Guild Wars 2

I have a GTX 970 which is usually really good. I can’t reliably reproduce this situation, but usually my FPS is between 25 and 60 depending on how busy the area is. I have an i5-3350p and 16G ram.

When this problem happens, I don’t even need to reboot, I just restart GW2 and framerate is back up to very fast. I turn my computer off every day, and I don’t have other programs open.

I got the GPUZ program to monitor my video card, and it says my performance is capped by “util” which apparently means the GPU utilization is capping my performance, which makes me think the GPU just isn’t getting requests.

Has anyone else hit something similar? It’s maddening because I never ran into this problem with my 560 ti. The only reason I noticed this is that my “old” comp that my wife plays on is right next to me, and in wvw the 560 ti is still putting out high framerates. I duplicated the graphics settings, and still the 970 is stuck at 7-8 FPS until I restart GW2.

I know that the 970 has issues with certain ranges of memory which are super slow due to one of the graphics units being disabled, but it’s supposed to automatically not use the slow area of ram. GPU-Z tells me I’m using nowhere near 3.5G which is the threshold for when the slow ram could be used. I’m only in the 1.4-1.8 range.

Does GW2 force specific memory locations? It’s really frustrating that I can’t reproduce this. Anyone with a 970 come across something similar?

Got a similar issue with a GTX 770. Although my issue is a bit more complex. In short my FPS drops to unplayable and in your case a restart seems to help, but in mine doesn’t. Even turning of the PC doesn’t seem to fix it. Somehow gw2 uses 100% of the my GPU load (GPU-z), while a few weeks back this never happend. I also get lots of driver crashes, followed by a temporary black screen, even when i start GW2.

There is something really bogus in certain PC setups, with NVidia cards and GW2. But with all big companies, the customer is never right.

Any other game i play is totally fine and currently thinking of moving on and leave GW2 as it is.

Do you have a second bios on that gpu ? If so,try switching to that,usually the second bios has throttling disabled and a higher clock.Atleast thats for me on my gtx970 FTW+,switching to the second bios solved some issues i had in Watch dogs.

So I followed the recommendations in the sticky to update the Nvidia control panel power to high instead of adjustable or whatever, and it seems like some of the hitching has stopped (I didn’t even notice that there was hitching before, thought it was just some sort of loading lag). I’m going to wait and see if the problem ever recurs, if not, my theory is that adjustable power got stuck in low power mode and didn’t come back up to full perf.

Video seems more snappy in general. Going to mess with power profiles etc to make sure I’m always getting full power in-game but not while using a web browser.