Guild Wars 2

I get very low FPS in WvW, but it depends on what graphics options I have maxed out. I’m looking for the best graphics settings configurations that other people have used which may not stress my CPU as much so I can have decent graphics but still get ~30 FPS in big fights. For example right now all I have are Native Sampling, V-sync and Animation turned on High. Everything else is either turned off or in Low. This seems to work but I’ve seen videos of people with better graphics and a steady FPS in WvW. What do you think I should add to this setup? I want to take videos occasionally and not have to switch graphics settings in between fights like I’ve been doing. Looking at the same old Best Performance graphics began hurting my eyes.

PS I have a GTX 680 and an Intel i5 OC’d @ 3.5 Ghz~

Oops I meant @ 4.5 GHz, not @ 3.5 GHz. Just to clear things up. And this thread really isn’t me complaining about WvW lag, I just want to find out how to have slightly better visuals without costing too much CPU power. I know there are a few graphics options which barely effect performance at all, like Animation, but it’s kind of hard to find these things out on the fly while in large WvW zergs. Also I know some of these things require map changes, so if anyone here has played around with graphics settings a little and has a pretty good setup for, say 35v35 WvW battles and would like to share, then that’d be extremely great.

Getting major 5-10 second skill lag, and the game is randomly booting out players from WvW.

What’s up .. are GW2 WvW servers at 100% and burning out?

If the culling patch is gonna exacerbate this please don’t release it till you get more hardware.

edit:
and Party’s are bugging out too.

Hope all this is temporary, although players have been increasingly complaining of similar experiences over the past few days.

Rhongomyniad.5081:

Getting major 5-10 second skill lag, and the game is randomly booting out players from WvW.

What’s up .. are GW2 WvW servers at 100% and burning out?

If the culling patch is gonna exacerbate this please don’t release it till you get more hardware.

edit:
and Party’s are bugging out too.

Hope all this is temporary, although players have been increasingly complaining of similar experiences over the past few days.

The timeline of your post is about the same time that maintenance was happening last night, thats probably why.

Zyphent.2967:

Rhongomyniad.5081:

Getting major 5-10 second skill lag, and the game is randomly booting out players from WvW.

What’s up .. are GW2 WvW servers at 100% and burning out?

If the culling patch is gonna exacerbate this please don’t release it till you get more hardware.

edit:
and Party’s are bugging out too.

Hope all this is temporary, although players have been increasingly complaining of similar experiences over the past few days.

The timeline of your post is about the same time that maintenance was happening last night, thats probably why.

Except it’s still there

Especially on TCBL in my server’s matchup.

Skill / animation lag and buggy party’s and disappearing Commander icons (not culling / unseen on minimap too).

UPDATE: Ok so I turned on FXAA in addition to my previous Native Sampling, High Animation and V-Sync graphics settings with everyone else on Low or turned off. I’m just going to do this the hard way by changing little things one by one and seeing what severely affects my framerate in medium to large-scale WvW battles.

V-sync will kill your frame rates. Should probably turn that off. You should be able to max out everything aside from reflection and v-sync with that rig unless you’re running at some crazy res.

Vsync should only be considered when your framerate exceeds your monitor refresh rate.
I say considered because in my experience it causes input lag in most games.

Kk thanks. I can still use frame limiter right?

i’m running 25 mb/s down and 12 mb/s up, have a 2.8 ghz processor (i know it’s not the fastest, but still – it handled Aion on max settings in their global wvw just fine), video card: EVGA SSC 02G-P4-3653-KR GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
8 gb of ram
and am running windows 7….
when i auto-detect settings, most of mine are detected at max (high) level…
BUT, even in WVW, on BEST PERFORMANCE, i drop down to 6 fps easily even if it’s not a big zerg. Please get better dedicated servers…we’re paying good money for this game (assuming most people are like me and have purchased several gems with real cash – i’m at about $150 so far).

Your fps wont be improved by better servers…

HABIB IS ALIVE!!!!

Immolator.5640:

HABIB IS ALIVE!!!!

You realize this thread was necro’d? IIRC all the options from the blog post have been implemented and we still have super-skill lag. Even half way across a map a big battle can freeze your skill bar.

Maybe they need to implement a doubled setup. Create another copy of the 3BL+1EBG setup, allow people to choose between going to the first or second, have them run on different servers, and add up the scores for a total. Yea, it’ll be a ton of work on their side, but if ANet is out of bullets to slay the skill lag…

Lag has been terrible since the latest patch, rubber banding all over the place even when away from fights and on relatively empty borderlands.

I’m even lagging in PvE for goodness sake!