Guild Wars 2

I’ve got a small question that I hope some of you might be able to answer.
I have this problem that I my gw2 seems to run at a max. of 15 fps.

My computer has 2 graphic cards (AMD Radeon HD 8650G and AMD Radeon HD 8970M) of which the latter seems to be capable enough to run this game smoothly.

My processor is an AMD A10-5750 APU with Radeon HD graphics 2.50 GHz
and 8 Gb of RAM.

Also it’s a 64 bits operating system and x64 processor.

Any help is appreciated as I don’t know alot about these things.

Turn the graphics settings down in game and close any applications running in the background.

Take a screen shot of your graphics settings from the game and post it up here, might help us know what kind of settings you have.

Here you go.

And I use GPU-Z to monitor my GPU use as well, looks like it only loads my GPU until 30%. That might be the problem as well but dunno how to fix it?

Yeah those settings are a bit too high for that GPU.

Turn off “Best Texture Filtering”, “Depth Blur”
Turn on “Effect LOD”

Reflections are taxing on your video card, try changing that to none.
Textures to Medium or Low.
Postprocessing to None.
I cant remember what “Ambient Texture Filtering” did, but I am pretty sure I have that turned off personally.

That should help bring the FPS up by quite a bit, might also make your laptop stop running really hot lol.

Also, this game is VERY CPU heavy, more so than GPU heavy.

ok thanks alot for your quick response ^^!

Gonna try this tomorrow

Gonna try it tomorrow

No problem, good luck.

Bluestrike.6154:

I’ve got a small question that I hope some of you might be able to answer.
I have this problem that I my gw2 seems to run at a max. of 15 fps.

My computer has 2 graphic cards (AMD Radeon HD 8650G and AMD Radeon HD 8970M) of which the latter seems to be capable enough to run this game smoothly.

My processor is an AMD A10-5750 APU with Radeon HD graphics 2.50 GHz
and 8 Gb of RAM.

Also it’s a 64 bits operating system and x64 processor.

Any help is appreciated as I don’t know alot about these things.

Actually, that is pretty much the expected performance for those specs.

for one, the HD8970M is equivalent to a HD6770M, so do not expect to run High Textures on this GPU with the current content in the game.

The A10-5750 is another part of the issue. For one, its base clock is 2.5Ghz with a Turbo up to 3.5Ghz, but the Turbo only affects one Core at a time and only when thermal temps are with in a certain range. The other part of the issue is that its using AMD’s Module design, where it has 2 Modules with 2 FPU units and 4 Interger’s, so in reality its actually a dual core CPU.

I had a HP DV6z-6c00 for a long time, it was an A8-3510MX with a HD8970M (Same GPU you have). I was able to overclock the CPU from the stock 1.5ghz up to 2.4Ghz and was able to get double to triple the performance. But I could never push the graphical settings due to the GPU being as weak as it really was. Running the game on medium settings (Character Textures on High) and character limit on Low or Lowest, I was able to get 45FPS in citys and 65-70FPS in the open world before HoT was released. In Hot I would expect 30FPS at max due to how complex those zones are graphically wise.

In reality, you need a better laptop.

Thanks for the help both of you!

I am pretty sure – with a max fps of 15 – that you must be running GW2 in the processor’s iGPU (HD 8650G ).

Reason I say this is because I used to run GW2 on a 4 year old machine which consisted of A8-3820 + HD 7570 – a lesser spec than your system. Aside from WvW battles etc the lowest this gets is 20 fps – I still casually use this machine when convenient.

I would suggest you measure the temperatures of the two GPUs whilst running GW2 to confirm which is running. There is a freebie package called HWINFO64 that will do this, but there are many other packages of a similar nature.

Frankly there are a lot of problems in this area when using Windows 10, especially with laptops that use AMD’s older hardware.

Character model limit should stay on low