Guild Wars 2

Hello!

So after getting my new computer with a i5 6600k and rx 480 gpu, I was really excited to play Guild Wars 2 with more than 30 fps. Unfortunately that did not seem to be the case.

In Queensdale, the game was running at 24 fps with high settings (low for some things). My ancient $20 pentium cpu (which wasn’t even overclocked) and my 760 ti gave me more fps with the same settings!

I got msi afterburner and interestingly enough, the game is using 100% gpu and 20% cpu, even after unparking all my cpu cores. 20% CPU usage is really, really strange, so I am confused why this could be happening.

Other games I played recently such as Dark Souls 3 (60 FPS), Black Desert Online (60 FPS) and Rocket League (250 fps) are all running perfectly fine, so the issue is specific to guild wars 2.

I reinstalled my drivers twice, changed the power settings for cpu to use 90% minimum, unparked the cores and parked them twice, tried setting GW2 to higher priority in the task manager, used wise registry cleaner, and still the fps is a huge issue.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this issue?

Get GPU-Z and make sure that your GPU is running PCI 16x instead of PCI 1×. If not reseat it and make sure it’s in the slot closest to your CPU

Fermi.2409:

Get GPU-Z and make sure that your GPU is running PCI 16x instead of PCI 1×. If not reseat it and make sure it’s in the slot closest to your CPU

Thank you for the suggestion!

I’m not in my room atm, I’ll be sure to test that out when I get back!

Also, GW2 is pretty much single threaded. If that is 20 percent of all cores, that’s not such a surprise. You didn’t specify, so I’m sorry if you already knew that.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Also, GW2 is pretty much single threaded. If that is 20 percent of all cores, that’s not such a surprise. You didn’t specify, so I’m sorry if you already knew that.

But even if it’s 20% of all cores, shouldn’t the 6600k give me more fps than my pentium cpu? I know that gw2 is single threaded since it’s based off the old game engine, but 20 fps seems a bit low in areas that aren’t cities.

Fermi.2409:

Get GPU-Z and make sure that your GPU is running PCI 16x instead of PCI 1×. If not reseat it and make sure it’s in the slot closest to your CPU

Just got back and checked. It is already running in PCI 1x already. Thanks for the suggestion though

It’s running PCI 16x you mean? If it’s running PCI 1x that’s bad, the card is being choked super hard

Fermi.2409:

It’s running PCI 16x you mean? If it’s running PCI 1x that’s bad, the card is being choked super hard

Well I have PCIE1 to PCIE5 and it is in PCIE1 atm, closest to the CPU.

EDIT: It’s in the correct slot already

http://i.imgur.com/j0X2IIX.png

Get GPU-Z and see if the number in the blue box is PCI-E 3.0 16x or PCI-E 3.0 1×. This is different from the slot the card is in

Fermi.2409:

http://i.imgur.com/j0X2IIX.png

Get GPU-Z and see if the number in the blue box is PCI-E 3.0 16x or PCI-E 3.0 1×. This is different from the slot the card is in

Ok I went full Jayden. The GPU was in the wrong slot after all.

It was covering the PCIE 3.0 16x slot so it looked like it was in the correct position.

THANK YOU!!!

This is why I always will come back to GW2, the best community ever. I now know why my graphics card was having issues with certain drivers being installed lol. 60 FPS in LA now

I miss the good old AGP slot. No way to make this mistake. Graphics cards went into the AGP slot, most other things went into the PCI slot and that really old kittenty thing from your dads 40mhz computer went into the ISA slot