Guild Wars 2

The game performs good in general, I’m averaging 50-60 fps regardless of where I am and what I’m doing but when in Lion’s Arch, even when there are no players around I only get a maximum of 20 fps. I get double that framerate during large events with dozens of players on screen all casting spells.

Then there is the most annoying issue ever. I am going about my business, sporting a lovely 60fps capped by vsync, and pretty much every time I turn my mouse, the framerate drops to single digits for a few seconds showing me an otherwise gorgeous slideshow. Then its back to normal. What is up with this game?

This is with everything maxed, except shadows set to medium, depth blur off, and animations also medium.

win8 x64
asrock h67 mobo
i5 2400 3.1GHz
8gb ram 1333MHz
gtx 560 ti dcoc (over clocked – core 950MHz, memory 2250MHz, but that hardly makes any difference at all)
500gb 7200rpm wd hdd

i get constant 30 in lions arch (capped) on a 550ti

my cpu is clocked at 3.8Ghz though.