Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I recently upgraded my older laptop which had a gt 650m and was able to easily run guild wars 2 on low settings at 60 fps. The laptop was also able to run the game at medium settings at around 40 fps.

Now that I have my new laptop which has a gt 750m I have strange spikes where my frames drop to around 20 for a few seconds after which the game returns back to normal fps only to drop in fps at no given reason.

I run the game at the lowest of the low settings, and in full screen mode, lower resolution, it doesn’t matter. I have the latest nvidia driver installed, for that matter all drivers and updates are installed.

The rest of the laptop stats are your basic fair of: I-7 processor, 8 gig ram, 250 gig ssd. Oh yeah I have windows 8.1 (not by choice).

Anyone else go into this problem?

It could be windows 8.1 itself. Buddy at the computer store says he can hardly game on his windows 8.1 MSI gaming laptop with GTX770M right now aside from a few games. I would imagine these issues will be sorted soon enough though.

Avelos.6798:

It could be windows 8.1 itself. Buddy at the computer store says he can hardly game on his windows 8.1 MSI gaming laptop with GTX770M right now aside from a few games. I would imagine these issues will be sorted soon enough though.

I ran it on 8 and had the same issues, afterwards I upgraded it to 8.1 to fix it, it didn’t though.

On my laptop that is armed with a GTX 670MX, the frame rate likes to take a huge hit whenever particle effects come into play when I use super sampling and hit the ground with warrior’s Death From Above trait. The particles generated lag me out so I switched to native sampling and it made it a bit better. I’d check to see if you have a similar issue like that.

Almost 2 weeks later, updated my BIOS to the latest version, tried numerous drivers, still run the game at the lowest of low settings, and I’m still getting massive frame drops.

I’m getting a bit kitten ed after getting a new laptop and having this issue and still no response of any solution to this problem. I’m starting to think the video cards in the n550vj series is faulty.

Please, anyone who works on this forum or does troubleshooting around here confirm this with me so I can send back this POS.

You have your “System Restore” disk from MSI that came with the laptop to reformat/re-install Windows 8 as if you bought it new, correct?

Simply try reformatting with Windows 7 and see how it runs Guild Wars 2, if you have the time on your hands and want to try it, I say attempt that route. Worst comes to worst, it doesn’t work and you can easily throw in the System Restore disk that came with it to format it back to it’s stock setup.

sobe.4157:

You have your “System Restore” disk from MSI that came with the laptop to reformat/re-install Windows 8 as if you bought it new, correct?

Simply try reformatting with Windows 7 and see how it runs Guild Wars 2, if you have the time on your hands and want to try it, I say attempt that route. Worst comes to worst, it doesn’t work and you can easily throw in the System Restore disk that came with it to format it back to it’s stock setup.

Assuming I have an MSI, well, I have a this laptop: http://www.asus.com/nl/supportonly/N550JV/#support_Download

And as you can see there are no windows 7 drivers, so I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t try that.

My apologies, lmfao, I was thinking it was your post, but it was Avelos’s post for MSI.

It doesn’t matter the brand, if you bought it new you SHOULD have received a recovery disk. For trying win7, when you format and enter Win7, let Win7 download the drivers it needs, just go to nvidia.com and download the latest drivers. Then try the game.

That is assuming everything else that can be thought of is already exhausted. You have 2GB for the VRAM, so you shouldn’t be hitting a VRAM wall.

Check installed progarms you will probs have a recovery/backup programming installed to create backup disks that or press f12 or something like that during post to enter recovery partition

If there isn’t a recovery disk there might be a recovery partition. My Windows 8 Asus laptop has one of them.

Avelos.6798:

If there isn’t a recovery disk there might be a recovery partition. My Windows 8 Asus laptop has one of them.

The first thing I did was to rip out the low speed hard drive you get with the laptop and replace it with an ssd, so basically I don’t have any recovery partitions on it. The windows installation has been redone from the ground up, including drivers. If I may ask, why do mulitple people suggest this, is there something I’m missing?

I’m not suggesting it, I’m just pointing something out that it appears numerous people overlook. Recovery Windows installations with PCs that come from stores and are not custom (IE, HP, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Toshiba,) usually come with a recovery partition on the main drive being inaccessible until you want to restore system defaults. DVDs don’t happen anymore as far as I know. They used to back with XP and the early days of Vista.

Avelos.6798:

I’m not suggesting it, I’m just pointing something out that it appears numerous people overlook. Recovery Windows installations with PCs that come from stores and are not custom (IE, HP, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Toshiba,) usually come with a recovery partition on the main drive being inaccessible until you want to restore system defaults. DVDs don’t happen anymore as far as I know. They used to back with XP and the early days of Vista.

I came to the conlusion that the game is the problem. Battlefield 3 and Skyrim run perfectly without frame drops. Guess I have to wait till anet gets around to fixing the frame drops for the asus N55oJV series, better not hold my breath if they handle it the same way as they handle their bugs.