Guild Wars 2

I know this has brought up many times, but has anyone found a way to get more than one core working in GW2? Im not having any problems running the game. In fact, I can average over 45fps in most of PVE with everything maxed except shaders and post processing with a phenom 2 X4 at 3.33 and a GTX 660 SC. Just curious if anyone has any solutions.

first, if you really maxed out everything except shaders and post processing, turn down shadows, reflections and rendersampling, since they have the most impact on your framerate.

also, tweaking at the nvidia-cp may give you additional FPS:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-and-Performance-based-issues-1/first#post338300

anyways, GW2 already uses all available cores (it even uses all threads when enabling hyperthreading on i7 CPU’s), but it’s emphasis is on one core only.

on my CPU, GW2 uses 60-70% on core1, while core0, 2 and 3 are at 10-30%.
i even monitored fully load on all cores during WvWvW zergs. (no updater or other other programs were running in the background, except CoreTemp, avast, realtek and nvidia drivers)

bottom line:
GW2 makes the use of all cores, but not efficient.

I already said it, frame rate is not my problem. I already know what operations the CPU handles and adjusted my settings accordingly. I guess it does use all cores, but on my Phenom 2 I get one core that spikes to around 90%-100%, while the others are at a steady 40-50%. If the game could use all four cores at around 70% ish, I would have to believe I would have no problems maxing out the game.

GW2 is just very CPU bound and demanding.

even high-end chips can’t maintain stable or high (~60FPS) framerates in certain situations.

maxing out this game is pointless… well, for the 3 in-game graphic options, that i mentioned above at least.

• shadows at ultra causes the camera to stutter when moving around —> set it to “high” or lower.
• reflections at “all” also causes problems, because the the game have reflections that are invisible, so your PC will work for things you can’t even see —> set reflections to “terrain&sky” or lower until it’s fixed.
• rendersampling at “supersample” only serves one purpose: increasing the texturequality on big 1080p screens by dividing every pixel by 4. if you play on a small~medium sized screen, turn it to “native”, or you will make your system work for a quality difference, that you can’t notice. (you will notice a small change, but it neither looks better or worse)

if i would max out all of those above, i would have around 40~50FPS during PvE…on a i7 950 @3,7GHz+GTX 580 rig. :P

let the game decide your optimal settings and if it chooses to max out reflections, lower them and you’re set.

the game has 3 primary heavy threads, and a bunch of non-critical very very light threads, the problem is that the heavy primary threads max out for an instant and fps suffers, dosnt matter how fast you cpu, it will bottleneck with this game.

duno what to tell you other then to either get a top end i5/i7 and clock it to within an inch of its life, or play another game….

Eh, its not something that will stop me from playing the game. Its just annoying that I got a graphic card that is leagues better than my old 9800gt and see no gain in performance whatsoever. Just baffles me that these developers didn’t utilize graphics cards more than they do. I would have waited another six months if it meant these things would have been worked out.