Guild Wars 2

Today I reinstalled my Guildwars 2 onto my SSD, since I’ve recently got back into it and wanted to decrease the load times.

After installing and patching the game, I logged in and realised that my frame rate had more than halved.
Before, my frame rate would be a stead 60 (I limit to that) and would only drop very rarely to kitten (fourtyfive to fifty.. Why does that flag as a swear word?) if a lot was going on onscreen.
Now, however, it hovers around 20-25, and stutters fairly badly.
I’ve tried the same graphical options, detected graphical options and best performance options, and at best I stretch to 25-30 fps.
Why is this? Almost all games I try on my SSD are only effected by decreased loading time, FPS and performance never seems change.

The SSD I use is the Samsung 840 pro. I have one or two other games and my windows installed, leaving around 50% free space.

I’ll post my specs too, but I want to point out that I’m sure its nothing to do with the other components since it worked fine on the HDD;
i5 3570k OC @4.2GHz
AMD 7970 3gb
16gb RAM @1600 Mhz
Windows 7 x64

What should I do? Reinstall back onto the Harddrive, hope it works like it did before and just deal with the increased loading times? Or is there an easy fix I’m missing?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.
-Karu

Before reinstalling it back to your HDD, you could try reinstalling it on your SSD again to see if something went wrong in the installing process.

You said you came back here and did the upgrade. Have you played recently but before that SSD? Some things have changed in the game and lately I’ve seen some players having the same issue and getting over it in the next patch.

Also, where are you seeing these FPS’s? Are they in the same place you remember getting those maxed framerates before? For example in Lion’s Arch it’s typical to get far worse framerate than out in the open world.

Since the only thing you did was switched to the SSD and especially when other games are running fine I doubt it’s an issue with the drivers but best double check you have the latest ones installed.

Hi Locx. Thanks for replying.
I will try reinstalling onto the SSD again first.

I have been playing for about a week with it installed onto the harddrive, and it was running fine. It was only today I decided to install it onto my SSD instead.

I’ve ran around quite a bit. Lions Arch is running fairly bad, usually around 20 frames. Out in the wild I can get up to 35, but still stutters at times.

I’ve checked the drivers, all seem up to date and everything seems to run smoothly. The reason why I’m posting at all is because I’m so confused as to why it isn’t running well.

Also, forgot to mention in my original post, the Harddrive I had it installed on is a 1tb Seagate barracuda (Which also holds my Steam library and music/movies, and is about 75% full.

MrKaru.8293:

Today I reinstalled my Guildwars 2 onto my SSD, since I’ve recently got back into it and wanted to decrease the load times.

After installing and patching the game, I logged in and realised that my frame rate had more than halved.
Before, my frame rate would be a stead 60 (I limit to that) and would only drop very rarely to kitten (fourtyfive to fifty.. Why does that flag as a swear word?) if a lot was going on onscreen.
Now, however, it hovers around 20-25, and stutters fairly badly.
I’ve tried the same graphical options, detected graphical options and best performance options, and at best I stretch to 25-30 fps.
Why is this? Almost all games I try on my SSD are only effected by decreased loading time, FPS and performance never seems change.

The SSD I use is the Samsung 840 pro. I have one or two other games and my windows installed, leaving around 50% free space.

I’ll post my specs too, but I want to point out that I’m sure its nothing to do with the other components since it worked fine on the HDD;
i5 3570k OC @4.2GHz
AMD 7970 3gb
16gb RAM @1600 Mhz
Windows 7 x64

What should I do? Reinstall back onto the Harddrive, hope it works like it did before and just deal with the increased loading times? Or is there an easy fix I’m missing?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.
-Karu

What Motherboard do you have? Have you verified the SSD’s SATA connection speeds (DMA mode #)?

Some older Motherboards will down rate shared SATA bus Ports to the lowest speed of the connected Device , IE. If a HDD on that Sata bus is at DMA2, but the SSD can run at DMA7, it will force it down to DMA2 slowing your SSD’s performance.

Have you ran performance tests on the SSD to verify read/write speeds? A quick Read test would be hdtune’s Benchmark. A more intensive test would be to run IOMeter. And it could just be that you got a bad SSD (about 10% fail during shipping from the factory, then you do have shelve Life – IOMeter will tell you if the SSD is bad by a simple 64k and a 512k IOPS test).

Stupid question but you did plug the SSD into the 6Gb port on the motherboard right, the number of times ive seen people use the normal sata ports.

I run the game off an Intel 520 series SSD and my Win 7 64bit is on its own primary SSD, I have no issues with fps ingame.

I wondering if. There is 2 separate installs of the game that may be cause some kind of conflict, one on the SSD, and the second on the standard hard drive try uninstalling the game threw add remove programs. Make sure to back up the gw2.dat file to some other folder to save re downloading time then delete all traces of the game folder on both drives. Then reinstall the game to your new SSD and when it get to the long download close out of the game and copy the backup gw2.dat file into your new game folder.