Low FPS
Your incombat, with max settings, tons of people, tons of partical effects, this seems to be normal for a dx9 game. Your Effect LOD is not disabled, eats ur frames, shadows eats frames. your playing at higher 3840×2160. I dont see a “low FPS”
Dungeons/Fractals is only 5 people, DS is ~50 people
What you say is right, I didn’t really expect more FPS. What I’m curious about, is that I’m asking a lot from my PC, but the CPU is at like 70% and GPU even below 50%.
Games dont run over more then 2 cores, Im quiete sure GW2 only runs over 1, and maybe 2.
I run with a i7 4790K and a GTX970, I reach 60 FPS, but run way lower settings. As long this game sticks with dx9 and aslong as games dont run over more then 2 cores, you wont get much better.
My friend runs on a server (dual LGA system) with 4x GTX Tesla, he has only 110 FPS on extreme settings, while other games give him 900-2000 FPS. But then he paid 20k usd for a pc