Guild Wars 2

I’ve noticed that several places in the towns one will go from 40-50 FPS to a gut-busting 4-6 FPS for no apparent reason.

The worst culprit is Black Citadel, were near the statues, near the gate, and immediately outside in the starting regions will, almost without fail, cause the FPS loss.

Lions Arch near the crafting forum is another, and there’s 1-2 in Divinity’s Reach that I’ve noticed.

The fix that’s worked for me is going into the graphics options and setting your Render Sampling to Subsample. Once your FPS goes back upto normal, you can set the sampling back up to Native or Supersample and continue on your way unabated.

Don’t even ask why this works, but for me, it does.

Sounds like switching the sampling to subsample and then back to native resets a cache or something.

I may try it. I also notice some Mad FPS drops at that same areas.

Found another one at the Diessia plateau BC gate, when looking at it when comming from the bank. Oddly, looking at it from the trading post seems fine.

Glad I’m not the only one noticing this. I’m going through BC right now on an alt and there are certain areas where I come crashing down from 45-60 FPS to 2-6, if I just keep moving it goes away once I clear the area.

Since the first time I experienced this was about 4 am on a Sunday morning I had thought my computer was running come kind of maintenance in the background, but this is definitely a case of bad geometry as I am having the same drops in the same areas.