Guild Wars 2

I was attempting to come back to this game after taking a break for a few months, was extremely excited when I heard the Adventure Box was back and with new content, updated it, logged in and…. 10 FPS in Lion’s Arch. That’s odd, right? Normally I would get around 40. Start running around and holy hell, warping left and right. Apparently this is a common issue since this patch… Has there been any solutions found or are we just out of luck until Anet decides to address it? (Hopefully soon, because I don’t want to miss the Adventure Box… kitten these temporary dungeons/events.)

Specs, for those curious:
Phenom II x 4 @3.1 GHz
Radeon 7870 2 GB
8 gigs of RAM

EDIT: Meant to say: The GPU load goes up to 99-100%, but the temperatures are fine. My CPU is also getting hammered while Guild Wars 2 is open.

me too, friend. i used to get reasonable 30fps around medium settings. after the SAB: return to school the lag is ridiculous. its even chopping, stuttering, low fps with all the graphics on low! i really need assistance because i just cant stand low fps in a game. i’ve tried everything.

+i’m only running GW2. and i have razer game booster to inhibit unnecessary windows processes so believe me. i’ve got 8 process max in the task manager.
+my CCC is on high performance. all settings are aligned with based arena’s FPS sticky.

i’ve noticed something strange that sometimes when i logged in everything was back to normal; perfect frame rate and SAB on max. i thought it was related to my computer just waking up because i had a similar issue with dota 2.

recently my computer has accidentally had its power cord yanked out so maybe some of the hardware is fried but since when did static electricity = slower fps?

So… nothing I take it.

This is disappointing.

If youve been gone a while the patch before the SAB also turned off culling so you might need to adjust your player limits to get better fps as more players show up now. Its under the graphics settings as player limit and quality.

I have also found a massive drop in frame rate. Before the update I was running at around 30 fps with medium graphics and now I find that I can only run 9 fps on lowest settings. When i fight an engi or something with lots of particles I go down to 2 fps on lowest settings which is simply unplayable.

it seems the choppy has been patched out for me. everythings back to the way it was

yungwizud.1827:

it seems the choppy has been patched out for me. everythings back to the way it was

Got my hopes up. Tried again today, still the same problems…

Lionarth.1367:

If youve been gone a while the patch before the SAB also turned off culling so you might need to adjust your player limits to get better fps as more players show up now. Its under the graphics settings as player limit and quality.

This is happening even in areas with little to no players; I’ve also tried setting everything to low. It makes no difference. Something is borked.

Still no luck…

Have you tried updating your BIOS driver? I had similar FPS drops; updated my graphics drivers but that did nothing. Upgraded BIOS yesterday, and so far everything seems back to normal . . .

{insert obligatory warning about BIOS update risks here}

Tierce.5370:

Have you tried updating your BIOS driver? I had similar FPS drops; updated my graphics drivers but that did nothing. Upgraded BIOS yesterday, and so far everything seems back to normal . . .

{insert obligatory warning about BIOS update risks here}

There’s only been one BIOS update from the one I currently have installed, and it’s from 2010… Considering I didn’t even play the game until years later, I would hope that wouldn’t affect it! (I also don’t have a disc handy to install the BIOS update, so I can’t check that at the moment.)

I also would find it ridiculous that the game would be rendered unplayable by something such as that, after a game update.

check the polling rate of your mouse; for some reason GW2 can’t handle a high polling rate in some cases. I was having drops in fps from 100+ down to single digits on totally empty maps. reduced the polling rate on my mouse to 125 and lag has completely disappeared.

trblmkr.4027:

check the polling rate of your mouse; for some reason GW2 can’t handle a high polling rate in some cases. I was having drops in fps from 100+ down to single digits on totally empty maps. reduced the polling rate on my mouse to 125 and lag has completely disappeared.

How would you go about checking that/changing that? Never had to mess with it before, and my mouse hasn’t changed since last I played GW2, but I’m willing to try anything at this point.

Zoralink.9836:

I also would find it ridiculous that the game would be rendered unplayable by something such as that, after a game update.

Yeah, I wasn’t too happy about it either, since only GW2 was freaking out and everything else on my computer was fine. (For what it’s worth, my previous BIOS dated from 2010. The 2013 version came as an executable file from my computer’s manufacturer.)

I’d noticed my game performance degrading for a while now though, but it only came to a head with the Tequatl update. I was getting framerates like 6-8 in LA, 4 at Lyssa, and 18 in Hoelbrak with nobody around prior to a BIOS update. Good luck. :/

Tierce.5370:

Zoralink.9836:

I also would find it ridiculous that the game would be rendered unplayable by something such as that, after a game update.

Yeah, I wasn’t too happy about it either, since only GW2 was freaking out and everything else on my computer was fine. (For what it’s worth, my previous BIOS dated from 2010. The 2013 version came as an executable file from my computer’s manufacturer.)

I’d noticed my game performance degrading for a while now though, but it only came to a head with the Tequatl update. I was getting framerates like 6-8 in LA, 4 at Lyssa, and 18 in Hoelbrak with nobody around prior to a BIOS update. Good luck. :/

I’ll try to get a hold of a blank DVD to try to update my BIOS, but I really doubt that’s the issue…

We’ll see though… At this rate I won’t get it working by the time the Adventure Box disappears again, and that’s a huge part of why I really want to get the game working again.