Guild Wars 2

So hello again, I opened a topic a few days ago about my game slowing down all of a sudden for no apparent reason.
I solved it formatting my PC, still don’t know what was causing it (probably the new Nvidia drivers, but still) and now here I am again.

Everything was doing fine, I run with almost everything on high apart from stuff like shadows and such, and it usally is 18-27 fps.

And now bam, with BEST PERFORMANCE it is on 15 fps max, with my usual settings 1-4 fps, this from this morning.

I have an Alienware M14X, i7 processor, 8 GB RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650M with 2GB of Video Memory.

Yep, I checked it to be on “high performance”, I tried turning it off for a while and waiting a few hours but the problem persists, I have no idea what is causing this either, as I said everything was doing fine since I formatted it a few days ago.
Do you have any idea?
Please, any help would be appreciated. What should I do?

Even though you’re using a laptop you should be getting better frames than that. Is heat becoming an issue? Are all the drivers up to date? What are the FPS when looking at the mystic toilet in LA and do changing settings in the UI make a difference?

Heat is fine (68c max CPU temparature, GPU aroun 60c), tried uptading drivers, but it still had the old problem (the one that slowed me down randomly) so I just formatted it and it worked fine for two days, then this fps drop, sometimes it gets high fps for the first seconds I enter the game, then they horribly drop.

On medium-high it is around 4-8 fps, on low it is 10-18, if I also put subsample it gets to 25-30 but it is really horrible to look (before the drop it used to get around 60fps with subsample)

Zeta.3198:

Heat is fine (68c max CPU temparature, GPU aroun 60c), tried uptading drivers, but it still had the old problem (the one that slowed me down randomly) so I just formatted it and it worked fine for two days, then this fps drop, sometimes it gets high fps for the first seconds I enter the game, then they horribly drop.

On medium-high it is around 4-8 fps, on low it is 10-18, if I also put subsample it gets to 25-30 but it is really horrible to look (before the drop it used to get around 60fps with subsample)

What clock rate is your GPU running at when playing Guild Wars 2? If you don’t already have GPU monitoring software, then I recommend getting MSI’s Afterburner and checking the clock rates and GPU usage.

You could also try Speccy. This one was recommended to me by the Anet team and gives you a stack of info about your rig:

http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download/standard

Flatley.1620:

You could also try Speccy. This one was recommended to me by the Anet team and gives you a stack of info about your rig:

http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download/standard

I’m not sure Speccy shows what the GPU usage of the GPU is. I know it doesn’t for Intel’s embedded GPU solution.