Guild Wars 2

I know performance in WvW leaves a lot to be desired in general, but this thread isn’t about the general and to be expected FPS dip you take during huge fights. However, I have seen several times whilst playing WvW that there appears to be some cause of FPS loss in fights that causes your FPS to not recover until you ‘reload’.

Now I should predicate here by saying I have a good PC etc and I usually get 60fps minimum in any of the regular zones and 80fps or higher in general with all settings high except I use native rendering not supersampling. But during very large zerg v zerg encounters in WvW that FPS dips to about 20-30fps and things obviously begin to feel very sluggish.

This issue however is not relating to per-say to that expected large dip in FPS, but that the FPS doesn’t seem to recover afterwards… plenty of times, post zerg v zerg, I will break away with smaller groups or solo to hit a supply camp or a veteran guard or something but from then on my FPS is just goosed.

Then a couple of weeks ago I first noticed this occur:
I was down to my usual 20-30 FPS after a large zerg v zerg fight but now there was maybe 5-10 of us attacking the ogre camp, nobody else around… I then realised I hadn’t picked up the Vista yet so went over to get it. As soon as the cutscene ended BAM! 80fps+ again with the same 5-10 people doing the same ogres…

I have noticed this happen since from just dying, reloading back to the waypoint and FPS is nice and high again. Now otherwise I, and I imagine anyone else, would have just put that down to me being now in the bottom corner of the map with few people around so of course the FPS should be higher — but after having seen the vista do the exact same thing ‘in the field’ I’m now thinking that there must be some kind of memory leak or otherwise large performance drain caused during large fights that doesn’t remedy itself until a ‘reload’ occurs.

I don’t know if others have noticed this to, perhaps the next time you notice yourself with very sluggish and low fps after a large zerg fight you could go to a vista point and see if that resets for you to… But I would hope that at the very least some clean up could happen when I move away that restores my FPS or even better some cause for the low FPS in the first place could be resolved!

Thanks.

I can confirm the same behaviour, and I can replicate it by jumping in to large team fights, where FPS dips to mid 20s, and then when the dust has settled and I’m simply roaming around simple parts of the landscape with no players to be seen, and I’m still getting the same FPS.

Again, confirming the behaviour can be fixed by going back to a waypoint. It does indeed seem like some sort of memory leak / garbage collection problem, if the FPS still behaves like you are in a big fight, then perhaps the game still thinks you are in a big fight and is still sending you /keeping in memory all the zerg’s data?

I do hope for general performance fixes in pvp, and this would probably be low on the priority list for A-Net, but it would be pretty nice not to have to waypoint halfway across a map to fix my framerate.

Confirmed, happened to one of my guild mates.

Ive had a small amount of times where Ive noticed the framerate sticks for at least a while after a large fight. Ive never had to reload tho

Wonder if alt+tabbing out and back in would help in the meantime?

IceBlizzard.1054:

Ive had a small amount of times where Ive noticed the framerate sticks for at least a while after a large fight. Ive never had to reload tho

I don’t mean reload as in restarting the game or relogging – I mean as in whatever reset occurs within the games renderer when it loads you to a waypoint or a vista.

Also having this issue, high end system, poor sluggish fps reset periodically by a vista in wvw