Guild Wars 2

I’m fairly new to GW2 and I’m just wondering how exactly my build can only manage a max 40FPS in a city and get as low as 20FPS. I’ll post my game settings and a few other screenshots to get some opinions.

Game settings : http://puu.sh/jlVdj/1188601496.jpg

CPU-Z, GPU-Z and RealTemp : http://puu.sh/jlVnO/02d5733968.jpg

Note that no single change in any graphic option has given me more than a +5FPS different even at the most extreme. i.e. setting shadows to none or textures to low. I’ve tried disabling SLI to which nothing changed. My CPU is of course unparked and I have hyperthreading turned off as it assists with FPS in WoW and doesn’t generally effect gaming in the first place.

Your GPU-Z screen shows its only running in 8x mode. Is it installed in the PCI-E slot closest to the CPU? That’s generally the full speed x16 slot,though some manufacturers are making the x16 the 2nd PCI-E slot to give the GPU more room between the CPU heatsink+fan.

MrFayth.3546:

Your GPU-Z screen shows its only running in 8x mode. Is it installed in the PCI-E slot closest to the CPU? That’s generally the full speed x16 slot,though some manufacturers are making the x16 the 2nd PCI-E slot to give the GPU more room between the CPU heatsink+fan.

Pci express 3.0 at 8x is equal to 2.0 x16. No cards use that bandwidth yet.

Disable high res character texture and vsync and low character limit to high.
Use single gpu, and make sure is running at x16 by bios. And enable hypethreading.

Samarak.7519:

MrFayth.3546:

Your GPU-Z screen shows its only running in 8x mode. Is it installed in the PCI-E slot closest to the CPU? That’s generally the full speed x16 slot,though some manufacturers are making the x16 the 2nd PCI-E slot to give the GPU more room between the CPU heatsink+fan.

Pci express 3.0 at 8x is equal to 2.0 x16. No cards use that bandwidth yet.

I’m aware he’s not choking for bandwidth. I’m just trying to reduce the number of factors that could lead to such suboptimal performance for a 4790k+780ti.

And then there’s this

MrFayth.3546:

Your GPU-Z screen shows its only running in 8x mode. Is it installed in the PCI-E slot closest to the CPU? That’s generally the full speed x16 slot,though some manufacturers are making the x16 the 2nd PCI-E slot to give the GPU more room between the CPU heatsink+fan.

It’s because he’s running two GPUs in SLI, so the 8X is OK.

There is a massive FPS drop for me and many others since the last patch.

abomally.2694:

MrFayth.3546:

Your GPU-Z screen shows its only running in 8x mode. Is it installed in the PCI-E slot closest to the CPU? That’s generally the full speed x16 slot,though some manufacturers are making the x16 the 2nd PCI-E slot to give the GPU more room between the CPU heatsink+fan.

It’s because he’s running two GPUs in SLI, so the 8X is OK.

Oh i missed the SLI part in OP.

Even more strange,now.

I wasn’t even aware there was a difference in the PCI-E slots but yes, I am running SLI. Also as stuck up as it may sound I’m not really interested in removing high res character models. I feel like with my build there’s absolutely no reason I shouldn’t be able to have my settings maxed or atleast close to it. My settings are already EXTREMELY lenient what with all the mediums I’m running. I haven’t tried enabling hyperthreading yet but I’ll try that soon and post the results.

Ok so here are the stats with hyperthreading enabled.

Game settings to show the FPS and that my settings are still the same : http://puu.sh/jpwqE/71b105d8d4.jpg

and the hardware readings : http://puu.sh/jpwrn/ff81e6031f.jpg

Also here, for kittens and giggles, is my game settings minus high-res character textures : http://puu.sh/jpwCe/ec85359c11.jpg
Note the massive 2FPS increase.

It seems there’s a problem with Nvidia drivers, gw2 and w10.
This guy has tried the drivers 347.88 and the problem kinda fixes for him: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Windows-10-massive-performance-loss/first#post5348293

And again, try to play with single gu at x16. Force in the bios to only work the first pcie.