Guild Wars 2

My computer spec:
Radeon HD 7870 OC 2GB
i5 – 2400, 3,10 GHz, Quadcore
8GB RAM
Windows 7
Game was running with almost everything maxed out 30fps+ except for huge event fights ever since I got this PC. Around 3 month ago after some patch, FPS droped to 9-13fps with auto-detect settings, that is a bit lower settings than i used to have. Even on medium the game is still not playble. Reinstaled the game several times, even reinstaled windows. Other games did not suffer any fps drop. Im about to give up. With lowest setting I can get above 30fps, but the game looks just disgusting that way, so no thanks.

Have you submitted a ticket to Anet yet? You’ll need to look at some of the stuff yourself – overheating, dust etc. – but Anet will give you a set of programs to run to determine what is going on with your PC.

I sympathise: a patch earlier this month had exactly the same effect on my rig and I’m now just hoping a new build reverses said FPS drop.

if you by chance have a browser or any software that uses adobe flash running in the background, I’d suggest shutting it down. I am having lag issues also, but I noticed yesterday after some experimenting, the latest adobe flash build is causing trouble in the background. I had gw2 up and running, and the adobe flash gave me a plug in not responding error in the background, it locked up my system for like 20 min’s before I was able to do anything in it. On a faster system, I suspect this would be more subtle but is no doubt causing trouble all the same.

@ Ricky

Interesting! You wouldn’t happen to know the Adobe process name would you? I don’t think I have it running in the background but just wanted to be sure.

Thanks.

I don’t know to be honest, but i may try uninstalling adobe all together to see how and if it relates – for all I know gw2 was simply flooding the ram with it’s 1.8 gig load and adobe just finished killing the memory with it’s own errors. One test you can try is start the game …..then minimize it while it’s logging in to the game itself – then surf a few flash intensive websites, like facebook, youtube, cnn etc – I know that’s when I notice major performance drop in my system consistently, like my mouse starts ghosting and my whole system starts lagging – i would say this has all the markings of a memory leak – but I’m hesitant to call it that because it happens so quick. I do know after I shut the game down ….my system keeps lagging until I do a ram flush

for my ram flush – I simply put this command into a short cut –
windir\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
works great and helps my system recover stability.