Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I capped my FPS to 30 FPS. Playing on all low settings and v-sync off. It’s steady 29-30 fps when running around and stuff but when I do events my FPS goes down to, crap. Just wondering if this is normal or should I change something? 15 FPS @ Jungle Wurm 10 FPS @ Frozen Maw.

CPU: AMD 8350 stock clocked 4.0GHz and turbo off.

MOBO: MSI 970A-G43 AM3+ AMD 970

CPU COOLER: Noctua NH-D14 120mm & 140mm SSO CPU Cooler

RAM: G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 × 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)

SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 128GB

GPU: EVGA SuperClocked GeForce GTX 760 2GB w/ EVGA ACX Cooler

I recently built this computer. Not sure what’s up with the fps drop. Should I get more ram? Maybe just sell this machine and buy an intel? Could it be the CPU?

Screenshots attached below, upped the settings and FPS drop during battles.

Nature of the lots of players at an event. The game becomes CPU bound. WvW is the same way.

Hey James, what are you using to get your fps and temps as an overlay in-game? I want something that can do temps, because I plan to overclock my CPU some since I too am running into similar problems after purchasing a new GTX770. I found out that the CPU is my bottleneck so I want to get every bit of juice out of it that I can.

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

Hey James, what are you using to get your fps and temps as an overlay in-game? I want something that can do temps, because I plan to overclock my GPU some since I too am running into similar problems after purchasing a new GTX770. I found out that the GPU is my bottleneck so I want to get every bit of juice out of it that I can.

I seriously doubt the GTX 770 is your bottleneck. Maybe in other games, but not Guild Wars 2 unless you’re running a triple monitor setup at 5760 by 1080. Likely its your CPU that is your bottleneck with Guild Wars 2.

James Vista.2851:

Screenshots attached below, upped the settings and FPS drop during battles.

As said above, the lower FPS is because of your CPU, everyone gets this, though with stock AMD you’re seeing it worse than people with overclocked processors or Intel processors due to Intel’s architecture having better single thread performance.

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

I seriously doubt the GTX 770 is your bottleneck. Maybe in other games, but not Guild Wars 2 unless you’re running a triple monitor setup at 5760 by 1080. Likely its your CPU that is your bottleneck with Guild Wars 2.

Sorry, I meant CPU above, not GPU. I know the CPU is my bottleneck. Do you know what he is using to get the fps and temps on the top left of his pictures? Is that FRAPS?

What is weird is that in his picture, it does not look like it is using much of his CPU or GPU and neither is very warm. He could overclock the CPU some, but can he force it to use more?

Anybody?…is that Fraps, some other software, or can you type an “emote” to get those stats?

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

I seriously doubt the GTX 770 is your bottleneck. Maybe in other games, but not Guild Wars 2 unless you’re running a triple monitor setup at 5760 by 1080. Likely its your CPU that is your bottleneck with Guild Wars 2.

Sorry, I meant CPU above, not GPU. I know the CPU is my bottleneck. Do you know what he is using to get the fps and temps on the top left of his pictures? Is that FRAPS?

What is weird is that in his picture, it does not look like it is using much of his CPU or GPU and neither is very warm. He could overclock the CPU some, but can he force it to use more?

Judging at a glance of what was pictured, I can’t say for sure what it is, but it sure looks like some rainmeter magic.
http://rainmeter.net/cms/
I’m currently making my own blocky Guild Wars 2 skins for monitoring my CPU usage/temperature, GPU usage/temperature, RAM usage, page file usage, network upload and download monitors, a hard drive capacity monitor, and maybe others. Currently they’re using a Guild Wars font created from the fan base:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/607-guild-wars-2-based-font-v10/
and a solid red background because its hard to read otherwise. I wanted a black/white/red theme since that is what Guild Wars 2 primary color scheme seems to be.

I should also mention that it required CPU-Z to get my computer’s information to display on the skin and MSI Afterburner to get my GPU’s temperatures.

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

Hey James, what are you using to get your fps and temps as an overlay in-game? I want something that can do temps, because I plan to overclock my CPU some since I too am running into similar problems after purchasing a new GTX770. I found out that the CPU is my bottleneck so I want to get every bit of juice out of it that I can.

I used this guide for the on screen display
[ http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=23147673 ]

It’s MSI Afterburner & HWiNFO. Sorry for the late reply. I’ve come to terms that it’s the CPU. I don’t see framerate drops in Battlefield 3 and can run a steady 60 FPS (I capped it at that since my monitor isn’t high end and I doubt having a 100+ FPS would benefit anything, lol.)