Guild Wars 2

I hit auto-detect for my graphics settings in game, and I as a result I only get about 10 Frames per second.

So I decided to see what would happen on the lowest possible settings, and even then I am only getting about 15-20 frames max, it’s really annoying.

PC specs are:

Gfx card: NVIDIA GTX GeForce 560M
RAM: 12 GB
Processor: Intel Core i7 2630QM
Ghz: 2.00

I think that’s all, and I’m running the latest NVIDIA driver.

So technically, I should be running the game just fine right? Why am I getting such bad FPS?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-Issue-with-the-latest-patch-merged/page/4#post4451019
it’s been almost a month and they have literally no idea what to do.
Anet coding is a joke.

Wow… looks like I wont be coming back to GW2 for awhile then, pretty disappointed.

You overestimate automated anything. No program in existence has ever been able to properly predict settings without a full benchmark… and the few that try are usually based on countless samples from other users running benchmarks and feed back.

But more to the point, theres 50% chance your drivers screwed up and aren’t switching to the Discreet graphics on game launch (thats a profile problem, nothing to do with the game). 35% that the 560M is overheating rapidly, and throttling back to avoid melting (more like exploding actually), and 15% you’re system can’t handle the resolutions you’re trying to run, and 10% change you just have too much crap running that destroys all the performance overhead. This is of course with a 20% margin for error……

I’m afraid I’m starting to repeat myself on different threads and that anet is going to get really annoyed soon, but…the latest patch is really kitten cpus. Mine spikes about 40 degrees celcius when I load the game. Part of that is that it’s spinning up multiple instances of the coherent-ui processes, and those are cpu hogs, and the game itself is more cpu than gpu intensive.

Download something like speccy and check your cpu temps. If the game pushes you outside the range that’s good for your chip; first try blowing out your heat sink and see if that helps.

zeaxor.6842:

I hit auto-detect for my graphics settings in game, and I as a result I only get about 10 Frames per second.

So I decided to see what would happen on the lowest possible settings, and even then I am only getting about 15-20 frames max, it’s really annoying.

PC specs are:

Gfx card: NVIDIA GTX GeForce 560M
RAM: 12 GB
Processor: Intel Core i7 2630QM
Ghz: 2.00

I think that’s all, and I’m running the latest NVIDIA driver.

So technically, I should be running the game just fine right? Why am I getting such bad FPS?

You need to check that your laptop power management is set for high performance also make sure your your running the game on the NVIDIA card and not the onboard Intel graphics chipset. Also make sure the laptop is plugged in because Hight performance mode will drain the battery fast.

Well I’d say you have a fairly good laptop from the Sandybridge time, very popular and very common specs for a gaming laptop. The 2630QM i7 turbos up to 2.9 GHz so I’d wager that that would be 2.7 GHz or 2.8 GHz on quad turbo (Tip! 2.9 GHz is the single core turbo, so 2.8 GHz should be the dual core turbo and 2.7 GHz should be the quad core turbo) so that should be able to provide enough power to do most things easily with respective drops in world events and world versus world or effect heavy areas like Black Citadel which kills the best of machines at times.

I can’t see this issue being hardware defect or anything so I’d look at the basics first:
Is it an Asus ROG laptop? Plug it in.
Is it not? Set the laptop to High Performance power profile. This will eliminate all power save options and essentially put a gaming laptop into gaming mode, and will disable core parking, for anyone wondering.
Check that your graphics drivers are up to date. Make sure your GPU and CPU are not throttling from overheating. This can be potentially tricky as you may need to open your laptop up to get a visual of the heatsinks to check for dust. If there is, get that dust out of there. This helps a lot.
Free up RAM if it’s being used too much (I don’t think it would be much of a problem, I mean so long as 4 GB is available it should be fine,)

Check programs like GPUz as well on the readings of the BUS width in realtime. If laptop graphics card connections are anything like desktops, then your GTX 560M should read either PCIe X8 2.0 or PCIe X16 2.0. Either is fine. X16 is mainly for supercharged monstrous, beefy-all-to-hell single chip graphics cards, or dual chip graphics cards.

If your Intel/Nvidia laptop has Optimus technology, make sure that the game is using the GTX 560M and not the i7’s HD 3000 chip, assuming that i7 even has one.
I don’t have to worry about this with my Asus G75VX, even with an i7 3630QM and GTX 670MX; It doesn’t have Optimus so Intel HD 4000 doesn’t even show up in Device Manager.

In game settings, try disabling Shadows, turning off Reflections or putting them on Terrain & Sky. Lower Render Sampling to Native if it’s not already on there. Play around with Culling options (how many characters you can see on screen) a bit to find your settings. Auto detect doesn’t work for everything so it comes down to user preferences. I recommend playing around with it.

Anyway if none of these options help, I can’t really think of anything else.

zeaxor.6842:

I hit auto-detect for my graphics settings in game, and I as a result I only get about 10 Frames per second.

So I decided to see what would happen on the lowest possible settings, and even then I am only getting about 15-20 frames max, it’s really annoying.

PC specs are:

Gfx card: NVIDIA GTX GeForce 560M
RAM: 12 GB
Processor: Intel Core i7 2630QM
Ghz: 2.00

I think that’s all, and I’m running the latest NVIDIA driver.

So technically, I should be running the game just fine right? Why am I getting such bad FPS?

Your laptop specs are pretty close to mine(i7-x290M, HD5870M,16GB-DDR3-1600RAM, 240G SSD), and I get 60FPS with vsync enabled at 1680×1050 on high settings. I would expect the same from your hardware specs listed.

You should start by looking at your system throttling you. Download HWInfo, GPU-Z, CPU-Z and Coretemp. Run EVERY one of those programs while GW2 is running in a window.

You are looking at the Temps, CPU clock speed (is it bouncing around A LOT?), GPU Core/Memory speeds and its temps.

and you are going to use all the programs to verify against each other.

Feel free to post screenshots, also post the screenshots of your GW2 ingame settings and the FPS that the UI shows.

Lastly drivers, starting with your GPU. Get them DIRECTLY from Nvidia. your Notebook manufacture will not have updated/latest GPU drivers available. and if you have not upgraded them yet, And if you can verify your laptop is not getting too hot, that is PROBABLY what the issue is.

And I actually have another Notebook with your CPU (i7-2630QM + HD6770M), and that notebook gets 50-60FPS at 1600×900. That one is an HP DV6T-6100. SO yea, I totally expect your laptop to be doing better then it is right now.

Thanks for the replies guys, really good info, I’m going to check some stuff and look into some things now