Guild Wars 2

Hi, ive been browsing thrue the forums but i cannot find any information about people dissapearing and reappearing when i walk and stand still. When i walk in LionsArch i dont see any people and the world seems dead and empty, but when i stop for a few seconds i see loads of people reappearing.

Also i was fighting yesterday in WvW and a large group of 2 guilds played together to fight the large enemy forces on the inner walls with trebuches hitting our walls, a mesmer made a portal and when we entered the portal i see the trebs and i went killing them.. but after a few seconds i was downed and around me people were rendering on my screen!

I myself am very dissapointed by this because the game is about visuals and not stats, and when the visuals dont even load correct it disturbs me, i have checked this on highest possible settings and on lowest settings and it is the same.

Is this how the game stays for ever? Can it be fixed? or is it my computer.

Im using Asus 560 Ti CUII video card and have no problems in other games

Maybe i can manually configure some .ini file? for the rendering? Please some information with source please.

Thanks for your time to explain it to me.

This is called culling issues.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FPS-GPU-CPU-Performance-issues-FAQ/first#post504481

Read Q11, part on culling issues. The developer has commented and explained the problem.

Mag ..what cpu do you have. Your GPU is fine, but it may not be getting information quik enough to be able to render. Also a SSD can help, the faster your gpu gets the info the quiker it can render it.

Granted there is a culling issue, but form my experiance its been an issue of range, as in… it give no options for the user to determin at what range culling occurs. I have not ever had any issue where people right next to me take a long time to load. The issues i see with culling is simply only people within a certain distance of me load.

Processor
Intel Core i3 2100 @ 3.10GHz
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technologi

Harddisk
WDC WD10EALX-009BA0 ATA Device
Fabrikant Western Digital
Koppen 16
Cilinders 16383
SATA type SATA-III 6.0Gb/s

Try to run fast into the tradingpost and dont stop, for me i dont see ppl on first, but after a few seconds i see them. Also when im on elevated ground i dont see the ppl below me.

I realise it can be my harddisk, cause it also gives a low windows score (5.9) and the rest gives me much higher.

But i dont want to spend 200 euro’s for a new harddisk, already bought the new GPU For this game (200 euro). They should include this problem in the system requirements, now i cant fully enjoy the game while my sytem is good enough ( reading the requirements)

Don’t think its the matter of your HD. I am running with a SSD and when running into trading post in LA fast people don’t load immediately. Its just the way culling is implemented and the developer decided to do so for a reason, but they are working out a better method.

btw, if you do want a faster HD, you don’t need to spend 200euro. A 64 or 128GB SSD doesn’t cost that much now, 40-70 Euro. Use the SSD for OS/games and your WDC for regular storage like video/music etc

Well thanks! But the post you have giving me is a month old, anyone know if they updated it somewhere?

The comments made by the developer is a month old from a open public reddit AMA session of users asking questions. They don’t do those event often at all.

They do go in detail about why it works the way it does, and what they plan on doing. However, nothing has changed since. Programming takes time, a long time.

Maybe a kind dev thats roaming the forums would be so nice to update about this subject?

Or else i just wait and dont play wvw anymore for the time beeing

Thanks for the help

Hmm….

As much as i hate always saying this to people. It might just be your CPU. I mean it will run the game fine ..but i think it may just be that tad slow for instant loading of large numbers of people. I mean its only a 3.1ghz and has no turbo boost feature ether. Obviosly the game could do much better with optimizations but atm thats unlikely to come anytime soon if atall.

So yes the game is at fault mainly but i think atm you asking to much from a 3.1ghz dual core i3 cpu. Everyone knows GW2 requirs some beafy cpu’s to play smoothly…its not right ..but its what we got >.<

Bah if i knew my CPU couldnt handle all the rendering i wouldnt bought the game, i feel a bit tricked now..

http://i50.tinypic.com/11br89k.jpg

( screenshot 1 with ppl )

Now i go up the stairs and..

http://i47.tinypic.com/25jw1uw.jpg

The people are gone o.o

All graphics on max, and yes the other ppl didnt walk away ha ha ha

Magnetron.5823:

http://i50.tinypic.com/11br89k.jpg

( screenshot 1 with ppl )

Now i go up the stairs and..

http://i47.tinypic.com/25jw1uw.jpg

The people are gone o.o

All graphics on max, and yes the other ppl didnt walk away ha ha ha

That’s likely the annoying server side culling at work.
Basically the server only tells you about the people it thinks you can see, or limiting the number of people on screen.

It gets very… aggressive in populated areas, causing people to “pop in” or disappear as you move.

Yep thats the range issue i was talking about. Culling is fine ..but being that close is stupid. It still isnt as bad as what the Op was talking about ..but imo it still shouldnt be that close to the player.

Magnetron.5823:

Maybe a kind dev thats roaming the forums would be so nice to update about this subject?

Or else i just wait and dont play wvw anymore for the time beeing

Thanks for the help

Lol, if a real developer was kind enough to show up here to answer questions routinely I would be really concerned. Their time is better spent actually coding/fixing the problem.

I think deep down in side you really meant a kind developer to appear and announce fixes and ETA on it. But in reality they will just say nothing more than they are working on it.

The comments they already said was pretty detailed. Even explained possible solutions but still working on better ones etc.