Guild Wars 2

On phone now, so making this short.

CPU is an i7 920, and tried the 7950 on both 12.8 and 12.7 beta drivers. Getting below 30 fps in many places in Queensdale. 560 Ti was getting above 30 fps in similar places. Not sure what is going on. Anyone have any insights?

The one thing that stands out for me is the fact that this thread could be probably much more informative if you finished your phone call first. :-)

I have a 7950. No problem with FPS in Queensdale. Buttery smooth 60+ fps in all areas.

Oh, one more thing, running at 2560×1600. Not much success in increasing FPS with the in-game settings.

GW2 doesn’t depend on the GPU much, I have a Core i7-920 @3,5GHz and a GTX 670 @1280MHz and I can set whatever I want in the graphics options, it doesn’t change the FPS as much as it should. Since many people are experiencing this and there are also other threads here about GW2 not fully utilizing the system’s ressources (being limited by something within the engine) I guess ArenaNet has to do some more optimizations. Like the LOD adjustments with the latest patch.

That doesn’t explain why a newer, higher-end GPU is performing worse than the older one. By all accounts, it either should be better or the same, but not worse. And some people were even saying AMD GPUs were performing better…