Guild Wars 2

Okay, as the thread title suggests, I’m having graphic issues with gw2.

First of all, here’s my rig:
I5-4200m
Gtx 860m
4gb ram
Windows 7 ultimate sp 1

To my understanding, I shouldn’t have any issues running guild wars 2 on high graphic settings, or at least medium-high graphic settings with the 860m.

However, gw2 often drops below 30 fps if I try to apply those settings, and the auto detect function adjusts the graphic settings to low-medium.

Any ideas as to what could be causing this? Thanks for any help in advance.

I5 4200m is probably the reason

turn down shadows and stuff

But I am able to run demanding games like crysis 3 on all high with this rig, so I don’t think my rig should be the problem? Moreover, turning down shadows does not really help, at most it gives a slight fps increase.. Help anyone?

your cpu is a 2-core/4-thread that runs at 2.5 GHz. I am not surprised have some issues with that system as gw2 hungers for CPU. Even with close to 5ghz on a quadcore you wont be able to maintain 30fps on all-ultra…
Nonetheless you should be able to play with ~30fps if you disable shadows, best texturse, reflections and set the culling-options to lowest.

Thanks for the reply. I’m not trying to run it on all ultra or anything, I understand my rig isn’t good enough for that. However, I’ve seen videos on YouTube where people have the same graphic card and a slightly better processor (i7-4710mq if I’m not wrong) and they’re running it on all ‘high’ settings smoothly. Moreover, I’ve also reduced the resolution to below my native resolution. :/

I’ve read that gw2 can’t properly utilize quad core processor too, no idea if that is accurate though.

400Mhz single core clock difference might lead to significant increases in performance… Decreasesing resolution takes pressure of the gpu rather than the cpu – and the gpu hardly is the bottleneck ever in GW2. CPU load is first of all determined by the number of players around and their level of detail.

Yep, I heard about the quad-core issues too. The information in this thread might help quite a a bit: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Guild-Wars-2-and-Multi-Core/first

It’s not your rig. Recent patch messed something up for a lot of ppl and you’re one of them.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-Issue-with-the-latest-patch/first#post4397627

Thanks for the replies. I’ve had this problem before the patch and the patch didn’t really do much to me so I guess I’m one of the few exceptions.

Just a question, do you think OC-ing my CPU will make a difference?

It should, although depends on for how much you can OC it. The settings you should play with are Model Quality and Models Limit, lowering these 2 should give you the most notable FPS difference, rest shouldn’t matter that much with your GPU, with the exception of animation and shadows in some rare cases.

ReaperJr.5967:

But I am able to run demanding games like crysis 3 on all high with this rig, so I don’t think my rig should be the problem? Moreover, turning down shadows does not really help, at most it gives a slight fps increase.. Help anyone?

crysis 3 isnt demanding on the cpu. In fact, most first person shooters are not demanding on the cpu

I thought it was a gpu problem at first. Haha.
Alright, thanks everyone, I guess I’ll just OC my CPU and see what happens.