Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been strawling around on the forum searching for some kind of answer to the problem I’m having, and probably a lot more are having.

At the moment I’m trying to run GW2 at max quality, I know I know probably the worse thing to try, though considering my Rig I think I should be able to do so? Yet ingame it’s a totally differend story, mostly the fps is around 16-25 ish, which i find low as it is. Though turning in circles causes my FR to drop to 1-7 fps. I’ve tried the CPU parking or w/e it’s called but this doesn’t change a thing.

The Rig I’ve got is:
CPU Intel i7-4770K
GPU Nvidia GTX 780ti
8GB DDR3
Asus Hero Maximus Vii
ROG Swift pg278q144hz monitor (with G-sync which alledgedly should smooth this out)

Any help or views on this would be most welcome.

Kind regards

Download GPU-Z and make sure your GPU is running at PCIE16x and not 1×.

X16 lanes or x8 lanes. Doesn’t matter which, so long as it’s not lower than x8. It should read x16 anyway since it’s only one graphics card but if it doesn’t it’s no big deal.

the game is very cpu dependant my spec is

i7 4790k @ stock 4ghz
2x ROG 290x Matrix (Crossfire)
16GB 2400mhz

i can drop as low as 17fps in massive zergs.
gsync wont help you here unfortunately

Sadly you would have to cool your CPU with liquid hydrogen and overclock it to about 7 ghz in order to get the game to run at “decent” frames in zergs.
I feel yer pain brah

sirsquishy.8531:

Download GPU-Z and make sure your GPU is running at PCIE16x and not 1×.

Thanks, as you said it is indeed running @1x, All that’s left is finding the right location to change this ^^

The PCI Express slot closest to the processor socket is the one you want to use. The big long ones and not a tiny one like some boards having them at the very top.

There are mainboards with more than 1 16x slots, but even if the graphics card fits in both, it has to be placed in one specific slot. Usually the one closest to the processor socket. Look into your mainboard documentation which one. But since there are usually 2 slots, simply try it by using the other slot.

If there’s multiple slots that are rated at X16 then any of them as long as it’s X16 should be fine.

Not with every board. I saw quite some mainboards where people complained about the x1 speed, moved the card to the other slot, and then the speed went up to x16. If you did look into the mainboard configuration, you read that this behaviour was documented. Only in a dual (SLI/Crossfire) card setup it was allowed to put a grapics card into the secondary slot.

Well considering that it should be fine as it is atm? My GTX780ti is located in the slot with the green arrow on it. I’ll try switch it up yet there’s some ssd/hdd’s in the way.
On the board it also says PCIE x16/8_1
the other 1 for SLI only says 8.

The x16/8_1 slot should be the correct one according to the picture/table. If the card is already installed in that slot, you have some other issue.

Remember: you have to stress your card while you look at GPU-Z. For example by activating the render test (question mark next to the value) or having GW2 running. If you don’t stress the card, it dynamically switches to a powersaving x1 mode.

Well thanks for the help. Switched it around to the SLI slot started it up and GPU-Z gave x8 then back to the x16 slot and now it gives the right info (PCIEx16 @ x16 3.0), gw2 running at 70 ish fps in major city’s and the stutters gone aswell don’t know what it was though, but it’s gone ^^

That’s good to hear. What was causing it was your PCI Express slot was not running at optimum settings or it was not in the correct slot that physically was deigned for more bandwidth. Now that it is, you can fully enjoy the game again.

Well apart from hardware issues, I always tweak my operating system for the best possible performance, with a standard win7 install I have around 50 Processes working in the back ground, after I tweak this I have around 30 to 32 Processes. try this site for more Information: http://www.blackviper.com/

Just wanted to add that it is normal for gpu-z to show the card(s) at 1x link when there is no gpu load. To check link speed correctly you have to load the gpu a bit. You can do this within gpu-z by hitting the (?) button and running the 3d window

Nick.8256:

Just wanted to add that it is normal for gpu-z to show the card(s) at 1x link when there is no gpu load. To check link speed correctly you have to load the gpu a bit. You can do this within gpu-z by hitting the (?) button and running the 3d window

Thats incorrect, its normal for GPU-Z to show 8x/16x at version 1.1 specs when there is no load.

When the card is under load, it will show 8x/16x at version 2.0 or version 3.0.

Umm no it isn’t. All I am doing is opening the 3d box…