Guild Wars 2

I am not happy….I’ll try to be as direct as I can be; and keep things short.

*I do not have any other problems with my PC; that I am aware of. I can play online MMOs like Rift, perfectly fine. All of my problems are only apparent with Guild Wars 2.
When I try to play Guild Wars 2, my characters move erratically sluggish; with a normal walk speed that switches to a sluggish jerking. It’s very bad, to the point of unplayable. Which is sad, because for my first week of game play, I had extremely minor issues, and was enjoying myself.

I’ve tested this problem in multiple areas. It exists everywhere… when once, it hadn’t before.

My info:
GW2 disk set.
Vista64
NVIDIA GTX260 special edition /by Asus. Updated drivers from 296.10 to 306.23
Core I7
9gig ddr3

As I’ve said before, the game played VERY well for the first week… so I’m trying to problem solve what has changed. One possibility that I am leaning towards, are the NVIDIA updated drivers. After reading the PDF for the 306.23 drivers, and my experience… I’m thinking even though I have the right download, and card… I should not have updated the drivers, because I have VISTA.

( Just a fair warning to readers… make sure to read those driver PDFs before telling someone to do it. What works for you, might not work for them, even though you both have the same exact graphics card.)

I have never done a rollback on NVIDIA drivers… my frustration is already high, and I can’t seem to find detailed / updated info on how to do it. To make matters worse, NVIDIAS forums have been down for over three months..
I would appreciate tips and info on how to rollback my NVIDIA drivers. Only from those that know about all the changes, and have successfully and recently done so. Apparently, through the NVIDIA PDFs, the older ways of doing it, no longer applies. They say to delete the display driver, and then reinstall. But what about the PhysX and 3D drivers? Do I delete those too? Or will deleting the display driver also remove the other ones? Or, is that even outdated?

I’m just trying to save myself any new headaches before diving in… thanks in advance to anyone who might reply.

NOTE: Is there some other possible fix I may not be aware of?
I’ve tried uninstalling GW2 through Add/ Remove programs… then reinstall. Since I have a 64 bit system, should I have installed the games into a different directory? I let the game decide where to install.

ALSO, I noticed my documents folder has a GW2 LOCAL DAT file in it.
I thought I read someplace, about moving thisfile in with the game @ the games location? I can’t remember, so I’ve left everything where its at.

If you want to roll back to an older driver use driver sweeper or driver fusion apps to remove all existing graphic drivers and just install the driver you want to download like you do a fresh windows install.

Stop using semicolon please. You used it wrong every time.

yea, driver sweeper ftw. if your having performance issues it likely isnt related to your gfx drivers, theres at least a dozen or more similar issues on this forums for people who have better/worse hardware and are still having fps issues, so while you can update your drivers (or downgrade) it likely wont affect your performance until anet fixes this issue

@ Muslumgurseks
I’ve read about driver sweeper and driver fusion apps, with mixed results. Have you used them recently? I was hoping I could Add / Remove the NVIDIA driver set, then use NVIDIAs’ install app > Custom > all options > "Clean Install’. Perhaps
I’m also very curious about the games installation process. I’m now researching if perhaps something went wrong in that area.

@ Gosu
Why so grouchy? It’s too early. I used my ellipses the correct way; though the forums wouldn’t allow me to edit the other mistakes that I instantly noticed. I’m just thankful I could even sign into the forums… instead of the usual errors.
I can’t say I blame ArenNet for all the internet woes lately. It appears as if many ISPs are updating their systems in certain areas; for IPv6.
By the way… good morning!

PS: Those are ellipses, not semicolons.

@ Gosu: I think you’ll find it’s ‘… used it incorrectly.’ If you’re going to be a pedant, at least do it properly.

As to the topic, I can no longer play this game. Similarly to the OP, it’s nothing to do with my PC or connection – the game was working fine until about a week ago, when suddenly the frame rates went through the floor. As of yesterday I’m crashing every 3 minutes or so. After all the effort I’ve put into the game and all the praise I’ve given it and all the friends I’ve recruited, I have to now sit back and watch others have fun while core issues are ignored. Brilliant. Free-to-play doesn’t mean I get my money back from the original purchase, I take it..? Didn’t think so. Get this crap sorted out guys.

There’s no need to do anything in particular for uninstalling the nVidia drivers, their installation routine is pretty robust since some years ago.

Just uninstall the ones you have currently, reboot if the uninstall routine asks you to, and install the ones you want with “Custom install” and “clean install” selected. Also be sure to unselect the stuff you don’t use from the driver (if you don’t have a 3D monitor or TV that you link the gfx to, you can unselect the 3D Vision stuff; if you don’t use the HDMI audio, you can also unselect that). In my case I only leave checked (besides the driver ofc) the nVidia updater and the PhysX package. Less bloat, less problems.

Before reverting to the 296.10, try the 306.63. Just install them on top of the 306.23, using the same procedure above. No need to uninstall first — like I said, their install routine is pretty robust at this point.

1) get to windows 7, Vista uses way to much resources. Its not a gaming OS
2) What i7 cpu do you have exactly ?
3)200 series gpu is a bit dated, but probably not the main issue.

As for the loss in performance, that is likely due to GW2 updates as other peopel have reported loss in performance after a certain update. However the end result is ‘usualy’ that they ether have a slow gpu or cpu, or are using a 600 series gpu that GW2 currently has issues with (for some).

Since your not using a 600 gpu it isnt that, and a 260 should be ok aslong as you dont go OTT on the settings, it could be becouse of your cpu , though since you didnt say which one it was i may be way of the mark here.

It is not your computer. Browse the forums look at threads.

Game is terribly optimized. Everybody is going thru hell and high water to try to fix/overclock buy new video cards for there comps.

IT IS NOT YOUR COMPUTER. Don’t waste your money. This is ANET issue.
You can buy the best computer in the world and you will still have issues running this game.

We are all stuck till anet does something.

Arson.4189:

It is not your computer. Browse the forums look at threads.

Game is terribly optimized. Everybody is going thru hell and high water to try to fix/overclock buy new video cards for there comps.

IT IS NOT YOUR COMPUTER. Don’t waste your money. This is ANET issue.
You can buy the best computer in the world and you will still have issues running this game.

We are all stuck till anet does something.

Game runs flawlessly for me. Not saying they couldnt optimize some things in the game, but you can’t play this game on a 4 and 5 year old computer and get good frame rates. The game is very much cpu bound and a lot of people having issues have core 2 duos and amd processors which without an overclock, just arent powerful enough.

Arson.4189:

It is not your computer. Browse the forums look at threads.

Game is terribly optimized. Everybody is going thru hell and high water to try to fix/overclock buy new video cards for there comps.

IT IS NOT YOUR COMPUTER. Don’t waste your money. This is ANET issue.
You can buy the best computer in the world and you will still have issues running this game.

We are all stuck till anet does something.

Not true, then every person would be having issues. Game runs fine on my system, friends system. If you are having problems, something is wrong on yours from the sound of it. Either hardware or software conflicts. Anything is possible, which can be fixed.

Different games uses different coding. You’re are fine in one game, don’t mean you’ll be fine in another. Games cant tailor to everyone systems, as we all install different software, but can have similar hardware.

The GTX260 is quite old GPU. What resolution and i7 you have Voxel.6473

/yawn

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-real-problem-here-is-invisible-enemies-Give-their-algorithms-time-to-match-servers-properly/first

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Low-FPS-merged/page/23#post276953

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/8505/paFTL.jpg

The first and last link we all have that. That has nothing to do with own system. So that do not count.
its a delay from our system to theirs and back in rendering. This one will be very hard to hard to fix fast.

The low fps, not everyone is having that issue. Has already been stated many times.

Arson.4189:

/yawn

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-real-problem-here-is-invisible-enemies-Give-their-algorithms-time-to-match-servers-properly/first

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Low-FPS-merged/page/23#post276953

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/8505/paFTL.jpg

Not exactly sure what your point is… The invisible players in WvW has nothing to do with fps and is it’s own issue. I never said the game didnt have bugs, I said people are running dualcore cpus and Amd processors and expect good frame rates, which is evident if you take the time to read the fps merged section you posted.