Guild Wars 2

Ever since the wintersday update my frame rate has dropped to an unplayable rate. Is this a common issue or is this a problem with the capabbilities of my computer?

Happened to me too (and from the number of posts on this forum, to a whole bunch of other people) – so far no solution

And to me. Would really appreciate a suggestion as to how to resolve it. It’s frustrating, as my system used to run the game without an effort until very recently – and I made no changes to it whatsoever.

Where in game have u lot noticed these fps drops ?
What system spec’s do u lot run ?

i know u say the game used to run fine ..now it dont ..so i cant be the computer. Thats true but with each new patch Anet will change stuff, and it may well start taxing ur systems in area’s that end up not being able to handle it.

however it also may just be a software issue. They r a PITA to figure out, but still worth trying to figure out.

Might seem like a lot of people are having issues, but there are likely more people without any problems. Not saying there can’t be any though.

Computers are like cars, they can deteriorate and even if you don’t change anything software updates through windows for example will change a system’s state etc.

Many points of failure and can be a pain to isolate, but you will probably have to start testing/checking one thing at a time. Read Part 4 of this thread to get started.

kirito – that looks like a useful link, thank you! Will look into it.
SolarNova – system specs, for what it’s worth:
Asus G53SX, Windows 7 Home Premium
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz, 2001 Mhz, 4 Core(s),
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 12.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 12.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 9.34 GB
Total Virtual Memory 24.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 20.9 GB
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Adapter RAM (2,147,483,648) bytes

Well the place where it’s most noticable is during zergs in WvW. Ussally average around 20 but since wintersday update a whooping 1 or maybe even 2 FPS

i think it has something to do with the fixes they made to Culling, where large groups would suddenly appear.

They are probably testing something about the culling, most ppl is having the same issue in WvW, frames droped drastically in masive fights, also rendering is worst, massive zergs just appear from nothing (ppl allways complained about this, but never hapened to me before), whatever they are trying to do, they are doing it wrong.