Guild Wars 2

Hello there, i’m having a fps problem.

When i start the game and log in to a charecter i usually start with 30-40 fps, but almost instantly it gradually starts to trickle down to 10-15 fps. Even if i have it on the lowest settings.

I believe i don’t have too shabby specs, but here they are:

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
8192MB RAM
Intel® Core™ i7 CPU
2.93GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.9GHz
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Display Memory: 748 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1008 MB
Shared Memory: 3835 MB

I’m not 100% sure what specs to post so if you feel anything is missing that would help clear things up, just ask and ill add them.

Any ideas on what the issue might be, and how to fix it?

Any help is apriciated!

Qemist

Edit: Spelling

Sounds like a overheating issue the CPU or GPU is throttling down. Monitor your CPU and GPU temps.

Heat or bad stick of mem springs to mind. I would lean more towards heat as the problem resolves its self and doesn’t kill your computer. first thing is to blow out all the dust from your processor/video card make sure that all the fans are set to run at max. I know this will be loud just do it for testing purposes and see if her performance is better.
All CPU’s and GPUS are designed to slow down to save your hardware by lowing the clocks speeds so they generate less heat. Heat issues for me in the past have had me playing games with the case open sometimes a desktop fan blowing directly into the case.
On my current system I had to flip over my 210 MM side fan to pull the heat directly off the GPU as I had the same problem, once I flipped the fan over temperature on GPU and CPU both dropped by 15 degrees.
It is also possible that cleaning the heatsinks on the video card and the CPU is all that is needed depending on the air flow of your case.

Wow, thanks guys.

The heating was the problem. I opend up the case and vacuumed it carfully, it had allot of dust in the processeing fan and on the graphics card. Belive it was 2 years since i cleanded it last.

Now i have around 45-50 fps, sometimes even 60 with the highest settings on.

Going to monitor my GPU and CPU’s heating more closely from now on, might even get a new cooling system.

Thanks for the help one again, feels like I got a brand new setup!

Core temp with the graph plugin works great to monitor your CPU and GPUZ will give you up to date GPU temp
Sandra lite also works but doesn’t work well while playing games.