Guild Wars 2

Can someone with a beast desktop and a few people with medium / low end systems test three areas for me? You need tools to monitor CPU/GPU Usage.

Resolution (Lowering does not change anything below)
1920×1080

Mount Maelstorm
CPU 20%-50%
GPU 99%
FPS 60s

Divinites Reach
CPU 20%-50%
GPU 99%
FPS 45-55s

WvWvW Borderlands (No fighting – Spawn)
CPU 20%-50%
GPU 99%
FPS 60s

WvWvW Borderlands (Fighting)
CPU 40%-60%
GPU 20%-60%
FPS 1/2 of whatever % my GPU is at.

From the looks of it something extra in the game engine that only occurs in WvWvW is halting/stalling the GPU. I really should run it under a profiler or debugger to see if WvWvW brings in something that is locking up the GPU. Which is weird considering WvWvW is not any where near as graphically intensive as the rest of the game. Its open areas and combat. WvWvW even seems to have a lower draw distance/fog.

Be sure to include your DxDiag for system specs and what resolution you are playing at.

Please keep idle chat and banter out of this post. This is strictly for gathering information.

Suggestion, can we have at least a default monitoring tool perhaps? so data gathered would be consistent? I’m still at work will post later (7hr+).

Monitoring Tools (kindly pick or put a suggestion which tool) :

FPS – Probably Fraps or MSI afterburner?
Temps – Real Temp or other?
CPU/GPU usage – Hwinfo?

I don’t think it really matters as most programs read the information from the same place. I have compared many of them and ran a few at the same time and the readings are generally the same.

I used ingame and dxtory for FPS, a sidebar gadget for CPU usage and temps. You can use task manager, performance manager, process explorer or whatever to report the same thing. For GPU I used a sidebar gadget and opened MSI Afterburner at the same time to compare. The readings were the same.

Alpha Dragon.4576:

Suggestion, can we have at least a default monitoring tool perhaps? so data gathered would be consistent? I’m still at work will post later (7hr+).

Monitoring Tools (kindly pick or put a suggestion which tool) :

FPS – Probably Fraps or MSI afterburner?
Temps – Real Temp or other?
CPU/GPU usage – Hwinfo?

I like the idea of having a thread exclusively for posting useful information which Anet can actually use to solve the performance problems. As opposed to pure whining and complaining. Sadly, most likely this will not receive many posts.

Here’s my dxDiagReport

Getting 60-70% GPU usage on PvE maps. 25-35% GPU usage WvW Zerg fights.

Getting a constant 50 fps in PvE. Huge cities I get ~40.

I built my system 4 years ago.

295 gtx usage is at 30%
i7 920 usage is at 20% -_-

This game was terribly made and I accepted this fact long ago.