Guild Wars 2

Hi to all. I have a problem with gw2 as while i play the game i notice low gpu usage with my 680 .My cpu usage from task manager is quite low 20% .My system is windows 8 64bit ,i7-940 3,6ghz ,24gb ram 1600mghz,ssd ,680 gtx .
I use 310.90 nvidia drivers and evga precision to watch the osd values .Does anyone have any suggestions about this problem ?
I am spending time around the forums and reading that this is nvidia’s driver problem .

Great !! Now my gpu clock goes under 1000mghz ..wtf?

What I do with my 680 to maintain high usage is go to the Nvidia Control Panel. Under global settings(or gw2 if you want this only for that game), then power management mode.Change it to prefer maximum performance. This should make the GPU run at higher clocks. Are you using supersampling? With a 680 you should be able to use supersampling, it looks great and will help your gpu use its potential.

You won’t get full utilization with a GTX680 in GW2 due to CPU bottleneck.
(See Part 4.3 here for details)

20-40% usage for CPU is normal on 4core HT. You can try checking core-parking. (See Part 4.1)

To be more precise, it´s normal for this broken client to randomly underclock all of your hardware instead of running at least one core at full speed.

The 4.3 part of the above link explains nothing about this clear BUG.

HawkMeister.4758:

To be more precise, it´s normal for this broken client to randomly underclock all of your hardware instead of running at least one core at full speed.

The 4.3 part of the above link explains nothing about this clear BUG.

Part 4.2-4.3 is explaining CPU bottleneck. If your cores are being underclocked at random then adjust your OS power management settings.

Hey Fromhell,
I’ve got a similar problem with my GTX 670. During gameplay I usually monitor my card with MSI Afterburner and in a lot of occasions I see my gpu usage drop down and consequently my fps drops to around 30.
I’m struggling to understand if I have a faulty card or if I have some sort of driver problem since I also have a horrible crashing issue (see this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Game-keeps-freezing-Need-Help/first#post1234203 ), but seeing that I’m not the only one suffering from drops in GPU usage makes me feel that maybe there is a solution out there.

Some of GTX graphic cards tends to drop MHZ clock speed on COre & memory when they are Overclocked to thier limits to save card from permament damage.

If Your graphic Card drops a lot ot times, Underclock it by ~50 HZ and look how it goes. IF that doesn’t help go back to store and replace card.

Stormcrow.7513:

Are you using supersampling? With a 680 you should be able to use supersampling, it looks great and will help your gpu use its potential.

supersampling is not viable even on a 680 in most cases.

kirito.4138:

HawkMeister.4758:

To be more precise, it´s normal for this broken client to randomly underclock all of your hardware instead of running at least one core at full speed.

The 4.3 part of the above link explains nothing about this clear BUG.

Part 4.2-4.3 is explaining CPU bottleneck. If your cores are being underclocked at random then adjust your OS power management settings.

And a again a useless(harmful even) “tip” for what is clearly a BUG of this client.

All this accomplishes is needlessly juice up your hardware while GW2 is still only barely using 50% on all cores.

HawkMeister.4758:

kirito.4138:

HawkMeister.4758:

To be more precise, it´s normal for this broken client to randomly underclock all of your hardware instead of running at least one core at full speed.

The 4.3 part of the above link explains nothing about this clear BUG.

Part 4.2-4.3 is explaining CPU bottleneck. If your cores are being underclocked at random then adjust your OS power management settings.

And a again a useless(harmful even) “tip” for what is clearly a BUG of this client.

All this accomplishes is needlessly juice up your hardware while GW2 is still only barely using 50% on all cores.

I think you don’t really understand the subject. Probably need to re-read Part 4.3