Guild Wars 2

Well to start things off; my laptop is a:
HP Envy Dv6 Notebook PC
AMD A10-4600M APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics 2.30GHz (Quad-Core) (4 CPUs)
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
8GB Ram

When I first bought this laptop for about $500, I wasn’t really a computer tech savvy. When I saw Quad-Core I just did the maths 2.3×4=9.2 GHz. So I thought hey, it’s in my budget and it should be able to help me since I’m not a Hardcore PC Gamer. I just play MMOs.
Anyway, I decided to download Devil May Cry 5 and was able to run it on High. That was smooth sailing, no lagg at all. The fans wasn’t blowing that much hot air at the time. After a year or 2 when I decided to go back on Guild Wars 2 (I played Guild Wars 2 back when it first got released and was running it minimum 30 FPS) all of a sudden there’s lagg, even in Low-Medium settings. Fans are constantly blowing hot air and I don’t know what happened. There are times when it runs smooth and then it just jumps all the way back down to 12 – 25 FPS. I’ve decided to order a Cooling Pad but I don’t know if that will help. I took the laptop to a computer store and they said no dust was in it but still try and clean it. That didn’t help at all. Honestly, I don’t know what to do anymore. If anyone could give me an idea of what’s going on I would greatly appreciate it.

P.S I’m thinking of building my own PC in the near future, so if that’s what you’re going to say, save it.

gw2 is a single threaded bottleneck game. More cores != more performance. Faster cores equal more performance. Anet did numerous updates to increase the amount of players seen in the game. You should definitely lower your settings.

Currently, those amd apu suck on the cpu performance side. If you are only playing MMOs, I would look at cpu performance more than gpu performance. Since most MMO tend to be ugly and cpu is usually the bottleneck

Quite frankly devil may cry 5 is a much smaller game than gw2 so it is not a fair comparison.

Yup, turning down the settings would be the go-to solution here. Specifically, reflections, shadows and character models (quality and/or limit).
Other than that, there’s not much you can do with a laptop. Depending on how old it is, maybe change the thermal paste to help with the heat.

SilentDream.6397:

Well to start things off; my laptop is a:
HP Envy Dv6 Notebook PC
AMD A10-4600M APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics 2.30GHz (Quad-Core) (4 CPUs)
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
8GB Ram

When I first bought this laptop for about $500, I wasn’t really a computer tech savvy. When I saw Quad-Core I just did the maths 2.3×4=9.2 GHz. So I thought hey, it’s in my budget and it should be able to help me since I’m not a Hardcore PC Gamer. I just play MMOs.
Anyway, I decided to download Devil May Cry 5 and was able to run it on High. That was smooth sailing, no lagg at all. The fans wasn’t blowing that much hot air at the time. After a year or 2 when I decided to go back on Guild Wars 2 (I played Guild Wars 2 back when it first got released and was running it minimum 30 FPS) all of a sudden there’s lagg, even in Low-Medium settings. Fans are constantly blowing hot air and I don’t know what happened. There are times when it runs smooth and then it just jumps all the way back down to 12 – 25 FPS. I’ve decided to order a Cooling Pad but I don’t know if that will help. I took the laptop to a computer store and they said no dust was in it but still try and clean it. That didn’t help at all. Honestly, I don’t know what to do anymore. If anyone could give me an idea of what’s going on I would greatly appreciate it.

P.S I’m thinking of building my own PC in the near future, so if that’s what you’re going to say, save it.

In all reality this says it best;

The CPU cores are based on a reworked Bulldozer architecture, called Piledriver. Although marketed as a quad-core processor, the A10-4600M includes only two modules with four integer-cores and two floating-point cores total. As a result, the CPU is not a true quad-core processor.

Source – http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A10-4600M-Notebook-Processor.74065.0.html

Unlike Llano (previous APU generation to your Trinity APU) you could undervolt and then overclock the multiplier to get more performance with out messing with Ingame settings to much. There are some forum posts that you CAN use AMD PsCheck to do it for the first generation Trinity (which your APU falls into). I never owned a Trinity APU so I cannot confirm, but its something that I would look into.

Stock(1.4Ghz with a Turbo on Core0 to 1.8ghz) my A8 3510MX would get 24-28FPS on medium settings (HD7690M), when I overclocked the APU to 2.4ghz(all cores locked at 2.4ghz) the FPS was a solid 55-60 outside of Zerg content, and would hold a steady 18FPS at most world bosses. Really the best you can get out of any Mobility APU that I have seen. Which is why I even mentioned the AMD PsCheck.

I would look into under volting your APU, if even possible, then level out your cores (Disable Turbo and enable P1 state to whatever the base clock of your APU is) and see what performance you get then.

If you cant do that much, then you must turn to lowering in game settings.

Edit had to edit out ‘kitten’ Lol stupid Forums.