Guild Wars 2

Getting ready to maybe play the new expansion, and once again, I realize this game has horrible FPS issues for me…

I have i7 4790k, 32GB RAM, and GTX 1080 x2 in SLI. I play basically every game I have in 4k at 60-144 FPS with absolutely no issue.

Then we have Guild Wars 2. I barely manage to maintain 40 FPS in most areas on 1080p. It gets worse or better depending on how populated the area is, dropping below 30 FPS or even further for very spiky gameplay. Changing the graphics settings doesn’t seem to do anything besides shadows (I have those off). Even supersampling/ambient occlusion/etc don’t change the FPS at all.

Is this normal for this game? Does it just run terribly? I’m used to playing other MMOs (like WoW or FFXIV) and they do not have this issue.

Anyone else have this problem?

Disable SLI and use GPU-Z to confirm the bus speed of the GPU.

Disabling SLI had no difference on FPS besides shifting the GPU usage all onto one GPU. Bus speed of the GPU is normal.

Seems actually normal for GW2. It is a CPU pig and isnt really dependant on GPU. Your SLI system is overkill.
OC That CPU for better FPS

Yes, 1060gtx6gb, i5-7500, 16gb ddr4, after these POF patches I definitely noticed my frames dipping up to 20fps lower than normal. Before I would only dip under 60fps for Teq now I seem to be dipping to 30-40s even with normal events. Frustrating, CPU loads are 15% higher too. Nothing on my end has changed as well to warrant this.

Crevox.5806:

Disabling SLI had no difference on FPS besides shifting the GPU usage all onto one GPU. Bus speed of the GPU is normal.

GW2 does a lot of back and forth with the GPU. This isn’t something you’ll notice in most other games, but when the bandwidth of your GPU is being limited, it’ll effectively half your FPS. This can be caused by putting the GPU in the wrong type of slot or simply not seating it properly. In GPU-Z, the optimal bus interface is going to be PCI-E 3.0 x16 @ x16 3.0.

At 1920×1080 outside of the zerg, you should easily be able to get 80+ FPS on high settings in the core game, 120+ overclocked. Ensure shadowplay isn’t recording in the background and if you’re Windows 10, the same for the Xbox app recorder. Check your processes for anything else wasting the CPU and exclude GW2 in any anti-virus software. Rename Gw2-64.exe to Gw2.exe, simply for detection software.

Healix.5819:

Crevox.5806:

Disabling SLI had no difference on FPS besides shifting the GPU usage all onto one GPU. Bus speed of the GPU is normal.

GW2 does a lot of back and forth with the GPU. This isn’t something you’ll notice in most other games, but when the bandwidth of your GPU is being limited, it’ll effectively half your FPS. This can be caused by putting the GPU in the wrong type of slot or simply not seating it properly. In GPU-Z, the optimal bus interface is going to be PCI-E 3.0 x16 @ x16 3.0.

At 1920×1080 outside of the zerg, you should easily be able to get 80+ FPS on high settings in the core game, 120+ overclocked. Ensure shadowplay isn’t recording in the background and if you’re Windows 10, the same for the Xbox app recorder. Check your processes for anything else wasting the CPU and exclude GW2 in any anti-virus software. Rename Gw2-64.exe to Gw2.exe, simply for detection software.

All solid advice. And to reiterate his first point, you’re looking for this while Gw2 is running