Guild Wars 2

Hello, I have an 4690k overclock’d to 4,6GHZ, a MSI GTX 970 OC’d aswell and 16GB of RAM.

The problem I’m having is only GW2 related, everything else really works fine

I’m using Windows 8.1 aswell with every update installed, every driver is up to date aswell

So basicly, when I’m idling around HotM or even in low populated area’s, GW2 is using 90% of my CPU, while my friends are reporting 30% with same settings and same location

I’ve tried a fresh installation of Windows today and some other stuff and nothing seems to work, would be happy about some support here

There is no problem. This is absolutely normal. You have a 4-core CPU, and GW2 uses about 3 cores up to 100% each, depending on the environment where your character is. Thus, the overall usage is about 75%, perhaps up to 90% as you report.

Your friends probably have some AMD CPU with 6 or 8 cores, or an Intel i7 CPU with hyperthreading activated, which also shows up as 8 cores in task manager. But since GW2 is still only able to use only about 3 cores, the other 3 (for 6-core CPUs) or 5 cores (for 8-core CPUs) are still idling, thus resulting in about only 3/8*100=37.5% overall CPU usage.

Silmar Alech.4305:

There is no problem. This is absolutely normal. You have a 4-core CPU, and GW2 uses about 3 cores up to 100% each, depending on the environment where your character is. Thus, the overall usage is about 75%, perhaps up to 90% as you report.

Your friends probably have some AMD CPU with 6 or 8 cores, or an Intel i7 CPU with hyperthreading activated, which also shows up as 8 cores in task manager. But since GW2 is still only able to use only about 3 cores, the other 3 (for 6-core CPUs) or 5 cores (for 8-core CPUs) are still idling, thus resulting in about only 3/8*100=37.5% overall CPU usage.

The thing that is bugging me is that, even with such a huge overclock I’m getting this kind of CPU usage’s, not even my DAW with 100 of plugins can even harm my CPU one bit

Argilla.8340:

Hello, I have an 4690k overclock’d to 4,6GHZ, a MSI GTX 970 OC’d aswell and 16GB of RAM.

The problem I’m having is only GW2 related, everything else really works fine

I’m using Windows 8.1 aswell with every update installed, every driver is up to date aswell

So basicly, when I’m idling around HotM or even in low populated area’s, GW2 is using 90% of my CPU, while my friends are reporting 30% with same settings and same location

I’ve tried a fresh installation of Windows today and some other stuff and nothing seems to work, would be happy about some support here

If you open Task Manager and then choose view ‘Logical Cores’ are all of your 4 cores at 90% or just one?

Ideally 1 Core should be at 86%-95% while the rest are 15%-35%.

that is normal for GW2 on a good 4 core CPU.

sirsquishy.8531:

Argilla.8340:

Hello, I have an 4690k overclock’d to 4,6GHZ, a MSI GTX 970 OC’d aswell and 16GB of RAM.

The problem I’m having is only GW2 related, everything else really works fine

I’m using Windows 8.1 aswell with every update installed, every driver is up to date aswell

So basicly, when I’m idling around HotM or even in low populated area’s, GW2 is using 90% of my CPU, while my friends are reporting 30% with same settings and same location

I’ve tried a fresh installation of Windows today and some other stuff and nothing seems to work, would be happy about some support here

If you open Task Manager and then choose view ‘Logical Cores’ are all of your 4 cores at 90% or just one?

Ideally 1 Core should be at 86%-95% while the rest are 15%-35%.

that is normal for GW2 on a good 4 core CPU.

Core temp reports that all cores are about equally used.

Argilla.8340:

sirsquishy.8531:

Argilla.8340:

Hello, I have an 4690k overclock’d to 4,6GHZ, a MSI GTX 970 OC’d aswell and 16GB of RAM.

The problem I’m having is only GW2 related, everything else really works fine

I’m using Windows 8.1 aswell with every update installed, every driver is up to date aswell

So basicly, when I’m idling around HotM or even in low populated area’s, GW2 is using 90% of my CPU, while my friends are reporting 30% with same settings and same location

I’ve tried a fresh installation of Windows today and some other stuff and nothing seems to work, would be happy about some support here

If you open Task Manager and then choose view ‘Logical Cores’ are all of your 4 cores at 90% or just one?

Ideally 1 Core should be at 86%-95% while the rest are 15%-35%.

that is normal for GW2 on a good 4 core CPU.

Core temp reports that all cores are about equally used.

I do believe I asked what task manager reports. Coretemp doesn’t report correctly under windows 8.1 in all cases.

Says 92%, in task manager

Found something weird, when I put 30FPS limit, my CPU Usage is 30% only, which is VERY weird

I’m also an owner of an i5 4690k, oc to 4.3 and I also get high cpu usage while doing nothing, but not as much as you.

2 cores run aboutat 60-80% while the other 2 are used less, about 35-60%. Also, a strange thing is that cpu is used less while doing something that while not.

You may look at some ingame graphic configurations, energy plan, voltage modes, power saving disabled… that can tell the cpu to work at maximum capacity when there is work.

Totaly normal.
When you limit the FPS it limits the usage from graphical load.
DX9 send most of his instructions to the CPU first, then back to the GPU.
So, when you limit the FPS/Graphic load, less CPU load.

The numbers are total normal for an i5 in gw2.
In huge zergs an i7 get up to 60-70%, including four logical cores.
Without them, you get the same numbers for an i7.
The game, without FPS limit, catch what it can.
So you have high CPU usage to support the GPU.

I see, thanks for the clarification :]