Hello, this is my first time posting here on the forums. Ever since I got the game, I have been having horrible performance in-game. For example, in Lion’s Arch I get ~23 FPS, and in highly populated areas such as world bosses I only get max 18 FPS. I heard this game was very CPU intensive and did not work well with multi-core processors, and I also know that AMD CPUs aren’t the strongest out there, but I imagined I would be able to run the game much smoother than I am now despite all of this. Shortly after I started playing I upgraded from a GTX 760 to a 970 (I overclocked the hell out of it too), but did not notice any big performance improvement.
Basically I’m just wondering if this is normal in terms of game performance with the hardware I currently have set up. I will eventually be upgrading to Intel, but as I still have a long time to go before that happens I am curious if my game experience will have to suffer until I can finally upgrade.
Thanks for the help!
*Edit: I forgot to mention, I also have 8 gigs of RAM and have an M5A97 R2.0 mobo.
Thanks again!
Your performance sounds about right, honestly. OCing your CPU if you haven’t already should help a bit but you’re pretty much where you should expect to be with an AMD CPU.
I’m running an FX-6300 (Edit: OC’d to 4.3 Ghz) and an R9 290X at 1080P and I average about 25-30 FPS in Lion’s Arch or chaotic zone events, or a silky smooth 60 FPS if I’m in a less crowded area. You have a better CPU than I do and our GPUs are on par with each other so there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be seeing better FPS. GW2 is a funny game in that if you crank all the settings to max it will bring even a GTX 980 to its knees. Honestly it’s all about your graphics settings. In the graphics menu, try the following:
Frame Limiter: Set this to 60 unless you have a monitor that’s rated above 60hz. What this does is limit your FPS to max of 61 which conserves power and reduces heat on your GPU. Unless you have a monitor that’s higher than 60hz you literally cannot see above 60 FPS anyway.
Animation: High
Antialiasing: FXAA
Environment: High
LOD Distance: Low
Reflections: turn this off entirely! (this will really kill your FPS)
Textures: High
Render Sampling: Supersample
Shadows: Low
Shaders and Postprocessing: High
Character Model Limit/Character Model Quality: Highest
Ambient Occlusion: leave this checked
Best Texture Filtering: leave this checked
Depth Blur: leave this checked
Effect LOD: leave this unchecked or turned off
High Res Character Textures: leave this unchecked or checked depending on if you’re willing to sacrifice a few FPS for better-looking sprites
Light Adaptation: Leave this checked
Vsync: Up to you, I personally recommend it
If you set your graphics the way I’ve told you, the game will still look absolutely stunning and phenomenal and your FPS will be nice and silky smooth. Also, do NOT buy into the AMD < Intel hype. Yes Intel has better CPUs however even if you were to get an Intel i5 or an i7 you wouldn’t see too much more of an increase. Take a look at this thread here, one user in particular has an Intel i7 3770K and an GTX 980 and is getting LESS than 30 FPS because he has all the settings cranked up.
I was having the same issues with my Old AMD 8350 with a 770 Ti, I recently upgraded to a I7 6700K with a GTX 980ti and every thing is running max at 100Fps in loins arch.
AMD 8350 is good but games that are bound to the CPU it is very weak due to the single core performance. I tried many things and nothing was working.
My AMD was running @ 4.2GHz the FPS was 60 Locked in open world areas and PvP/WvW/Lions Arch I was getting below 20fps (Graphics Set to Low-Medium)
My Intel I7 6700K is running at 150+ Open world and Lions arch 100+ give and take 5 fps (PvP/WvW not tested) (Graphics Set to Highest)
I have used AMD for many years and it sad to see game running slow on there CPUs.
@Famous.6403 wow dude… everything you said was WRONG, like… don’t even try again. Giving misleading information doesn’t help anyone.
@Corn.7061 I have a GTX 970 and an A-10 7600 4.3GHz and my FPS struggles mostly in crowded/populated areas, and it’s all CPU. Long story short, water leak ruins 4690k, I go back to A-10 6700. From constant 60+ FPS to stuggling to hit 30 FPS (in crowded areas of course), from 40+ FPS in WvW to 9 FPS. Point is, it’s all about the CPU, if you want better FPS upgrade to intel, the i5 6600k is AMAZING… if you can afford it, you don’t need an i7 BEWARE.
TLDR: and for a side note:
there is a massive difference between 60Hz/FPS and 144Hz/FPS, and GW2 does not make a GTX 980 struggle… unless you have a horrible AMD CPU like… idk a…. FX-6300!?
Oh, and for the record one last time, an R9 290x is NOT on par with a GTX 970 the 970 has a MUCH better price to performance ratio, and yes I am NOT an Nvidia/intel fanboy, quite the disappointing opposite in fact. And don’t listen to the… “You wont notice a difference with the much better i5/i7” BS, because I promise you will notice a massive difference.
Oh, and for the record one last time, an R9 290x is NOT on par with a GTX 970 the 970 has a MUCH better price to performance ratio, and yes I am NOT an Nvidia/intel fanboy, quite the disappointing opposite in fact.
What? A 290s is a much better price:performance card because you can generally get them way cheaper then 970s. They’re basically the same in terms of performance, with the 290x being better at some games and the 970 better at some games, but the gap is never that big in either direction.
There is a round 7 more setting that can be hit up once anyway if the game was GPU based there would be no problems with anyone specs only time will tell if the game becomes more optimized or less optimized with Heart of Thorn Expantion.
Hello, this is my first time posting here on the forums. Ever since I got the game, I have been having horrible performance in-game. For example, in Lion’s Arch I get ~23 FPS, and in highly populated areas such as world bosses I only get max 18 FPS. I heard this game was very CPU intensive and did not work well with multi-core processors, and I also know that AMD CPUs aren’t the strongest out there, but I imagined I would be able to run the game much smoother than I am now despite all of this. Shortly after I started playing I upgraded from a GTX 760 to a 970 (I overclocked the hell out of it too), but did not notice any big performance improvement.
Basically I’m just wondering if this is normal in terms of game performance with the hardware I currently have set up. I will eventually be upgrading to Intel, but as I still have a long time to go before that happens I am curious if my game experience will have to suffer until I can finally upgrade.
Thanks for the help!
*Edit: I forgot to mention, I also have 8 gigs of RAM and have an M5A97 R2.0 mobo.
Thanks again!
This is perfectly normal for your CPU. The FX series CPU has a weak single core performance, and that is what drives the performance of GW2.
The New Lions Arch, the new HoT Zones, and Zerg like content is going to yeild the the FPS you are reporting. The CPU is just not fast enough to keep up with the Feild of View in these zones for the draw compute requests.
You can hang out until AMD releases the Zen coded CPUs at the end of 2016, or upgrade to any of the 4th gen or 6th gen Intel CPUs out on the market now. And, your performance is going to nearly double at least.
GW2 works my GPU (GTX 970) hardcore on max graphics settings but I tend to run them anyway. I usually to get between 40-60FPS normally and 20-30FPS in crowded areas and during big events like SB, Tequatl, Claw and Shatterer.
