Guild Wars 2

Usually I get ~ 30-65 FPS depending on the area of the game and player activity – i.e. Jormag fight or soloing. For some odd reason I am now getting 15 FPS just standing still in Lions Arch. I followed the official GW2 post and made a custom 3D application profile for GW2, etc. Completely healthy computer that works perfectly in all games.. except GW2. When first loading into the game past character selection screen, the client flickers – almost as if it doesnt know what resolution or what monitor to run on or if it should be in Windowed mode… dunno thats just a hunch. I tried lowering all Graphics settings to Low and playing in Windowed Fullscreeen, Windowed, and Full Screen. nothing works.

AMD 1100t@4.1ghz
AMD 6950 2GB Videocard (LATEST DRIVERS)
8gb RAM
256gb SSD
Monitors x 2
Windows 7 64bit

This used to happen about a year ago (last time i played) and rebooting would solve it. Now it doesnt. I only play GW2 about once a year so no big deal but any help would be cool, thanks.

download GPU-Z and verify your PCIE link speeds are set at 16x version 2 while GW2 is running.

sirsquishy.8531:

download GPU-Z and verify your PCIE link speeds are set at 16x version 2 while GW2 is running.

ya all the hardware is running correctly. Performance is still terrible. Skyrim still runs at 75 FPS tho, heh…

thanks

update: well i’ve been logging in once or twice just to try… no luck.

AND then this afternoon – with absolutely nothing different in my computer – my FPS is back to normal. /boggled

so was there a ninja patch or something? im afraid to logout and never play again.. heh

same here but im still stucked, its been over 24 hrs to me ugh…

Update #2: Solved (kinda)

It is definitely something to do with being in either Windowed or Fullscreen mode. I logged in again after a reboot and was getting massive FPS drops… from 50 to 20, etc. Switched to Fullscreen and it was solved. Switch to Windowed, logout, reboot. FPS drop again… reboot, enter game, reboot, switch to Fullscreen, logout. reboot. Enter Game, fine. So i dont know if there is some kind of “force fullscreen” code that can be done. But being in Fullscreen mode in the options does NOT guarantee my FPS will be normal. Just seems luck of the draw but thats definitely my issue.

my input.. hope it helps

problem is back.. all day long. switching from Windowed to Fullscreen isnt working, rebooting isnt working. kind of annoying. Every other game works fine.

thefounder.2074:

problem is back.. all day long. switching from Windowed to Fullscreen isnt working, rebooting isnt working. kind of annoying. Every other game works fine.

And you verified that your GPU is actually linked at 16x and not 1x (GPU-Z tells you this info)

Check the thread from people having the same issue from the 9/9 patch, they still have not fixed anything from 3 months ago. They don’t seem to really care because it is not happening to enough people.

sirsquishy.8531:

thefounder.2074:

problem is back.. all day long. switching from Windowed to Fullscreen isnt working, rebooting isnt working. kind of annoying. Every other game works fine.

And you verified that your GPU is actually linked at 16x and not 1x (GPU-Z tells you this info)

yes verified. MSI Afterburner reports no unusual VRAM usage, somewhat high GPU usuage, temperatures all fine ~65-70c. gpu clock is normal. and all other 3D applications/games work perfectly.

this is a fresh install of GW2 btw… i havent played for a year and i just installed last week.

B Rad.5416:

Check the thread from people having the same issue from the 9/9 patch, they still have not fixed anything from 3 months ago. They don’t seem to really care because it is not happening to enough people.

The problem with these threads is that as soon as someone from Anet support posts to a thread it brings out everyone that thinks they have the same problem when in fact this posted issues is most likely effecting a very small number of players. I’m almost positive that 90% or less of the posts are unrelated to the first post. There’s even at least 10 posts that are lag related not do to fps and I just quickly scanned threw the pages there are probliby more. So this is not an accurate measure of the 9/9 patch issue also there are a number of people that may have developed an issue near a patch release date and blame there issues on the patch when it was something totaly unrelated to that patch or update or had the issue all along and not realized it or didn’t care but here comes the patch and people have had issues then they think we’ll I have this issue so its got to be the patch. Blaming one issue related to an old patch to a new issue is not helpful.

What is your CPU temps also what are your Windows power managment setting at it needs to be set to high performance.

Feirlista Xv.1425:

B Rad.5416:

Check the thread from people having the same issue from the 9/9 patch, they still have not fixed anything from 3 months ago. They don’t seem to really care because it is not happening to enough people.

The problem with these threads is that as soon as someone from Anet support posts to a thread it brings out everyone that thinks they have the same problem when in fact this posted issues is most likely effecting a very small number of players. I’m almost positive that 90% or less of the posts are unrelated to the first post. There’s even at least 10 posts that are lag related not do to fps and I just quickly scanned threw the pages there are probliby more. So this is not an accurate measure of the 9/9 patch issue also there are a number of people that may have developed an issue near a patch release date and blame there issues on the patch when it was something totaly unrelated to that patch or update or had the issue all along and not realized it or didn’t care but here comes the patch and people have had issues then they think we’ll I have this issue so its got to be the patch. Blaming one issue related to an old patch to a new issue is not helpful.

ya this is FPS.. not lag. wtf. people are quoting their FPS.. . not latency.. as if we even could in this game

Feirlista Xv.1425:

What is your CPU temps also what are your Windows power managment setting at it needs to be set to high performance.

CPU temps are fine. i have a custom system with one of the best coolers on the market… under heavy load its 45C. no power saving features are enabled. as i said, the system runs perfectly fine in games even more intensive and power hungry than GW2 so this is some sort of software issue and its only with GW2 so that leads me to believe it is the client… could i be wrong? sure. but as others are experiencing the same exact issue and its not amd or intel or blah blah dependent then that leads me to believe hardware is not the issue.

B Rad.5416:

Check the thread from people having the same issue from the 9/9 patch, they still have not fixed anything from 3 months ago. They don’t seem to really care because it is not happening to enough people.

Completely agree with this. I was one that was effected. Before the patch, easily had 30-50 FPS on an older machine… Now I’m lucky to hit 30, most of the time 15-20 with random spikes… then trying any group event and I’m down to 1-3 FPS.

Really sucks because I enjoyed playing, but not enough to buy a whole new machine that hopefully works.

Old player coming back with twice as good of a PC. I seem to have the same issue.

I’m getting 15-17 fps in vacant Lion’s Arch on low settings.

Auto-detect puts me on nearly maximum settings.

What’s going on?

thefounder.2074:

256gb SSD

What harddrive? Brand and model.
Samsung Evo have known issue with bad read/write performance after 3-9 months used.

Pong.6572:

thefounder.2074:

256gb SSD

What harddrive? Brand and model.
Samsung Evo have known issue with bad read/write performance after 3-9 months used.

Hard drive don’t effect fps just loading times or zoning times.

Pong.6572:

thefounder.2074:

256gb SSD

Samsung Evo have known issue with bad read/write performance after 3-9 months used.

There is fix for that on Samsung page (under firmwares)

Feirlista Xv.1425:

Pong.6572:

thefounder.2074:

256gb SSD

What harddrive? Brand and model.
Samsung Evo have known issue with bad read/write performance after 3-9 months used.

Hard drive don’t effect fps just loading times or zoning times.

It do effect. I get higher fps on my laptop when playing game from secondary drive (it is faster then main). I also had a raise in FPS when i moved pagefile to secondary drive.