Guild Wars 2

Have they changed anything with the patch of 17th of june?

I went from 30-39 on max setting in zerg fights to 60 FPS and 80-90 FPS without large fights.

Running an;
Overclocked FX 8350 (4.5ghz)
DDR3 1600 MHZ (16GB)
Overclocked Asus GTX 760 (1300mhz)

It’s as of recent that my framerate got a huge boost, It wasn’t the Nvidia patch.
before this patch I had the same nvidia patch and the same framerate issues.

could be. I just got a new computer so I can’t compare to previous results, but benchmarks online suggest I should get 55 FPS on max settings and I get 90-95, even with supersampling. They have stated before they were making ongoing efforts to optimize the server and some optimizations could easily have impacted the client too.

proviticus.4183:

could be. I just got a new computer so I can’t compare to previous results, but benchmarks online suggest I should get 55 FPS on max settings and I get 90-95, even with supersampling. They have stated before they were making ongoing efforts to optimize the server and some optimizations could easily have impacted the client too.

I am absolutely baffled by the performance increase if they did something about it.
First time I can experience gw2 on 60 FPS with everything on max.

The way it should be played.

Edit: was spiking towards 98 in open world aswel now.

the new nvidia drivers use leess cpu, gw2 is bottlenecked by cpu, theres no arguing the dirvers had a role in the performance increase, i hope when they release a new expansion they bring in a modern game engine as well

Edgez.4236:

the new nvidia drivers use leess cpu, gw2 is bottlenecked by cpu, theres no arguing the dirvers had a role in the performance increase, i hope when they release a new expansion they bring in a modern game engine as well

This is what I think it is – nothing more.

This game would be hard to bring in a newer engine since they want many players to be able to use older PC’s for this game. Hence why we are stuck with DX 9.0c.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Edgez.4236:

the new nvidia drivers use leess cpu, gw2 is bottlenecked by cpu, theres no arguing the dirvers had a role in the performance increase, i hope when they release a new expansion they bring in a modern game engine as well

This is what I think it is – nothing more.

This game would be hard to bring in a newer engine since they want many players to be able to use older PC’s for this game. Hence why we are stuck with DX 9.0c.

It wasn’t doing this 7th of June.

But I guess that might be the case then.

Still haven’t downloaded the beta for 17th of June might give it a check.

I’m not sure, an hour ago I updated from 335.23 to 337.88 and I went from 30-40 fps to 50-60 fps ingame at the same settings, I think that update helped out but I don’t think it was on gw2’s end for the performance increase.

Hell, I can now put the game on high/ultra (previously at around mid) and still get 40 fps, this is lovely, haha

337.50 beta and later 337.88 whql reworked the way directx was handled and resulted in a lower cpu over head. Albeit it was mainly optimized for dx11, but the new process also improved dx9 performance.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-337-50-beta-performance-driver

This is why it is important to keep your drivers up to date, especially with nvidia. One of the major benefits of the nvidia preimum pricing is that they have the resources to dedicate a large team to driver updates for performance enhancements. AMD tries, but it just doesn’t have the man hours and historically has slightly lagged behind on driver support and user experience.