Guild Wars 2

sup GW2 community,

i recently read that i am actually by far not the only one with quite a beast of a PC and really bad perfomance issues since the halloween event (if my sys-specs interests you: http://www.sysprofile.de/id170142)
so i really tried everything there is to make sure that we, the customers are not the problem about the really bad FPS lately:

running game with all win7 visuals disabled – check (win98 style FTW)
optimized network connection/looked for network errors – check
game installed on SSD – check
OC’ed my i7 to 3,7Ghz – check
OC’ed my gtx580’s clock to 1Ghz – check
watched out for any bottlenecking component (most likely my RAM) – check
cleaned my system virtually and physically – check
tried different nvidia drivers – check
tried different nvidia-cp settings (preferably the one’s recommended by a-net) – check
did the -repair command/deleted GW2 temps/local.dat – check
clean boot – check
opened hardware-manager for possible faulty/missing drivers – check

still not a slight increase of my framerate…got probably even lower -_-
well setting render-sampling to native actually works pretty good…but then the ground dissapears every once in a while and since the last 2 patches, i got a really bad aliasing effect when turning it on while zooming out in combination with in-depht-blur

so i thought really hard and then… EUREKA!
why didn’t i thought of that one earlier:

RE-INSTALLING GW2

so i did and…works pretty amazing so far
got my steady 60FPS back at PvE, still pretty stutterish at the black citadel and lion’s arch but well…PvE work’s like a charm now

but as usual, in my case, one solved problems worships another – game crashes now when entering WvWvW
that overheating/voltage-problem website pops up…i’m pretty sure no of my components did overheating during GW2 – they do not after hours of max heat tests with prime…and it runs also stable at prime, so it can’t be my voltage(note: message popped-up without having my gtx580 OC’ed)
but i won’t try to solve that issue…would just make another 10 problems pop out…

TL;DR
try re-installing Guild Wars 2…it’s definitely worth a try
i bet not many thought of that yet, cuz it just takes awkwardly long…:P
and i know, A-Net admitted perfomance issues on their site but i won’t wait for them to fix those, though i demand things to be fixed immediately as a customer T_T

so i hope this will at least help some of you guys!

you only get 60 FPS with that setup?

i limited the framerate at 60FPS...higher doesn’t make sense to me or would make my whole framerate going crazy (9~109FPS O.O), probably due throttling

before re-installing, my framerate was about 30~45FPS mostly during PvE
it’s probably the case again tomorrow -_-’ i just don’t know why GW2 hates my PC so much but any other high-demanding software/app/game doesn’t...

that’s really weird that it should perform so badly… i usually get around 45-60 FPS in PVE (max i saw was 86) and a low of like 20 in heavy wvwvw with a phenom 955 and 6850 running maxed minus supersampling, high shadow and no vertical sync…

[UPDATE]
i am so happy right now – walked around at genderran fields and getting constant 60FPS (88-100FPS without limiter)
even at the spots, where i never got anything higher than 35FPS

it might be tedious to do, but reinstall GW2 if you experiencing massive performance drops lately (during the last 2 weeks especially)
you have nothing to loose :)

btw…had one more GB free space after reinstalling GW2…i wonder why O.o

[UPDATE2]
now the framerate behalfs on his own again...it’s bearable now but the 15-25 random FPS drops at certain spots are a huge mystery to me
sure...heavy loading (alot of trees, a lake, etc in front of me) but OC’ed GTX580 to 1Ghz and CPU to 3,9Ghz and i just get about 5 frames per second more?

so *reinstalling GW2* will not solve all your performance issues, but it may help to reduce them
just wanted to make that clear, after tested it more