Guild Wars 2

Since I bought the game and turned down all the graphics options, I’ve been getting around 25 frames per second while out in the wilderness, and less in the Black Citadel (i play Charr). That number drops to around 15-20 during combat, depending on how many spells I’m flinging. PvP has a similar drop.

Today I logged in and my FPS is at 60 while walking around. I noticed things were moving smoother, and had to check to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. In combat it dropped to 50, using all my ground spells and locust swarm.

I changed the render setting from Subsample to Native, and the idle/walking FPS dropped to 50, but still considerably higher than the walking 15 I got with Subsample on Native before.

I asked on /map and someone else said the same thing happened to him. I checked the announcements forum but I don’t see news of a patch. Is this some weird freak accident that will be gone the next time I log in, or did something happen overnight that caused this?

I run on an old machine – 5 year old Asus M50VM laptop. It’s got 4gb ram, a GeForce 9600M GS (1gb video memory), and a dual core 2.36ish Intel processor.

Must be another bug. Don’t worry, they’ll fix it and you’ll be back to 25 fps in no time.

Phy.2913:

Must be another bug. Don’t worry, they’ll fix it and you’ll be back to 25 fps in no time.

I lol’d.

Because you’re special.

Did anything outside of GW2 update, such as your video drivers?

Lol im running a CPU and GPU about 10x yours and my FPS is lower than 60.

Compatibility updates from the game

Driver updates from your GPU / Proc.

Or a magical leprechaun took a golden poo on your motherboard.

Either way? Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

Lord Jaguar.9504:

Or a magical leprechaun took a golden poo on your motherboard.

I LOLed

I would kill to get 50 fps. I have a 2 GB Nvidia card, 8GB RAM, an i7 and I have “best performance” settings on but on native sampling and I get 30 fps and like 15 fps on towns and larger battles and about 5 fps in crowded WvW. It feels like I should be getting so much more.

I have a FPS problem in Charr city (I have been there twice). When I leave the city, the problem remains. I can clear it by reloading from character select.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

nvidia just released new drivers

Deacon.6249:

nvidia just released new drivers

Are they recommended by Arenanet?

Well this is why I wanted to figure out what happened. Today I logged in and I’m back to my 25, maxing at most at 30. Yesterday was some freak accident out of the blue, but if I could figure out a cause, maybe I could always have 60 fps..

For now the mystery remains unsolved, I guess

You ran out of golden poo bro.

Feed the leprechauns more taco bell.