Guild Wars 2

I’ve been having this issue since release.

I’ll start playing the game at a 27-30 FPS. After playing for a couple of minutes the fps wil slowly start going slower and slower, over a period of about 5 minutes, untill it reaches 7-10fps.

It will then stay there for about a minute or two, before suddenly jumping back up to 27/30. It’s ok again for a couple of mins, and then the process repeats again.

As you can imagine, this is very annoying, especially when in dungeons.

I have an Alienware M11X with core i5 and 8gig ram, and akaik I do have the latest drivers.

Hoping someone has some advice,
Thanks

Hello

Whats your cpu and gpu temps running at? If they are getting to hot they will start to throttle back…

Sartori.1960:

Hello

Whats your cpu and gpu temps running at? If they are getting to hot they will start to throttle back…

If they are getting hot then his performance should stay low,but his perf gets up again,so its not temp.Prob it’s throttling back your gpu,or cpu even.Heat is not always the cause.

Yeah that’s what I thought it may be also, but the fact that it suddenly Jumps back up to smooth gameplay for a couple of mins makes me think otherwise. It sounds much more like some kind of memory leak, not a bottleneck.

I should note I do have my M11X laptop on a Chill mat with 2 fans extra, so it doesn’t get hot that often.

I will however keep an eye on it next time I play, but still I don’t think it’s the case here.

SmoeboeZA.5849:

some kind of memory leak

In my experience,memory leaks just progressively get worse untill the game is unplayable and you have to do a restart. It never gets better on its own.
Then again ive never had a problem with Gw2 FPS/memory leaks.

Sounds to me like a process starting in the background and eating your CPU cycles.
Might want to run the game in windowed mode and start Task Manager while your game is running " 27-30 FPS" and take a screenshot of the active Processes,Then take another screen while its running “7-10FPS” to compare.

MrFayth.3546:

Might want to run the game in windowed mode and start Task Manager while your game is running " 27-30 FPS" and take a screenshot of the active Processes,Then take another screen while its running “7-10FPS” to compare.

Interesting idea. I’ll do a couple of tests later this evening.

Do you hear your fans kick in when your fps start to drop? Also I use this site to disable a bunch of background crap that you don’t need. I use the tweaked column:

http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/

Have never seen any adverse effects from disabling this stuff..

There are some kind of memory leak in the game that I havent identifyed yet. Sometimes my fps goes down to around 30 from a solid 60 after a long time of playing.

A restart of the game always solves it.

This also has been happening to me since release. I thought I was the only one because I started a similar thread a while ago and nobody answered. I couldn’t find any fix to this problem and believe me I’ve tried everything. Also I wrote a support ticket to Anet and their response was the link to the sticky at the top of this forum with the performance issues which was useless crap because I already tried everything in there and it didn’t improve my fps, not even by 1. If anybody figures out what is causing this issue and a fix to it, don’t hesitate to post it here. Thank you!

For me this just started maybe a few weeks ago. But I can’t play GW2 for more then an hour, my frames start dropping, audio chops and then I have to restart.

I personally think it’s a memory leak. I have tested two different GPU’s (ATI 7870, Nvidia 560 TI) with my main GTX 680. Tried all different variants of drivers. Nothing. Still get memory leaks progressively in the game. Even went a step further and borrowed my cousins 1200W PSU, thinking my 850W was failing (even though it passed testing). Still nothing.

What I have noticed is that my GPU power and usage drop to near 0%. Again no other game has this problem, just GW2.

I’d love to play your game Anet, but I can’t. Not like this.

I feel you guys. Same problem.

Even when using the lowest setting I could not get past 27 FPS mark in normal PVE situations. After 30 min. of game play the FPS falls to 15-18. It does not happen on other games. I am able to play everything on medium-high settings and get steady 40-50 FPS.

What have I done so far:
Re-install Windows, latest drivers and client.
Set power settings for max performance.
Cleaned the dust from the inside of the laptop and started using a cooling pad.
Shut down all unnecessary programs with task manager (even explorer.exe)
Used tips from here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-and-Performance-based-issues-1

My spec:
Intel® Core™ i5-2430M
8GB DDR3
750GB, S-ATA 5400rpm
NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 2GB

Could this be a problem of temperature? Software or Hardware? I heard that running games from external hard disk might help… What do you think about that?