Guild Wars 2

Nvidia users.

I Want to share this hoping it will help a poor soul or two.
Like many others I have received decreased fps ingame the last month+, spent hours and hours trying to solve it or find some solution.
Just now I finally came over something that surprisingly gave me a 20-30fps boost.
As easy as installing an old Nvidia driver that came with gw2 support. 310.90
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-64bit-310.90-whql-driver.html

Also it might be a good idea to turn down or off, ingame setting reflections and shadows. When it comes to ingame settings, I for sure have found out trusting the auto-detect preset is not by far trustworthy if you want to get better perforamance. Try and test with them, both up and down. Taking “high” somewhere comapared to “none” might not inflict on performance.

By far not the superior solution to frustrated gamers around the globe, but I do hope it will come in handy to atleast a few.

Let me know if it did help you, and dont hesitate to ask if anything is not mentioned or unclear towards the solution.

My spec:
System producer Packard Bell
System modell ixtreme M5801
Harddrive SSD ntfs
System type x64-based PC
SMBIOS-version 2.6
(RAM) 8,00 GB
Processor Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz,
Graphic Card Nvidia GeForce GTX 660Ti
Power supply XFX pro550w.

Im furthermore trying to optimize my computer for Guild Wars 2. Testing my software and different system settings. I am aware that my bottleneck is my cpu which can’t be overclocked due to locked bios.

Question:
Are there any that are good with computers and could be so kind and look at my included NCsoft Game Advisor result? and point me in a direction to where I might be able to insrease some game performance? It being windows8 settings, game settings or any other hardware configuration.

Any help would be much appretiated.

ps: I have also followed a tip from https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/7-years-old-PC-without-LAG-in-WWW-1080p
by installing separate sound card and disabled the inegrated sound card to release some pressure on the cpu. Result was not as good as the OP of the thread.

Had this crash now

the error is on module d3d9.dll that is the core of directx9 module and it gaves many files missing .

first try the -repair and if you have time the -verify line argument in client .

if this is not helped then try to update the directx 9 files in win8 ( only for genuine win8 ) by following this link with internet explorer only

support.microsoft.com/kb/179113/

in the middle of the page there is a link : http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/vistadefault.aspx?

after that i can not continue since i have xp and it blocks me .

also win 8 is a new operating system and the game is based in directx9 api that is a xp feature try to run the client in xp sp3 compatibility mode.

[how to run a game in xp sp3 comptibility mode]

you are locating the shortcut that you are running the game and you do right click on it and you choose the last option ( properties ). it will open the poperties and you change to tab compatibility. in this window you enable ( tick) the : run this game in compatibility mode for: and you choose xp sp3 or xp sp2

and then apply and run .

if it crashed run the repair client if it needs to change some files in dat file and run it again.

but if all of these fail try to find a more powerful psu because the 660ti need two cables +6 volt and only this card consume from psu 450 watt + 87 wat the cpu + the other devices and you are above of your psu limit ( 550 watts )

basically maybe the win8 installation may have corrupted from your psu ( there are many errors in the first log from the win8 ) . if you see that with new one psu all are fine try to reinstall the windows with the new psu and update everything from the start .

after the new installation first you install all the drivers and then you do windows update because only micros0ft knows what drivers and with what features install with windows update

Reborn.2934 Lifesaver! 3 hours aiding me ingame and guiding me towards different ideas. Gonna be interresting to see how it turns out.

Thanks alot for all the good help, much appretiated!

:)