Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone. I opened this topic in with those many problems most of players are experiencing as I do, and trying to find possible solutions. I will talk about stuff that I did to solve some of the problems, while I have questions about other problems. Please if you answer also post the information about your computer.

The problems are (but not limited to):
1.Crashing to desktop with or without out of memory report
2.Slowdowns and crashes using the world map
3.Extreme FPS drops is some areas and/or crowded places in WvWvW
4.Crashes, or other problems while loading a new area

My computer is:
PSU: Corsair 650W
CPU: AMD Phenom X3 8750 (triple core)
RAM: Corsair DDR2-800 2×2GB (4GB)
Video: ASUS Geforce GTX560 900 MHZ 256bit 1GB DDR5
Monitor native resolution 1920×1080, at 60hz
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit

now for the stuff I solved, while GW2 was nearly unplayable when I first installed it.

Video Driver issues: every Nvidia Drivers up to 306.23 had huge problems with GW 2 causing nasty performance at about 15-20 fps outside of Divinity’s Edge.
The 306.23 WHQL driver solved most of the bad FPS problems, but still is not good enough.
The newer 306.97 WHQL driver was performing worst then the previous 306.23
Now the newest WHQL signed driver, the 310.90 driver was actually improving giving better rates then the 306.23 so that’s what I’m using now.

1:Crashing to desktop with out of memory report – somewhat solved.
Looks like most of the out of memory problems atleast on my 32 bit system are caused by memory overflow caused by textures. Sliding the texture option in the graphics to medium or low caused this problem to go away
2: Slowdowns, crashes, and unusual colorful stripes that somehow appear usin the map/ zooming it in-out looks like are also caused by textures overcrowding the memory
3:Extreme FPS drops is some areas and/or crowded places in WvWvW…. GUYS! I CAN’T FRICKIN’ SOLVE THIS ONE!
While in some areas I can get to 60+ FPS in Lion’s Arch, crowded WvWvW places the Fps is ridiculous! I don’t wanna hear anyone telling me that this is “normal” since those places are like that and we should get used to it. THE MAIN PROBLEM IS: I can play around with the game’s graphics options as much as I want, there is no cure to this. I have 10 FPS in some cases even if I set EVERYTHING to lowest possible settings, and have 60+FPS in other areas even if I turn everything up ALL the way, even supersample, and other cookies. No matter what graphics settings I use there is not more than like 5% overall difference in FPS.
My guess is: this may be caused by incompatibility of drivers, or hardware with GW2, or the limitation of the 32bit.
So I need Help here since only GW2 has this problems of all my other games wich are played on wery high settings, without any problems. Sain’ts Row3, GTA4, Crysis 2, AC3, many, many others, I play them all with great performance at the highest settings.

now I have a question. Switching from 32bit to 64 bit Windows 7 could solve this issue? Anyone done it? I would like to know if it is worth it to change just for this game, and have better FPS after that.

4: Crashes on loading new areas-Somewhat solved:
I installed the newest important Windows 7 patches, set the texture size ingame to medium, disabling most of the background programs before running the game

3:Extreme FPS drops is some areas and/or crowded places in WvWvW…. GUYS! I CAN’T FRICKIN’ SOLVE THIS ONE!
This is the reason for that
CPU: AMD Phenom X3 8750 (triple core) This is from 2007 and this is 2013
Look at page 4 or 5 of this link to see where that processor ranks.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106.html

Thank you so much for your answer. Yes the CPU might be the problem. So in your opinion, going over to 64 bit OS from 32 bit will not do anything to solve or reduce those issues?

Atalas.4965:

Thank you so much for your answer. Yes the CPU might be the problem. So in your opinion, going over to 64 bit OS from 32 bit will not do anything to solve or reduce those issues?

I belive GW2 now recomends a 64 bit system from some replies of their suport team.
Yes it would help but not with the FPS problems.
EDIT if you are not going to upgrade the processor wich would require CPU, motherboard, memory, mabey drive if you do not have SATA drives, PC case again depending on the PC you have some box store PC’s have weird form factors to keep you from upgrading. Mabey just stick with the other games and not upgrade to windows 7 64bit.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1186616-Guild-Wars-2-CPU-and-GPU-Benchmarks

Here I found some great benchmarks with build explanations.
Now as I will have to go for a new set of MB+RAM+CPU to go for an i5 with 8GB DDR it is way to expensive atm. But there is no rush since the game is playable, and those prices are going down VERRY fast as they always do. maybe I will invest in that sometime at summer or later, untill then I don’t think there is any point for me to swich over to 64bit OS, since all my other games are working like a charm. GW is REALLY CPU HEAVY.
Thank you for your answer, it explains entirely why my FPS doesn’t drop at all even if I use the highest possible settings in the game and doesn’t get higher when I slide those options all the way to low…. CPU bottleneck… kitten #8230;.
Thank you for your help, see you ingame. (even if I behave like a noob in WvWvW since I only spam easy skills, since the FPS si dropping when 40+ppl are fighting, like I’m watching a series of screenshots in a slideshow, I can be a pretty good team player)

Indeed ur FPS drops in WvW are due ot ur CPU. You will need a new CPU with strong single thread perofrmance. i.e 2500k,2550k,2600k,2700k,3570k,3770k all of which r Intel. CPU + Mothebroard + RAM + CPU cooler will likely cost in the region of $350-$400.
It would be my recommendation to OC the CPU also as GW2 does benefit form it.

As for the 32bit vs 64bit.

Well if u change to 64bit ur computer will be able to use all ur RAM properly and will likely get rid of ur ‘out of memory’ crashes so u can put the GW2 grpahics options back up. 32bit windows doesnt fully allow the use of all 4gb of RAM, thus the crashes.

Atalas.4965:

Hello everyone. I opened this topic in with those many problems most of players are experiencing as I do, and trying to find possible solutions. I will talk about stuff that I did to solve some of the problems, while I have questions about other problems. Please if you answer also post the information about your computer.

The problems are (but not limited to):
1.Crashing to desktop with or without out of memory report
2.Slowdowns and crashes using the world map
3.Extreme FPS drops is some areas and/or crowded places in WvWvW
4.Crashes, or other problems while loading a new area

My computer is:
PSU: Corsair 650W
CPU: AMD Phenom X3 8750 (triple core)
RAM: Corsair DDR2-800 2×2GB (4GB)
Video: ASUS Geforce GTX560 900 MHZ 256bit 1GB DDR5
Monitor native resolution 1920×1080, at 60hz
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit

now for the stuff I solved, while GW2 was nearly unplayable when I first installed it.

Video Driver issues: every Nvidia Drivers up to 306.23 had huge problems with GW 2 causing nasty performance at about 15-20 fps outside of Divinity’s Edge.
The 306.23 WHQL driver solved most of the bad FPS problems, but still is not good enough.
The newer 306.97 WHQL driver was performing worst then the previous 306.23
Now the newest WHQL signed driver, the 310.90 driver was actually improving giving better rates then the 306.23 so that’s what I’m using now.

1:Crashing to desktop with out of memory report – somewhat solved.
Looks like most of the out of memory problems atleast on my 32 bit system are caused by memory overflow caused by textures. Sliding the texture option in the graphics to medium or low caused this problem to go away
2: Slowdowns, crashes, and unusual colorful stripes that somehow appear usin the map/ zooming it in-out looks like are also caused by textures overcrowding the memory
3:Extreme FPS drops is some areas and/or crowded places in WvWvW…. GUYS! I CAN’T FRICKIN’ SOLVE THIS ONE!
While in some areas I can get to 60+ FPS in Lion’s Arch, crowded WvWvW places the Fps is ridiculous! I don’t wanna hear anyone telling me that this is “normal” since those places are like that and we should get used to it. THE MAIN PROBLEM IS: I can play around with the game’s graphics options as much as I want, there is no cure to this. I have 10 FPS in some cases even if I set EVERYTHING to lowest possible settings, and have 60+FPS in other areas even if I turn everything up ALL the way, even supersample, and other cookies. No matter what graphics settings I use there is not more than like 5% overall difference in FPS.
My guess is: this may be caused by incompatibility of drivers, or hardware with GW2, or the limitation of the 32bit.
So I need Help here since only GW2 has this problems of all my other games wich are played on wery high settings, without any problems. Sain’ts Row3, GTA4, Crysis 2, AC3, many, many others, I play them all with great performance at the highest settings.

now I have a question. Switching from 32bit to 64 bit Windows 7 could solve this issue? Anyone done it? I would like to know if it is worth it to change just for this game, and have better FPS after that.

4: Crashes on loading new areas-Somewhat solved:
I installed the newest important Windows 7 patches, set the texture size ingame to medium, disabling most of the background programs before running the game

I need help please!!! i just bought this game and i cant even play 2 mins in i pick my character run around a bit and it just crashes! PLEASE HELP!