Guild Wars 2

Just ventured into the Personal Story Mission “Breaking the Bone Ship (68)” and found it was barely doable due to sudden extreme drops in framerate. I tend to put my graphics to a minimum during missions like these, and then have a steady 45+ FPS when on the move.

The moment I entered the mission it was already noticably lower and rocky in control (±20 FPS), and as soon as I hit the water to start doing the mission, my framerate dropped to a meager 8 at best.
I suspect this is caused by the large number of floating objects in the water, the rain effects and so on. The large amount of mobs that come at you don’t help either.

Posted in bugs, since I’m sure the framerate is not meant to dip like this!
Also found that some voice files throughout the mission do not function as they should. The cutscene that followed up the big explosion had but one word and then it cut off. The explosion itself was soundless.

I experienced very low FPS during this mission, too.

The framerate dropped to slideshow levels as I looked at the closest line of Risen mines, all of which had a complicated (and completely pointless) particle effect surrounding them. If those mines were not on my screen, the framerate was good. After some time the particle effects disappeared completely, bringing the framerate to decent levels again.

I don’t know what was the point of the particle effects, besides demonstrating the engine’s incomprehensibly low performance at rendering such things.

I had exactly the same problem, when I learned over the water at the bone ship 10FPS, when I turned around solid 60 with vsync.

I know I don’t have a screaming fast intel, but AMDs latest processors (FX 4170) should not perform this terrible in game.