Guild Wars 2

I’m not saying it’s bad but I am saying that if you plan to run CPU bound games on Windows 8, you will experience the micro-shuttering. GPU bound games don’t have any of these problems, really.

I ran GW2 on Windows 7 for the whole Betas and 1 month after release before I upgraded to Windows 8. This is the time I notice some shuttering FPS and I switch over to other games. There don’t seem to have this issue. I decided to wait and keep updating drivers to see if it improves but it is all the same. I’ve been running Windows 8 for 2 months until now I just switch back to Windows 7 completely.

Now back on Windows 7 with GW2 CPU bound game, no more shuttering FPS at all.

Please note, this issue arise with SLI or without SLI enable and in Windowed or Fullscreen mode. This is definitely has something to do with the new CPU management in Windows 8 that causes all the shuttering. Or if Anet can look into it to see if they can improve on Windows 8 support with extra instruction for the CPU.

Again, GW2 on Win7 is like smooth as butter, but not in Win8. High FPS in Win8 but inconsistent spike FPS from time to time.

This is important because a lot of new computer will be base on Win8 OS, many new or upgraded user will end up having the similar effect. It’s not that bad but I can see and feel the differences if you play Win7 and switch over to Win8 and run the game again on the same machine.

This is not specifically about my system hardware, this can happen on any machines.

One more note, spinning my camera around in GW2 with Windows 7 load faster than on Windows 8. On Win8, it struggle to load anything in my view that causes the FPS to drop a lot. On Win 7, it only drops for 0.5 sec not like 1-2sec long.

It also lock up for 1 sec on Win8.

Same hardwares and on SSD.

Question is if its win8 fault or drivers hasn’t been updated to support win8 or both?

kirito.4138:

Question is if its win8 fault or drivers hasn’t been updated to support win8 or both?

I’ve tried many different driver version, also those are not from the official motherboard site (because they are mostly outdated).