Guild Wars 2

(My specs are below). WHY am i only getting maybe 10-15 FPS during World boss fights? Is this lag or Performance? I play on max settings and everything runs fine until im with like 80+ people. I have Cable internet with 25 up and 15 down. I’m totally confused.

In dungeons i run at like 70 FPS on Max settings

In lions Arch i run at like 20 FPS Max…

Yet i can play Metro: Last Light flawless on ultra settings.

Any ideas????

1 Case (AZZA Armour Gaming Case – Red))
1 Processor (AMD FX-8320 CPU (8x 3.50GHz/8MB L2 Cache)))
1 Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 — AMD 970))
1 Memory (16 GB [8 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module – Corsair or Major Brand))
1 Video Card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 – 2GB – EVGA Superclocked – Core: 1046MHz – Single Card))
1 Case Lighting (Red))
1 Power Supply (500 Watt – Standard))
1 Processor Cooling (Liquid CPU Cooling System [AMD] – Standard 120mm Fan))
1 Primary Hard Drive (500 GB HARD DRIVE — 16M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s – Single Drive)

I guess my questions is. Does this game Suffer from performance issues on some rigs?

Game suffers when you are surrounded by lots of players fighting so WvW zergs and boss fights give you fugly framerates. Going into a boss event you can drop the Character Model Limit and Quality to their lowest and it will help some but it’s still not great.

It’s a problem with their game engine. They say they are working on it.

on a side note, i would suggest you get a 650w or higher powersupply.

also, at the moment, game seems to benefit more from intel cpu with higher clock speed.

Its not you ,but ,you should look into changing the power supply . I highly doubt you have the ampres on the rail to feed that card ,or the processer under load . Ignore watts ,shop by the amp per rail .

I’m running GW2 on an Intel i7 Sandy Bridge CPU and got 10-12 fps during the Melandru event on TC earlier. There must have been 120+ ppl there, and there was a noticeable lag between animation and dmg numbers popping in the general area. This was with the graphics on high however.

To the people saying to upgrade your power supply, I can tell you 500W is way more than sufficient for your current build. I can do the math for you but probably later when I edit this post. A lot of people tend to overkill their actual need from their power supply. Given that it is a somewhat decent brand which provides reliable consistent power, thus the assumption that it runs at about 80 % efficiency, most systems built around your specs use roughly 345W at peak load (GPU and CPU together + overclocked) which is well within the limit.

Also keep in mind he only has 1 HD, and even if he had several, he’ll have to have a tonne of them before he reaches anywhere near capacity. (hard drives generally take about 7-10 watts each).

Some hard numbers: quick google has told me the 660 TI requires 24 amps on the 12 V+ rail which is equivalent to 288W. Since yours isn’t TI but overclocked, i’ll assume it runs somewhere around this number so the 345 estimate is pretty much spot on in terms of gpu + cpu usage.

Also, if a PSU isn’t providing enough power/amps to your card there is pretty much only three scenarios which can occur and none of which is related to a performance degradation:

The overcurrent protection of the power supply kicks in, causing the power supply to cut power to your system and your computer turns off instantly. This is what is supposed to happen.
The overcurrent protection does not kick in but the power supply is not able to maintain a stable 12V output. This will cause a hard crash of your entire system that will present as a freeze and your screen will show either a garbled image or your screen will go black. This is not what is supposed to happen but if you are using a cheap power supply it is entirely possible that it will happen nonetheless. This can possibly cause damage across your entire system!
The overcurrent protection does not kick, the voltage stays stable and your power supply and/or the wires running between the power supply and the graphics card start running very hot. This is a dangerous situation (FIRE HAZARD!) and can cause the power supply to ultimately fail and potentially take part or all of your system with it!

Last paragraph explanation is courtesy of http://www.enthusiastpc.net/articles/00002/4.aspx

To answer the OP’s original question, your build seems fairly sufficient to run the game GW2 with the exception that you’re using AMD processors :P. As many people have realised or pointed out, this game isn’t the most optimize out there so the performance issue is more related to the game’s engine and latency rather than your computer performance.

What I would recommend is upgrading your HD, based on your specs, it seems to be a pretty old HD (something you dug out from an older system?), I would suggest investing in an SSD which will give you a huge performance increase in terms of loading times both in game and your PC overall. A minimum is at least a WD black Caviar

Lastly, here is a link for power supply wattage recommendations on different graphic cards.

http://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/printer/power-requirements-for-graphics-cards

and to the guy who gave the amp advice:

http://www.overclock.net/t/880633/psu-amps-myth

Op

Its normal. technicaly its a performance issue, but its more on Anet head than the user.
GW2 runs a game engine that just cant handle what it is being asked to do. The best you can do client side is have a monster rig, using a OC’d intel CPU. but even then u wont get what most would call ‘acceptable’ fps for the specs of said rig.