Guild Wars 2

Like so many others I’ve had the problem with very low FPS now in GW2, in Lions Arch I’d have an average of 8 FPS with my system.
If I ran away to some far corner of the world and just stayed there I’d get 40FPS, but as soon as people/trees/etc appeared I’d go down to below 10FPS.

The fix (for me):
Download CPU-Z ( http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/1.67-en.zip )
Run it, go to the tab called “Mainboard”
Check under Graphic Interface for “Link Width”, mine was set to x1 before, to the right of this you see your max (x16 for me)

IF it was set to x1 then:

The problem I had was that I’m using the motherboard P8P67, which has 2 PCIE-slots, the lower one (black one) is by default set to x1.
You can boot up “BIOS” (UEFI) and change this to atleast 4x depending on motherboard.
The better solution is to move your GFX-card to the upper PCIE-slot which in most cases is the default slot, which is set to x16.

This gave me 10 times more FPS and now I’m running everything on High instead of low aswell.

Quick guide because I’m sleepy and my GF wants me to come watch Congo from 1995, so please ask if anything was unclear!

Mine is set to 8x and my LAPTOP supports 16x, i don’t know if i should mess with that or not.

Like you said CPU-Z says my link width is x1 and max supported is x16

When I enter my bios I see no options that allow me to change that at all or anything even stating that its x1. I only have one gpu slot.

One thing you might want to try before moving your boards about is to run GPU-z (that’s a Gee, not a C). If it states “1” in the bus interface, try clicking on ? button. This will run a little applet that may change the status to 16. If it does, great. If not, then yes, select a different PCI-E slot.

No idea what I did but now I’m at x8 and my game went from looking like an early playstation game on everything low with 10 fps to running 40-50 on high. So, This works.

Glad it worked, I’ve now moved my GTX 770 to the upper PCIE-slot and now I’m getting x16… instead of x1 before I started troubleshooting.
I can tell you the difference is amazing to say the least.

Why was your GFX card not already in the top PCI-E port, the top port on most MB’s is the PCI-E x16 port.

Wait Congo was on tv? Lol