Guild Wars 2

In organized pvp or just pve, I can run with about 20fps on normal settings. There is usually no lag. But when I go into WvW, on the lowest settings possible, I’ll hover around 10fps and I won’t even be able to see my enemies. Half of my allies will show up, flashes of just yellow light will be everywhere, and no enemies will appear. I have to just tab and attack, and that’s all. Here is my dxdiag. I’m looking for advice on what upgrades I need to run WvW perfectly on at least low settings. Thanks for the help.

WvW is the most demanding part of GW2 on computer resources; especially on the CPU.

Read Part 4 here to understand why WvW FPS is low.

In a nutshell. Your CPU isnt strong enough.

More details ::::

You need 4 cores/4threads minimum to start with.
You then need the CPU to be new and up to date so it has fast single thread performance.
You then need to OC it (~4.5ghz), becouse no CPU out atm at stock can manage good FPS in WvW.

If you take all those points your left with a limited number of CPU’s.

Intel: Cores/Threads
2500k(4/4)
2550k(4/4)
3570k(4/4)
2600k(4/8)
2700k(4/8)
3770k(4/8)
3930k(6/12)

AMD:
FX 8350

And those are your options for a desktop bassicaly. You CAN choose other CPU’s but these are honestly the only ones that currently run GW2 as best as it can atm(which tbh isnt good enough imo, droping to 30fps with these OC’ed rigs is rediculus, but thats the game Engine for u).
That said, the only reason i mention the FX 8350 AMD CPU is becouse ..well i have to mention an AMD CPU, or ill get yelled at by som1 eventually :P ..however i would put other Intel CPU’s ,not on the above Intel list, above the FX 8350 still, so its only really an option if u have a motherboard compatable with the 8350 and dont have enough money to swtich to a Intel setup.

GPU wise the 550ti should give OK fps on medium settings overall, so no real reason to upgrade that unles u want more eyecandy and/or higher frame rates when the CPU is NOT the bottleneck.

Things you can do in the mean time.
Set GW2.exe priority to High in the task manager, Disable windows Aero, and disable all non critical processes using MSconfig.

Thank you very much for your help.