Guild Wars 2

So yesterday 12/24/13 I was logged in fine doing my regular daily runs. Everything was running fine and I was getting ~40fps while in places like Queensdale.

Look ahead 5 hours after coming home from a Christmas Eve party and I can’t get anything higher than 8 FPS.

Absolutely nothing has changed in the 5 hours I was gone, my laptop didn’t even change locations.

I have a decent system:
2.53ghz i5
8gigs of ram
ATI Radeon 5850

I went through and checked everything that all other threads are suggesting like re-installing drivers, re-installing the client, changing the graphics settings to minimum, etc but nothing has helped.

While playing my cpu is only at 29% and ram 42%.

Someone mentioned using gpuz to check that and I have no idea what any of this information means but it all looks like information for my card. The bus interface is PCI-E 1.1 1×16 @ 1x 1.1

Does anyone have a solution to this? I’ve played almost every single day for the past year and never had any issues with anything..

LuX.5180:

So yesterday 12/24/13 I was logged in fine doing my regular daily runs. Everything was running fine and I was getting ~40fps while in places like Queensdale.

Look ahead 5 hours after coming home from a Christmas Eve party and I can’t get anything higher than 8 FPS.

Absolutely nothing has changed in the 5 hours I was gone, my laptop didn’t even change locations.

I have a decent system:
2.53ghz i5
8gigs of ram
ATI Radeon 5850

I went through and checked everything that all other threads are suggesting like re-installing drivers, re-installing the client, changing the graphics settings to minimum, etc but nothing has helped.

While playing my cpu is only at 29% and ram 42%.

Someone mentioned using gpuz to check that and I have no idea what any of this information means but it all looks like information for my card. The bus interface is PCI-E 1.1 1×16 @ 1x 1.1

Does anyone have a solution to this? I’ve played almost every single day for the past year and never had any issues with anything..

Your issue is that your GPU is linked at 1x running under PCI-E Version 1.1 specs. You need to get that card linked at 8x or 16x running 2.0 or 3.0(if your board/card supports it)

And how would I go about doing that?

LuX.5180:

And how would I go about doing that?

Have you done a reboot yet? Its possible the ASM link management (ACPI tables for PCi-E power saving) wont unlock to the higher performance.

You can try reseating the card, and resetting your system bios as well.

If by reseating you mean remove the card I don’t think that is going to happen since I’d have to disassemble my laptop to do that.

I’ll try restarting again and then try bios settings if that doesn’t work.

LuX.5180:

If by reseating you mean remove the card I don’t think that is going to happen since I’d have to disassemble my laptop to do that.

I’ll try restarting again and then try bios settings if that doesn’t work.

Your on a laptop?

Make sure your power settings are set to Mixed or High performance. Power saver/Battery Saver will force your GPU down to that low rate.

Also make sure your AC Adapter is working good too, as if that isn’t giving enough AMPs it will also cause the laptop to lower its performance.

It’s an alienware and everything is set to performance, the power supply is fine, laptop says it’s plugged in and charged, and I’m now getting x16 in gpuz after restarting and pulling the battery out for a minute. That brought me up to 11fps.