Guild Wars 2

I just upgraded my PC and I’m wondering why not even one component of my PC is under 100% load while I’m getting about 10FPS and the game is on the borderline to unplayable. This always happens when a lot of people are around. I’m getting more than enough frames if there aren’t many players.

The upgrade to crossfire made the problem even worse since the 9-10FPS I’m getting now feel even worse than the 7-8FPS I was getting before. The microshuttering really does it’s job here.

Is it because of poor crossfire support or does GW2 only use 2 CPU cores? Is it possible to to run the game smoothly with more than 30 players around? (In case the answer is yes, which hardware are you using?)

Does anybody have any ideas how to improve the performance?

The newest drivers are installed and other games like Crysis 3 are running smootly and don’t cause any problems.

A screenshot of the strange CPU/GPU usage is in the attatchments.

Hardware:
- Intel i5 2500K @4.6GHz
- 2xHD7950
- 16GB RAM
- running on SSD

My fps is nowhere near as low as 10, however it’s still less than it should be. I get around 40fps in the starting area with no other players around, gpu usage fluctuates a lot.

I get some coil whine from my gpu in some games however v-sync usually stops it as the gpu isn’t under much strain. However in GW2 it seems to exacerbate the problem and it screams at me It would be ok, except it’s so loud that people on Skype with me can hear it.

I can understand getting around 40fps in WvW battles, but if my fps is so low in starting areas, it’s bound to be horrifically bad in those large scale battles.

I’m using latest driver(non-beta) and I’ve also downloaded the latest application profiles from AMD

Hardware:
-Intel i7 2600k overclocked to 4.5GHz
-HD7970 overclocked to 1125/1575
-16GB 1866 RAM
-running on SSD

Just in case anybody wants to know how I solved the problem…. I just didn’t. I disabled crossfire for GW2 temporarily since it just doesn’t show any advantages for me. It’s a hotfix so I don’t have more problems than I ablolutely need, but it’s really a pity.