Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this or it is just my machine. I have been playing gw2 since beta and never really had any issues with my machine. Ever since the fractal patch I have started to get more lag in game and my machine is running hotter than it ever has. Something I noticed is that I now see a lot more particle effects that I had never seen before. From seeing bright glows around people with legendaries to karka having glowy particle dust coming off them to just brighter animations.

I did not change any of my graphics options since the patch. I have a Nvidia 540m and I have a friend that plays with an integrated graphics card and he doesn’t see any of these particle effects much like I use to not see them before the patch. If anyone else is experiencing this and knows anyway to fix I would appreciate it. I have a support ticket open, but they keep just having me do basic things like disabling services and updating drivers which are not helping the issue at all.

I you feel that your PC is running hotter when is the last time you had the case open and blown it out with compressed air?

Gelfgar.7698:

I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this or it is just my machine. I have been playing gw2 since beta and never really had any issues with my machine. Ever since the fractal patch I have started to get more lag in game and my machine is running hotter than it ever has. Something I noticed is that I now see a lot more particle effects that I had never seen before. From seeing bright glows around people with legendaries to karka having glowy particle dust coming off them to just brighter animations.

I did not change any of my graphics options since the patch. I have a Nvidia 540m and I have a friend that plays with an integrated graphics card and he doesn’t see any of these particle effects much like I use to not see them before the patch. If anyone else is experiencing this and knows anyway to fix I would appreciate it. I have a support ticket open, but they keep just having me do basic things like disabling services and updating drivers which are not helping the issue at all.

So Your Playing on a laptop?

You might need to clear out the Air Ducts from any hair/Dust/Lint that has collected in the last couple years. Install CoreTemp for better CPU Temp Monitoring and GPU-Z for the GPU Temp Monitoring and go from there.