Guild Wars 2

It has happened lately that my fps drop from 55-60 to 7-14 every 8s for 2s.

I guess I could copypaste what I wrote in other threads but here I’ll go again: my pc is clean, everything is up to date, there is no other program running in the background, my cores are all unparked and I didn’t have this problem some time ago and I haven’t changed anything. My connection works perfectly, other games run smoothly like they always did and this only happens with gw2.

The main problem is when this happens in dungeons, since I get frozen for like 2s without being able to turn or do anything, occasionally dying on some aoe I would have been able to easily dodge.

Also, this happens even if I’m standing in one spot without turning or doing anything; my fps drop to 7-10, everything gets slowed down a bit and then sped up a bit. I’ve experienced times when this happened every 5s and times when this happened every 10s. Atm it’s happening every 8s.

Once again, ports are enabled, firewall is even disabled and I made an exception for gw2 on avast (Hell, I even turned it off to see if it was that affecting the game but no). Energy saving settings are all on best performance, everything running at 100%, relogging doesn’t help and it happens on every character. Also, my pc heat is under control and doesn’t go beyond 60°C.

I really have no idea what’s causing this. I’m running on medium settings, with shadows and reflections set on none. Setting everything to absurdly awful graphic “fixes” the problem but the game looks very horrendous and I don’t even feel like playing it. I’ve been able to run it on medium settings before without any problem so I want to keep playing it on medium.

Has any of you experienced something like this? Do you know how to fix this? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks for your attention

PS:
Sometimes, when I check task manager, I can see gw2 taking up to 1.2gb of memory. Is that even normal :S ?

Did you check the temps of both the CPU and GPU? If performance drops pretty consistently like that, the first thing I would suspect is some frequency dropping and then going back to normal.

I would open up CPU-Z and GPU-Z, set GW2 to be windowed, and monitor the CPU and GPU frequency during the performance drops.

How much vRAM do you have?

i have this exact problem any solution found please tell me LOL i dont want to play the game on awful graphics either ! and it occasionally happens on worst settings for me !

So, i too have this same issue. I have an alienware Mx17 laptop windows 7 64 i7 2220qm 2.20ghz 16 ram radeon HD 6900m series and at lowest settings i get a drop to 5 fps at random intervals. Drivers are updated, computer is working fine in other programs. I don’t know what the issue is but it is making me seriously mad!!!!

I too have this solution and most defiantly think it is something to do with the game. My computer runs fine until around every 2-3 minutes it drops to 5-10 fps for like 10 seconds. Extremely annoying during PvP fights such as tPvP and WvW. A solution to this would be greatly appreciated and I am open to suggestions even though I do think it isn’t related to my computer.

same issue here. it runs smoothly and then boom lag spike for 2-3 sec and then everything fast forward.happens quite often when i switch camera angles or if there is a lot of aoe going on. but the spikes are quiet random

And all of you are positive there’s nothing heat-related going on?

When components get to a certain thermal limit, they downclock to reduce heat. This downclock will reduce performance. Once temperatures are lower, the clock speed goes back to normal. And this process can repeat too.

I’ve had a GPU that exhibited the same exact behavior (performance would be fine, then drop for a few seconds, go back to being fine, and then drop again for a few seconds, repeating consistently). Later found out it was heating-related.

The only way to know for sure is to have a way to monitor temperatures (either physically, or via a program like HWMonitor) and CPU and GPU clock speeds.

OP; what are your system specs?

Did you ever run GPU-Z (Sensor Tab) CPU-Z(CPU tab), Resource Monitor – Disk tab (Task Manger → Performance tab, its a link at the bottom) While running GW2 (In a window) ?

You can see what spikes when your FPS drops by doing that.