Guild Wars 2

After today’s patch, my framerate is twice what it has been over the past 6-8 months… which is a great thing!

Anyone else notice an improvement?

Are you using an AMD or an Intel chip?

Maliel.8362:

Are you using an AMD or an Intel chip?

AMD

I thought my game loaded a bit faster than normal but I just thought I was imagining it. ….still do.

Heh, well, I am judging by in-game framerate – usually, mid-fighting (haven’t done any boss events yet) at LOWEST settings, I’m lucky to hold 20 FPS.

After I noticed this, I cranked everything to max quality and am still in the 40’s.

The proof is in the Jormag, though…

a t s e.9614:

Not for me ,still playing at lowest settings 10-20 fps… But I’m planning to buy a GPU soon.

Congratz tho, u ain’t got no lagg anymore.

Claw of Jormag was the same – 8fps in phase 2 – urgh.

I haven’t done much since the patch hit, but it seemed about the same for me – also AMD.

Sure it wasn’t something else? Driver update or such?

Halcyon.7352:

I haven’t done much since the patch hit, but it seemed about the same for me – also AMD.

Sure it wasn’t something else? Driver update or such?

Nope – thought of that. Zypper logs show no updates yesterday or the night before. I’m just gonna go with “magic”.

I haven’t noticed any difference, although if I tried to run in supersample before my GPU would get too hot for comfort (overclocked of course), and I prefer it running supersampled over native because it not only looks better but bizarrely improves performance. I can hold a steady 63c now with supersample, which is perfectly passable, but I last tried it two GPU drivers ago so it may have nothing to do with the patch.

edit: and yes I realize the OP was talking about CPU perf. Intel does benefit from great single core processing thanks to hyperthreading, although the new AMD Kaveri architecture is a vast improvement over its FM2 predecessors, and the new Phenoms are quite excellent as well.

KarateKid.5648:

a t s e.9614:

Not for me ,still playing at lowest settings 10-20 fps… But I’m planning to buy a GPU soon.

Congratz tho, u ain’t got no lagg anymore.

Claw of Jormag was the same – 8fps in phase 2 – urgh.

You should stop playing on toasters then.
Seriously, this game is heavily low-end optimised. If you have trouble with the framerate, I would suggest to buy something worth calling CPU first.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

KarateKid.5648:

a t s e.9614:

Not for me ,still playing at lowest settings 10-20 fps… But I’m planning to buy a GPU soon.

Congratz tho, u ain’t got no lagg anymore.

Claw of Jormag was the same – 8fps in phase 2 – urgh.

You should stop playing on toasters then.
Seriously, this game is heavily low-end optimised. If you have trouble with the framerate, I would suggest to buy something worth calling CPU first.

Thank you for your misdirected condescending reply – perhaps when insulting someone, you should pick the right someone?

I haven’t noticed much a difference. AMD CPU here.

I don’t know, I found a 20fps performance increase earlier today updating from 335.23 to 337.88 NVidia drivers, I am guessing that was the cause of the performance increase.

KarateKid.5648:

HHR LostProphet.4801:

KarateKid.5648:

a t s e.9614:

Not for me ,still playing at lowest settings 10-20 fps… But I’m planning to buy a GPU soon.

Congratz tho, u ain’t got no lagg anymore.

Claw of Jormag was the same – 8fps in phase 2 – urgh.

You should stop playing on toasters then.
Seriously, this game is heavily low-end optimised. If you have trouble with the framerate, I would suggest to buy something worth calling CPU first.

Thank you for your misdirected condescending reply – perhaps when insulting someone, you should pick the right someone?

If you feel insulted … I’m sorry. You should still consider buying a new CPU if you’re playing more often.

After playing a bit more the last few days, I could swear up and down that I do notice faster load times in general, especially in cities.

While actually playing and participating in open world stuff, it’s a framerate crawl just as usual for me. Seems just as it was before.

Guess my ‘toaster’ isn’t up to par either!

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Seriously, this game is heavily low-end optimised. …

Lol, it’s very poorly optimized and uses too much CPU, even low-end GPU do not get used well.

On NVIDIA i found a great improvement also.
I played tequatl max setting with a smooth framerate.
To tell the truth was 1 month i didnt attempt one, but was surely extremely smoother than before.