Guild Wars 2

So after reading hundreds of forums with people complaining about the low FPS problem, or a sudden drop in FPS I decided to help a bit. I also had the same issue where I will get 250 FPS+ and all of a sudden it drops all the way down to 10 FPS. It took me months to find the fix as no one on the forums could come up with a solid fix. So first I would just like to give you a quick rundown on my PC specs so that you can see the issue is not a lack in hardware performance.

2 × 60GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD’s in RAID 0
8GB ADATA DDR 1866 Gaming series RAM
Core i7 3770K @ 4.4GHz
2x Gigabyte Geforce GTX570 SC Editions in SLi

So as you can see I have all the hardware to run GW2 at full graphics 1080P, but I was still getting 10FPS. So here is what I did:

1.) Make sure the Vsync in the game is turned on and the frame limit is turned to Unlimited with the refresh rate set @ Default.

2.) In your system BIOS turn all CPU power saving features to Disabled e.g.
CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) —-- Disabled
C3/C6 State Support —-———— Disabled
CPU Thermal Monitor —-——- Disabled
CPU EIST Function —-————— Disabled

This is what worked for me, now I have a constant 45 – 60 FPS. Please feel free to leave comments.

CPU parking has been discussed in other threads, but these bios changes seem a bit dangerous, especially the “Thermal Monitor” function.

These settings look like they make sure your CPU is running at the maximum possible speed at all times, even when gw2 is not running. With this happening, you’d really want to make sure that your CPU doesn’t overheat, which normally results in the bios turning off your machine before any damage is done.

This will also quickly drain laptop batteries.

Saucermote.9140:

CPU parking has been discussed in other threads, but these bios changes seem a bit dangerous, especially the “Thermal Monitor” function.

These settings look like they make sure your CPU is running at the maximum possible speed at all times, even when gw2 is not running. With this happening, you’d really want to make sure that your CPU doesn’t overheat, which normally results in the bios turning off your machine before any damage is done.

This will also quickly drain laptop batteries.

Those features are power saving features. Disabling them prevents the CPU from being able to enter these low-power states. There is nothing dangerous about the changes he made. I use them 24×7 and there have yet to be issues.

You can safely enable Intel Speedstep to make the CPU consume less power when a CPU intensive process (such as GW2) isn’t running. I use a program called Process Lasso to force my 3770k to run at 1.6GHz whenever a game isn’t running and to ramp it up to 4.5GHz whenever I have a CPU intensive process running (games, Photoshop, Sony Vegas, etc). You should give that program a try.

You obviously wouldn’t disable many power saving features on a laptop that isn’t plugged into the wall. These tweaks are for gaming PC’s.

Thanks for the name of that app, I will give it a try. The CPU has a build in Thermal ceiling and mine is @ roughly 93 Degrees Celsius. What that mean is that if your CPU for whatever reason must hit that then your PC will reboot. So even without the Thermal monitoring your CPU has a build in safety. But then again I won’t bother with overheating as Intel always makes rock solid chips. But that is every one’s personal choice so give the other settings a try and leave the Thermal monitor on and see what happens. The whole goal is to try and keep your CPU at a constant speed as the up and down in frequency causes the stutter affect.