Guild Wars 2

The nade effects cause MASSIVE fps drop on any lower end machines such as laptops, and sometimes even on high end ones. Please, even if you can’t fix them, then very least add an option to completly hide these effects. At least from spvp. These effects make the game unplayable.

Yea I didn’t run nades on my old pc for that reason and on my new much much better pc I have to make sure my view is right out so I don’t get kittened up fps which is easier said then done in spvp

Doesn’t sound like a bug to me.

What settings are you guys running?
Don’t forget to tick the “Effect LOD” box in Graphics Options.

Seems like an upgrade is in order unfortunately…

Well atm I can run the game at best quality and have no fps problems out side of massive zerg action, I keep it on low quality a lot though since I use fraps a lot, with nades it only causes issues when my view is up really close which in spvp can be an issue some times because of the terrain, in wvw and pve it’s no problem since lots of open area.

Unfortunately the Effect LOD box doesn’t do a thing. I still can’t see crap while grenading on my engi.

Try turning off shadows and reflections.

If you are still getting a lot of FPS issues you’ll have to start turning other settings down and checking the difference.

I think a lot of people are mentioning this issue for spell effects in general…