Guild Wars 2

Well i just want to know why does guildwars 2 load map slows for i have all my setting to low, and run 15-25fps. the graphics are fine but the loading is not any help or anything?

SPecs.
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
Processor: AMD A8-3500M APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics (4 CPUs), ~1.5GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 7658MB RAM
current Mode: 1366 × 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Card name: AMD Radeon™ HD 6620G

this game is very CPU demanding. and 1.5Gz in this day and age is very very bad
also you didn’t list whats your HDD speed, which is a bit important for map loading too. (not that you can get SSD for laptop anyway )

if you wanna enjoy games – get something with 3,5Gz+ CPU, decent GPU, and SSD for texture&stuff loading speed

SSD are very expensive. It only loads the map by a few seconds faster. Since you have a quad core CPU running at 1.5 GHz. That can cause a few issues. As Saulius said, it is very CPU demanding. Focus on getting the CPU and GPU up. You don’t need to upgrade your memory.

Laptop. Likely a 5400 RPM drive. Likely a heavily fragmented gw2.dat file. Level loading times heavily correlates to drive performance. Just make sure your drive is defragged after a game patch. Helps if the drive isn’t filled to the brim. Once a week I use CCleaner to sweep away temp and junk files and Auslogics DiskDefrag to defrag my drive.

That’s a relatively slow AMD laptop ALU (combo CPU + GPU) and that is why your frame rates are low.

Saulius.8430:

not that you can get SSD for laptop anyway

What are you talking about? SSD are especially suited to laptops as the lower power draw translates to battery life, something irrelevant to desktops… they are stable in the midst of movement, critical for mobile applications, they generate less heat… etc.

Plus, laptops cannot generally run 10k rpm drives well due to the power and movement factors. Desktops can.

SSDs are laptop material. Desktops on the other hand normally do so well with RAIDed 10k HDD that SSD’s aren’t worth the price premium on them for those unless you have a lot of spare cash.

Most SSDs were designed around the 2.5" laptop drive format. However reading though the service manual it’s stated that for some reason SSD is only available on a version of this model with an Intel processor. Why for the life of me I don’t know.

Basically all drives in laptops are 2.5" nowadays. Any drive of appropriate size is compatible with it; it doesn’t matter or not whether your manufacturer supports an SSD, you can just buy one off an SSD manufacturer, clone your current hard disk onto the SSD and then replace the hard disk with the SSD… then use the hard disk as backup thereafter.

AW wanted to charge me 1000 bucks for an SSD version of the computer so I simply bought the 500GB hard drive version, bought my own SSD for 500 bucks and swapped it myself.

That said, SSDs are still expensive. Normally for desktops I’d recommend changing the processor before even thinking about SSD speed upgrades, but given how nearly all laptop mobos are kind of fixed (and usually even the GPU is soldered into the mobo), the SSD may be your only hardware ‘upgrade’ option.

Alternatively, get a new laptop.

Defragging can give some speed, shutting off applications you don’t use when gaming can give some speed, but neither will increase performance as much as an SSD will. And an SSD will not increase performance as much as upping a processor will.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line
The -maploadinfo command line option might reveal some useful information on the subject.

You can use https://www.piriform.com/defraggler to check if your .dat is fragmented and to defragment just that file if it is.