Guild Wars 2

I was expecting the performance issues to be ironed out by now. I still get low FPS in certain areas (30-40) and major lag when loading into a new zone. At most I’ll see 60% CPU usage and 50-60% GPU usage.

My hardware:

i5 2500k @ 4.3GHz
Two GTX 670 FTW SLI (most recent drivers as of 12/18/12)
16GB DDR3
Crucial M4 128GB SSD
Windows 7 x64

Why is this game still running like it was ported over from a console?

Because performance patches will be “done when they are done”.

I feel the pain as well…

Do you have SLI enabled while the game is on? Don’t do that. 30-40 being the low-end of performance is generally considered entirely playable for an MMORPG, though I understand the wish for it to be higher.

in fact, it seems the performance of the game has gone down a bit since release. I’ve experienced more notable GW2 crashes while loading into areas during the last 2 weeks.

Fozee.1083:

Do you have SLI enabled while the game is on? Don’t do that. 30-40 being the low-end of performance is generally considered entirely playable for an MMORPG, though I understand the wish for it to be higher.

Well the problem is that the game usually runs at around 60 FPS, but it drops into the 30s enough to be really jarring. When you’re playing at 60 FPS dropping to 30 feels awful.

I agree, Spacecraft. I’ve just come back to this game after a couple of months and it’s performing even worse than last time. 15-30 fps in LA with graphics turned down is ridiculous. I haven’t had issues like this in a game since I had a HDD that couldn’t even fit a game like GW2 on it.

spacecraft.4968:

I was expecting the performance issues to be ironed out by now. I still get low FPS in certain areas (30-40) and major lag when loading into a new zone. At most I’ll see 60% CPU usage and 50-60% GPU usage.

You’ll never reach 100% utilization on the CPU for multicore. Read Q7/8 for details why

i’m using 3570k @4.2 & gtx660, best appearance setting, Usually get stable 60fps capped everywhere except heavy WvW(~30+) and large cities like LA (40-60fps)