Guild Wars 2

I just recently started playing Guild Wars 2 (2 days) and I’ve noticed some problems with performance. I’ve tried changing just about every setting but I’m constantly sitting at ~20-30 fps, regardless of all settings at low OR on high.

With GPU-Z and my resource monitor I can see that GW2 is only using 40%-50% GPU load at any time. It will also only ever use ~600mb of my 2gb video memory no matter where I’m at or what video settings I have the game set on.

My CPU is sitting around 70% load on all four cores while the game is running.

CPU and GPU temperatures remain in normal operating temps (60c-70c) so it isn’t an overheating issue.

All of my my other high end games run perfectly fine at near or full hardware loads.

Is there a way to get the game to fully utilize my hardware?

Specs:

HD6950 2gb@1250mhz 840mhz gpu
16gb DDR3
i5 2500k quad@3.3ghz (I’ve tried overclocking to 3.8~, no change)

Is it 20-30 fps everywhere, not just in Lion’s Arch, WvW and other highly populated places?

What I find weird is that both CPU and GPU usages are not getting anywhere near maximum. Are they getting higher in other games? None of the cores are getting near maximum, that 70% isn’t an average of all cores is it? I don’t really know what it would help but you could try repairing the game client or reinstalling the whole thing.

locx.6412:

Is it 20-30 fps everywhere, not just in Lion’s Arch, WvW and other highly populated places?

What I find weird is that both CPU and GPU usages are not getting anywhere near maximum. Are they getting higher in other games? None of the cores are getting near maximum, that 70% isn’t an average of all cores is it? I don’t really know what it would help but you could try repairing the game client or reinstalling the whole thing.

Yeah, I’m only level 15 so I’ve just been questing and playing around in the first zone.

That’s what I’m wondering about myself, is why the game isn’t fully utilizing my hardware. Each cpu core is around 70% during combat, 40% in idle areas. GPU stays constant in the 40-50% range.

The other games (Metro, Skyrim, WoW, BF3, Dishonored) I’ve recently played all have 90-100% utilization gpu and cpu and run great on high/ultra settings.

My sig spec stays at 100% CPU usage pretty much anywhere and 60-99% for GPU so it’s definitely not an issue of the game code. First try repairing since it’s faster and if it doesn’t change a thing do a reinstall. Starting to believe it’s a bug in your client since it’s only happening there.

locx.6412:

My sig spec stays at 100% CPU usage pretty much anywhere and 60-99% for GPU so it’s definitely not an issue of the game code. First try repairing since it’s faster and if it doesn’t change a thing do a reinstall. Starting to believe it’s a bug in your client since it’s only happening there.

I’ll give the repair a try. Now that I think about it my internet connection crashed while I was doing the initial download so maybe something got corrupted.

Thanks for the responses.

That would make sense. Give it a go and tell us how it turned out.

Just finished repairing, it didn’t report anything and I’m still having the same issues. I guess I’ll try a reinstall later.

That’s the only thing I can think of right now to fix it. Hopefully it will or then someone else must take over from here.

My rig has similar stats while GW2 in running. I didn’t see it as a problem though.

what kind of FPS are you getting?

optimization tips:
you need to unpark your cores and use process lasso to help optimize everything running on your rig.
also my special win7 registry tweak helps too:
https://mega.co.nz/#!gQc0ybQY!ae6QRSxmNit2OnMzmWnQZGF2CPEQsLppCrCRId6ZjV8

NeedCoffee.1402:

My rig has similar stats while GW2 in running. I didn’t see it as a problem though.

what kind of FPS are you getting?

optimization tips:
you need to unpark your cores and use process lasso to help optimize everything running on your rig.
also my special win7 registry tweak helps too:
https://mega.co.nz/#!gQc0ybQY!ae6QRSxmNit2OnMzmWnQZGF2CPEQsLppCrCRId6ZjV8

None of my cores are parked.

My issue is that no matter what I do as far as tweaking video settings, be it all low, all high, medium, or a mix, I am always getting low fps (20-30) with stuttering when I move the camera. Now, normally I would just chalk this up to outdated hardware; however, when I look at my resource usage, via GPU-Z and Windows built in resource monitor, the game is not utilizing all available resources.

*I am getting 20-30 fps at all settings,
*My GPU usage never goes above 50% with GW2.
*My CPU usage never goes above 70% with GW2, all 4 cores active
*Other resource intensive games run smoothly at 100+ fps with 90-100%
utilization.

I am currently reinstalling the game to see if it will solve my issue.

Just finished reinstalling.

No positive changes. The game is still under utilizing my hardware.

The last thing I can think of is that maybe your antivirus is blocking it’s usage. Have you tried “whitelisting” GW2 on it? I doubt it would do something like capping usage but who knows.

OP – Unpark your cores (search Google for the Utility), and in CPU-Z on the mainboard tab make sure your PCI-E Link speeds are 16×. If its 1x that would cause the issue you are reporting. Make sure to check the PCI-E speeds while GW2 is running.

sirsquishy.8531:

OP – Unpark your cores (search Google for the Utility), and in CPU-Z on the mainboard tab make sure your PCI-E Link speeds are 16×. If its 1x that would cause the issue you are reporting. Make sure to check the PCI-E speeds while GW2 is running.

My cores aren’t parked, it was one of the first things I checked. My gpu is also linking at 16×.

Like I’ve already said, my other games run fine and will fully utilize my hardware. For some reason Guild Wars doesn’t want to.

locx.6412:

The last thing I can think of is that maybe your antivirus is blocking it’s usage. Have you tried “whitelisting” GW2 on it? I doubt it would do something like capping usage but who knows.

My antivirus and other programs are configured properly and I would be sending them a very disgruntled letter if they were taking control of hardware usage that has nothing to do with antivirus functions.