Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been playing GW2 on my laptop for over a year with a steady 20-30 FPS. It isn’t anything amazing but it makes the game playable.

However 3 months ago every time I would play GW2 or any other game from steam, the game would then stutter and have insane FPS drops to about 3-10 FPS which would never end. As a result I upgraded to Windows 10 hoping it would the issue out and it did, for about a day.

24 hours later the stuttering returned. I then did a clean wipe of my laptop, reinstalled and within 24 hours although the FPS was at 15-20 and the sound would get static sometimes I decided it was playable and that was that.

Last night I decided to wipe my laptop again, this time installing the 64 bit client for my laptop (which is 64-bit) and the game ran perfectly at 20 FPS.

Until today where just as I was about to start playing again I would be met by a sudden FPS drop down to 3-5FPS and the log in music playing in a slow motion and the sound of static and crackling for about 15 seconds. Upon which the game would return to 20 FPS only to repeat the FPS drop.

Why has this happened and what can I do to solve this?

All I want to do is play Guild Wars 2

There seem to be a lot of players in the past week who have fps drops and ping rising. I also have the same issue. I did a full clean reboot of my laptop yesterday and reinstalled windows 10 on it, i downloaded the game again, reinstalled my graphics hardware. And nothing has changed.

My character animations have been stuttering all week, I usually have stable 60 fps and now it drops to below 20 every 10 seconds.

I really hope someone can confirm to us that this is not our fault, that we can do nothing to improve this issue or atleast tell us what the hell is going on.

i play on pc and have same problems after yesterday night patch, 3 – 10 fps and crazy ping

My fps are mostly ok, but my ping jumps from ~100ms to 600ms+ which makes the game absolutely unplayable.

gebrechen.5643:

My fps are mostly ok, but my ping jumps from ~100ms to 600ms+ which makes the game absolutely unplayable.

my ping 150 – 2000 and higher fps today is 15. now I reinstall win10 and game

As you stated “it is not only gw2”, it will probably be a throttling issue. Most of the time caused by excessive temperature but also windows power settings or bad battery triggering those settings even when power cord is connected.
This is a link to a monitoring/modification tool, the tool will start in monitorring mode, in this way you can check what’s happening while you get that stuttering.
https://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2667/throttlestop-8-10-beta-2
Before you use it in modification mode first read the manual and read some background info on internet.