Guild Wars 2

I hadn’t heard anything about it in the forums/reddit, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that the game feels -significantly- smoother after the patch. I play from Australia, so I’ve become familiar with a small delay on abilities but after the patch I’ve noticed the game feels much better. Weapon stowing and abilities like blink and phase retreating forward feel so much quicker and less jittery.

Is it just me or was there some significant optimisation in the patch? maybe even just connection optimisations which help out people further from the servers?

Well I tried WvW yesterday and my whole server thought of it as something for the worse. It was so unplayable that it went from queus on all maps to almost no players in a few hours.
perhaps it is a lot better in pve, I dont know.

You’d be one of the few. Most people have been complaining about terrible lag, or horrible FPS.

I personally haven’t experienced too much difference (good or bad) but I did notice my FPS was stronger than before, so that’s good. The only ‘skill lag’ I experienced was during a guild tequatl, but it seemed everyone had the issue.

I’m seeing only complaints about performance lose issues and I’m experiencing some right now. Camera works weird (I turned off any new camera features because I find them redundant) so I’m playing oldschool gw2 settings and still getting performance problems. I’m surprised you have opposite experience.

I’ve noticed stuttering and FPS drops after the patch. While it’s not game-breaking it’s really annoying. Especially the stuttering, which definitely wasn’t there before.

That’s odd. I do have a fairly decent computer so perhaps that’s helping to buffer the issue other’s are experiencing? I rarely wvw these days, almost always in spvp.

few things. have you tried this

turn all settings to lowest / turned off
close the game and reload
set all settings to how you used to have them.

normally when they do game engine changes it causes some issues and by setting everything to its lowest you “clear” the game and it runs smoothly after.

also have u tried running a game repair.

I would like to mention that doing AC path one today and fighting the second boss my FPS droped to 10 fps and stutterd like crazy. and I couldn’t close the game and had to force close it.

they did indeed cause a nasty issue with the game.

also if u notice the XP bar at the bottom of the screen was redesigned which might be a factor in this.

also try getting updated GPU drivers. uninstall the old one then install the new one (this insures no driver corruption / conflicts, yes it does happen even today to argue is foolish)

I played when patch kicked in. No issues. After patch – performance issues.
I don’t see how should I do anything when clearly this is the patch breaking my performance.

I’m wating for a hotfix. This game is already terribly optimised.

I should mention, if it wasn’t clear, the performance difference i’m noticing is likely mostly due to latency and connection improvements, not graphical optimisation, which seems to be the issue most are experiencing? My PC is pretty decent and has never had issues graphically or FPS-wise with GW2 but abilities feel much smoother post-patch.