Guild Wars 2

When this game first came out, I was able to run maximum settings in World vs World and Lions Arch and get around a playable 15-20FPS in big fights

I come back and that’s not the case anymore. Im grinding to a halt at 10 fps at LOWEST SETTINGS in big fights. What gives? I’m virus free i cannot seem to figure out the problem. I’m going to list my computer specs along with a dxdiag

Specs
500gb HDD
8gig ram
AMD Anthalon II 640 Quad-Core @ 3.00ghz
AMD Raedeon 6850 @ 1gig DDR5

Lately I’ve been getting the same issues, the last few patches seem to have made WvW and Lions Arch very laggy.

In WvW I used to get lag spikes during very large zerg fights but now they seem to occur in smaller fights or even when I’m just wandering.

Lions Arch seems to have broken due to the Wintersday stuff lying around, lag spikes everywhere, but whilst this may be due to the increased number of people around, it didn’t seem to be an issue in other updates (hallowe’en etc)

I don’t have a gaming rig or anything, just a modest old laptop, but this hasn’t been an issue before.

WvW has been frustratingly laggy for me. Noticed it a week ago…not getting better.

It’s your CPU. Since culling has been fixed, I noticed much more lag on my AMD system in large fights. In task manager, I saw very high CPU usage.

I have an AMD Phenom 9950 quad-core overclocked to 3.1GHz, 8GB DDR2, and an nVidia GTX 670 overclocked edition with 4GB GDDR5.

On my Intel laptop running a quad-core i7, 12GB DDR3, and an nVidia GTX 765M with 2GB GDDR5, it’s smooth as silk.

I have always been an AMD supporter but the performance of their CPUs just can’t hang with Intel, sadly…

Poorly optimized code. Lack of concern to optimize existing code; rather those developers are working endlessly to provide new content that nobody wants.

Enjoy!