Guild Wars 2

Running a new build from Overclockers
APU AMD10-5800K : 4.40Ghz
8 Gb DDR3 PC3-1 @2133 Mhz
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7870 OC Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics
Windows 7 Pro sp1
connected on 10 Mbps Talk Talk or Virgin fibre (ping is better with Talk Talk)

max CPU usage in Wv3 = 70%
memory = 40%
GPU max 40%
max temp 55c

so why 40 to 10 FPS in wv3?
(culling aside – which is nearly always fatal, but that’s another topic)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/FAQ-Frequently-Asked-Questions-Compilation/first#post1095383
(See Part 4.4)

Since it’s a new build I really would have tried to stretch for a sandy/ivy i5 because the difference for ~£60-100 is drastic:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=701

As kirito notes above, you are cpu bound in those scenarios.

majestic.8129:

Since it’s a new build I really would have tried to stretch for a sandy/ivy i5 because the difference for ~£60-100 is drastic:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=701

As kirito notes above, you are cpu bound in those scenarios.

But for my GF visiting Turkey with no medical insurance ; it would have been an i7.
I had to replace crashed Phenomx4 980 system with only a marginal upgrade.
Of course there was wintersday patch during my downtime; so can’t make an accurate comparison between the old and new rigs.

@Kiroto .TY for the links Catalyst settings seemto be worth +5 more FPS in zerg and a steady 60 elsewhere. But for culling, thats at least a bit more playable.

Indeed kirito has made a nice thread there.

ill just add and say that AMD is not the CPU for Gw2, You need a Intel 2nd generation i5 K or better, and it needs to be OC’d to around 4.5ghz. Do that and you wont drop below 30fps. However 30fps will still be frequently seen in WvW.

GW2 is VERY hard on single thread performance. Hence why AMD cpu’s dont cope well.

Meryt.9823:

majestic.8129:

Since it’s a new build I really would have tried to stretch for a sandy/ivy i5 because the difference for ~£60-100 is drastic:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=701

As kirito notes above, you are cpu bound in those scenarios.

But for my GF visiting Turkey with no medical insurance ; it would have been an i7.
I had to replace crashed Phenomx4 980 system with only a marginal upgrade.
Of course there was wintersday patch during my downtime; so can’t make an accurate comparison between the old and new rigs.

@Kiroto .TY for the links Catalyst settings seemto be worth +5 more FPS in zerg and a steady 60 elsewhere. But for culling, thats at least a bit more playable.

To be fair, the state of the engine is atrocious so you aren’t missing all that much. Hitting 30fps under the best system possible is not really acceptable but i’m not expecting any improvement soon.

In-fact at the rate they have been fixing the vast amount of bugs (or not fixing I should say rather introducing more bugged content) I doubt anything will be significantly improved before an expansion!