Okay so I haven’t played GW2 since jan (during which time i had no problems with FPS), and after playing for a bit these past couple days i am suffering from low fps even with groups of 6-7 people. It seems these new patches have somehow screwed up my fps. Any ideas?
I’m in the same situation. Haven’t played since January and didn’t have issues back then. I just installed GW2 again to check out the GW2 changes and my average FPS is 15 when moving the camera. It became utterly and completely unplayable.
Win 8 64-Bit, AMD Phenom II X4 955, ATI Radeon 5700
Been having huge FPS problems since last night after the patch. Haven’t had these problems before—not even the last time I played which was just yesterday morning or the night before. Now I’m completely crippled, down to 1 FPS, in what appears to be random occurrences.
First time it happened was in the Shiverpeaks (where I happened to have last logged out before the patch was released), so when I log back in last night and I’m having huge FPS issues, I chalk it up to a flood of people entering the area to check out the new instance, so I leave. Still, in other areas, I got massive FPS drops randomly.
I have noticed some erratic FPS performance as well on my machine. Up to last night, it was usually a nice smooth 55-60 in most areas, with the occasional dip during heavy scenes. The game is still perfectly playable right now, but the performance has definitely incurred some patches of slowdown for me.
:( i just dont understand how the patches could create issues with my FPS when ive never had issues before
Computers are not static machines, they can change and deteriorate over time. This is the case for both hardware and software.
Its entirely possible the patch could be causing performance issue, but if it is not wide a spread issue, but more isolated then its likely something with the user’s system.
Recommend a -repair or fresh install of the game. If that doesn’t work a fresh install of the Operating System. Further more, if that doesn’t work its time to look at hardware issues/temp. (See Part 1.1 or 5.1)
I knew my computer wasn’t the best for this game, but I thought it wasn’t near the worst either. Since launch I was getting @35 fps on lowish settings. I was fine with that really. The only time it dropped significantly was during events like the Ele boss in Metrica and W3 zergs.
Since the patch it’s been a steady12-15. I switched my Render Sampling to “Subsample” and got 10 more fps out of it but, the game now looks like a fuzzy cartoon.
I was under the impression culling was removed only for W3, did they change anything in the PvE zones?
same here.. i play with 7870 MSI oc edition and 3570k…
oh… 25/30 players my gpu works at 50/60%, in inc 60+ players in total, gpu drop at 20% -.-
Ur processor cannot keep up, that is why ur GPU idles arround 20% when more ppl is arround. Try overclocking it the highest u can, other than that there isn’t anything u can do, ur CPU is the very best u can buy to play this game, and even so, the game runs bad due client poor optimization. Just wait for a fix from arenanet, there is nothing AMD, or Nvidia can do fix this problem, since the problem is the game itself, not hardware related.
same here.. i play with 7870 MSI oc edition and 3570k…
oh… 25/30 players my gpu works at 50/60%, in inc 60+ players in total, gpu drop at 20% -.-
Ur processor cannot keep up, that is why ur GPU idles arround 20% when more ppl is arround. Try overclocking it the highest u can, other than that there isn’t anything u can do, ur CPU is the very best u can buy to play this game, and even so, the game runs bad due client poor optimization. Just wait for a fix from arenanet, there is nothing AMD, or Nvidia can do fix this problem, since the problem is the game itself, not hardware related.
so i must oc a new proc for a poor optimization? btw i have this drop after www patch..
this is a 2012 proc and who have a 2500k or more older stuff? i hope arenanet knows this problem.
Oh they know it is a problem but they refuse to acknowledge it.
The client is overly CPU bound that uses 3 heavy threads.
Mandatory overclocking of a CPU to play this game is beyond ridiculous.
I wonder how many people have fried their CPUs from overclocking just to play this game at a reasonable level?
Since my previous post got deleted for no apparent reason(EA you modding this?) I will reiterate the statement.
There will never be a fix for this. Ever.
It would require them to rewrite the engine code to utilize more threads and do it in an optimal fashion.
Since this would require a lot of time and resources there will never be a fix.
The only way to get the game to play WvW and PVE events at a good rate is to wait for hardware to overcome the limitations of the antiquated engine.
Lets see if this one gets deleted as well for “honesty”
Oh they know it is a problem but they refuse to acknowledge it.
The client is overly CPU bound that uses 3 heavy threads.
Mandatory overclocking of a CPU to play this game is beyond ridiculous.
I wonder how many people have fried their CPUs from overclocking just to play this game at a reasonable level?
Since my previous post got deleted for no apparent reason(EA you modding this?) I will reiterate the statement.
There will never be a fix for this. Ever.
It would require them to rewrite the engine code to utilize more threads and do it in an optimal fashion.
Since this would require a lot of time and resources there will never be a fix.
The only way to get the game to play WvW and PVE events at a good rate is to wait for hardware to overcome the limitations of the antiquated engine.
Lets see if this one gets deleted as well for “honesty”
I would say, “Never say never”…but month after month I just wonder what happened to all that data from the beta events where FPS took a kitten during the final event of the betas.
If they expect hardware to catch up, they better look at the trends. AMD with more cores and Intel with energy efficiency. Granted you will have your incremental performance updates, you won’t get huge leaps and bounds like we used to back in the day.
I keep waiting for an announcement for GW3…they stopped GW1 because their engine didn’t allow them to do what they wanted. I feel like history is repeating itself only this time the engine isn’t allowing us to do what we want.
Ya I agree that before any expansion they need to use another engine or at least fix the current one.
I also agree with the fact that multicore processors will be the norm and not 6ghz cores.
There will be some performance gains in the future with new architectures but I don’t think that this will fix the issues that GW2 has until 2020 lol.
The worst part is that there hasn’t been any response from Anet about this. The culling patch seems like a failure to me since it really didn’t improve the issue at all for most people.
There is disparity between the devs discussing new items or features and ignoring the most glaring problem with the game. If they admit that there is a problem and that they are trying their best then that would be good enough for most if not all the people who play this game.
A lot of people feel robbed. Not being able to play major features of this game at a reasonable rate for over 7 months is making the playerbase leave for bigger and better things, which is too bad really since GW2 is a really good game. It just needs to be fixed.
Imagine buying a car and not being able run it well for 7 months and the dealership ignoring your phone calls, how would you feel?
Join the party man, I’ve been trying to post about this and mods on this forum keep silencing me for stating nothing other than the simple fact that this game is in desprete need of Direct X 10/11 support and to be re-coded cause the codeing is terrible and to be fully optimized but seems to me like they wanna ignoire the issue and keep pushing out new content and stuff that yeah sure is cool and all but pay more attention to things that are FAR more important and so far they have shown that they quite simply do not care what so ever its pretty unfair.
3570k oc 4.5Ghz on Water, 16 Gigs of RAM 1866, 2 SSD’s in RAID 0, 2x Gigabyte GTX 760 OC SLI
This is the most neglected game I’ve ever seen, arenanet hasn’t had a single performance patch since the launch of the game and they know its running terrible on even the highest end pc’s.
After a year of putting up with this my only conclusion is they don’t care, all they want to do is keep spiting out new content and gem store items, they will never fix their broken game ever, its like they fired all of their engine programmers after the game was released…
