Guild Wars 2

In dungeons, I experience a massive FPS drop from 100~ in open fields to less than 45 in dungeons like Citadel of Flame and Ascalonian Catacombs. My PC specs are i7-4770 (3.4GHz), 16MB of RAM, and a Nvidia GTX 760 graphics card with all drivers updated. This problem just appeared recently (around a few days ago); I’ve followed instructions on the stickied post which seems to have worked initially, but the problem quickly worked. I even resorted to Razer’s gamebooster despite not running many background applications, to no avail. Can someone help me fix these issues?

I think dungeons and instances in general have a lot worse performance then open-world content, I have experienced the same performance drop, go figure.

MashiroSunao.9670:

In dungeons, I experience a massive FPS drop from 100~ in open fields to less than 45 in dungeons like Citadel of Flame and Ascalonian Catacombs. My PC specs are i7-4770 (3.4GHz), 16MB of RAM, and a Nvidia GTX 760 graphics card with all drivers updated. This problem just appeared recently (around a few days ago); I’ve followed instructions on the stickied post which seems to have worked initially, but the problem quickly worked. I even resorted to Razer’s gamebooster despite not running many background applications, to no avail. Can someone help me fix these issues?

Check your PCI-E Link speeds on your GPU.

you can do this via GPU-Z. You should be seeing PCI-E 16x @ v2 or v3 (depending on your MB) while your game is running.

8x would be acceptable on a laptop or a system with 2 GPUs.

4x and below is not acceptable.

sirsquishy.8531:

MashiroSunao.9670:

In dungeons, I experience a massive FPS drop from 100~ in open fields to less than 45 in dungeons like Citadel of Flame and Ascalonian Catacombs. My PC specs are i7-4770 (3.4GHz), 16MB of RAM, and a Nvidia GTX 760 graphics card with all drivers updated. This problem just appeared recently (around a few days ago); I’ve followed instructions on the stickied post which seems to have worked initially, but the problem quickly worked. I even resorted to Razer’s gamebooster despite not running many background applications, to no avail. Can someone help me fix these issues?

Check your PCI-E Link speeds on your GPU.

you can do this via GPU-Z. You should be seeing PCI-E 16x @ v2 or v3 (depending on your MB) while your game is running.

8x would be acceptable on a laptop or a system with 2 GPUs.

4x and below is not acceptable.

I downloaded GPU-Z and I see PCI-E 16x @ v3. However, when I go to the sensors tab, I see that my GPU load is at 99% when I am having frames lag, and normally when the game runs smoothly, it is around 45% GPU load. Why is that? I do not have anything else running on the background either and it seems to fluctuate between these two numbers and I’m not sure why.

MashiroSunao.9670:

sirsquishy.8531:

MashiroSunao.9670:

In dungeons, I experience a massive FPS drop from 100~ in open fields to less than 45 in dungeons like Citadel of Flame and Ascalonian Catacombs. My PC specs are i7-4770 (3.4GHz), 16MB of RAM, and a Nvidia GTX 760 graphics card with all drivers updated. This problem just appeared recently (around a few days ago); I’ve followed instructions on the stickied post which seems to have worked initially, but the problem quickly worked. I even resorted to Razer’s gamebooster despite not running many background applications, to no avail. Can someone help me fix these issues?

Check your PCI-E Link speeds on your GPU.

you can do this via GPU-Z. You should be seeing PCI-E 16x @ v2 or v3 (depending on your MB) while your game is running.

8x would be acceptable on a laptop or a system with 2 GPUs.

4x and below is not acceptable.

I downloaded GPU-Z and I see PCI-E 16x @ v3. However, when I go to the sensors tab, I see that my GPU load is at 99% when I am having frames lag, and normally when the game runs smoothly, it is around 45% GPU load. Why is that? I do not have anything else running on the background either and it seems to fluctuate between these two numbers and I’m not sure why.

when that happens turn down your shaders to see if that helps. If it does, you might wanna run repair on your gw2.dat file, and/or reinstall your GPU drivers.

sirsquishy.8531:

MashiroSunao.9670:

sirsquishy.8531:

MashiroSunao.9670:

In dungeons, I experience a massive FPS drop from 100~ in open fields to less than 45 in dungeons like Citadel of Flame and Ascalonian Catacombs. My PC specs are i7-4770 (3.4GHz), 16MB of RAM, and a Nvidia GTX 760 graphics card with all drivers updated. This problem just appeared recently (around a few days ago); I’ve followed instructions on the stickied post which seems to have worked initially, but the problem quickly worked. I even resorted to Razer’s gamebooster despite not running many background applications, to no avail. Can someone help me fix these issues?

Check your PCI-E Link speeds on your GPU.

you can do this via GPU-Z. You should be seeing PCI-E 16x @ v2 or v3 (depending on your MB) while your game is running.

8x would be acceptable on a laptop or a system with 2 GPUs.

4x and below is not acceptable.

I downloaded GPU-Z and I see PCI-E 16x @ v3. However, when I go to the sensors tab, I see that my GPU load is at 99% when I am having frames lag, and normally when the game runs smoothly, it is around 45% GPU load. Why is that? I do not have anything else running on the background either and it seems to fluctuate between these two numbers and I’m not sure why.

when that happens turn down your shaders to see if that helps. If it does, you might wanna run repair on your gw2.dat file, and/or reinstall your GPU drivers.

Turning down shaders seems to work for now; can’t tell if it’s just one of those times where it’s not spiking or if that actually solved the problem. How do I repair the file? Do I have to redownload the game?

Edit: nevermind, it didn’t seem to help.

create a shortcut to gw2.exe and in the properties where it calls the exe tag a -repair at the end after the quotes.

like

“C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair

I think when GPU load is not at maximum for this game, the CPU is not feeding it to max potential. Check for CPU throttling.

sirsquishy.8531:

create a shortcut to gw2.exe and in the properties where it calls the exe tag a -repair at the end after the quotes.

like

“C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair

That seemed to do trick. I have not experienced anymore drops in frames since I fixed the file. Thank you.

Nevermind, it is happening again. I just do not understand why. For the past couple of days it was fine and all of a sudden it’s not.