Guild Wars 2

Hi, since the patch today my fps has dropped from an average of 40-50 to 10-22.

The gpu is also overheating despite not going over 61% load, with average temps going to 80 degrees whilst just standing still in town. Hardware is not faulty, all other games are running as usual and as way GW2 until the patch was applied.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/GW2-causing-GPU-to-melt-since-patch <- this thread also mentions overheating GPUs but im making this thread as im also getting huge fps drops and its not mentioned there. (edit: ah he actually does mention his fps tanking, well if you have the same card as me then post here too :P)

Specs:
Gigabyte HD6850 1GB
AMD Phenom II 955 BE (3.2ghz quad core)
4gig Ram
Windows 7

On a side note I believe the patch may have also changed my graphics settings but even after putting everything to absolute lowest the best fps I’ve been able to achieve in combat is 20. All drivers are up to date and I tried uninstalling Flash as per another thread’s suggestion.

My frames are still between 10-22. I had hopes there’d be some code optimisation in this build that put me back to the performance I was experiencing before 2nd July. Sadly, that isn’t the case.

I’ve also seen a serious drop in FPS with this patch, running an i7 960 and a GTX570.

I noticed the patch reset the graphic settings.

I managed to bring temps down from the danger zone after strippping it, cleaning every inch meticulously and reapply thermal paste (game still runs hotter than all my others at the moment). But performance is still terrible, have gone through 5 different steps with tech support but nothing helped (they have now gone quiet).

Its definately worst in the new pavilion zone, but performance across all areas has taken a hit. The graphics settins definately were changed by the patch but even with absolute lowest settings the game still wont break 20fps in pavilion and barely climbs much more in other zones where before I was 40-50.