Guild Wars 2

As its stated gw2 is cpu heavy , i own a i7-3770 and i still get stutter while playing at random my gpu is a msi lightning 680 the highest factory overclocked 2gb model. I still get low performance how i fixed this im sure has been stated is to force the priority of the exe file to high do not set to real time it could crash your system or lock your self out from being able to use input devices as they are now lower priority and your cpu may not be able to process what its saying.This will increase cpu heat,this helped little now the next part.If you own a high end cpu and a gpu thats at least a mid level card go into what ever control panel for it you have find a setting for set max pre-rendered scenes its best to normally set this and keep it at default as thats what the game is designed to play on,helps fix a whole lot of issues that can occur. On my system setup i forced this to the highest setting i can put 4 is normal for nvidia, inspector has a setting of 8 idk if this actually does anything needless to say it stabilized my framerate and i no longer have issues of random lag spikes i would without these settings.

In game settings maxed , also running forced aa through control panel with sweetfx if this helps tell you anything , the game runs exactly the same without aa or sweetfx i still get lag spikes without fixing priority and scenes being rendered

Where are you getting low performance and how low is “low”? Also, whatever you do, don’t force AA unless it is SMAA or FXAA. Any real anti-aliasing lags a ton. If you use FXAA, don’t use sweetfx, and if you use sweetfx, don’t use FXAA in game. Try turning off supersampling too because you won’t notice it when using sweetfx or fxaa.

kenshinakh.3672:

Where are you getting low performance and how low is “low”? Also, whatever you do, don’t force AA unless it is SMAA or FXAA. Any real anti-aliasing lags a ton. If you use FXAA, don’t use sweetfx, and if you use sweetfx, don’t use FXAA in game. Try turning off supersampling too because you won’t notice it when using sweetfx or fxaa.

its a $500 graphics card and roughly $300 cpu like they (devs) have said its not optimized yet so with $800 im really getting the same performance of a low end cpu/gpu config.Then there is a lot of ppl who have the same issue i had lag spikes. so i thought maybe ill post how i fixed it ,fxaa should be ran with another aa anyway unless you like how it blurs the image (msaa/smaa work great for this unless u can run txaa)

the games likely as optimized as it will be till they put out an expansion, many of us have come to the conclusion that they are waiting for amd and intel to fix the performance problems for them, by putting out faster cpu’s.

FXAA sucks, use SMAA, even one of the dev’s posted that it was better then fxaa…they just didnt know about it during development.

dont expect anet to fix their kitten any time soon…..it will take a heavy rewrite of the client/engine to fix the problem of 3 insanely heavy threads bogging the whole game down….

they would also likely need to move to dx11 since dx9 isnt really well suited to SMP/SMT, and I doubt they will bother till the xbox 720 comes out.