Guild Wars 2

Hey forum people,

Since the most recent build/update a few days ago, I have been experiencing random fps drops at random times.

Please note I do use an nVidia card and I do have the settings for the game set to prioritize performance. In-game I do use higher settings, with the exceptions of reflections and high shaders. Typically I can sustain a 60 fps, sometimes going down to 55 or 50 in straining environments.

But lately, at random times, my fps will drop to 10 or 15 for about 10 seconds before returning to normal. As it is implied, there seems to be no pattern. It does not matter what my graphics settings are set to (even at lower settings), it still happens. It doesn’t seem to matter what my character is doing at the time. I could be in sPvP in a huge team fight, or I could be standing there by myself doing absolutely nothing at all with no one else around. Sometimes it happens a bunch of times in a row, and sometimes it will go for a long time before it does it again.

Be aware that I mostly play SPvP. As I said before, there is no apparent pattern. I checked my GPU and CPU and neither appear to be overheating. This is also a very recent problem. Before the most recent build I never had this problem.

Computer specs:

nVidia GeForce 560 ti
8gb of RAM
AMD Phenom II 955 quad core (probably my bottleneck at the moment)

I am only posting these specs to help the developers or players more able to solve the problem, if it is related. Just be aware that before a few days ago this wasn’t a problem. This also doesn’t happen in any other game I play. Just Guild Wars 2.

This is starting to get very frustrating because I tried loading earlier drivers for my video card and it didn’t work for me. I can run through PvE just fine without it ever dropping below 60 fps. Yet in heart of the mists and any pvp match it will drop to 10 fps for about 15 seconds before returning to normal. I tried setting my graphics to low. I tried loading earlier drivers. I tried updating my drivers. I tried messing with the graphics settings and refresh rate. I even tested other games and GW2 is the only one having the problem and only in PvP areas, whereas in PvE it doesn’t appear to ever drop (or at least not in the questing areas I am in). This has only been happening since the most recent build and has been happening ever since. I never change any of my settings to make this happen. It just started happening out of nowhere for no apparent reason and I really want to get this resolved.

I have done GPU usage tests and it doesn’t appear that my power usage behaving any differently than the time of the spikes. There are some fluctuations but nothing out of the ordinary. I checked specifically during the time from of the fps drops and it doesn’t look any different than a time frame where the game is running fine.

Edit: Back dated my video drivers to 3.04 that seems to have fixed it. Not sure why drivers a year and a half old work better than the brand new ones…
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I believe I am having the same issue, game runs fine at about 60 fps then drops down to 15 fps then randomly cleans itself up after about 15 seconds

nvidia Geforce 550 ti
8gb of Ram
AMD FX™-4100 Quad Core – 3.60 ghz

Thing that seems to be the same is the 500 series nvidia card.

I also tried updating my drivers from 3.10 to 3.20 then down 3.14 then back to 3.10 thinking it was the recently updated drivers but it hasn’t helped.

Malk.9720:

Edit: Back dated my video drivers to 3.04 that seems to have fixed it. Not sure why drivers a year and a half old work better than the brand new ones…
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I believe I am having the same issue, game runs fine at about 60 fps then drops down to 15 fps then randomly cleans itself up after about 15 seconds

nvidia Geforce 550 ti
8gb of Ram
AMD FX™-4100 Quad Core – 3.60 ghz

Thing that seems to be the same is the 500 series nvidia card.

I also tried updating my drivers from 3.10 to 3.20 then down 3.14 then back to 3.10 thinking it was the recently updated drivers but it hasn’t helped.

I am going to give this a try and see what happens. If it works, then we should all notify nVidia of this problem and they will hopefully fix it in the next driver.

I tried using an older driver. It didn’t appear to work. It still happens quite regularly and randomly. I even double checked to make sure that everything was set to performance and the settings were set to low. It still happens.

It appears to only be happening in SPvP, because I quested around for a while with a friend on PvE and the fps never dropped.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

Server related issue then?

Hey there,

I’ve been having the same problem since the patch you mentioned. Did you ever figure out a solution?