Guild Wars 2

After the recent patch, my game has been getting severe CPU spikes to 100% causing the game to stutter for several seconds. It typically recovers (doesn’t crash), but will spike again seconds later. It seems to work for a while, and then get into this state. I’ve got an i5 – 6500 3.2 GHz, 16 GB RAM, nvidia 8 GB graphics card (not at home right now so I can’t post the specifics), etc. Basically, well above even the new min specs.

This wasn’t happening prior to yesterday’s patch. Once it was in this state, I tried rebooting the game and my PC and it was still happening.

Anyone else seeing something like this?

I should also mention that I tried mucking around with graphics settings, but that didn’t seem to do anything, and it was hard to make changes when it stutters every other second.