Guild Wars 2

Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.20GHz
Cooler:
Deepcool Gammaxx 300
Mainboard:
ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 (CPUSocket)
Memory:
Geil 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 1333MHz (9-9-9-24)
Storage:
SSD 120 Samsung Evo
Graphics Card:
4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 380 Series (MSI)
Display:
BenQ G2222HDL + BenQ GW2265 DVI

So I have the above configuration, and I was really hoping that my GW2 game-play will boost, hopefully being able to run the game on MAX settings, or at least having the smoothness that Woodenpatatoes is having in his videos.

Running on Win 8.1 Pro, got the latest Driver for my MSI and still nothing helps. Running with most settings on High or Ultra brings the game down to about 30 fps in LA. I am not really complaining (although I am) about the FPS as I am for the smoothness of the Gameplay. If I were to turn the camera the game is actually cluttering “mini-hangings”. I don’t really know what to do … is because of my videocard? Shout I have gotten a GTX or maybe my RAM? Because on the main website the GeiL I am using are not shown as being actually supported? …

ANY kind of advice would be most apreciate.
Thank you in advance.

You have windows 8.1 pro, and yet didn’t upgrade to 10?
Windows 10 offers better thread optimizations. Not only that, but feels much better as an OS.

CPU is fine.
Motherboard should be fine.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the ram, as faster ram has more loose timings, and slower ram has tighter timings, they even out.
That SSD baby is where you are getting nice performance, along with the CPU.
That’s a sweet graphics card there, R9 380 with 4 gig of vram. It’s not a 980 Ti, but it does hold it’s own. You don’t really need higher than 30 fps in the capital city, as you are not doing any fast action speedy game play that requires a slice of a second response time to live or die.

I am assuming you have GW2 on the SSD? Why would you have it on anything else? XD

You could try disabling CPU parking. Google it.

So this means what? … that actually the game is badly optimized? …
People with specs lower then mine are getting better results so … there is a problem but where?
I’ll see about that W10 upgrade thought I am not that happy about it (just a personal opinion).

People with specs lower than yours is pushing the CPU more, meaning CPU parking is not a problem. First thing I did when I got this computer is disable CPU parking. Useless feature that ruins my games more than saves me a few cents on power usage.

Something else to check on, see if your GPU is doing any power saving while doing GW2. Just throwing out ideas.

I’ll give it a try tonight. I would be happier finding a solution instead of making an upgrade.
Would ParkControl be ok to use?

Anyone got other suggestions?

Stutters when turning the camera in LA? I get quite a bit of that with Ultra Shadows. There are a few graphics options that are less than efficient,so i’ll quote myself from another forum.

• Reflections- They’re heavy hitters considering the performance impact and the visual enhancement. Under each map is a large body of water. To make a lake in an area,they dip the terrain level into the water level. That water is constantly reflecting even if its no where in sight.
• Character Model Limits/Quality- Model Limits impact the main bottleneck in Gw2(Draw Calls/Meshes) the most. I leave them on Med/High and High/Med for WvW
• Shadows- Ultra Shadows seem to cause a nice amount of Frame Time Latencey(Time between frame draws). Not exactly sure if its due to ineffective culling(like the water reflections) or if its just an engine limitation.

And of course SuperSampling. Which i’ll leave to this incredibly old but still accurate article ,from Nvidia, to explain;

“Supersampling” is an antialiasing technique that is simply a brute-force approach and is used in NVIDIA’s GeForce2 GPUs and other modern graphics processors. A graphics processor that uses supersampling renders the screen image at a much higher resolution than the current display mode, and then scales and filters the image to the final resolution before it is sent to the display.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the graphics settings WP runs while making videos,but I’m almost positive they aren’t maxed.

MrFayth.3546:

Stutters when turning the camera in LA? I get quite a bit of that with Ultra Shadows.

I don’t get that problem. O _Oa

To see if everything is fine with your CPU and GPU please post a picture likes this :

To make sure you get the most out of your cpu, you can download and install Process Lasso, and enable “Bitsum Highest Performance” mode. This program got lots of nice features, including simple ways to disable processor core parking, which may cause issues for some setups. Give it a try, I highly recommend this program for ALL Windows users.

https://bitsum.com/

Update : Changed the RAM to some HyperX, same situation. Overwolf reports fps up to 100+ but I still have that slowness in gameplay. Disabled Shadows and Reflexions but it did not help much. I’m hoping to get a GTX to test on my current rig, not sure if it will help but …

Painless.6149:

So this means what? … that actually the game is badly optimized? …

Yes.

I believe so … not even sure I can submit a bug regarding this
I am very curios if other users with close configurations like mine are experiencing the same issue.

Game performance looks about right for your rig.

Don’t expect max performance on max settings.

I never used MAX settings and I never will (at least on the current config).
I’m also trying to figure out if my next upgrade should be a new Processor or a new Video Card (GTX).