Guild Wars 2

Good day,

I just finished exams so I finally got some spare time to enjoy spending on GuildWars2. I got the game at launch and could play it at 60 FPS on High settings without any real issues. I stopped playing the moment my semesterbegan (end of September) and hadn’t played since.

Today I patched my client, logged in and immediately noticed a severe drop in FPS (it’s around 17-18 FPS now with the same settings).

My driver is up-to-date so I really don’t know what’s causing this. Did something change while I didn’t play? Am I forgetting something?
GPU is at 100% usage and is a HD5870 (not exactly low-tier, but not recent either)

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

I have the exact same card with the exact same issue. We probably have the same Asus laptops as well. This issue started for me 3 days ago when they patched the game. I had a similar problem about a month ago that was cleared up by deleting the local.dat file in the Users/My Documents/GW2 folder and using run and typing:
“C:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair
but this has not resolved the issue this time. Maybe it’ll work for you. If not, the game is unplayable now so I guess we just gotta wait for a patch because it seems game related. This is the only game I ever have major issues with.

It’s not a laptop though, it’s a desktop GPU and I’ve done almost everything to try to fix this and it’s seriously starting to annoy me…

So far I’ve tried:
- Repairing GW2
- Deleting local.dat
- Updating drivers
- Checking other intensive games to see if my GPU is broken (it’s not)
- Tried the absolute lowest of settings (38 FPS average)
- Tried the absolute highest settings (20 FPS average)
- Tried the auto-detect feature (20 FPS average, all High)

I’m starting to think it’s because of horrible optimization. If this is the case I’ll just play another game because this is quite saddening.

My CPU is an i7 920 clocked at 2.67 GHz and is not the bottleneck (never above 25% usage while playing)

Hi,

I have a HD5850 in an AMD PhenomII x 6 rig.

When I play in eyefinity the FPS can get somewhat low but it is much better in single screen mode.

The only things that come to mind apart from a complete removal of all related drivers then install of the latest is to do with the ‘Control Center / Engine’ software for configuring the card.

I do not have the link to hand (sorry) but AMD do ‘game profiles’ that set the ‘Control Centre’ to recomended settings for some games such as GW2. Maybe a browse of the AMD site would help here.

Anyway, nothing else comes to mind just now.

Good luck!

Majin Grim.2608:

It’s not a laptop though, it’s a desktop GPU and I’ve done almost everything to try to fix this and it’s seriously starting to annoy me…

So far I’ve tried:
- Repairing GW2
- Deleting local.dat
- Updating drivers
- Checking other intensive games to see if my GPU is broken (it’s not)
- Tried the absolute lowest of settings (38 FPS average)
- Tried the absolute highest settings (20 FPS average)
- Tried the auto-detect feature (20 FPS average, all High)

I’m starting to think it’s because of horrible optimization. If this is the case I’ll just play another game because this is quite saddening.

My CPU is an i7 920 clocked at 2.67 GHz and is not the bottleneck (never above 25% usage while playing)

First things first, FPS varies a lot depending where you are. A reliably controlled area would be to run out of LA to the North in Gendarran Fields and check your FPS there.

A CPU bottleneck will occur well before your CPU reaches 100% utilization, welcome to the Guild Wars 1 engine. Guild Wars 2 only has less than a handful of heavily used threads resulting in performance caps on an 8 thread processor of around 50% give or take some percentage. Never seeing above 25% utilization worries me because I wonder if something isn’t wrong with your hardware. My CPU generally shows an overall utilization of greater than 50% when playing Guild Wars 2 and I just have a higher clocked version of your processor (much higher clocked).

I would check to see your GPU and CPU temperatures are still in the green. If you don’t already have software that monitors these temperatures, then I recommend getting HWMonitor which can be found here:
http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/1.22-setup.exe

ArenaNet has been stating that they have been releasing performance patches which means that they’re possibly tossing more CPU code to the GPU instead which could be why an older GPU like yours is seeing its age now.

Do you have any of the graphic setting at the bottom of the menu checked?
-best texture filtering
-high-res character textures
-v-sync
Turn them all off and see if you get an improvement. These along with reflections/shadows eat up a lot of performance with not a lot of image quality difference unless you are pixel hunting screenshots. A lot of players tend to leave them on since they don’t think they are that important.

Also are you setting rendering mode on native or supersampling? Keep it at native because supersampling is a performance killer.

For some reason it worked fine again for one day yesterday (50-60 FPS on High), then today it turned back to the crap 20 FPS.
No idea where the problem lies, changing any settings doesn’t matter much, there’s like 18 FPS difference between the absolute lowest settings and the absolute highest settings…

Also, It’s not Lion’s Arch, it’s everywhere…

Just OC’d my CPU to handle 3.66 GHz (it’s stable, don’t worry) though it didn’t improve my FPS at all.

Keep in mind that not a single core/thread gets over 50% utilisation, so I really doubt my CPU is the bottleneck. My GPU on the other hand gets constant 100% usage (while it worked just fine yesterday).

So… Aliens?