Guild Wars 2

when i play Guild Wars 2 my FPS dont reach 50,

im running on a “home made” PC
asus sabertooh 990-fx(MOBO)
amd 6100-fx(CPU)
16 gb Ram 1866
750 Watt(PSU)
2 times R HD 6850 Cyclone(GPU)

so i’m not talking about crap, but in-game it is crap.
when multiple people do some skills i drop from 42 to 11 and back.
its anoying, if it was a steady 40 fps it was okay.

when i play Battle Field 3 i can play it maxed out, on a stead 125 FPS
when i play Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 i play it maxed out with Max FPS

so it isnt my computer cant run GW2.

Hope someone can help

first I’m sure you are running the 12.8 drivers with those cap files right? Next have you tried running the game on a single card? I ask this because sometimes if a game is not optimized for it you’ll get worse performance running in sli/crossfire mode

That rig can pay BF3 @ maxed settings, AA included, and keep a steady 120FPS everywhere, even in the open parts of the B2K maps? I applaud you for accomplishing the impossible.

MW3, like WoW, runs on an engine that’s several years old. And you can’t compare shooters to MMO’s.

From what I have heard, and judging purely based on the evidence from Toms Hardware’s Guild Wars 2 CPU benchmarking research, I believe it would be your AMD CPU.

I am not implying that your CPU is bad or not performing as it should do, but solely blaming ANet for their lack of support for the wide variety of PC components.

Here is a link to the benchmark from Tom’s Hardware, it might give you a bit more of an idea of what I am getting at: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268-7.html

Your CPU is bottlenecking. It’s not good for gaming, sadly. Especially not for massively multiplayer situations where there are many players on the screen. It will perform badly in quite a few games, despite how much you over-estimate your FPS in other games.

It certainly doesn’t have enough power to let those two cards perform at maximum.

The CPU is the bottleneck, but AMD aren’t the only culprits here – this game is way too CPU dependent, and more should be delegated to the graphic card.

I have a similar rig as the OP

AMD 955 Black OC to 3.8 Ghz
2 Asus 6850s Crossfire OC with MSI Afterburner 930 Mhz GPU 1125 Mhz RAM
8 Gigs Ram
Asus 990 FX MB

I have excellent frame rates in game. My PC is a pretty solid gaming rig. I average between 40 and 65 FPS most places in game. If I go into Lion’s Arch my system tanks though I go down to about 25 FPS.

I’m pretty sure it is a CPU bottleneck, but overall I’m really happy with the performance. Before catalyst 12.8 and the new Crossfire profiles it really sucked. My guess is that the OP has not upgraded his drives or Crossfire profiles as this made about a 15-20 FPS increase everywhere in game for me. Lion’s Arch was pretty much a slideshow before the driver update.