Guild Wars 2

I’ve been having this problem for several months now. I have a GTX 980, running the game at 1080p and receive very low fps. When I changed the resolution to 720p or lower, the fps was not affected. I installed the game on my brothers pc with 2 GTX 980s, and I was still receiving this problem. This caused me to leave the game alone for quite a while. Recently I’ve been wanting to play but this low fps problem is very irritating.

What do you consider very low fps?

If the fps doesn’t change when decreasing resolution, you might have the frame limiter set to 30.

Out of curiosity, what CPUs do you and your brother have? GW2 is picky when it comes to that, so the GPU might not be the problem.
Though I think I remember someone else recently having problems with a GTX 980. If only the search function wouldn’t refuse to work again…

Oh, and do you have vertical synch activated? Because that can cause FPS to go to hell, too, sometimes.

I am running the following:

AMD Radeon R5 M230
Card memory 2,00 GB
Provider Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

AMD Radeon™ R4 Graphics
Card memory 1,00 GB
Provider Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

since this is a laptop but still powerful:

AMD A6-6310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
Cores 4
Threads 4

and the max I get was 24 FPS on low settings, recently I can’t get above 17. Was hoping it could be at least a bit more than 30.

The game gives a headache.

Inoki.6048:

I am running the following:

AMD Radeon R5 M230
Card memory 2,00 GB
Provider Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

AMD Radeon™ R4 Graphics
Card memory 1,00 GB
Provider Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

since this is a laptop but still powerful:

AMD A6-6310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
Cores 4
Threads 4

and the max I get was 24 FPS on low settings, recently I can’t get above 17. Was hoping it could be at least a bit more than 30.

The game gives a headache.

Geez …I think everyone has their own definition of the word ‘’ powerful ’’.
consider yourself lucky to break the 20 FPS mark , seriously. There is hope for A10 APU model but not not A6. I can understand the reasons why peoples want to game on a laptop. But if you want performance, you need to be more serious and pull out more money from your wallet. And do yourself a favor, pick Intel and not AMD for gaming.
While the A6 can do all you want and you’re satisfied with it … APU + GW2 is a very bad combo (sorry).

XunlaiSpy.9384:

What do you consider very low fps?

If the fps doesn’t change when decreasing resolution, you might have the frame limiter set to 30.

20-40 fps and the frame limiter is set to unlimited

Red Queen.7915:

Out of curiosity, what CPUs do you and your brother have? GW2 is picky when it comes to that, so the GPU might not be the problem.
Though I think I remember someone else recently having problems with a GTX 980. If only the search function wouldn’t refuse to work again…

Oh, and do you have vertical synch activated? Because that can cause FPS to go to hell, too, sometimes.

I have a i5-3570k and my brother ran the game on his old i7-3960x, he hasn’t tried it on his i7-5960x

That’s weird, you should get at least a little more out of those in a normal map.
But could you specify where you get what kind of framerate? Boss fights, zerg in WvW, open world with no special events going on? Because if your 20 FPS refer to a zerg fight or boss battle like Tequatl, that would be normal, it’s not your PC, it’s the game. If that’s what you get in the open world, that would indeed be rather low.
Did you play around with the settings? Turned reflections off and tried lowering the number of detailed character models (medium usually suffices)? Those are the usual culprits if it’s not the PC, and most of the time, you won’t even notice those settings at all. I got a +10 FPS by turning reflections off in a very crowded Lion’s Arch, so it’s worth a try.

And FYI, in GW2, those issues are not usually caused by the graphics card, but by the CPU, which is why I asked for those. Almost everything happens there, the GPU does very little in comparison, so your card is massively overpowered for this game.

Check the Nvidia Control Panel settings for Gw2.exe and make sure it’s not using Intel.

i7’s do not have intel… the i5 could though.

I run 2 GTX 780’s on a i7 3930, I get widely varying FPS

from 150-170 in PvE with nobody around
to 100-80 with some people/ dungeons
to 40-70 in LA / minor events with some people
to 12-20 in WVW zerg battles, world bosses and so on.

Max settings, except for character limit, I have it at high, as highest will crash my PC sometimes, espcially in WVW triple zerg battles and the first spike at any world boss.

I run 2 780’s Sli-ed on a hex core i7 3930K on 3.8Ghz with 32 Gb ram, Windows 7 ultimate, unlocked Pci-E 16x v3.0 (for both cards, as win 7 doesn’t support it on base install) on a Asus Rampage IV Extreme MoBo.