Guild Wars 2

Hello all. I just recently replaced my GTX460 SLI setup with a single GTX 770 4GB card. I am only running it at 1680×1050, so I expected a huge increase in framerate. In LA I am still seeing a drop to 35fps and in battles it drops to ~24fps. This card should be able to handle 1980 or better. Is there something bottlenecking the video card or is it somehow not connected correctly or an options I forgot to set?

I have the following:
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard (PCIE 3.0) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293
Intel Core i5-3550 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo)
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 × 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM
Thermaltake W0106RU 700W Complies with ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V version SLI Certified 80 PLUS Certified
SSD, Windows 7 64bit

The oldest component is my powersupply. Also does it make a difference if i use DVI-I over HDMI or visa versa? It is suspious that both the video card setups seem to have very similar framerates at each location. This makes me wonder if I’ve been bottlenecking the video card this whole time by something else in my setup or Bios.

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

Hello all. I just recently replaced my GTX460 SLI setup with a single GTX 770 4GB card. I am only running it at 1680×1050, so I expected a huge increase in framerate. In LA I am still seeing a drop to 35fps and in battles it drops to ~24fps. This card should be able to handle 1980 or better. Is there something bottlenecking the video card or is it somehow not connected correctly or an options I forgot to set?

I have the following:
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard (PCIE 3.0) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293
Intel Core i5-3550 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo)
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 × 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM
Thermaltake W0106RU 700W Complies with ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V version SLI Certified 80 PLUS Certified
SSD, Windows 7 64bit

The oldest component is my powersupply. Also does it make a difference if i use DVI-I over HDMI or visa versa? It is suspious that both the video card setups seem to have very similar framerates at each location. This makes me wonder if I’ve been bottlenecking the video card this whole time by something else in my setup or Bios.

The GTX 770 is a nice card, but Guild Wars 2 isn’t driven by a good graphics card, its very CPU dependent as well. So the bottleneck you are likely seeing is your CPU. Using DVI-I or HDMI shouldn’t affect your FPS.

Things to make sure of:
-Make sure the graphics card is in the slot closest to the processor on the motherboard.
-Download GPU-Z and make sure that it is running at a full x16 speed:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2252/techpowerup-gpu-z-v0-7-2/mirrors
-Make sure the temperatures of both your CPU and GPU are within their limits when under load (playing Guild Wars 2). If you don’t already have software that monitors the CPU and GPU temperatures, then I recommend getting HWMonitor, which can be found here:
http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/1.23-setup.exe