Guild Wars 2

Hi there!

Even though there are not a lot of comment replies on topics like this here on the forums, I am still giving it a shot as this kind of bothers me.

So last year I bought an Asus GL552VW-CN104T Gaming Laptop. I saved a lot of money from my side job in my final year of high school to buy it so I could play games (on high settings, finally!) on the same laptop I would use for my study.
Last year I didn’t really notice much problems, but after a while I didn’t really have much time to play GW2 with friends moving to different games. Now after a year I have returned to play, but I noticed a lot of low framerates/lag and now I am wondering what the problem could be.

So my Laptop specs are:

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ (4 cores)
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M (2 GB)
RAM: 16GB
1000GB HDD, 128GB SSD

I’ve tried the core-parking stuff, but all the cores are doing fine. While playing the game my CPU and RAM etc aren’t even being used for more than 55% either.

So here are some screenshots from In-Game settings and FPS

http://i.imgur.com/dMonmpO.jpg (Ping is normally around 40-50, don’t know why it was so high atm)

http://i.imgur.com/0mohfvj.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Rua8dZJ.jpg

So what might be the problem? Is my laptop just not good enough? I am not that much of an expert, but it seems like it should run this game at least at a good 30fps in LA or something.

I really hope someone could help me out, as this takes a lot of fun out of playing this game to which I am so attached..

Cheers,

Djealo

EDIT: sometimes (the lowest amount of FPS, like 12 fps in Tarir) is while loading assets and such. Afterwards it climbs to 20-25 at its best.

You have a lot of the settings on high which will kill the frame rates.
Try using the Autodetect or the Best Performance in Video options.

This video helped me a lot.

DocBerto.5790:

This video helped me a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSD-U9Qmo8M

Will check that this weekend when I have more time, I hope it helps!

However, I am still interested in knowing what kind of FPS my Laptop SHOULD run without problems.. So if anyone knows, let’s hear it!:)

That video is interesting, but it still doesn’t change the fact that I should have a decent FPS while it is almost never topping 20…

What can I do? I am desperate:(

Two possibilities come to mind for me:

Is your CPU hitting the correct clocks or is it sitting at some low idle clockspeed?

Does your computer use Optimus (where it switches between the integrated and dedicated GPUs depending on what’s happening)? If so, is it using the dedicated GPU or is it just running on integrated?

Fermi.2409:

Two possibilities come to mind for me:

Is your CPU hitting the correct clocks or is it sitting at some low idle clockspeed?

Does your computer use Optimus (where it switches between the integrated and dedicated GPUs depending on what’s happening)? If so, is it using the dedicated GPU or is it just running on integrated?

My Intel Turboboost finds it balance most of the time around 3.1/3.2 Ghz (while being used for 55% while playing)…however…

Wow! I was actually just checking this as I found another hidden question on the internet with the same problem. This seemed to have helped a bit! With a few lower (just a few) settings I seem to have 20 frames per second more!

Strange thing is tho, that when I log in the fps starts at like 50 and then drops to 40-35 a bit later. Still playable, but strange:) Thanks a lot at least! ^-^