Guild Wars 2

I sometimes play on a less-than-powerful laptop so that I can be in the same room as my apartment mates when we all get on at once. Not really being a gaming PC this laptop runs into serious issues any time I walk into a highly populated town or get close to a really active dynamic event.
Is there an option to stop players that aren’t in your party from rendering? I know that Aion had a similar “Hide other players” option and that would greatly improve the performance of whatever I was running it on.

This is a problem that I’ve just recently started seeing popup, but I don’t see it all the time, just in certain spots. Also, it applies more to mobs than other players. For instance, doing the “defend the bridge” event in Kessex Hills, I spent almost an entire five minutes leading to the end of the event, without seeing a single centaur. I was playing an Engineer at the time (thankfully) and saw my turret firing, but I couldn’t see at what. I ended up swapping to grenades and just spamming the area in front of the bridge with everything as it came off cooldown. Managed a gold from that.

I’ve played in other mob intensive events without similar problems (bearmageddon in Wayfarer Foothills), even without an FPS hit, so I wonder what the cause is. Maybe something to do with the map?