Guild Wars 2

The new instance “Fractals of the Mists” has been great, and everything plays fine except for Solid Ocean / Jade Quarry fractal (the one with last boss “Jade Maw”).

That particular fractal is a bit laggy for me (motion is a bit slow), but the last part at the boss encounter is by far the worst. That part is unplayable with a true slide show. I tried every possible option, from changing gfx options to lowest possible, window/full screen and even upgrading video driver, to no avail.

I know there are a couple of other specific areas in the game that slow my game down but it they are still playable; however, the jade boss fight in that fractal is agonizingly slo-mo.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Any feedback plz?

system specs?

I haven’t had an issue with any of the fractals for performance.

It is a custom-built system that I assembled 5 years ago. I know it is old now, but it still runs pretty much everything very well, including GW2, expect for the Solid Ocean / Jade Quarry part.

I took note of the FPS during that fight and it is @ 25 fps, but everything is a slow-motion slide show. Someone said it could be the transparency glow on the jade blocks that could be causing that? No idea.

CPU: Intel E8400 @ 3.6 Ghz
M/B: Asus P5E3 Deluxe
RAM: 4GB Corsair DDR3-1600
V/C: XFX GeForce GTX 285 1GB DDR VRAM
PS: Tt Toughpower 850w
Monitor: LG W2252TQ 1680×1050
OS:: Win XP SP3 (yeah it still works fine for me ;P)

I tried every option I can think of. Today, I did a clean driver update and I also tweaked settings in “NVIDIA Control Panel” for better performance. Nothing helped so far

Am I supposed to upgrade my video card or is there some easier solution to this?

Try upgrade to win7/8, win XP is outadated in terms of multithread CPU performance. Download a trial version or something just for testing purposes. Win 7/8 are much more efficient using multicore processors.
Despite what critics says i think win 8 is amazing it boots/reset/shut down in 5-7 secs on my SSD, and everything runs smooth as silk i highlly recomend it over win 7.

Hybrid boot has its own issues, 8 is not worth the frustration learning its new annoying interface when you can just standby and only shut down for updates.

U can bypass the new interface, u have a standard desktop there, i never use the metro interface, believe me u don’t need it al all. Again, try it, see the boot speeds and u will just love it
Hybrid boots wors diferently on win 8, they made some huge improvments, i am a microsoft hater, i hated every single windows after win98 hehehe and i hate the new interface, but since u can just do everything on a desktop eviroment i can say win8 has some very good improvments, it performs a lot better, and it is totally worth a try. Again u can download a RTM version from interntet, and if u like it buy it before the trial period ends.

Treplos, get more ram. I had to RMA one of my 4gb sticks – running 4gb right now – and it shows only in some areas whilst most elsewhere it is fine. Did get some lag effect in the blizzard fractal last night too whereas before I haven’t had any problem with 8gb ram.

Of course, next week when I have my replacement ram, I expect to not have this lag-type effect, we shall see

Rampage.7145:

Hybrid boots wors diferently on win 8, they made some huge improvments.

Hybrid boot is only available on 8, and for those who standby and only restart for windows updates, its made void anyway.

I do not think it is my system, for the simple reason that I have no problem in any other game or software, however demanding. 4 GB RAM should be enough to run this game at the lowest settings, but the problem I believe is in some of the visual/coding for that particular area.

I may try Windows 7/8 as a dual boot, but I feel my video card might be aging, and I may as well upgrade it for now. I am looking at a Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660 Ti for around $350.

Good news: for some reason, following the last patch, Jade Maw fight has become noticeably less laggy for me. I’ve tried it several times today and it is much better than before. I did nothing to my PC, so I suppose it was something Anet have done on their end.