Guild Wars 2

If you’ve seen this, please speak up.

So… Go to Song of Lyss in Malchor’s leap, where the pact make their cannon to defend the Lyssa seal.

Observe FPS: 30+, with moderate zergs

Die.

Use a waypoint and run back.

Note FPS: 2 or 3, whether in a zerg or solo.

Updating video drivers has not helped. Others in my guild have the same complaint — FPS are fine there until you die, then they tank when you go back. I do not believe this is a hardware or driver issue, nor is it a general system issue, the FPS still goes to 2 when I am alone there, without a zerg that might otherwise tax my graphics, and it seems specific to that location. Moving elsewhere the FPS is higher, and moving back it drops. Restarting the game corrects the issue.

For myself, I’m using an AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series.

I’ve not been able to recreate it 100%, but it occurs at a sufficiently high rate that I dread dying at the seal.

Again, if this happens to you, would you mind stating such? Noting your video card might help (I expect it’s not a purely AMD problem, but we can possibly help out by ruling that out).
//Portable Corpse

Yeah that whole map is now unstable. It seems with Lyssa half working and half bugged (a vet spark just standing around not going hostile even), the whole map becomes a problem even the unending battle theme bug appears after a story quest and coming back (dying fixes that one).

I think there’s some kind of resource leak after defending the cannon at Song of Lyss seal. I’ve had multiple occasions where my FPS will not go back up after defending the cannon.

I don’t know which update caused this issue. It may have started during the Blood and Madness release.

Definitely experienced that bug myself. Once I died at the cannon, my fps went down to 1 or 2. Only cure was relogging. I didn’t have to restart the client, merely returning to the character select screen and logging back in was enough to fix it.
I have a GTS 450, so it’s evidently not video card specific.

I don’t have the same issue, but similar. After defending the cannon, which I usually leave as the last seal, my FPS drops to the point that I must close the client, I say similar because for me it happens without dying and the FPS leak stays no matter where I go.