Guild Wars 2

Hey all, just seeing if anyone else is experiencing massive FPS Drops in the game since last night. I was playing just fine when all of sudden I dropped down to 8 fps and it hasn’t gotten better yet.

My resources are nowhere near maxed and the rest of my Programs run great.

Dell Precision m4600
intel i7 2860qm 2.50 ghz
nvidia 3000m
16g ram
window 7

I have tried:

restarting
deleting roaming app data and cache
update drivers
update direct x11
reinstall gw2
played with nvidia settings

any help would be very appreciated. thanks

try disabling windows defender

Rezzet.3614:

try disabling windows defender

Why disable a security program? just check if gw.2 is allowed in the firewall setting.

TheScryingGame.3875:

Hey all, just seeing if anyone else is experiencing massive FPS Drops in the game since last night. I was playing just fine when all of sudden I dropped down to 8 fps and it hasn’t gotten better yet.

My resources are nowhere near maxed and the rest of my Programs run great.

Dell Precision m4600
intel i7 2860qm 2.50 ghz
nvidia 3000m
16g ram
window 7

I have tried:

restarting
deleting roaming app data and cache
update drivers
update direct x11
reinstall gw2
played with nvidia settings

any help would be very appreciated. thanks

fps is the speed of the graphic that you see on screen. dx 9 is what gw.2 is using so updating the dx 11 does not change anything, since it is not what this game use. in game this fps drop usely happen when there is to much animation being done near you(cpu bound issue) since high level api (dx 9 dx 10 dx 11) use the api driver to solve hazard for the dev that make the game. in dx 12 low level api the dev that make the game need to do that part that is handle by the driver before and test it. so on high level api when there is to much animation the cpu is having a traffic jam and the gpu is waiting for the job being sent.

you could check that you do not have anything else running at the same time that use a lot of cpu process use ctrl alt delete task manager and look at what process are running in your cpu. you could have program that run in the back ground that are very heavy on your cpu. example: performance test of your system that makes every thing run at the best performance to see if everything is working fine. other program that are usely heavy on cpu is video or picture editing programs, since they do a lot of math and can have many part or process running to do those task.

another thing that you could do is open the admin command prompt and type sfc scan now that will check your file integrity on your system and fix problem if there is some, if there is still some issue found in the journal report you can do some search to fix those issue.

you could also do the same with the game client adding -diag to the client and starting it will give you a report. you can also try -repair that check the integrity of the game file and can fix error.

another thing you could check is that you are using the NVidia graphic card and not the intel one. since you have a graphic card in the intel processor.

intel graphic use 45% of your system memory and is usely slow for this type of gaming in fps.

you could also do a disc clean up and defrag. disc clean up remove temporary file that use memory on your system. and defrag if you have hard drive it reorder the data on the hard drive so that it can read and write faster.(do not defrag if you have ssd)

hope this was helpful.