Guild Wars 2

just randomly running around with FPS up and notice every s often I drop in FPS then I noticed the mountain reflect when there is nothing for it to reflect on (eg water).

Also, for some reason, the screenshot taken with all reflection and none reflection produced the same image. I had to window made the game to take the screenshot without the reflection in it for the none setting.

GeForce GTX 560 Ti Driver 306.97, if it matters

The water is covered on the entire map, much like Crysis 2 bad water optimization unnecessary resources on the GPU.

I noted the same thing. Significant drop in FPS when enabling reflections, even when there aren’t reflections.

I don’t know how they implemented reflections, but they seem to have done a bad job of it. Other games MIGHT give you a 1fps drop for enabling reflections…and that’s only when there’s something reflective on the screen.