Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

I’m having a bit of a weird issue with GW2, when I’m in HoT areas or in high character areas such as world bosses, I get what look like lag spikes in the game, where the game freezes for a few seconds (up to 7-10 sometimes!), but when it happens, I can see my CPU light going crazy as if it’s loading and that’s why it’s freezing. I have what I would think is a relatively top spec PC (i7-4790k CPU, 4GHz, 8GB memory and a GeForce GTX 980) and no other games are having issues. I even lowered the graphics to check and that hasn’t worked. Is it just lag spikes, or is this an issue that is fixable?

Many thanks in advance.

Might be HDD failing on ya. cpu light is hard drive activity, Might also be malware or some sorta background program like antivirus scanning files that are being loaded try deactivating av while gaming see if that helps not like you’ll pick a virus up while gaming anyways.

Thanks – I hope it’s not the HDD as it’s still got over 1TB of space, however, other games on the HDD don’t experience this at all. What makes me think it’s all is sometimes the in game ping goes to over 3,000, but I wouldn’t expect the HDD to be processing at the time?

I’ve ready it could be memory, and that Windows ‘superfetch’ may stop the memory required for the game going to GW2.

Superfetch shouldnt bother you i have it on i don’t get the issue you facing when is the last time you defragmented your hard drive? (try to do that least once a month) You’d be amazed how hdds fail back in the day i had one fail and died and didnt even show signs or sounds it just died plain n simple, I was unprepared to lost alotta stuff thats computers for you sometimes they are unpredictable. But to be honest my guess probably background program effecting things. how long have you had this problem does it do it in other games or programs? (edit: forgot you said it didn’t in other games. lol man my memory going bad in my brain to bad I couldn’t buy new stick of memory for it lol) Sorry for my late reply. Try defragging that drive if you haven’t in awhile high fragmentation will make hdd sluggish may slow down loading of gw2’s game files.