Guild Wars 2

Hi there,

I noticed a very strange thing, my computer does meet the requirements, and i believe it should be able to crunch out all the rendering.

The graphics were all on high when i was playing smoothly on the outskirts of the Black Citadel, but then, when i entered the Citadel. At times, my Fps takes a plunge!

I put the graphics on Best performance, But then, Put every Options Back to High, and the issue seems to be gone?!
Black magic and Sorcery ?

If i put the graphics back on high, im supposed to be getting that immense lag, but im not!?

Can anyone care to explain ?
I think it could be the shaders, something to do with that Useless Smoke or Cloud Behind the Black citadel, where you have the view of the plains and cliffs all the way down.
It could be whats causing my Gpu to slow down, since it has to crunch out the rendering.
Summary:
Entered Black Citadel, FPS hit rock bottom, Put graphics on low, then put them back on high, everything is fixed, Sorcery achieved!

Your not alone on this issue. I can get exactly that same problem in more then just the Black Citadel tho and doing exactly what you said does fix it but the problem does return. I’m guessing its just a problem in the coding in the game.

I have done alpha testing before (and i mean alpha not beta) for an MMO and when we were testing that, in a particular area the fps would drop to like 2 to 5 and not return to normal untill you got out of that area. The devs told us that yes they are aware of it and they know it’s a coding issue and that they were working on fixing that part of the game.

Funny that they said they were working on this issue (8 months ago, according to the previous post date).
Since beta and still today, my FPS plummets in certain areas of Black Citadel and only there. Even in Lion’s Arch, with hundreds of players, I don’t have this issue.

My video board is Nvidia GTX 460, pentium i7 processor (3.2 GHz), on windows 7.