RAMs back in place properly (leaving me with 4GB RAM total). It was about bearable, but things loaded very slowly (LA took a minute or two). Realised the problem after checking performance settings (and that only 4GB RAM was detected).

Can’t remember what the minimum requirements are for GW2- I’ll edit them in so you can cross check

EDIT:

Windows® XP Service Pack 3 or better
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 or better
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800, ATI Radeon™ X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
35 GB available HDD space
Broadband Internet connection
Keyboard and mouse

So apparently 2GB RAM is sufficient… hmm… well, I guess if you have 4GB RAM it’s not all going to be freed up solely for GW2- you’ll be using some of it up for all the other processes your PC is using. So rather, you’d need 2GB free RAM. You might want to check if there is any bulkware that runs on start-up that eats into it as well.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It certainly never hurts to defrag.

Good luck.

Unless you have an ssd.

Large files don’t regularly need to be defragged but if it has that many fragments then yes, you should defrag it. I defrag after updates.

Additional points of interest:
1. Try not to install your games on the same physical drive as your operating system and the pagefile as loading times will suffer greatly. If at all possible, place your OS, pagefile, and games on different physical drives as well.
2. Defragging allows for faster load times when all associated files are in the same physical location on a disk (most defraggers don’t care about folder hierarchy though which sucks for gamers).
3. You can install GW and GW2 on flash drives, external drives, and even network shares, just be sure it’s USB 2 or higher.

I don’t know what the situation is with that computer but you can probably turn off anything that loads at startup and improve your system performance, reduce the amount of ram everything needs, and reduce the amount of paging your OS needs to do when things get loaded constantly.

Scan for viruses and malware/spyware, etc.

This is just an update, I let it defrag over night. It went from 1099 fragmentations to 3.

The frame stutter is completely gone and maps are loding literally 3x as fast. It still has low fps in general, but thats a huge difference than the sharp :stutter" that occured everytime something new had to be loaded.

It’s a good idea to defrag gw2.dat file after each patch just to be sure this file stay optimal.

However if you are using a solid state drive there is no need to do this.