Guild Wars 2

Hey guys! I just recently built my first desktop. Before that I’ve been playing GW2 on my laptop. Basically the specs are i5 4690k + R9 290.

Firstly, my laptop (A8-3500m + 6750m) gets 90-100% cpu usage while <50% gpu usage. This is perfectly fine since this is a cpu intensive game, I’m reaping the benefits with a lot of the utilization going towards the cpu. If I overclock it from 1.5ghz to 2.7ghz, I get buttery smooth results.

So while playing on my desktop, I’m getting totally opposite readings. I’m getting an average of 30fps while dipping down to 20fps on large scale WvW battles. I checked HWinfo and it’s showing 35-40% CPU usage with 95-100% GPU usage. I thought it was pretty odd, considering many complaints about low gpu usage. I’d love to see cpu at 100% usage like normal. Any cpu overclocks I do doesn’t have any performance gain at all, I still get 35-40% usage along with low fps. At this point, my 3 year old laptop feels better than my high end desktop. Pretty frustrating.

I’ve disabled core parking. I’m also using Corsair H75 water cooling so my cpu is staying cool at an average of 50-55c so this is definitely not thermal throttling. Any other ideas?