AMD (Quad) CPU = FPS Issues?!
Doesn’t matter how many programs you close, how much you optimize your OS, or how much you overclock. Your CPU sucks.
My tip for you is to upgrade your system.
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Well….
Upgrade ur rig .
If OC’ing is out of the question then upgrading is pritty much the only thing u can do.
GW2 is incredibly cpu sensative and requirs a beafy CPU for WvW, even then OC’ing is highly advised for 3 main reasons.
1) GW2 shows imporved fps when OC’d in populated areas like wvw zergs.
2) its free performance.
3) It easy with modern cpu’s.
Software wise, turn of fraps and try setting gw2.exe to high priority in task manager. and other than tweeking the ingame grpahics and culling settings thats about all u can do. Your limited by ur CPU. Even a rig like my own goes down to 20-25 fps in big wvw zergs.
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(edited by SolarNova.1052)
I wouldn’t say your CPU sucks, just that it’s not as fast as some. At least it’s a 2.9GHz quad core. The Phenom II X4 965 is about 25% faster while the Intel i5-3570 is 95% faster. And in WvW zerg battles, it’s CPU performance that rules the day.
RIP City of Heroes
I have AMD 8350 @ 4.2ghz and frame problems. I don’t think it matters what kind of system you have. The game just isn’ t optimized very well. Arenanet won’t address the issue or even acknowledge it exists but whenever there are little group of players are not playing characters my friends drop down to 30. It use to run at 60 everywhere but in cities it would be at 40 but now its 30 almost anywhere. Arenanet really needs to fix the problem. Dragon bash isn’t that fun because my frames are in the 20’s.
Well, I’m not going to sit here and say some part of your PC sucks ‘cause that’d be rude. I hear it’s just the single thread application performance that holds the frames back. I have an AMD FX-8350 and I was experimenting with 4.5 GHz and gained a little bit of frames but not much. People have told me that this game can run so much better for extremely high end AMD machines but the optimization is poor.
There’s nothing to optimize to make AMD’s faster. The FX has inferior single core performance. Period, end of story. The FX-8xxx architecture was designed to take on the Intel i7 only when all cores or logical cores in the case of Intel, are fully occupied. Great for server clusters but not much better than the Phenom II in limited threaded applications like games.
There’s no silver bullet here. No magical means to take something temporally linear like a game and code it in a way to scale with the number of cores in a system. No divide and conquer approach to distribute to cores like you can for video compression or ray tracing.
RIP City of Heroes
There’s no silver bullet here. No magical means to take something temporally linear like a game and code it in a way to scale with the number of cores in a system. No divide and conquer approach to distribute to cores like you can for video compression or ray tracing.
Sure you can. Game engine optimization.
There’s no silver bullet here. No magical means to take something temporally linear like a game and code it in a way to scale with the number of cores in a system. No divide and conquer approach to distribute to cores like you can for video compression or ray tracing.
Sure you can. Game engine optimization.
Which wouldn’t be just AMD then.
RIP City of Heroes
There’s no silver bullet here. No magical means to take something temporally linear like a game and code it in a way to scale with the number of cores in a system. No divide and conquer approach to distribute to cores like you can for video compression or ray tracing.
Sure you can. Game engine optimization.
Which wouldn’t be just AMD then.
Ah well everything has room for improvement. The intels are doing great in this game as it appears already. So it just needs a little boost for AMD is all.
Intel CPUs are doing great because they are inherently faster than AMD’s offerings. Even the 2 generation old i7-2600 is 35% faster than an FX-8350 in terms of CPU performance for gaming. Even the 3 generation old i5-760 will beat it in games more times than not.
When AMD went about to design the new from scratch CPU used in the FX they decided to sacrifice performance when only a few threads are running for one where an FX-8xxx is competitive with the Intel i7 only if both processors are running all cores at 100%. Games for the most part don’t max out all the cores in a four or more core CPU.
So there’s nothing to “optimize” to make the AMD run better. AMD is simply not as fast.
RIP City of Heroes