Guild Wars 2

Hi All,

I took a bit of a break from gw2 a couple of months back. I’ve decided to come back and play, but now my fps is significantly lower than it used to be.

I used to be able to play at around 45-60fps on high-ultra settings. Now i’m lucky if it hits 20fps. Has anything changed with the client in the past 6 months that could have caused this? Or is this something that has maybe happened on my pc?

Specs are:
Cpu – i7 6700k
Gpu – Asus Turbo 970gtx
motherboard: Asus z170
16gb ram
120gb ssd
1tb hdd

are you using the 32-bit client or 64-bit?

Korunos.4758:

are you using the 32-bit client or 64-bit?

sorry, 64-bit client

Are you using Win10? There are a lot of ppl on the forums complaing about major FPS drops lately and it all seems to boild down to this:

R O C.6574:

I believe the unholy fps trinity is as follows:

Gw2 spring update patch
Nvidia driver update 364.72
Windows 10

So you might check your driver version or if there were any stealth windows update changing your settings (e. g. power saving options etc.).
If that’s not the case, try to reseating your GPU to ensure it sits properly in its slot and runs at full speed.

MahouKami.6095:

Hi All,

I took a bit of a break from gw2 a couple of months back. I’ve decided to come back and play, but now my fps is significantly lower than it used to be.

I used to be able to play at around 45-60fps on high-ultra settings. Now i’m lucky if it hits 20fps. Has anything changed with the client in the past 6 months that could have caused this? Or is this something that has maybe happened on my pc?

Specs are:
Cpu – i7 6700k
Gpu – Asus Turbo 970gtx
motherboard: Asus z170
16gb ram
120gb ssd
1tb hdd

Is the problem only with GW2? Have you tried adjusting your settings to the point where the game becomes playable? Have you had a look at CPU/GPU temps, is something getting hot? Have you checked the connections on everything? Have you updated drivers? Are you running any new programs at the same time?(remember GW2 is CPU intensive)

This happens to me fairly regularly, restarting the game tends to fix it.

Windows 10 and 7, newest geforce drivers, 550 ti and 750ti.

Basically, GW2 hates GPUs and frequently switches to all-CPU rendering for utterly no logical reason (it already uses CPU very heavily, and seems to go berserk on quad-core processors as well). There are a lot of threads on the topic, changing your drivers usually fixes it. There are also some settings you can adjust in your system to make the game better utilize CPU and GPU resources.

Roughly the same specs as OP and running win 10 with everything high. I am getting a near solid 60 fps at max fps 60, using version 355.98 NVidia drivers.

Hello again,

After reading all of your comments and trying a bunch of things; I have realized that I am actually an idiot.

I moved my pc recently and have just discovered that I accidentally connected my monitor into the motherboard hdmi instead of the gpu’s hdmi…….So of course GW2 is running as well as it used to again.

thanks all for your input