Need help increasing frame-rate
Those specs look good. You should be able to run everything maxed out fine. I just built a PC for a friend with a core i5 and gtx770 and he has no issues. Look into driver updates, background programs running. 30-40 not too bad but the quickest why to boost it is to go SLI with another GTX770.
Please see the technical section – they have suggestion on how to do it. It will be moved there by a mod soon.
This game is CPU bound. Also make sure you have to the most up to date video drivers as they have some optimizations to help with the CPU load.
Where are you getting 30-40 fps? Open world, sPVP? WvW? World Boss fights?
Your rig should get at least 60 fps in the open world and sPVP. WvW and World Boss fights (or any other area where there are hundreds of players in one spot) should be running at 30-40 fps on your rig.
Also by “max” setting, do you mean turning things to “high” or are you turning things to ultra with supersampling on? A few settings will drastically lower fps if supersampling is on (e..g ultra shadows, ultra LOD distance) and will result in non-visible visual improvements.
Where are you getting 30-40 fps? Open world, sPVP? WvW? World Boss fights?
Your rig should get at least 60 fps in the open world and sPVP. WvW and World Boss fights (or any other area where there are hundreds of players in one spot) should be running at 30-40 fps on your rig.
Also by “max” setting, do you mean turning things to “high” or are you turning things to ultra with supersampling on? A few settings will drastically lower fps if supersampling is on (e..g ultra shadows, ultra LOD distance) and will result in non-visible visual improvements.
Everything on max, but sampling on native. And yeah, in open world I get anywhere from 50-80 FPS depending on what I am looking at. What I meant by the 30-40 fps drop is when I turn my camera and look around and stuff. World bosses with the new mega server system drop me down to 7-20 FPS :P
Are you running at max settings, 1080p, uncapped frame rate? Maybe you’re just experiencing some stutter.
Try enabling the frame rate limiter to 60, and see if that helps any.
It shouldn’t be an issue, but let’s try changing supersampling to native as well. (Edit: Oh, you said you’re already on native. Okay good. Still try the frame rate limiter, though.)
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SLI will not help you gain anymore FPS. GTX 770 is more than enough for this game. The only thing left for you to do is overclock but since you do not have the 3770K, that’s the best you’ll get unless you’re interested in forking out the cash for the 3770K and a proper cooler for OC.
And tip: This game is not ‘unoptimized" it’s about as optimized it CAN get for an MMO.
Where are you getting 30-40 fps? Open world, sPVP? WvW? World Boss fights?
Your rig should get at least 60 fps in the open world and sPVP. WvW and World Boss fights (or any other area where there are hundreds of players in one spot) should be running at 30-40 fps on your rig.
Also by “max” setting, do you mean turning things to “high” or are you turning things to ultra with supersampling on? A few settings will drastically lower fps if supersampling is on (e..g ultra shadows, ultra LOD distance) and will result in non-visible visual improvements.
Everything on max, but sampling on native. And yeah, in open world I get anywhere from 50-80 FPS depending on what I am looking at. What I meant by the 30-40 fps drop is when I turn my camera and look around and stuff. World bosses with the new mega server system drop me down to 7-20 FPS :P
You may still want to try turning down shadows to High and LOD to High. What you are describing is stuttering due to loading large scenes.
Everything that you are looking at is loaded into graphics memory, and things you can’t see are unloaded. When you have those two settings on ultra, the scene that is loaded/unloaded when you swing your camera around is much larger due to increased details. You likely won’t see any change in graphics fidelity by going from ultra to high unless you look really hard.
Aside from that, a faster CPU should also help a bit as others have said.