Guild Wars 2

Basically title, Before I upgraded to sli ( just now ) I still managed barely 70 fps on minimum settings, and 20 on recommended, even when turning things down. GW2 is the only game this happens with, even with the sli my performance is still exactly the same with GW2 only.

Post screenshots of ingame settings, cpu-z and gpu-z.

Whats your mobo? Not all the amd boards are nvidia sli certified.

do not sli for this game unless you are running on higher than 1080p

a single 770 can practically max this game out.

Here. Weird picture

I honestly wouldn’t run SLI for GW2 since the game is CPU bound not GPU.

I run 780’s in SLI and I actually lose FPS when I have SLI enabled.

It’s the cpu that holding you back, not the gpu.

Dub.1273:

It’s the cpu that holding you back, not the gpu.

It is a FX8350… How is that holding him back?

The FX-8350 has slower individual core performance relative to the last few generations of Intel cores. The game doesn’t generate enough work to keep 8 cores, even 4 cores busy.

Behellagh.1468:

The FX-8350 has slower individual core performance relative to the last few generations of Intel cores. The game doesn’t generate enough work to keep 8 cores, even 4 cores busy.

Slower is good, roughly 60% less actually. While 6 cores might be mildly (or even heavily) used, the thing holding performance back is one core running at it’s limits. If that happens, additional cores are simply not going to help. Therefore you see i5 (and i7’s) constantly above fx chips and usually even current i3’s tieing or beating them. In some games, such as battlefield 4, that’s not a big deal. Gw2 on the other hand happens to require strong individual cores, which is why it isn’t working very well on the fx series.

With my old q6600 I was getting about what the OP does, slightly less actually. After upgrading to an i7, I’m now at above 100 fps average in dungeons and still ~30 in the largest zergs I’ve seen. Previously, I’d drop down to 5 fps in such situations.

So judging from that, an upgrade of your cpu would have been better in gw2. You’d surely get about 120 fps average, which should suffice for a nice experience on even 120hz monitors (not like gw2 is all that action heavy though). A friend of mine did the upgrade with a HD 7970 (moving from an athlon x6 @ 4ghz to an i7 4770k), his fps went from 40-70’ish to >120 and the gtx 770 is even (slightly) superior to that.

Aside of various posts I’m reading that say gw2 doesn’t work very well with sli/cf.
The upgrade wasn’t bad though, in the majority of games gtx 770 sli + fx 8350 would beat an i5 4590 (which is strong enough to get you a flawless playing experience in all existing games, given they’re not just screwed up) with one gtx 770. Gw2 just doesn’t happen to be one of them.