Guild Wars 2

At this moment in time I do not have the means to actually get a new computer (build one) which is what I intend to do once I am able, but I would like to atleast manage to get the game to be playable to 20-30 fps in most areas.

As it stands now it is usually around 9-12.

I was wondering if anyone may be familiar with my laptop and might suggest driver solutions and as a last resort, installing additional ram (since larger ram could be added)

I’ve attached the DxDiag file for my laptop. I just want the game to be playable again, even if its just in short bursts.

Things to try:
In Gw2

• Setting Sound Quality to Lowest
• Everything low, and subsample in graphics settings.

In Windows:

• Set power plan to high performance:
  https://www.howtogeek.com/240840/should-you-use-the-balanced-power-saver-or-high-performance-power-plan-on-windows/

• With Gw2 open, go back to your desktop and At the taskbar, right click and then select task manager. How much of your memory is being used? Then click on the startup tab. Usually HP installed a bunch of bloatware that doesn’t need to run and waste your CPU power.

• Download Malwarebytes @ https://www.malwarebytes.com/ and search for malware.

I don’t think adding more ram would help that much, though depends on what else you’re doing. I have a 4gb HP laptop that runs at 20’ish FPS, maybe even 30 on a good day with things turned down. You’re most likely being limited by your laptop CPU.

The Video card is a low end card and adding more ram wont help.
As per previous poster, wind down everything in video options in GW2 to the lowest possible.

Huh. I have the same specs almost, though my laptop is an Acer, with turbo-boost to 2.90 (turned off) and 512 RAM on the same video card. I play medium to high on most GW2 graphics and average about 20 FPS, except around lots of players/things rendered at the same time.

What I do have turned down is Reflections, Character Model Limit and Character Model Quality (at low or medium). My Sound Quality is at High (not sure what difference that makes).

I also use Balanced, rather than High Performance in Windows; I’m on Windows 7 rather than 10 (heard nothing but bad press about 10, so opted out).

I did up my RAM from 4G to 6G. Seemed to help, but that was long ago. I also run the 32-bit client, though I could, and have, run the 64-bit client. No real difference there; I very rarely experience game crashes.

Perhaps, the difference is the on-board RAM on the video card. /shrug

You might want to check the AMD Catalyst panel (or whatever it’s called nowadays) and tone down additional graphics adapter settings from there.

Right-click the Gw2 shortcut and click Run with graphics processor. If you have more than 1 option, try each one.

Reducing shadows may also help. Also, can that CPU be overclocked?

ETA – this thread may get moved to the tech. boards.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Huh. I have the same specs almost, though my laptop is an Acer, with turbo-boost to 2.90 (turned off) and 512 RAM on the same video card. I play medium to high on most GW2 graphics and average about 20 FPS, except around lots of players/things rendered at the same time.

What I do have turned down is Reflections, Character Model Limit and Character Model Quality (at low or medium). My Sound Quality is at High (not sure what difference that makes).

I also use Balanced, rather than High Performance in Windows; I’m on Windows 7 rather than 10 (heard nothing but bad press about 10, so opted out).

I did up my RAM from 4G to 6G. Seemed to help, but that was long ago. I also run the 32-bit client, though I could, and have, run the 64-bit client. No real difference there; I very rarely experience game crashes.

Perhaps, the difference is the on-board RAM on the video card. /shrug

Have you tried turning down the Shadow quality? That has a huge impact on FPS for some reason, with very little change in graphics.

I think Shadows are on Medium. And, yes, I’ve tried it with Shadows on Low/Off. A couple of FPS difference, I believe. Not enough to remove Shadows from sight, though.

Thanks for the offer, though.

I’ve heard that running it in windowed mode makes it run faster- perhaps that’s something with changing the resolution though. It’s been a while since I properly played GW2 on a laptop. Worth a shot at least

Crimson Clouds.4853:

I’ve heard that running it in windowed mode makes it run faster- perhaps that’s something with changing the resolution though. It’s been a while since I properly played GW2 on a laptop. Worth a shot at least

I suppose that depends on the system, as going to windowed mode on my laptop drops my framerate to about 3-5 fps from a reasonable 40 to 50 in fullscreen. Or it might be about the resolution. On the laptop side though, not in the game.

To OP, I think your problem is in the processor as my laptop has almost exactly the same specs but my card goes up to 2,7 GHz, which runs the game smoothly on medium settings. Mine is an ASUS though, don’t know if that makes a difference.

Crimson Clouds.4853:

I’ve heard that running it in windowed mode makes it run faster- perhaps that’s something with changing the resolution though. It’s been a while since I properly played GW2 on a laptop. Worth a shot at least

This was actually a great suggestion! I don’t know why it helps but it got me as high as 30 frames in some instances.

Clean your laptop, or you can manually throttle ur processor by tuning down min/max processor state in power setting. Sometimes, tuning down max processor state from 100% to 99% means around 10°C cooler proc. Use CPU-z to determine the effect of each % because some processor only got like 4 speedstep and freq change only happen at 85%, or 75%, or whatever