Guild Wars 2

I’m no techie, so I was hoping to get some help from the Tech forum community. I currently play GW2 on my Dell XPS laptop. It runs the game well enough to play decently on mid settings, and good on low, even with a lot of NPCs/players on the map. But it does run really slow in huge queued 3-way WvW SM Lord’s room zerg fights, or even massive Lyssa chain events. It’s to the point where the only skill that works is my #1. I can’t even use my heals when I get massive skill lag. People tell me that GW2 is only optimized to run on a single core PCs. So in order to make my game run better, how do I optimize my Intel i5 core so that it runs only on a single core instead of my dual core (laptop i5)? Is there a setting that turns off one of the cores, so then the game will play at it’s peak efficiency?

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I’m no techie, so I was hoping to get some help from the Tech forum community. I currently play GW2 on my Dell XPS laptop. It runs the game well enough to play decently on mid settings, and good on low, even with a lot of NPCs/players on the map. But it does run really slow in huge queued 3-way WvW SM Lord’s room zerg fights, or even massive Lyssa chain events. It’s to the point where the only skill that works is my #1. I can’t even use my heals when I get massive skill lag. People tell me that GW2 is only optimized to run on a single core PCs. So in order to make my game run better, how do I optimize my Intel i5 core so that it runs only on a single core instead of my dual core (laptop i5)? Is there a setting that turns off one of the cores, so then the game will play at it’s peak efficiency?

the game uses 2-3 cores. Putting the game all on a single core will only makes things worse.

You optimize the game by buying better hardware.

Make sure that your laptops power management is set to performance not power save mode, also this game will make your laptop run hot make sure the fans are running and all air paths and vent are clear and clean the hotter your laptop runs the more it will slow down to prevent damage a cooling pad with extra fan is a good idea if you are gaming

Skill lag is not the same as render lag, and there is nothing to be done about it in WvW, I can hit a zerg where I still have well over 30fps, but takes minutes to cast anything other than AA. This has to do with the number on people in the area and stress on the server and the fact that the game puts the AA as priority. This has gotten better to some extent, but it still there.