Guild Wars 2

I recently upgraded my computer with a newer solid state drive (moved to Samsung 850 PRO) and video card (GTX 970 FTW) and did a fresh install of everything. Ever since performing these upgradates I have ran into an odd issue. I get great performance out of Guild Wars 2 in terms of FPS almost all the time. The only time I have a problem is when I am turning my character or turning the camera.

As soon as I start to turn the camera, FPS will drop from 120+ down to low 30’s for a few seconds, and then it’ll shoot back up. It is making it hard to play the game, because with how much I typically have to turn it is like running through a bog.

Open to any thoughts or suggestions.

There have been several threads on this issue, though I’ve not seen them as much lately. (I could have just missed them all, though.)

Here you go: https://www.google.com/search?q=guild+wars+2+forum+fps+drop+turn+camera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=guild+wars+2+forum+fps+drop+turn+camera+site:forum-en.guildwars2.com

Oh! You will have to replace the /xxx after the first /support with another /support for the links to work (because of the forum re-organization).

Example:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Camera-turning-fps-drop

to:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Camera-turning-fps-drop

Good luck.

Thanks! I found the old threads on google earlier, but didn’t know how to get to them due to the re-organization. And the forum search yielded no results either. Thanks again!

You are most welcome! I hope you find a thread with the answer. =)

Reading through the threads, it seems that turning reflections and shadows down helps. Apparently those cause issues with some of the latest nvidia drivers that cause panning with the mouse to cause FPS drops.

I turned reflections to terrain and sky, and shadows down, and it is working a lot better.

Yay! Glad to hear you found some solution to the problem. =)