Guild Wars 2

When looking in the task manager window the CPU usage of the GW2 Launcher is pending in the 20-30% range. I am using a i7 3612QM processor, GTX 650M and 8GB RAM.

When playing the game I am at around 60% CPU usage so why does the launcher need that much power?

Anyone else noticing this?

Hi Delloro,

The simple answer is because of the fancy 3D effects the launcher uses including the transparency of its background. The launcher I am assuming uses the CPU to draw this hence the high CPU usage, however this will not have any effect on your overall game play as once you launch the game the launcher is no longer drawn.

30%? You’re lucky, for me it’s 60-90% on a C2D. The game itself uses less of my CPU than the launcher. On top of that the hard drive works like it was being pounded by a pneumatic hammer, while no updating is being done. Something is seriously wrong here, no amount of CPU drawing would cause this type of behavior, it must be a serious bug. If I left the launcher open accidentally, I fear it would fry the system. I hope something is being done about it..

Here is a screenshot of the issue. The fact it’s trying to log in on it is not relevant, the HD/CPU usage is spiking even when I simply open the launcher and let it stay open. I repeat, this is when no updating is being done, during an update it goes as high as 94%.

Well at least it’s a good thing that the cpu is that high, that shows that he works

Yeah but I wonder what it’s working on :P ArenaNet’s top secret computational war machine? It would take an evil genius to devise such a cunning plan. Use the combined power of 3 million subscribed CPU’s, while the owners are AFK and the launcher is doing it’s thing ^^If you could hear my hard drive right now, while I’m waiting for the game to let me in, it’s loud like a machine gun :P The second I close the launcher, it’s blissful silence again. This kind of behavior only happens when I run many torrents and start to move big files around at the same time, while deleting a lot of small files from the recycle bin – but I’m not doing this now :P

OMG… ok, the fault is mine. I found the culprit.. it’s peerblock, which did not close properly and was still running in the background. After killing it, the high cpu usage disappears and I can even log in to the game! Go figure.