Guild Wars 2

Everytime I close/open the Heropanel (H) I experience huge fps drops (resulting in stutter). If I try to spam H it’s going down to single digits from previously ~40-60fps.

Things that changed: Feb23 update & nVidia 361.91 driver.

It’s pretty much not playable like that.

Edit: Still present after recent hotfixes.

Tested at: Walking toward “The Vaults” POI (LA) .
Stable 60fps (limited, ~70 unlimited) without “H” spam.
10-20fps (heavy stutter) with “H” spam.
Every “H” click causes very noticable stutter.

Edit2: Moving camera and spamming “H” has the same effect. (everywhere)

Firstly, what’s your PC specs? CPU, GPU, RAM, OS.

I have never seen this issue, nor heard of it.

The first thing that comes to my mind is Pixel/Texture Fillrate maxing out on your GPU, since spinning the camera quickly requires fills more rapidly than normal movement and the Hero Tab, with its preview of your character, adds another layer of draws.

The GPU would have to be kind of weak, though.

Edit3:

It’s back to normal “sluggishness”. Deleting GFXSettings.GW2.exe and resetting “post-processing” a couple times did the trick. Apparently there was some kind of hickup.
AO seems to be more defined aswell.

MrFayth.3546:

Firstly, what’s your PC specs? CPU, GPU, RAM, OS.

I have never seen this issue, nor heard of it.

The first thing that comes to my mind is Pixel/Texture Fillrate maxing out on your GPU, since spinning the camera quickly requires fills more rapidly than normal movement and the Hero Tab, with its preview of your character, adds another layer of draws.

The GPU would have to be kind of weak, though.

Previously the difference was around ~3fps for popping up the Hero-Panel. It also wasn’t about the fps decrease but about the severe stutter that happened.

As for my system, as stated above, it’s hardcapped at 60fps without ReShade or similar things even in bigger fights because CPU heavy stuff is toned down.

It was comparable to network dependant lag where everything’s working butter smooth in one second and screen freeze in the next all just by opening the Hero-Panel.

Weird enough it fixed itself just by messing with GW2 setting.
I’m not really satisfied because I still don’t know what exactly caused this but I take it.

So..apparently it didn’t fix itself but this time I still had GPU monitoring running.

What happens is:

1. GPU clock speed is going from 1080Mhz to 920Mhz back and forth everytime I press H.
2. GPU Load drops from ~50-60% to 10-20%.
3. Power Consumtion drops from ~75% to 30%.
4. Bus Interface Load drops from 10% to 0%.

So basically the Hero-Panel is dancing tango with my GPU.

This time I didn’t bother with GW2 settings and messed around with the nVidia adaptive/performance setting.

Both settings fix the issue but I have to change the setting every single time I restart the PC and want to play this game.

(Win10 10586.104, nV361.91 GTX670, x64 client, no iGPU)

It’s like power saving issues but it only happens whenever the Hero-Panel does it’s magic.

Can anyone reproduce this? It’s not a common problem it seems.

-added plots for “H spam bug”