Guild Wars 2

Something has happened. I have come to notice that my FPS have been dropping to 12. At first it was only on my main character, but then it spreaded to all of my toons for no reason.

If I change the graphical setup to Low or Ultra, FPS will remain the same: 10 – 12.

My laptop isn’t perfect and I used to get an average amount of 25, which was great. 12 FPS make the game utterly unplayable.

It goes away after a few resets or even after restarting my computer, but sooner or later it shows up again.

I’m using a Toshiba Core i3 laptop with a 315M Nvidia.

Delete your local.dat file and look if that helps.

Beldin.5498:

Delete your local.dat file and look if that helps.

Where can I find such file?

if you are playing without charger connected, might cause lack of FPS, or the game might be opening in inbuilt graphics card rather than nvidia, you can change that by doing the following:

-Right click desktop and go to “NVIDIA Control Panel”
-Choose “Manage 3D settings”
-in the part of “Preferred graphics processor” choose "high performance nvidia processor.

that might help

RandomWolf.3986:

Beldin.5498:

Delete your local.dat file and look if that helps.

Where can I find such file?

Under
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2

Over your startbutton type in %appdata% .. then enter, there you should see
the Guild Wars 2 folder.

Other possibility is that since this is a laptop and settings did nothing is that it’s a thermal problem.

Beldin.5498:

RandomWolf.3986:

Beldin.5498:

Delete your local.dat file and look if that helps.

Where can I find such file?

Under
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2

Over your startbutton type in %appdata% .. then enter, there you should see
the Guild Wars 2 folder.

Fixed for a while. Problem got worse. 5 FPS now.

Behellagh.1468:

Other possibility is that since this is a laptop and settings did nothing is that it’s a thermal problem.

I’ve been palying GW2 since September. The problem only started to appear this week.

Whitefang.4968:

if you are playing without charger connected, might cause lack of FPS, or the game might be opening in inbuilt graphics card rather than nvidia, you can change that by doing the following:

-Right click desktop and go to “NVIDIA Control Panel”
-Choose “Manage 3D settings”
-in the part of “Preferred graphics processor” choose "high performance nvidia processor.

that might help

Can’t seem to find that as I’m Portuguese. is it in-between any special options?

RandomWolf.3986:

Behellagh.1468:

Other possibility is that since this is a laptop and settings did nothing is that it’s a thermal problem.

I’ve been palying GW2 since September. The problem only started to appear this week.

Exactly. Check to see if the vents are clear and the fan seems to be working. Also it’s not unheard of the heatsink popping off the GPU due to thermal cycling stress and cheap paste. Check the temps on both the CPU and GPU as well as their clockspeeds while running.

Behellagh.1468:

RandomWolf.3986:

Behellagh.1468:

Other possibility is that since this is a laptop and settings did nothing is that it’s a thermal problem.

I’ve been palying GW2 since September. The problem only started to appear this week.

Exactly. Check to see if the vents are clear and the fan seems to be working. Also it’s not unheard of the heatsink popping off the GPU due to thermal cycling stress and cheap paste. Check the temps on both the CPU and GPU as well as their clockspeeds while running.

Fans are acting the way they always did. I actually had them cleaned af ew months ago. Computer isn’t overheating.

Just eliminating possibilities.

Support told me to update drivers. I will NOT do such thing, since the last time I updated resulted in some games turning outright UNPLAYABLE. Computer also lost a good chunk of perfomance after that.

Problem appeared out of nowhere. No one really knows a fix?

If your not willing to update your drivers then live with it, driver, update are released to game devs for testing and performance improvmrnts Anet sometime will release patches to take advantage of these improvements.

If updating drivers is not the way to go, why not just reinstall the current drivers? Has fixed problems for me before.