Guild Wars 2

My laptop isn’t great, but it is by no means bad. I believe that I should be able to run the game faster than I am now.

The settings are all on the lowest they can be, and when in fullscreen the resolution is on 1280×720, my native resolution is 1366×768. Lowering the resolution increases the fps by a few.

I recently did a fresh install of Windows 8 and so have installed very little amount of programs, that should not affect it.

My laptop specs:
AMD Quad-Core Processor A8-4500M
AMD Radeon HD 7640G + 7670M 1GB
4GB DDR3 RAM

Is there a way to increase fps other than the in-game settings? Modifying a .cfg file or something?

Give this a try. It may help.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Possible-fix-for-those-with-low-FPS-recently

Also, make sure you have your laptop plugged into the wall. Go to the Control Panel > Power Options and make sure your power plan is set to “High Performance”. You can dig up some other tweaks for Windows online.

If you have an anti-virus program, make sure it isn’t doing anything in the background while GW2 is running.

There is no config file.

Are you running the 13.4 drivers, beta drivers or what your laptop came with?

You never said what your FPS was and where you were when you checked. Cities depress the frame rate as well as times when surrounded by active players. More players, worse frame rate.

Not sure if CrossfireX is a plus with this game. You could try to use only the HD 7670M and see if that gives you a better frame rate.

Most importantly, the game becomes CPU bound often. So a low performance CPU will drive down overall performance. A 1900MHz Piledriver core is pretty low end performance wise.

Since it is a laptop make sure you are running a performance profile for power (assuming you are playing plugged in).

That’s all I have for now.

Behellagh.1468:

There is no config file.

Are you running the 13.4 drivers, beta drivers or what your laptop came with?

You never said what your FPS was and where you were when you checked. Cities depress the frame rate as well as times when surrounded by active players. More players, worse frame rate.

Not sure if CrossfireX is a plus with this game. You could try to use only the HD 7670M and see if that gives you a better frame rate.

Most importantly, the game becomes CPU bound often. So a low performance CPU will drive down overall performance. A 1900MHz Piledriver core is pretty low end performance wise.

Since it is a laptop make sure you are running a performance profile for power (assuming you are playing plugged in).

That’s all I have for now.

I am running 12.104, which is the latest non-beta drivers. I was getting 15-20~ in cities, and when out of cities about 25-40. When turning the camera it drops a lot, once stuff is rendered it goes back up.

+1 for -forwardrenderer.

I have a laptop with similar specs (A10-4600M, 7660G + 7670M).

- Don’t use Dual Graphics with GW2 (any GPU usage on the APU takes away from CPU processing power, and GW2 needs all the CPU it can get lol); only use GW2 on the dGPU when-possible

- Use at least Windows 8 (handles CPU scheduling better for newer AMD processors; looks like you’re already using 8 though)

- Disable “Dynamic Ticks” (done with a bcdedit command)

- Disable CPU Core Parking (almost certain I haven’t seen any core parking occur under standard conditions though; just disable it to be sure though)

- Use “PCI Lock” or “UseFirmwarePCISettings” (the benefits of this vary greatly between systems; if using UEFI though, I recommend not trying it; I know on my laptop this also disables the dGPU, which is not good)

I’d recommend a newer driver too. I “believe” at least 13.4 has the frame pacing fix for single-GPU for GW2, but could be wrong. I know 13.8 and 13.10 worked fine on my laptop.