Guild Wars 2

Good day all,
I am having a bit of problem playing WvW or other kind of events that invovles alot of people around. The game suddenly gets all choppy and laggy once there are about 20+ or so characters on my screen. However the gameplay is pretty smooth when there arent that much people, for example CoF runs or just me exploring.
Is it my graphic card that needs updating or what? Can someone please let me know what I need to fix so that I can properly play WvW.

I am currently running guild wars 2 on:

Windows 7
Processor: AMD Athlon™ II X2 240 Processor
3.1 GB of RAM
Graphics card: GeForce GTS 450
254.8 GB of free disk space

dual core processor with a game that runs heavily on 3 threads

even an upgrade to 3 or more will only help subtly without a huge increase in raw ghz frequency as well

make sure to limit fps down to 30 as well if you havent already

i experience that my cpu usage more than doubles when my fps is uncapped or set at 60 over 30, which is a clear sign of improper usage of using the cpu to render things on screen when the gpu should be doing it

so, cpu bottlneck, so decrease cpu intensive settings (which is practically non existent as the scaling for cpus is pathetic)

but the only real changes that will help you is either an upgrade (being forced to upgrade to play a game decently) or the developers actually try optimizing the game(i heard they added new gem store items again, big help for you there)

Your processor is what’s causing the performance drops with a lot of people around. The only real way to (kind of) prevent it is to get a top of the line CPU and overclock to 4.5GHz+. That will get you around 25-35 fps in those situations which will at least appear relatively smooth to most people. You could probably see improvement over what you’re getting with less than that, but that’s what it takes to get “ok” performance.

Updating your graphics card will get you higher fps in most other situations, but not the ones you’re talking about. If you look at your GPU usage in those situations, you’ll actually find it’s not being used fully due to the CPU bottleneck.

For the most part, I don’t think this phenomenon scales with graphics settings much at all, but it probably wouldn’t hurt to turn down some of the most intense options (supersampling, shadows, reflections) if you haven’t already. Also, I would suggest adjusting the new WvW culling options.