Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I followed this guide : FPS and performance based issues
I limited to 30 fps since I would be happy if I got that Changing it to 60 fps din’t make a difference.

But I still get very “bad” value’s 10-20 fps, I’m not sure I can get more, but I’d like to ask here …

I have this laptop :
Dell Inspiron 15r se
Windows 7
Intel HD Graphics 4000 + AMD Radeon HD 7700M (HD7730M)
SSD 250Gb
i5-3230M
I installed these drives : 14.4 WHQL UnifL
I also play on wireless, but I’m close to the router, and its a new router, so I assume I get enough speed on that, I could test on cable.

Its def. playable, but in larger area’s (wvw, eotm) the fps drops to like 1 during battle. :P

I normally play full screen 1080×1020, but changing it to a lower resolution, doesn’t increase fps, in fact I have the feeling it decreases fps :/

Is there a more trustfull way of testing fps ? Can I increase fps, if so how ?

Thanks,

kind regards,

Fuyu

First off, your i5 is a dual core. All i3’s and i5’s in laptops are dual cores. So that alone is going to limit the FPS you can get from GW2 over all.

the HD7730M is not a bad chip, but it performs below a GT640M

Sources
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-7730M.72678.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-640M.71579.0.html

So you will need to adjust due to the hardware limitations.

I would expect 35-45FPS at 1600×900 and 30-40FPS at 1920×1080 on medium/Custom settings.

All settings can be on Max, but change the following;

Resolution: 1600×900 or 1920×1200
Refresh Rate: Default (if your LCD supports 40hz, sometimes GW2 uses this instead)
Frame Limiter: Unlimited (Never set this anything but Unlimited)

Anti-aliasing : None
Reflections : None
Render Sampling : Native
Shadows : Low
Shaders : Medium
Postprocessing: low
Character Mode Limit : Medium
Character Model Quality: Medium

Disable the following;
Best Texture Filtering
Depth Blur
High-Res Character Textures (Should be grayed out)
Vertical Sync

With the above settings, Goto a wide open area like the Way Point in Queensdale North of the Monastery (Krytan Waypoint) and use the grass field as a performance Mark for ‘highest possible FPS’

Then go to the traders area in Divinity’s Reach and use that as a ‘moderate FPS’

My prediction is 40-55 FPS in the grass field, and 28-35FPS at the traders area. Your Zerg/World Boss FPS will be 12-18 on average with spikes up to 20~. That is the nature of the dual core i5 in laptops.

You can use programs like CoreTemp, CPU-Z, GPU-Z, HWinfo to monitor your system and see what your CPU and GPU are doing while GW2 is running. That will pin point what options you need to adjust to get the best possible performance.

But my suggestion above is between good looks and acceptable performance. If you lower the resolution and remove all CPU bound settings (such as postprocessing), as well as lower your shaders to low, you can get 10-15 more FPS then I estimate with out much issue.

Also, I highly suggest looking into upgrading your Laptops AMD Drivers to 14.12. Lots of bug fixes from the 14.4+ packages.

Make sure your windows power management setting are set to high performance when plugged in to ac power. Then play the game with the power adapter plugged in.

Ty sirsquishy.8531, the resolution gave effect, and now I get a more “stable” 25-30 fps. I haven’t got time to test all cpu options, but I will look in them in the near future…

Feirlista, ty, I already have high-performance+adapter in, but I forgot it before so maybe other people might be helped !