Guild Wars 2

I have been experiencing microstutter on my gtx 660. with the latest drivers. I recently did a driver update to the new beta drivers… however every time i try to do a clean install the screen goes black during installation of the new driver and sits there. I can however run a regular install and it works fine. But the microstuttering is still there but not as bad. Why is this?

i7 3770
16gb ram
gtx 660
1tb 7200rpm HDD

try to reduce the shadows and/or reflection effects…those effects are well known in GW2 for their micro stuttering while walking/moving the camera

if you want a clean driver install:
remove your current nvidia drivers completely by uninstalling it and look for every nvidia folder

C:/NVIDIA
C:/Users/your windows username/AppData/Roaming/NVIDIA
C:/ProgramData/NVIDIA Corporation
C:/ProgramData/NVIDIA
C:/Programs/NVIDIA Corporation
C:/Programs (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation

now get the registry cleaner of your choice (i prefer the PC-cleaner “CCleaner”, because it first analyze bad/useless registry entrys and then you can check which one to fix while you have the choice for backing up your registry first, in case you are one of those “omg reg cleaner makes my pc explodes and now i have to repair my whole house”-type of guy)

then reboot, which you probably have done several times while uninstalling your nvidia drivers and install a fresh clean innocent new driver
i recommend the WHQL ones…the most recent BETA drivers are called BETA for a reason
though they can help improve performance but also they can cause instability