Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I require some assistance in pinpointing the problem with severe FPS drops in Arah and the Aetherblade dungeons. I looked through a few other threads and followed the instructions in the sticky thread.

I usually have a FPS of above 25 in most places. But when I enter Arah and/or Aetherblade it drops down to 10.

Here’s some more information about my computer:

- Intel Core i7 860 @ 2.80Ghz
- Ati Radeon HD 5770, 950 MHz Core, 1405 MHz Memory
- Kingston DDR3 2 Modules of 2048 MBytes, DRAM Frequency 668.7MHz, FSB:DRAM 2:10, Latencies 9-9-9-24
- P7p55D ASUSTeK Motherboard

I installed all the latest drivers as far as I know. Anyone know what’s the bottleneck that’s causing the poor performance?

The bottleneck are those maps. That, and your CPU since gw2 doesn’t take much advantage of the graphics card.
From my own experience the required specs stated on the gw2 box are way too low to what the game demands. Neither my laptop nor my slightly-old desktop perform too good with this game; and some maps are unplayable for someone like me who’s used to FPS games.

See if you can tweak windows power consumption to high performance, that helped me.

Thanks for your reply Pleurodesed. I have heard that GW2 relies on CPU, perhaps I could try to overclock it in the BIOS although I don’t have much experience with it. Last time I tried to change to a different overclock profile it wouldn’t even start the game anymore.

I tried your suggestion by changing the energy power consumption to high performance but unfortunately it did not change my FPS at all.

Perhaps this information from CPU-Z will provide some extra information for those that want to help me out to improve my performance.

Overclocking is not going to help much (unless you are talking EXTREME increases that would require some drastic changes to active cooling of the CPU).

Is your OS 32 bit or 64 bit? If it’s 64 bit then some additional RAM would likely help the situation (assuming you have some things running in the background….GW2.EXE itself cannot use more than 3.5 GB)

Also might want to investigate unlocking cores (or making sure they are currently unlocked).

OP, your cpu is pretty crappy these days.

modern AMD cpus such as piledriver and streamroller runs just or perhaps faster than your cpu.

AMD cpus are bash often in the forums.

loseridoit.2756:

AMD cpus are bash often in the forums.

Might have a lot to do with them not performing very well with this particular game….maybe?