Guild Wars 2

I work in a computer service so i have acces to some computer parts so time to time im testing different stuff.
When i bought Gw2 @ november 2012 i was playing on fx8150@4,6ghz,8gb ram(1600mhz)and gtx560SOC 1gb.Frame rate was awfull.Got drops to 1-9fps,usualy 1xfps in Lions Arch.Gpu ussage that time was @9x%.Game was using 2 of my cores.After switching to win 8 started to use another to(4 overall).But framerate was poor.
So i changed to 4670k which is running @4,4Ghz,8gb ram(1600mhz)and theres the trick,been using different graphic cards to see if they make any difference.Normaly i own radeon hd 7970 3gb 384bit.But ive tested game on gtx680,gtx780 and today im playing on gtx TITAN.Been using different drivers for radeon latest official and beta,for nvidia latest official.For tests ive been using gpu-z that was writing everything to log file during my play time.
So hd 7970,gtx680 and gtx780 gave me similar score,framerate was pretty much the same with little differences.So in LA ive got from 18-36fps gpu ussage was all the time max on 6x%.In WvW zergs fps dropped to 9-12fps gpu ussage was still max @6x%.If ive overclocked any of those cards ive got more or less few fps more but below 20 that doesnt make any difference.
So yesterday got a chance to runi gw2 on TITAN and iw as surprised that it was first card that gave ma 30+fps in zerg situations(only world bosses gave me drops to 26+fps).But i was shocked when i started gpu-z,cause gpu ussage while iw as playing was max 64%!!!
Tested all the cards in different games such as Tomb Raider(2013),crysis 3,witcher 2 and was using same method with gpu-z and with those games gpu ussage was always close to 100%
In my opinion its poor optymalization in guild wars 2 cause doesnt matter how good pc you get performance will be blocked.
So whats the point of buing gameing rig for few tousand $ if game wouldnt use more than half of it?
If any game programmer will read this i have request to test game in same way i did to see the problem.Maybe its just a minor thing in game code but im sure that if my radeon will be used in 100% game performance will be much better.

That’s some good statistics you’ve thrown in there for future reference, but unfortunately the the ugly truth is MMO’s use much more CPU than single player games, or even limited multiplayer games (like the ones you listed), and GW2 is the worst one. for GPU, it is very light, as you can see by looking around in the game compared to Crysis 3 for example. Looks a bit different, no?

You’re absolutely right, it is poor optimization, doesn’t matter which CPU you have, it wont have enough power. All we can do is pray and tweak the in-game settings.

So far as i checked on yt,on this forum ppl with i7 have same problems.Lot of ppl with 4770k and gtx770 with poor framerate.Guy on yt with 3titans and 3960x said that gpu’s were also used in 6x% each and cpu in 20% so what you said isnt rly true.If game is well optymalized can run smooth on 4 cores with gpu from higher middle segment or lowest top.

Right, it’s the poor optimization. It isn’t even optimized for those i7’s. Currently not even 4670K/4770K (fastest single core performance) or 4960X (fastest overall, excluding Xeons) don’t have enough power for this game. I have GTX 660 running high setting excluding Shadows and something else and I get that ~60% usage as well. Out in solo PvE my fps jumps up to 90+ and so does the usage.

Change the OS power settings to “High Performance” to remove the dynamic flux with the CPU.

Win7 and 8 are defaulted to “Balanced” which puts the CPU in dynamic flux between 20% to 100%.

Most GPUs on the other hand are set around 60% of their max and using Afterburner (for MSI graphic cards) or AMD Catalyst/VISION (for ATI GPUs) can boost this up on GPUs.

Lower segment graphic cards are used around 9x% almost all the time.Thats how it was with my gtx 560SOC,and cards that my guildies/friends use.
Im running win 8 64bit and changing power settings doesnt help.

Found something new,normaly gpu usage was @6x% but when i went to wvw it even dropped to 3x% xD hilarious.