Guild Wars 2

Hiya guys, I hope you can help. First off here are my specs, then Ill describe my issues.

AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 3.50GHz Processor
Prolimatech Megahalems Blue CPU Cooler
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 AMD 970 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance Pro Blue 8GB (2×4GB) 1866MHz Dual Channel
KFA2 GeForce GTX 760 2048MB GDDR5 Graphics Card
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB Hard Drive
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1 Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp – OEM
XFX Pro 850W Core Edition “80 Plus Bronze” Rated Power Supply
TT eSports Challenger Gamers Keyboard – Black
Roccat Kone+ 6000DPI Customisable Gaming Mouse
Bitfenix Spectre Pro 120mm Blue LED Fan – White
Samsung S23B300BS 23" Widescreen LED Monitor

So Im getting a solid 60 FPS in some places, and drastic dips to 45 FPS in others. For example, in the Wayfarer Hills, I get a solid 61 with settings on max. Obviously my FPS dips in major cities. However, lets say I go to Diessa Plateau, with the same settings. I get FPS drops to 45. I turn down all the settings, bizarrely, the FPS stays around kitten. There seems to be a link to when Im looking in the direction of smoke. But there are some siuations where there is no smoke, but a FPS dip, like in the Human starting zone where you help the farmer by attacking the bandits in the cave – you turn to face the giant castle (on high and low settings) and there is a massive FPS drop. Is this normal for my system? Whats goin on?

Please help.

I dream of 45 FPS. In LA, the best I’ll get is 9 (yes, nine). In an unpopulated PvE area, I’ll be lucky to get 35.

Thats a benign and assanine comparison to make when our systems are clearly not the same. Apples and oranges, Im looking for tech help, not pie in the sky comments mon ami. Please be constructive.

If you wanted us to be constructive, be constructive yourself. You didn’t even tried looking for other similar threads at least on 1st page, don’t ya?

Actually, I did.

Can anyone over any advice or solace? Did I screw up my machine build?

yeah you bought an amd cpu, which isn’t so good with gw2.
tons of video on youtube showing how they ended up changing to intel and the game ran 100x better.

The game can easily get CPU limited. With a powerful GPU like what you have, adjusting game settings will have no affect at all on frame rate.

Totally off topic but 45 fps? Maaan, I’d love to have a laptop with that…

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Totally off topic but 45 fps? Maaan, I’d love to have a laptop with that…

It’s a desktop.

No, I dont think that is it. For example, lets take Almuten Mansion. The lanscape there even with everything on max runs at 60fps solidly, then I face the Mansion and I lose 10 FPS. I have walked all the way around the mansion looking at it, then away from it. And I lose 10 fps everytime I look at it. Another example is Butcher Block, face it and I lose 20 fps face away and Im back to 60. That aint CPU related. I have overclocked it and back again with no changed to FPS. Also in these instances I reduce ALL my graphics settings to lowest and the same result happens.