Guild Wars 2

I’ve followed the advice for in-game settings outlined in the post here. This rig, which crushes BF3 and basically every game, still drops to about 30fps at high settings.

This can’t be right. Am I missing something?

I did a clean format tonight to eliminate any latent software issues. The result was the same. CPU OC up to 4.4ghz does not affect fps. Both cards are running at PCIE x16 per GPU-Z. Power supply is fine.

typical eye cannot detect movement faster than 32 fps. Why do you need a higher frame rate? unless you plan on recording video and then reviewing it in slow-mo. (or is it just for bragging rights?)

4.4Ghz doesn’t mean a whole lot without the # of cores or actual processor name (architecture is important). The second you OC you lose all support from everyone ever btw. Power supply either works, or doesn’t, no need to mention it; certainly wont affect frames. Try running with 1 graphics card (or disable crossfire). define “clean format” did you completely format your hard drive, and install nothing but drivers and GW2? Update your drivers for everything & disable as many processes as possible Anything that shows your user name next to it in task manager can be ended (don’t end taskmgr though). Then try running GW2 right from the task manager.

I run max settings w/ v-sync at ~30fps 1920×1080 resolution on my laptop, not over clocked, core i7 (Q840) @ 1.87GHz, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 (1Gb ded & 3Gb shared), DX10, 8GB RAM, off a SSD. Internet speeds of 25 down 5 up.

may provide about 10 – 15 more fps.
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Quiznos.4296:

typical eye cannot detect movement faster than 32 fps. Why do you need a higher frame rate? unless you plan on recording video and then reviewing it in slow-mo. (or is it just for bragging rights?)

4.4Ghz doesn’t mean a whole lot without the # of cores or actual processor name (architecture is important). The second you OC you lose all support from everyone ever btw. Power supply either works, or doesn’t, no need to mention it; certainly wont affect frames. Try running with 1 graphics card (or disable crossfire). define “clean format” did you completely format your hard drive, and install nothing but drivers and GW2? Update your drivers for everything & disable as many processes as possible Anything that shows your user name next to it in task manager can be ended (don’t end taskmgr though). Then try running GW2 right from the task manager.

I run max settings w/ v-sync at ~30fps 1920×1080 resolution on my laptop, not over clocked, core i7 (Q840) @ 1.87GHz, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 (1Gb ded & 3Gb shared), DX10, 8GB RAM, off a SSD. Internet speeds of 25 down 5 up.

Strong broscience..

1) FYI: The human eye does not see in FPS LMAO!!!!!!! So yes, you can EASILY spot the difference between 60fps & 120fps.
2) Power supplies can EASILY work & still be faulty
3) The second you overclock, earns my respect for having some balls
4) No, you cant run truly MAXED setting on that laptop, EVER. Sorry.

Quiznos.4296:

typical eye cannot detect movement faster than 32 fps. Why do you need a higher frame rate? unless you plan on recording video and then reviewing it in slow-mo. (or is it just for bragging rights?)

4.4Ghz doesn’t mean a whole lot without the # of cores or actual processor name (architecture is important). The second you OC you lose all support from everyone ever btw. Power supply either works, or doesn’t, no need to mention it; certainly wont affect frames. Try running with 1 graphics card (or disable crossfire). define “clean format” did you completely format your hard drive, and install nothing but drivers and GW2? Update your drivers for everything & disable as many processes as possible Anything that shows your user name next to it in task manager can be ended (don’t end taskmgr though). Then try running GW2 right from the task manager.

I run max settings w/ v-sync at ~30fps 1920×1080 resolution on my laptop, not over clocked, core i7 (Q840) @ 1.87GHz, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 (1Gb ded & 3Gb shared), DX10, 8GB RAM, off a SSD. Internet speeds of 25 down 5 up.

I can see huge diffference between 30 and 300 FPS mate.

By the way, I lag with gtx 680 and i5 2500k 4.2. The game is unoptimized as kitten.

Also when big fights are going on in wvw on my system the hard drive is spinning like mad although that doesn’t happen in other games. I suppose it would perform better in SSD but still that’s not a solution.

There seem to be some kind of optimization issues in the game, even after I leave the area where a big fight was going on the fps are still lower than before by a big amount.

Quiznos.4296:

typical eye cannot detect movement faster than 32 fps. Why do you need a higher frame rate? unless you plan on recording video and then reviewing it in slow-mo. (or is it just for bragging rights?)

4.4Ghz doesn’t mean a whole lot without the # of cores or actual processor name (architecture is important). The second you OC you lose all support from everyone ever btw. Power supply either works, or doesn’t, no need to mention it; certainly wont affect frames. Try running with 1 graphics card (or disable crossfire). define “clean format” did you completely format your hard drive, and install nothing but drivers and GW2? Update your drivers for everything & disable as many processes as possible Anything that shows your user name next to it in task manager can be ended (don’t end taskmgr though). Then try running GW2 right from the task manager.

I run max settings w/ v-sync at ~30fps 1920×1080 resolution on my laptop, not over clocked, core i7 (Q840) @ 1.87GHz, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 (1Gb ded & 3Gb shared), DX10, 8GB RAM, off a SSD. Internet speeds of 25 down 5 up.

The human eye can detect well over 32fps. Thomas Edison himself said that he thought 46fps was the minimum necessary to avoid eye strain. There wouldn’t be such a fuss over The Hobbit being filmed at 48fps if it were undetectable. See the two videos in this link as an example, one is 24fps and one is 48fps: http://chrisgoestothemovies.com/2012/11/12/the-hobbit-in-48fps-an-overview/

And I did mention my CPU. It’s in the title of the post. Support issues surrounding OCing are a non-issue for me because I bought and assembled the parts myself.

Your post is unhelpful.

its amazing how many people think they know what the human eye can see.. and yet are so horribly wrong. Its also funny ..becouse anyone with eyes can test it themselves lol. granted everyone is different and not all eyes are created equal ..but still.

This is pretty normal in GW2, the game is just not optimized for multithread rendering, which means, the game won’t take any advantage of ur 4 CPU cores. U cannot compare PFS games to MMOs in terms of performace tho, so even while ur rig crushes BF3, it dosn’t mean it will crush a MMO. Ur CPU is bottlenecking ur crossfire cards, it is not cuz the 2500k is a bad CPU, is the best for gaming, but the game isn’t just optimized for current hardware. Most likelly u will need a highly OCed 2014 or 2015 gen CPU if u want 60+FPS all the time.