Guild Wars 2

I have an average laptop with a graphics card. I can’t play GW2 on high settings, but it is still enough to play in medium quality in PVE and low in WvW. I had a GPU usage of aproximately 66% on medium settings on Windows 8.1. After upgrading to Windows 10, I had the same GPU usage but on low settings, which was understandable, since it is something new. I could live with it. However, after some weeks, I reinstalled Windows 10. This cleaned a lot of crap and I could see everything getting faster. However, I noticed the laptop heating while playing GW2. It was using 99% of the GPU on lowest settings. I checked NVidia drivers and it was up to date, with no betas available. The laptop is also in high performance mode and I didn’t notice any change on the other (few) games I reainstalled so far.
Also, I reinstalled Windows on friday night (2) and didn’t play until saturday night (3), so I can’t say if this happened because of the patch on saturday. I am currently repairing the game to see if something happens. Any help is appreciated.

Your video card is running at x8 1.1. Check your video card drivers, and possibly revert to a previous version. (Since you have a laptop and can’t go in and reseat the card).

It also could be a dust issue.

Ellieanna.5027:

Your video card is running at x8 1.1. Check your video card drivers, and possibly revert to a previous version. (Since you have a laptop and can’t go in and reseat the card).

It also could be a dust issue.

Thanks for the help. I will try to revert the driver. Shouldn’t be a dust issue, since it was working fine some day ago. I really hope it isn’t dust. To clean it I would have to completely disassemble the laptop. It had problems with dust and heating early this year, but the motherboard and graphics card were replaced. Would be some awful luck to had the same problem within months.

Lucasfb.1729:

Ellieanna.5027:

Your video card is running at x8 1.1. Check your video card drivers, and possibly revert to a previous version. (Since you have a laptop and can’t go in and reseat the card).

It also could be a dust issue.

Thanks for the help. I will try to revert the driver. Shouldn’t be a dust issue, since it was working fine some day ago. I really hope it isn’t dust. To clean it I would have to completely disassemble the laptop. It had problems with dust and heating early this year, but the motherboard and graphics card were replaced. Would be some awful luck to had the same problem within months.

Laptops still have vents on the side that you can blow compressed air at.

Ellieanna.5027:

Lucasfb.1729:

Ellieanna.5027:

Your video card is running at x8 1.1. Check your video card drivers, and possibly revert to a previous version. (Since you have a laptop and can’t go in and reseat the card).

It also could be a dust issue.

Thanks for the help. I will try to revert the driver. Shouldn’t be a dust issue, since it was working fine some day ago. I really hope it isn’t dust. To clean it I would have to completely disassemble the laptop. It had problems with dust and heating early this year, but the motherboard and graphics card were replaced. Would be some awful luck to had the same problem within months.

Laptops still have vents on the side that you can blow compressed air at.

Still the same problem with an earlier driver. I will test some others, but thanks anyway.

Lucasfb.1729:

Ellieanna.5027:

Lucasfb.1729:

Ellieanna.5027:

Your video card is running at x8 1.1. Check your video card drivers, and possibly revert to a previous version. (Since you have a laptop and can’t go in and reseat the card).

It also could be a dust issue.

Thanks for the help. I will try to revert the driver. Shouldn’t be a dust issue, since it was working fine some day ago. I really hope it isn’t dust. To clean it I would have to completely disassemble the laptop. It had problems with dust and heating early this year, but the motherboard and graphics card were replaced. Would be some awful luck to had the same problem within months.

Laptops still have vents on the side that you can blow compressed air at.

Still the same problem with an earlier driver. I will test some others, but thanks anyway.

Usually when that starts happening, it’s the GPU isn’t fully in the slot, or is having issues, or is just dusty. Since you have a laptop, it’s really hard to fix most of those issues.

I accidentally discovered that the issue only happened in Lion’s Arch. On other maps the GPU usage is the same as before. Don’t know if this is something related to my laptop, a bug, or was working as intended. Also, I was running on Windowed Fullscreen, but I discovered I get better settings using normal Fullscreen. Still not using PCIe 16x though, but okay for now.This is not the perfect state, but now I can play without overheating. Thanks for the help.

Lucasfb.1729:

I accidentally discovered that the issue only happened in Lion’s Arch. On other maps the GPU usage is the same as before. Don’t know if this is something related to my laptop, a bug, or was working as intended. Also, I was running on Windowed Fullscreen, but I discovered I get better settings using normal Fullscreen. Still not using PCIe 16x though, but okay for now.This is not the perfect state, but now I can play without overheating. Thanks for the help.

Couple of things.

1. your GPU is only ever going to be 8x in the laptop due to how its wired in. Most laptops do not use 16x PCIE Lanes, and the ones that do are usually very high end and/or use dual GPU setups.

2. this happening in Lions Arch makes perfect sense. There is a lot more detail in the new Lions Arch then in other ‘Classic’ zones. So it hits your CPU harder. If your CPU has to work harder your GPU is going to ‘wait’ which will make the over all system slow down.

The best you can do is find the zone that affects you most and adjust your ingame settings for the performance you desire and let it roll for the rest of the game.

I for one, avoid Lions Arch like the plague cause of how hard it hits my systems.

sirsquishy.8531:

Lucasfb.1729:

I accidentally discovered that the issue only happened in Lion’s Arch. On other maps the GPU usage is the same as before. Don’t know if this is something related to my laptop, a bug, or was working as intended. Also, I was running on Windowed Fullscreen, but I discovered I get better settings using normal Fullscreen. Still not using PCIe 16x though, but okay for now.This is not the perfect state, but now I can play without overheating. Thanks for the help.

Couple of things.

1. your GPU is only ever going to be 8x in the laptop due to how its wired in. Most laptops do not use 16x PCIE Lanes, and the ones that do are usually very high end and/or use dual GPU setups.

2. this happening in Lions Arch makes perfect sense. There is a lot more detail in the new Lions Arch then in other ‘Classic’ zones. So it hits your CPU harder. If your CPU has to work harder your GPU is going to ‘wait’ which will make the over all system slow down.

The best you can do is find the zone that affects you most and adjust your ingame settings for the performance you desire and let it roll for the rest of the game.

I for one, avoid Lions Arch like the plague cause of how hard it hits my systems.

The problem with x8 is probably what you said, but I am trying to look for information about my laptop anyway, just to be sure. I will avoid Lion’s Arch from now on. I never have much to do in LA anyway. What bugs me the most is that I always play with GPU-Z on background and never noticed this increase or the sound of the fan. Thanks for the help.