Guild Wars 2

I just made a new computer a few days ago, the specs are:
Processor: Intel i7-4770k
RAM: 16GB DDR3
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H ATX LGA1150
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 4GB WINDFORCE
Power Supply: XFX XTR 750W
Operating System: Windows 8.1

This system ran me a little under $1600, and I got it for the purpose of streaming and playing games in max settings while doing so.

I’m getting 20-25 FPS continously on medium settings on GW2, and like 16-20 FPS on max.. I talked to my IRL about this who has an almost identical system to mine and he doesn’t know what it is without looking at it, but we’re both pretty busy with IRL stuff to meet up. Does anyone know what this could be? I installed all the drivers to everything and got all the Windows Updates, ect. so I have no idea what’s causing this.

The one thing I can say is I’m using a relatively old Monitor (720p). Which I assumed had a bit to do with it, but wouldn’t cause the frames to be 20- (was expecting atleast 45). Maybe I’m wrong though. Any Advice would be wonderful!

Are you getting any odd behavior like freezes, stuttering or crashes? A few people have reported issues in the past that turned out to be overclocked CPUs and/or GPUs overheating and throttling back.

I play with an i5, 8GB and GTX660 2GB and I’m getting double what you’re reporting in higher stress situations on high but with frame limiter set to 60 and shadows off.

i am running an i5 3570k, 8GB RAM, and a gtx 460 1GB GPU, and an SSD for OS and guild wars 2, and in pve i get 60 fps, i have disabled shadows, reflections and postprocessing.

is it everywhere in gw2 you get only 20 -25 fps?

have you installed the newest drivers from Nvidia or just the ones coming with the card?
i will check my settings we i get home from work tonight.

Have you put your graphics card in the slot next to the CPU ? Because thats the
PCIe x16 slot.

http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-z87x-ud3h_e.pdf

Another suggestion that might(!) help, is to go into msconfig through the “run” interface and disable all non-system processes/applications on start-up, so you’ll boot your computer with only the much-needed processes running, which can save you a lot of CPU.

Not sure if it is of much help to GW2, but I always do this on default when heavily gaming, to minimize the strain on my computer from processes I’m not using.

Let me say that the computer I dub “The family game pc” Has an EVGA variant of your card and runs on SSD, but otherwise is completely inferior to your system in every way, and with max settings it still gets 60+ FPS.

Have you considered seeing if your drivers are up to date, or if there is some bios upgrade for your video card?

NL Dennis.9048:

Another suggestion that might(!) help, is to go into msconfig through the “run” interface and disable all non-system processes/applications on start-up, so you’ll boot your computer with only the much-needed processes running, which can save you a lot of CPU.

Not sure if it is of much help to GW2, but I always do this on default when heavily gaming, to minimize the strain on my computer from processes I’m not using.

This may help but I doubt that it’s the reason he has these really low fps. With his specs he should easily get 60fps.

Your monitor has nothing to do with it.

Have you build the pc on your own? If yes try what Beldin wrote.

Have you installed EVERY driver? (chipsetdriver, etc?) Are they up to date or did you install them from a cd?

Are you hearing your fans speed up when you run the game? Are the temps okay? (check with programs like speccy or speedfan)

Do you have the same problem with other games?

i am running an i5 3570k, 8GB RAM, and a gtx 460 1GB GPU, and an SSD for OS and guild wars 2, and in pve i get 60 fps, i have disabled shadows, reflections and postprocessing.
and antialiasing. and set character model limit to low.

my fps doesn’t drop enough in wvw for me to notice.