Guild Wars 2

Hello, here are my specs:

OS: Windows 10 – 64 Bit
CPU: i7 4790k @ 4.8 GHZ
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 5
GPU: Nvidia 680 – 2G GDDR 5
GPU Driver: 355.98
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury (2×8g) at 2400 MHZ
PSU: Sentey Power Supply 750w 80 Plus Bronze Modular

As some notes, I understand my video card is on the old side, however numerous benchmarks and from Nvidia’s own perspective, I should be able to run this game on very decent settings with my current setup, until I upgrade my GPU.

Here is the list of things I have tried:
- Roll back drivers to a stable version
- Update drivers to the most current version
- Defragment Guild Wars 2
- Reinstall Guild Wars 2 Entirely
- Run Guild Wars 2 in Compatibility mode.
- Run Guild Wars 2 on the lowest possible settings
- Monitor power consumption on CPU and GPU – not an issue.
- Monitor temps on CPU and GPU, highest they get is 50 degrees Celsius.
- Ran Furmark/Prime95/Memtest on every component, nothing appears to be failing.
- Run Guild Wars 2 in space while eating a healthy amount of hash-browns to provide potato power to the Guild Wars 2 engine.

The issue at hand is the fact that upon launch of the game, the game will run at 120-160 FPS, easily. After 5 minutes, the performance will degrade to roughly 60-90 FPS. At this point, any major effect rendering, or anything of the sort, will cause the client to drop to 20 FPS, hard-lock, and then crash. I’ve noticed it occurring while fighting. If I dodge, while having Zealots flame come up, the game has dropped to 20 FPS and will not recover(could just be a coincidence, but it happened twice). I’ve tried a multitude of game settings, everything on low, Effect LOD on/off. I’m giving up, essentially.

If any brave soul has any idea what may be the root of the issue, I will give you not one… but two cookies for solving this.