Guild Wars 2

Hi, was wondering if anyone had any ideas what this problem could be. I swapped my computer to a new case and added a new power supply and heat-sink without making any other upgrades to the computer. GW2 used to run on high settings and average about 30 fps in places like Lions arch and 60+ for less populated areas. For some reason after the swap, I’m only gett around 15 fps on the the lowest settings. I double checked and my computer isn’t running the game through the integrated graphics card and the temperature on the CPU and GPU is much lower than before. Anyone have any ideas why?

Did you put the video card into the wrong slot? The x16 physically closest to the CPU is usually the true x16 slot. You may want to pull and reseat it. Also if you videocard takes external power, make sure that connector is firmly connected.

Run the GPU-Z utility (google for it) and post a screen shot of it’s results. I’m going to guess it stuck running only x1 and it’s not “waking up” from 2D mode.

Just SWAGGING.

I only have one video card slot and it doesn’t have an external power source :/ I’ll give the GPU-Z Utility a try when I get home today, if it is the issue that it’s not waking up from 2D mode, what would be a fix for it?

Here is the GPU Z of my GPU with GW2 up

Try re-seating the graphics card a couple of times.

GPU Load 99%
15 fps on lowest settings
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What?
That doesn’t make sense.
Got the feeling you will be fishing around in the dark for a solution. What screen resolution are you now playing at?

Note about half way down, right column of the Graphics card tab it says your graphics card is running @ x1 2.0, that’s your problem.

Not sure why this happens on occasion, that the card simply doesn’t use all 16 PCIe channels.

Again you only have one physical x16 slot? And that’s the closest one to the CPU? Pull the card, make show the slot is clean and the edge connector on the card isn’t tarnished and reseat it. I would appreciate any other suggestions as well.