Guild Wars 2

There is a problem with the engine that not everyone is experiencing, under certain conditions the engine performs very poorly.

I’ve gone through a number of different steps to try and resolve the issues, everything short of buying a brand new machine.

One thing I did notice is that, at least on my machine and my GTX 550ti, the game has a unusually low GPU usage. Typically games that aren’t hitting the framerate cap are taxing the GPU at least close to 100% usage. GW2 isn’t even hitting my GPU for 50% usage and isn’t coming close to the fps cap. (see attachment)

Obviously the behavior is not typical of any game engine. I hope this issue does get sorted out because it would make mine and I’m sure many other’s experience much better.

To those who keep trying to devalidate other people’s performance issues, please stop doing that. There clearly is a problem that doesn’t effect everyone. Just because it doesn’t effect you, doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.

Don’t really know if this is relevant,
but i have the same card and an I7-3770k, the only time i experience the same problem as yours is in WvW at gates i can post some Screenshots later but running around in pve i am usually sitting at 45-60 fps except in Black Citadel but that may just be my gpu is not powerful enough
i would say take a Screenshot of task manager while you have the game running. also have you ever seen the card fully used at all?

there was something i read not too long ago about the game being stuck at x1 link speed will have do some digging to find it again

dizko.8153:

There is a problem with the engine that not everyone is experiencing, under certain conditions the engine performs very poorly.

I’ve gone through a number of different steps to try and resolve the issues, everything short of buying a brand new machine.

One thing I did notice is that, at least on my machine and my GTX 550ti, the game has a unusually low GPU usage. Typically games that aren’t hitting the framerate cap are taxing the GPU at least close to 100% usage. GW2 isn’t even hitting my GPU for 50% usage and isn’t coming close to the fps cap. (see attachment)

Obviously the behavior is not typical of any game engine. I hope this issue does get sorted out because it would make mine and I’m sure many other’s experience much better.

To those who keep trying to devalidate other people’s performance issues, please stop doing that. There clearly is a problem that doesn’t effect everyone. Just because it doesn’t effect you, doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.

Same problem here, and my SLI only makes it that much worse. I could probably just run 1 video card for the same or better performance.

You are seeing low GPU usage because your CPU is bottlenecking. I see this same complaint in EVERY mmo forums from users with weak or outdated CPU.

Screenie and that cpu usage is the highest i could spike it will get a WvW post up later