Guild Wars 2

Hello!

Like the title said. Unfortunately I mean incredibly slow. I can be in a place like Gendarran and it’ll take me at least 3 minutes to load in. Lions Arch will take upwards of 5 to 10.

It’s a Laptop sure, but I’m running:

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz 43 °C
Skylake 14nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
Dell Inc. 0H0CC0 (U3E1) 27 °C
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1920×1080@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 530 (Dell)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M (Dell) 39 °C
ForceWare version: 376.19
SLI Disabled
Storage
931GB TOSHIBA MQ02ABD100H (SATA) 38 °C

So it’s not exactly a useless fit. It’s pretty much brand new too, about 2 months old. I’ve defragged, cleaned it out, everything I can think of – nothing. Since it’s only been from the past couple of patches, I’m wondering if it’s liked to that.

I’ve only been having this issue since the last patch that was meant to fix the lag [which it hasnt fully for me, unfortunately] and the disconnecting.
I’ve been looking for solutions to this, but the main one I’ve seen is “Get an SSD”. I’m sorry, but I need at least a TB of storage for Uni work and everything else, and I’m not paying that price until they come down, so that’s out of the question.

I do apologise if some of this doesn’t make sense, English isn’t my first language so feel free to say if you don’t understand. But hopefully it makes sense. Thank you to anyone who can help !

what is your laptop?, have you checked if you can put in a M.2 SSD?,
my laptop has a M.2 SSD slot, so i have the game and OS on an SSD and the 1tb HDD for everything else

rukia.5497:

what is your laptop?, have you checked if you can put in a M.2 SSD?,
my laptop has a M.2 SSD slot, so i have the game and OS on an SSD and the 1tb HDD for everything else

Even running off a 5400RPM hard disk busy with other things makes three minute load times … less likely. That’s slow no matter what it’s loading from.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

rukia.5497:

what is your laptop?, have you checked if you can put in a M.2 SSD?,
my laptop has a M.2 SSD slot, so i have the game and OS on an SSD and the 1tb HDD for everything else

Even running off a 5400RPM hard disk busy with other things makes three minute load times … less likely. That’s slow no matter what it’s loading from.

i went from a long load time to a 15-25 sec load time since getting kitten

If you’re running GeForce Experience and have sharing/shadowplay/overlays enabled, it can greatly increase your load times.

Besides disk speed, your CPU and network speed will also affect your load time. If you have high packet loss, loading can even enter an infinite loop. Run the game with -maploadinfo for loading info (Gw2.exe -maploadinfo).

This generally only affects older installs, but you can try deleting %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Local.dat, which is your hardware-related settings.

rukia.5497:

what is your laptop?, have you checked if you can put in a M.2 SSD?,
my laptop has a M.2 SSD slot, so i have the game and OS on an SSD and the 1tb HDD for everything else

I don’t actually have anyway to put an SSD in unfortunately

Healix.5819:

If you’re running GeForce Experience and have sharing/shadowplay/overlays enabled, it can greatly increase your load times.

Besides disk speed, your CPU and network speed will also affect your load time. If you have high packet loss, loading can even enter an infinite loop. Run the game with -maploadinfo for loading info (Gw2.exe -maploadinfo).

This generally only affects older installs, but you can try deleting %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Local.dat, which is your hardware-related settings.

I turned off the experince, as it was going as far as actually crashing the game client. I will try that though.

The HDD speed isn’t going to result in load times like that. I have a weak i3-5010u laptop with integrated graphics and a 5400 RPM drive. Load times take about 60-90 seconds at worst.

Are you using a wifi connection? Any way to get a wired connection?