Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I already wanted to put that topic in the “Game Bug” area, because I have the feeling it is related to the last patch. My system is absolutely the same since weeks. No changes in any settings, not in Guild Wars 2, not in Nvidia setup or somewhere else, no other updates or drivers since weeks (there aren’t any newer ones).

My system:
Win 7 64bit
Intel Core i7 3770K
GTX 580
16GB Memory
Solid State Drive (GW2 on it)

So, since the last patch (from yesterday? At least I downloaded it yesterday morning…) I experience kind of FPS lags or stuttering or how you want to call it (I don’t see the actually FPS drop when looking at the FPS number in the options, but when I move the camera it’s the effect is like it would load stuff from the storage drive in the memory, kind of the same effect if you rotate the camera on a map the first time).
To be clear, it’s not all the time, it’s in specific situations! And in those situations I can actually hear how the FAN of my GPU increases RPM and I can see heavy GPU load (99%) then (within MSI Afterburner). I initially recognized that within some fights somewhere in Tyria and later I experienced it within 2 jumping puzzles in specific locations… I definitely didn’t have that before and I’m playing since launch!

About the screens
First location is Lornar’s Pass JP (the one up on the hills)…
The other location is one of the JP in Lion’s Arch (pirate one)…
All the screens are showing views which cause the behavior since the last patch…
If I turn the camera in specific directions it’s probably running good/better again…
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I hope to get that figured out and that you understood what I’m talking about.
I tried to make a video of it, but because of the caused heavy GPU load the video capturing just shows single frames each 2-3 seconds or so in those situations…

I already re-installed graphics driver and repaired my GW2.dat, just to be sure, but no changes whatsoever… But as said, my system actually didn’t change at all. The only new thing is the GW2 patch…

EDIT:
That said, I streamed before that issue already dozens of hours and the performance was always good, even while streaming… Now, streaming is kind of impossible because the GPU load is that high, at the latest in all the spots I provided the last days… And as said, with GPU load at 99%, the stream will just show 1 frames per 3-4 seconds…

EDIT 2:
Reflections seem to push the GPU load like crazy since that patch…
Set it to None and I get for example 30-40% GPU load without much or at all stuff that would reflect. Set it to All at the same spot with the same camera angle and I get up to 90+% GPU load! That’s insane I think…

That’s it, Thanks…
Rep

I’ve had a similar problem with the first May patch and it’s made the game pretty much unplayable.

Right before the patch I realized I could play on my laptop’s own monitor, with the external unplugged, and reach upwards of 60 fps. I was in gamer heaven.

That lasted about a week. When the FIRST May patch came out, (around the 30th of April or what-have-you), my fps hit 10.

Yes, 10.

I have a half-second delay on ANY button or mouse movement, and there is absolutely nothing else running on my system.

I’m playing with Windows 7. Boot Camp on a 2012 Retina Macbook but it was running like a dream until that May patch.

It’s been pretty much unplayable since then. I did manage to get the Molten Weapons Facility dungeon done once, but only as a severe detriment to my team.

Hi, im having same issue since last patch too, my fps droped to half from 30 to 15-20 at mostly of the places at the dungeons sometimes i get 8-12 unplayable on bosses fights and my laptop is overheating too, sometimes crossing 100 degrees. Didn’t had those issues before.

I hope this could be solved with future patches.

Are there really just a few experiencing that or is it just that many don’t recognize it, even if it’s present… I haven’t been in a dungeon since the last patch, but I will most likely be in the Molten Facility Dungeon tonight, which ran smoothly all the runs I did so far… I will find out if that causes this weird FPS lags (or whatever) and the heavy GPU load after that patch as well.

I’m having the same issue, massive fps drops in PVE areas, WvW most of the time unplayable and it’s getting worse. Gives me a headache.

Same problem here guys! playing with 15~20fps is painful, in black citadel is 6 fps!

Hope they don’t take too much time to fix it.

I’m just doing personal story, located in Lion’s Arch and am experiencing this GPU load and stuttering performance in there as well… (I have done that same story step with one of my other characters before and definitely hadn’t this issue there!). Just watch the screens (Actually nothing special to see, but all these views cause the effect)… If I turn the camera at those spots the GPU load decreases, but these views… 99% load and stuttering performance (without seeing a real decrease in the FPS number – still around 60fps is it saying, but it definitely doesn’t feel like)…

EDIT: Just found another place where this happens… This one is in Orr and throughout this hole 180 degree view… Didn’t find any place so far on my travel with my twink through Orr where that happened…

I’m providing all these picture with the hope that ArenaNet gets behind what is going on… Something that all these pictures have in common to find what is causing this heavy load and stuttering movement (just to remember: without seeing the FPS drop in the number itself! Its saying 50-60fps, but feels like 10-5 or worse)

So, I’ve done the Molten Facility Dungeon recently… I’m not sure about the performance overall, could be that it was worse in general than before, but concerning my actual explained issue I recognized this especially within that objective where you have contact with the different mechanics the first time (see screen). When the fire AOE fields occured, than I recognized this heavy GPU load and stuttering movement (as always, that wasn’t a problem before – that patch).

Additional spot (just when you come out the portal in Iron Marches coming from Blazeridge Steppes) where I have 99% GPU load and stuttering… Again almost 180 degree view (as you can see on the 3 screens)…

Even if the patch notes of todays patch doesn’t say anything about it, I had hope that my problem that occures since the patch 4 days ago would be past again. So, I just ran to the Lion’s Arch pirate JP again, fell down the “mouth” (with falling lags as well, also more present since that named patch) and didn’t have to move any further, because just down there I recognized this heavy GPU load and stuttering movement again and my hopes were gone again as well…

Beside all these spots in the screenshosts, I recognize it within fights most likely depending on which (and how many?) effects are going on…

What is it since this patch 4 days ago?

EDIT: I can also re-produce that behavior if I stay right in the bonfire of the refugees in Lion’s Arch for example… It’s not happening if zoomed out, but if zoomed in like you can see in the 2nd screenshot, 99% GPU load and stuttering (camera) movement – while FPS supposed to be 60 when I look at the FPS number in the options…

To reiterate what everyone else is saying, I too am having the same problems. Ever since a couple of days ago, the game has literally been unplayable; I’ve been getting sub 5 FPS in ALL areas of the game. It even takes up about 75%+ of my computer’s CPU. It’s the only program I’m running too.

The game was working perfectly fine beforehand.

I know what you mean. My pc has constant stutter/low fps since a patch around october/november. Can’t remember now.

Before I could SPvP without much, if any lag at all, and play BF3 on highest setting without issues nor lag. Now, GW2 is a slow mess. BF3 and Neverwinter has the same stutter/low fps as GW2. D3 runs fine, for some reason.

It is very frustrating that noone has a clue or ideas how to fix this dilemma.

From what I hear a couple of posts here seem to be kind of a different performance issue.

I probably wasn’t clear enough within my OP (I already edited it), but what I explained isn’t all the time, it’s present in specific situations… That’s why I attach all these screenshots, because they show the exact spot and camera view where I experience this. There are more spots than I posted here, but sometimes they are within a fight and it’s tough to get the right screenshot to make sure I don’t provide a misleading one (Misleading, because I certainly hope that someone from ArenaNet is looking in to that and hopefully gets figured out the connections of all the situations on the screenshots I’m providing)…
And the weird thing is that I don’t even see the low FPS as a number, it just feels stuttering and I can see the heavy GPU load within MSI Afterburner then.

And as said, with “last patch” I mean the one before the most current, I mean the one 5 days ago now, not one weeks or even months ago… But who knows, probably your issues are connected to the ones I’m experiencing since these 5 days, at least to some degree… Hmmm

EDIT: And while leveling my 5th twink in Metrica Province, I just had enougher spot.

EDIT 2: In that area there seems to be additional spots causing that issue for me since these 5 days

EDIT 3: Ok, within that area I could do dozens of screenshots where that is happening, but as written in my following post, the GPU load is very high around here anyway… But that’s for sure, it wasn’t before that patch!

I never watched my GPU load in detail before, because I never had these kind of issues, but the GPU load is higher in general since that patch I have the feeling.
Within that area I provided screenshots (here in Metrica Province for example) my GPU load is about 90% all the time and as soon as a fight starts with some effects the load gets up to 99% and I get the stuttering effect (without seeing the FPS drop in numbers)…

Reflections seem to push the GPU load like crazy since that patch…
Set it to None and I get for example 30-40% GPU load without much or at all stuff that would reflect. Set it to All at the same spot with the same camera angle and I get up to 90+% GPU load! That’s insane I think…

First screenshot with Reflections turned to None (GPU load 42%, ~60 fps, no stuttering), second set to All (GPU load 99%, ~ 60fps, stuttering).
You see the FPS show the same number (around 60), but I can see from the moving parts on the screen and if I move the camera that it’s stuttering quite bad with All …

So, I’m using a SSD since 2-3 months with a fresh Windows 7 installation, but I kept my old Windows 7 installation on my HDD which I’m using as second drive now…
But now I wanted to see how GW2 with my old installation.
Well, I actually didn’t hope for that, but even that the GPU usage is at 99% as well, the fps is at 50-60 fps like with the SSD, but no weird stuttering. So, it seems to be fine with my older installation.

So, even if I actually didn’t change my system the days or even weeks before that issue started, something probably changed, causing that issue and I have no idea what… Because as said, it was running just fine till that day last week. So, it ran well with the fresh installation on SSD fro about 2 months at least…

Additional to that, I googled a little bit and at least found a video (not GW2) that actually shows pretty good what I mean with the stuttering I’m experiencing in all these situations. That guy has high and constant fps (he said that in a forum that linked to that video), but still has this obvious weird stuttering…

That’s the video: http://www.xfire.com/video/508d4a

This is whats happening to me,, this post is great. southsun areas are even more intenese (1-5 fps) and large instances are not worth it (1fps for dragons).

I lowered every setting in game and with radeon pro, same issues.

Add me to this list. It’s not just the new content that is problematic but now even in places like Fractals my FPS is getting pretty low. Just seems like it keeps getting worse and is really hindering my enjoyment of the game.

I have shadows set to none (For WvW mostly to give me more fps there) and my load is still pretty high. (Reflections are off too.)

They really broke the engine more.

Would be nice to finally adress this issue. Unable to play for few weeks now because of these FPS problems, same as others.

Radeon 6850, updated drivers, been playing on same computer since release with no problems, now it;s simply unplayable, mainly while moving camera around, some probs with frostum culling?

My computer, which has a nividia gtx670 card, started to have these driver crashes recently. I stumbled upon this thread when looking for clues. It certainly sounds it could be related to the observations in this thread. That computer hasn’t been used to play any other games except GW2. And this started to happen around the time of the mentioned patch. The bad thing is, it seems that the card is now breaking down. There’s now artefacts appearing that shouldn’t be there and lowering settings will not stop drivers from crashing.

I’m going to RMA this card, and hopefully the same thing will not happen with a new one.

chiran.8542:

My computer, which has a nividia gtx670 card, started to have these driver crashes recently. I stumbled upon this thread when looking for clues. It certainly sounds it could be related to the observations in this thread. That computer hasn’t been used to play any other games except GW2. And this started to happen around the time of the mentioned patch. The bad thing is, it seems that the card is now breaking down. There’s now artefacts appearing that shouldn’t be there and lowering settings will not stop drivers from crashing.

I’m going to RMA this card, and hopefully the same thing will not happen with a new one.

Rma takes time. I’d really make sure if the card is damaged for good before I RMA because if its not the card you will be sent exactly the same card but you will loose 1 week of your time. Try other games you can find them on the certain places if you dont wanna pay. Or try benchmarks.. Bios update might help. Also if you recently upgraded your GPU make sure its in the 16x slot in your motherboard. Try latest 3 drivers to see whether that makes any difference.

Also those artifacts might be due to overheating if the card is trying to boost itself on high temps for some odd reasons. Because it should only boost if there is a thermal headroom to prevent damage.

Maxluso.1289:

Hi, im having same issue since last patch too, my fps droped to half from 30 to 15-20 at mostly of the places at the dungeons sometimes i get 8-12 unplayable on bosses fights and my laptop is overheating too, sometimes crossing 100 degrees. Didn’t had those issues before.

I hope this could be solved with future patches.

Yes I have noticed this aswell, and I’m running one of the top PCs on the market so it’s not because of “older” hardware.

Add me to the list as well. Let’s start a habit in this thread of posting some specs though. At this rate, I think it would be tough for Anet not to realize there’s a big problem.

I’m on
Win7 64bit
Asus G73JH
ATI Radeon HD 5870
vbios is flashed and updated to most recent
i7 CPU Q740@1.73 GHz
ATI drivers and CCC most recent

Here is my game running as of end of April on the same machine with Fraps
http://youtu.be/2UhQPDGYLmo

Now it’s too low to video capture so I’ll submit an image I took with a comparison to how Rift and GW2 run on my current setup

http://i.imgur.com/Oxir0U9.png

I know that two games are not the same, but come on. Dat disparity

Guys seriously thank you for posting this I should have checked the forums sooner I had the box out ready to send my comp back because I had tried everything to fix this. I have this issue too. Fix please constant 15-20 FPS is not my style, want my 30-40 FPS back.

I was noticing this too, especially when I was facing the Shatterer (Lots of players) and in the Black Citadel central spiral. Places that caused no problems before now bring my FPS into single figures so I played with the settings, turning them on and off one by one and found that reflections were the culprit, even with only “Terrain & Sky” the fps just takes a massive hit.

It seems to be any place where there are a lot of characters (NPCs and players) that it takes the biggest hits.

Reflections: All(8fps/99% GPU/3% MCU), Terrain&Sky(9fps/99% GPU/4% MCU), None(37fps/48% GPU/16% MCU)

EDIT: Updated my Nvidia Drivers to 320.18 with no difference.

I was noticing this too, especially when I was facing the Shatterer (Lots of players) and in the Black Citadel central spiral. Places that caused no problems before now bring my FPS into single figures so I played with the settings, turning them on and off one by one and found that reflections were the culprit, even with only “Terrain & Sky” the fps just takes a massive hit.
It seems to be any place where there are a lot of characters (NPCs and players) that it takes the biggest hits.

I play w/o reflections and go to areas w/o NPC’s or players (WvW) and I still have this issue so theres more it it.

Seconding soupa’s statement. All lowest settings possible, using Anet’s recommended specs and settings for the GPU.

Also, GPU running at 99%, CPU at a whopping.. 11%?

I tend to turn Ambient occlusion off in the nvidia control panel for guild wars 2. I wonder if AO is causing issues too.

coehl.2948:

Seconding soupa’s statement. All lowest settings possible, using Anet’s recommended specs and settings for the GPU.

Also, GPU running at 99%, CPU at a whopping.. 11%?

Yup GPU 99%, CPU 29%, Arenanet get it together bro. Turned EVERYTHING off and put EVERYTHING on lowest 25 FPS where as before if I put everything to lowest I would get 40 or 50 FPS, we’re just gonna have to wait and see.

Soupa.9842:

Yup GPU 99%, CPU 29%, Arenanet get it together bro. Turned EVERYTHING off and put EVERYTHING on lowest 25 FPS where as before if I put everything to lowest I would get 40 or 50 FPS, we’re just gonna have to wait and see.

Not to sound like the fanboy in the room, but they did say this one of many patches that were geared toward optimization. When they experiment, some will get dusted by it.

I’ve been troubleshooting the ever living crap out of this problem and you might learn a lot from the topic I have on Reddit. I keep updating it too since this seems to be fairly pervasive and it could either eventually culminate in ArenaNet finding one super useful piece of info and being able to tackle it, or some savvy user will find the fix and I can try to report as best I can.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1f3y46/guild_wars_2_being_too_gpu_heavy_now_wut/

I also took HwINFO and logged about 1 minute of chilling out in Lion’s Arch. Anyone with some guru-esque knowledge is welcome to review and tell me what they think.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apb3NSHZcmeldEU1aEhMc3JRZEd5Vm85dWNVM3FBcnc&usp=sharing

muslumgurseks.4951:

chiran.8542:

My computer, which has a nividia gtx670 card, started to have these driver crashes recently. I stumbled upon this thread when looking for clues. It certainly sounds it could be related to the observations in this thread. That computer hasn’t been used to play any other games except GW2. And this started to happen around the time of the mentioned patch. The bad thing is, it seems that the card is now breaking down. There’s now artefacts appearing that shouldn’t be there and lowering settings will not stop drivers from crashing.

I’m going to RMA this card, and hopefully the same thing will not happen with a new one.

Rma takes time. I’d really make sure if the card is damaged for good before I RMA because if its not the card you will be sent exactly the same card but you will loose 1 week of your time. Try other games you can find them on the certain places if you dont wanna pay. Or try benchmarks.. Bios update might help. Also if you recently upgraded your GPU make sure its in the 16x slot in your motherboard. Try latest 3 drivers to see whether that makes any difference.

Also those artifacts might be due to overheating if the card is trying to boost itself on high temps for some odd reasons. Because it should only boost if there is a thermal headroom to prevent damage.

I tried Furmark as well and it certainly seemed it was broken, either the core/memory or the cooling itself. I took it to the shop that sold it and they said it might take up to 2 weeks. But the next day they contacted me and gave me a new card. So apparently they deemed it broken too :-). The new card works fine for now.

So in the end I’m not sure if it’s related to the recent engine changes. Or maybe it was just one factor in this. It also could just have been a coincidence that the card broke about a week after this thread was started.

coehl.2948:

Soupa.9842:

Yup GPU 99%, CPU 29%, Arenanet get it together bro. Turned EVERYTHING off and put EVERYTHING on lowest 25 FPS where as before if I put everything to lowest I would get 40 or 50 FPS, we’re just gonna have to wait and see.

Not to sound like the fanboy in the room, but they did say this one of many patches that were geared toward optimization. When they experiment, some will get dusted by it.

I’ve been troubleshooting the ever living crap out of this problem and you might learn a lot from the topic I have on Reddit. I keep updating it too since this seems to be fairly pervasive and it could either eventually culminate in ArenaNet finding one super useful piece of info and being able to tackle it, or some savvy user will find the fix and I can try to report as best I can.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1f3y46/guild_wars_2_being_too_gpu_heavy_now_wut/

I also took HwINFO and logged about 1 minute of chilling out in Lion’s Arch. Anyone with some guru-esque knowledge is welcome to review and tell me what they think.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apb3NSHZcmeldEU1aEhMc3JRZEd5Vm85dWNVM3FBcnc&usp=sharing

Log from my G73JH:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmOuv6Homx6cdHNqTWRfMGxFa241MU1ZUEo3Y0NSYnc#gid=0
Notes: 920XM instead of 740QM
GPU overclocked to 800/1100
Settings on Medium, AA off, Shadows off, Reflections off
Where: LA in front of Bank/small stairs area. Running from commendations vendor to Bank guy and to the Wynn[Merchant]
At the bottom of GPU usage column there’s an AVG value.
Min FPS: 39 Max: 60, measured with Bandicam

Heres to hoping today’s patch changes things.

PadmaN.7820:

Log from my G73JH:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmOuv6Homx6cdHNqTWRfMGxFa241MU1ZUEo3Y0NSYnc#gid=0
Notes: 920XM instead of 740QM
GPU overclocked to 800/1100
Settings on Medium, AA off, Shadows off, Reflections off
Where: LA in front of Bank/small stairs area. Running from commendations vendor to Bank guy and to the Wynn[Merchant]
At the bottom of GPU usage column there’s an AVG value.
Min FPS: 39 Max: 60, measured with Bandicam

Man, I’ve decked out so many desktops with custom hardware, I wish I had the guts to do that sort of thing with a laptop. You have an SSD on top of the fancy CPU don’t you?

Going to also add that today’s patch had no effect on my personal experience.
99% GPU, 10~11%CPU. 9~11 fps in LA, 6 entering Arah alone. I am noticing that the Hall of Monuments gets me 26fps. Strange.

No changes with the patch.

I suppose I should post my rig.
Samsung Windows 8
i7 processor 2.40 GHz
Intel HD graphics card 4000
8GB of RAM

20 FPS in SouthSun on low as before I would get 30-40 on medium/high. I read in the patch notes that they will still be working on this optimization thing. Please fix this soon. >-<

Dude /facepalm.

What you are experiencing is uneven refresh rate… 62-63FPS … turn on Vertical Sync (Not frame limit). Secondly seeing GPU at 90-99% load is GOOD. That means the game is using the GPU effectively.

DJRiful.3749:

Dude /facepalm.

What you are experiencing is uneven refresh rate… 62-63FPS … turn on Vertical Sync (Not frame limit). Secondly seeing GPU at 90-99% load is GOOD. That means the game is using the GPU effectively.

Makes no difference still about 25 FPS in Mount Maelstrom on low and 15 in Southsun.

Soupa.9842:

DJRiful.3749:

Dude /facepalm.

What you are experiencing is uneven refresh rate… 62-63FPS … turn on Vertical Sync (Not frame limit). Secondly seeing GPU at 90-99% load is GOOD. That means the game is using the GPU effectively.

Makes no difference still about 25 FPS in Mount Maelstrom on low and 15 in Southsun.

I wasn’t talking to you. I was replying to OP.

Yours in other hand, there is not much you can do with low FPS you will experience shutter latency frametime. Every monitor is standard 60hz and you need 60FPS (59.9 FPS) constant for a SMOOTH experience. If you go above or below that number. You will experience frame shuttering latencies over 30ms.

Samsung… laptop in my guess without graphic core module (GPU / dedicated GPU chip). HD4000 is not a GPU but iGPU which is integrated into Intel CPU. They are the lowest graphic performer. Hence the price what you pay for, don’t expect a $800 laptop can run games at max framerates.

DJRiful.3749:

Soupa.9842:

DJRiful.3749:

Dude /facepalm.

What you are experiencing is uneven refresh rate… 62-63FPS … turn on Vertical Sync (Not frame limit). Secondly seeing GPU at 90-99% load is GOOD. That means the game is using the GPU effectively.

Makes no difference still about 25 FPS in Mount Maelstrom on low and 15 in Southsun.

I wasn’t talking to you. I was replying to OP.

Yours in other hand, there is not much you can do with low FPS you will experience shutter latency frametime. Every monitor is standard 60hz and you need 60FPS (59.9 FPS) constant for a SMOOTH experience. If you go above or below that number. You will experience frame shuttering latencies over 30ms.

Samsung… laptop in my guess without graphic core module (GPU / dedicated GPU chip). HD4000 is not a GPU but iGPU which is integrated into Intel CPU. They are the lowest graphic performer. Hence the price what you pay for, don’t expect a $800 laptop can run games at max framerates.

Ran it fine before the patch, 40-50 FPS in most areas on medium/high.

coehl.2948:

PadmaN.7820:

Log from my G73JH:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmOuv6Homx6cdHNqTWRfMGxFa241MU1ZUEo3Y0NSYnc#gid=0
Notes: 920XM instead of 740QM
GPU overclocked to 800/1100
Settings on Medium, AA off, Shadows off, Reflections off
Where: LA in front of Bank/small stairs area. Running from commendations vendor to Bank guy and to the Wynn[Merchant]
At the bottom of GPU usage column there’s an AVG value.
Min FPS: 39 Max: 60, measured with Bandicam

Man, I’ve decked out so many laptops with custom hardware, I wish I had the guts to do that sort of thing with a laptop. You have an SSD on top of the fancy CPU don’t you?

Going to also add that today’s patch had no effect on my personal experience.
99% GPU, 10~11%CPU. 9~11 fps in LA, 6 entering Arah alone. I am noticing that the Hall of Monuments gets me 26fps. Strange.

Yes. Samsung 830 256GB SSD. Also custom thermal pads on gpu with very high conductivity and half the thickness of original ones to make sure extra heat from all the overclocking can get out quickly. And a 180W power brick to make sure CPU doesn’t throttle from lack of juice (was happening on original one). Using only SSD also saves some power (HDD needs more power to run) plus you can record in game movies. without major fps drops.

DJRiful.3749:

I wasn’t talking to you. I was replying to OP.

Yours in other hand, there is not much you can do with low FPS you will experience shutter latency frametime. Every monitor is standard 60hz and you need 60FPS (59.9 FPS) constant for a SMOOTH experience. If you go above or below that number. You will experience frame shuttering latencies over 30ms.

Samsung… laptop in my guess without graphic core module (GPU / dedicated GPU chip). HD4000 is not a GPU but iGPU which is integrated into Intel CPU. They are the lowest graphic performer. Hence the price what you pay for, don’t expect a $800 laptop can run games at max framerates.

That’s kind of missing the point. This specific issue for people like us did not start until recently (in my case, exactly the May optimization patch.) It’s easy to point at the machine and say “That’s your problem.”

Yeah, except it has a long history of running the game great, and still plays other games beautifully. You seem knowledgeable and I appreciate your input, but you’re underestimating the people you’re talking to at the same time.

I used to be able to play at 60 FPS in sPvP. I took a break for about a month, and now I have 10 FPS at the heart of the mists. While it’s empty.

Specs:
AMD Radeon 5870 1 GB
Intel Core i5 660, 3,33GHz
4 GB RAM
Win 7 64bit

What’s te point to play a game with all settings off and not enjoying all the best?
Aranet should solve all this issues and not saying to players turn off this and that and not giving the change to the players enjoying the game with the game recommended hardware setups.

Im turning to other games that don’t have these kinda issues.

I am still having issues a month later. I’m still hopeful for a fix but I’m wanting to go play other games now due to my drop in performance.

I have had 99% for a while but interestingly sometimes when I turn supersampling down to normal it still stays at 99%.
I know that they are doing performance tests.
I have also noticed a microstutter that I cant seem to get rid of no matter what settings I am using

DJRiful.3749:

Dude /facepalm.

What you are experiencing is uneven refresh rate… 62-63FPS … turn on Vertical Sync (Not frame limit). Secondly seeing GPU at 90-99% load is GOOD. That means the game is using the GPU effectively.

/facepalm

90-99% is NOT good, does not mean the game is using GPU effectively it is actually the complete opposite. Do your research and you will see.

I really wish a dev would maybe say something about the microstuttering because it is unbelievably annoying.
Could it be network lag maybe(maybe a ping indicator would be nice in the GUI :P)
Some dev notes about the performance optimizations would be nice as well!

I am starting to get concerned as well about the 99% useage. Any DEVS reading this?

Stormcrow.7513:

I am starting to get concerned as well about the 99% useage. Any DEVS reading this?

Hopefully they reply soon.