Guild Wars 2

So, after updating, I am experiencing some serious hitching and stuttering while even just moving around an empty map — or even inside my home instance. I thought we were supposed to get some pretty major performance improvements? Framerate is not a problem, as it never falls below 60, so what’s going on here? I’m sorta hoping this is some sort of new caching system, much in the way prefetch works in Windows, and that once I’ve come across a certain piece of art, character model/texture/whatever, it’s cached for quick access, but I see nothing that leaves me to believe that.

My rig is not an issue.
AMD 7850k OC’d to 5ghz (IPU turned off)
Radeon R9 290x
16GB DDR 2100 RAM
256GB 600M/490M read/write SSD

No such problems pre-patch. Guild members reporting similar behavior. What on earth is causing this?

Bumped. Only 7 hours and it’s on page 4.