Guild Wars 2

I just got a new Alienware gaming rig just for this game.

i7 3770
16 gigs corsair vengeance 1600mhz
GTX 660 1.5g
running at 1920 × 1080

game constantly bounces between 45-58 fps….. like when its bouncing in fps it looks kinda choppy. I have the latest nvidia drivers as well…. I am at a loss. Please help!

That is normal even 5000$ rigs with quad SLI and dual processors will struggle with this game. Game is power hungry, and 2012 hadware is just not good enough, u will have to wait untill 2014/2015 for fast enough processors o just deal with the bad performance, tbh is not too bad WvW @ 20 FPS is still very playable to me, compared to other MMOs it is actually a decent frame rate for massive battles.

I have seen videos of people playing on simaler rigs with no issue… im baffled.

It not that 2012 hardware can’t run it, it’s just not optimized well enough yet.
Also you chose the 660 which is the bottom of the barrel card aside form the 650. It would have been better to go with the AMD cpu and got the 680 gpu. But to help your problem try capping it at 46 fps.

I wouldn’t call the a high end gaming rig though, the Geforce GTX 660 is low mid range at most. And this game is really cpu intensive you should overclock your cpu.

erm no

the 660 is high-mid end
the 660ti is low-high end (where 670 and 680 are mid-high and high respectively)

where are you measuring FPS? IF this is in LA or crowded cities then that isn’t too bad. But if it is PVE open area you should be getting more. I am using a GTX 660 with Q6600 @3.2ghz and get about 40-60fps in PVE. Turn down shadows and reflections helps a lot.

Ya out in the world i get a steady 60fps after the new build came out tonight, with little drops here and there in divinitys reach. Things look on the up and up ;-)

and yes it is high end and brand new, sure the gpu could be better but a 660ti is not bad, and i have overkill ram, and like the best proc. so ya

im wondering if dropping a small ssd in there just for this game might make a change??

SSD would help load maps a bit faster, since gw2 files are all compressed into the .dat file the CPU still needs to work loading it. Its still better than traditional HDD as you don’t have to worry about fragmentation over time.