Guild Wars 2

And I’m trying to figure out why this happened, and how I can get it back. It lasted for around 24 hours or so but ended after I woke up this morning.

Beforehand I’d be idling in open areas at 10fps or so, dropping to 4 in fights.
After the sudden change I was looking at 30-45 idle, 10-20 in fights.

Lowest of low settings in both of these instances – windowed resolution, subsample, no shadows, etc. Nothing has changed between the two screenshots in term of in-game settings. I don’t know how it happened, and I’m wondering if there’s common program culprits that could be sucking up resources or anything to that effect. It came about almost entirely at random; I was in WvW, going to the northernmost supply camp and … bam. 30fps. And it stayed that high for the rest of the day, no matter where I went, even when I went in Crucible of Eternity (fairly notable for its FPS drops).

It lasted up until when I woke up this morning. Logged in, 50fps on the login screen. Boot up my character, 20-30fps in Lion’s Arch, no problem rendering characters.

Then my queue popped for my native server, Tarnished Coast, since LA had an overflow. I took it. Now, 8fps. Characters taking ages to pop in. I don’t even know what to make of it, but my framerate has been that low ever since.

My specs:
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASRock B75M (CPUSocket)
Graphics
W2061 (1600×900@60Hz)
Intel® HD Graphics 3000
Hard Drives
932GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD103SJ (SATA)

Any sage wisdom would be appreciated, as I really want those frames back. Yeah, I know the graphics card is a bad one, but it meets minimum specs and I’m working with what I’ve got at the moment.

In my experience, the more players that are around, the slower the frame rate. I think it has a lot to do with all the different kinds of armor, effects and whatnot. My frame rate is usually pretty high, but it can drop dramatically when I’m in Lion’s Arch or if I go into WvWvW.

Head out into some unpopulated areas and see if it improves.

I my case, whenever is night in game, my fps doubles. It doesn’t matter what’s happening on screen. Then the day comes and everything get slow again. I would really love an .ini file where we could fine tune the graphic options.

ProphetSword.5427:

In my experience, the more players that are around, the slower the frame rate. I think it has a lot to do with all the different kinds of armor, effects and whatnot. My frame rate is usually pretty high, but it can drop dramatically when I’m in Lion’s Arch or if I go into WvWvW.

Head out into some unpopulated areas and see if it improves.

I ran around a bit afterwards. After a bit of relogging, my framerate gradually returned to its new, higher ‘normal’. It seems to plummet dramatically whenever I enter LA, though, and I have to relog a bunch to get it back to normal even after I leave.

Guess this mean’s I’ll never be visiting LA, at least until I get a new graphics card. Pity.