Guild Wars 2

Hi, as the title I have this strange problem.
I have a sli EVGA GTX980sc, graphics settings at maximum (Recommended by GeForce Experience), but do not pass the 60FPS. I have no frame limit, I think it’s just a problem of the game.
Can anyone help me?

This is my pc settings:
-Corsair Graphite Series 780T – ASUS MAXIMUS VII HERO – Intel Core i7-4790k 4Ghz – Corsair Hydro Series H60
-sli EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 980superclocked – Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz (2×8GB) CL9
-SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO 256Gb – Corsair AX860 Platino 80Plus – WD Caviar Blue 1TB

The game is CPU bound. Overclock your CPU to 4.8Ghz or above and it will be fine

He is one of the most powerful processors on the market and not enough in guild wars?
but that game is?

If this pc is for gaming (because sli) than why buy a i7 over an i5 .. Its pretty much waste of your money if you know the difference.

Anyways yes a great gpu doesnt do much.. Myself have a gtx970.. And it runs very high..
So your SLI with also the more expensive 980 is a huge waste for atleast gw2.
(why not sli 970.. For real the 980 is just a marketing stunt)

Anyways remove your SLI and see what it does.
No need to overclock you K cpu (atleast not for gw2)

Unfortunately even if you can push your processor into the 4.0+ ghz range you probably won’t see a consistent 60fps across the entirety of game modes. Your gpu can handle the graphics, but your processor has to deal with the gw2 main thread bottlenecking everything else that happens related to the game. The more players that need to be accounted for on screen, the worse this becomes.

I have a a similar setup with a 4.4ghz processor and gtx 980 at 2560×1440 resolution fullscreen window, since I run with a second monitor. With player quantity and quality at low I can run all other settings on max (smaa) and maintain 60fps or higher in all situations except with zergs, where I will see my framerate drop to around 40-50 fps.

Basically, unless you can push a processor close to 5.0ghz you aren’t going to run this game at max setting and higher resolutions with 60fps at all times. Without zergs, sure 60+fps is easily attainable. Unfortunately a lot of the content revolves around zergs, so you better be ready for the framerate drop.

nicknamenick.2437:

So your SLI with also the more expensive 980 is a huge waste for atleast gw2.
(why not sli 970.. For real the 980 is just a marketing stunt)

The card might be wasted on gw2, but the 970 is more of a joke than the 980. The 970 suffers from performance issues when it uses over 3.5gb of its available memory.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-memory-issue-fully-explained/

SLI will not work in GW2 or so I’ve read. As others have said, game is CPU bound. Maybe one day the game will rely more on the GPU and we can all be happy.

BrotherBelial.3094:

SLI will not work in GW2 or so I’ve read. As others have said, game is CPU bound. Maybe one day the game will rely more on the GPU and we can all be happy.

False,SLI does work with gw2 but the performance increase isn’t as noticable as in most other games.Also mmo’s are always cpu bound,untill we all move to dx12 that won’t be changing for now.

You shouldn’t use any graphic auto-setting for gw2, since some graphic options are very cpu taxing and kill a lot the framerate.

- Put Reflections to “Terrain & Sky”.
- Put Shadows to “High”.
- Put both Character Limits to “High”.
- Enable “Effects LOD”.
- Disable “High Res Character textures”.
- Disable “Vsync”.

Also try to play with only 1 gpu and make sure it’s running at x16. Since gw2 is so cpu taxing, pcie speed can improve a little bit.

Ansau.7326:

- Put Reflections to “Terrain & Sky”.
- Put Shadows to “High”.
- Put both Character Limits to “High”.

This is not correct.

If you want a better framerate, then set
Reflections to NONE
Shadows to NONE
Character Model Limit to LOW

In an open area, you can set them higher. If you’re in a populated zone, then it’s going to hurt. The only thing I change is Character Model Limit to High when I go to WvW, and that’s just to make sure I can see everyone.

Does it always happen or just crowded places?
If its in crowded places you need more ram speed

hazenvirus.8154:

nicknamenick.2437:

So your SLI with also the more expensive 980 is a huge waste for atleast gw2.
(why not sli 970.. For real the 980 is just a marketing stunt)

The card might be wasted on gw2, but the 970 is more of a joke than the 980. The 970 suffers from performance issues when it uses over 3.5gb of its available memory.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-memory-issue-fully-explained/

Not quite. Almost all of the concern regarding the whole VRAM issue came from driver-related problems, not hardware ones, and the issue only really persists now if you run games in MSAA which brings every GPU out there to its knees by cutting performance numbers by 30-70% even on 1080p.

The 970 is a fantastic card if you configure your game settings properly and understand where and why there even may be a bottleneck and how it compares to the rest of the competition (I.E., extremely well).

The unfortunate truth pertaining to the OP is that GW2 is very CPU-bound and doesn’t utilize CPU hardware fully due to the way the code for the game is designed. I recall one of the engine programmers debunked a DX12/optimization thread once regarding this issue by going through the technicalities of everything and why the game is pretty much never going to see better optimization because based on the way the engine works, it’s just not possible without running the risk of some pretty substantial stability risks.

That said, do also look at your cooling configuration. PC components will throttle performance based on heat generation, and your computer as a whole, especially in regards to gaming, is only as fast as your slowest part in use. If your temps are too high, no amount of code optimization or faster hardware will make the game run better.

I have the same issue as you but only around zergs and places with a lot of players. I have a 4770k @ 4.3ghz and sli gtx 980ti’s also over clocked in my system.

Note: over clocked at 4.8ghz which I sometimes have running during winter as it gets hot in Australia does not give me any performance gain worth running at that clock speed.

Ragon.6093:

He is one of the most powerful processors on the market and not enough in guild wars?
but that game is?

Not enough is relative.

Fact is, GW2 has a horribly optimized engine. You might as well call it a software renderer, because its barely using your graphics card. A card that see 30 fps on LOW settings in GW2 will run Grand Theft Auto 5 at maximum settings 60+ fps. There is nothing we can do about it (cant exactly upgrade our cpus and gpus when there is nothing faster… and it wouldnt make it faster anyway). Only Anet can fix this but its major rework on the engine and its simply not going to happen.

TheHeretic.3529:

Ansau.7326:

- Put Reflections to “Terrain & Sky”.
- Put Shadows to “High”.
- Put both Character Limits to “High”.

This is not correct.

If you want a better framerate, then set
Reflections to NONE
Shadows to NONE
Character Model Limit to LOW

In an open area, you can set them higher. If you’re in a populated zone, then it’s going to hurt. The only thing I change is Character Model Limit to High when I go to WvW, and that’s just to make sure I can see everyone.

What I’m saying is true, you’re just killing the settings to get better framerate, sacrificing graphics, which is not my intention. With my options there’s still a gain, but killing them doesn’t improve that much the framerate for what you’re sacrificing.

Did you ever bother to check how much GPU load you have and how much CPU load?

You’ll find you have 2 or 3 CPU core s working overtime and the rest relaxing and organizing network traffic and background svcs

Also you’ll find your 2 GTX’s slacking at 45-50% each due to the fact there is no more calculations to do as your CPU did those already….

I have 2 GTX 780’s the non Ti version, they max out at 60-65% max, even at the limited time we had 3840*2400 ability, even in WvW with 240 player shooting at eachother as there is no more information to process. even in windowed mode at ultra.

If there is more then that I just DC as the network cannot handle the data stream neccesary.. (yes that couple a hundred kb/s) it is not MY problem as I have a 120 Mbit line….. it is the games problem…together with the 80-90+% CPU load on 2 of my 6 HT-ed cores.

only problems I had was the GPU’s falling asleep. sometimes they just downthrottled and went to PCI-E v 1.1 instead of the PCI-E v3.0 I normally force ’m on, it was due to energy efficient use, I just have ’m on full burn constantly (still only 60 % though

Ragon.6093:

Hi, as the title I have this strange problem.
I have a sli EVGA GTX980sc, graphics settings at maximum (Recommended by GeForce Experience), but do not pass the 60FPS. I have no frame limit, I think it’s just a problem of the game.
Can anyone help me?

This is my pc settings:
-Corsair Graphite Series 780T – ASUS MAXIMUS VII HERO – Intel Core i7-4790k 4Ghz – Corsair Hydro Series H60
-sli EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX 980superclocked – Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz (2×8GB) CL9
-SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO 256Gb – Corsair AX860 Platino 80Plus – WD Caviar Blue 1TB

Your stuff is for sure not working correctly. I have i7-4790k and a 770gtx and run 60fps most of the time. In the pvp lobby i think i may drop to 40-50FPS.

What kind of fps do you have with a 4.0 Ghz machine in zergs or at tequatl? I’m looking into buying a new pc and the machines I was looking at were 4.0.

I have an i5 2500k 3.3 Ghz and things get very laggy at teq.

Caedmon.6798:

BrotherBelial.3094:

SLI will not work in GW2 or so I’ve read. As others have said, game is CPU bound. Maybe one day the game will rely more on the GPU and we can all be happy.

False,SLI does work with gw2 but the performance increase isn’t as noticable as in most other games.Also mmo’s are always cpu bound,untill we all move to dx12 that won’t be changing for now.

Then I’ve been mislead, thank you for correcting me.