Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been having troubles ever since the last patch like many other players, as well, except the problem isn’t skill lag for me. When I log on to my characters, it seems like certain graphics and textures take longer to load. When I try moving the camera, all I get is choppy motion instead of the fluid graphics I’ve had ever since I started playing in the beta events and well into release. My skills and movement don’t have any lag, but it visually feels impossible to play the game.

I’ve tried turning all the graphics settings in the game down to their lowest levels to no avail (I can usually play on the highest settings without problems). I’ve updated all my drivers, checked my internet connection (it’s fine), done multiple virus sweeps, checked my firewall/antivirus settings, re-installed the game and turned off all other non-essential background processes once to see if anything would happen. So far, the issue’s still here.

My only guess is that it has something to do with the last patch. I’ve never had an issue with graphics or even connectivity before this, so I’m stumped. Is there anything I’ve missed? I need some help here.

As odd of a request as this might seem, assuming the game isn’t installed on an SSD, have you thought of defragging the drive the game is installed on. Reason I’m suggesting this is the game’s dat file that holds everything is 16GB in size and a patch will rewrite the entire file. If your drive is fairly filled, this could force the dat file to be chopped up and spread out across the entire drive plummeting read performance due to all of the additional seeks.

Again this isn’t a problem with SSDs, never defrag an SSD.

Yes it’s a grasping of straws suggestion. I am assuming of course you’ve already looked to see if you are simply running out of available memory due to other apps running, like a browser with lots of tabs open with animated gif or video ads going.

I also am assuming you’ve rebooted to make sure there isn’t something crashed that is causing mischief like chewing up a chunk of video memory so this game has to swap textures more frequently.