Guild Wars 2

After buying a new laptop a couple of weeks ago, with these specs (not the best but..yeah it did the job)
i5, 8gb ram, hd7670m 2gb
I was getting 40-80fps in pretty much every situation (medium settings) I was playing in, and would occasionally go below 30fp in WvW. But it was amazing and looked great. Logged in today, had too patch up, went in game, getting 15-25fps on low settings. I went on all my other games I’ve got (Tera, Rift, Battlefield, Mw3 etc) and they are still fine. So it’s not a hardware fault, but something to do with GW2. I’m worried because I pretty much bought this laptop for GW2…so I’m asking why this has happened and what I can do about it too get things back to normal. Help, please? Thank you!

First of all There is no way that You would get 40-80 FPS on medium and a lil below 30 fps in WVW with i5 and 7670 on Laptop. So that a simple lie

and it is hardware fault. You Cpu is botlenecking. it’s not powerfull enought to play this game at high fps.

I wish I could pop in a time machine or something, just too record my gameplay with fraps. EVEN I was surprised how well it ran. So saying that I am a liar pisses me off..OHWELL. And hardware fault when everything else I have is still running normally. Will have to return my laptop then..(Sarcasm) Honestly call me a liar all you like. I KNOW for a fact I got good performance before a few days ago..

I know what you are saying man. I’ve been called out on here for saying my laptop gets great performance (msi gt60, i7 3610qm, 680m, 14 gb ram, ssd), I run max settings, game runs great even in WvW.

What drivers are you using, some people are reporting issues with the latest nvidia drivers, try rolling back?

Medazolam.3058:

I know what you are saying man. I’ve been called out on here for saying my laptop gets great performance (msi gt60, i7 3610qm, 680m, 14 gb ram, ssd), I run max settings, game runs great even in WvW.

What drivers are you using, some people are reporting issues with the latest nvidia drivers, try rolling back?

There is a massive difference in having a laptop for over 1000$ which is top MSI gaming series with gtx680m and top end i7 laptop CPU with 3,4ghz turbo mode with base 4 cores/8threads then a 2 core/4thread middle/low end i5 CPU and a 7670m hd card which is (sorry to say that ) at the bottom of GPU chart for laptops.

Also COngratz Medazolam for reading his post and advising Him to get/check Nvidia Drivers while it’s clearly stated in his post that he uses AMD GPU Just congratz..

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Timelorder.9578:

I wish I could pop in a time machine or something, just too record my gameplay with fraps. EVEN I was surprised how well it ran. So saying that I am a liar pisses me off..OHWELL. And hardware fault when everything else I have is still running normally. Will have to return my laptop then..(Sarcasm) Honestly call me a liar all you like. I KNOW for a fact I got good performance before a few days ago..

Also tera & rift and BF ( which isn’t actually a CPU bound game ) aren’t even close in CPU requirements that GW2 needs.

I could say the same :" Oh my CPU handles WoW on 131028419 FPS but in gw2 it gets only 30".

You didn’t even care to post a specific code for your CPU. I presume it’s i5-2310m? or any lower ?

How do I know You did not get such FPs ? cause I got a laptop with 3rd gen i5 and a bit lower 540m GPU ( 120 score diff ) and same ram/gpu memory with CPu going to ~3,0GHz turbo mode and I barely had 50 FPS in pve. Not to mention slide shows in WvW.

Also the amount of posts blaming Anet that they “destroyed” Your gameplay with newest patch because you “got” lower fps after patching is kinda sad.

If I were you claming I had such FPS while ago I’d wonder what I did different on my PC/laptop by those few days while not playing or playing gw2 that could affect my performance instead of blaming the company.

Also as far As i Know most ppl complained on lower LA fps because of amount of stuff added to that town including myself. And only loser fps in that town. The latest patch removed winterday events etc making game go back in previous state which in that case should increase your fps instead of reducing it.

Also why you could not get 40-80 fps ? because Even in crowded LA you’d get as You posted that minumin 40 fps, in which case even top end PC stationary CPU’s can have some issues even while being oc’d.

So conclusion is pretty simple. There is no way that a i5 which in power/performance per thread that is weaker then simple i3 for Stationary Rigs could get performance of i7 for PC

Well actually it’s the i5 3210m :P I never said my laptop was good. I just said it as it is, I think I’ve sorted my issues out now anyway and I’m back to normal. Honestly you don’t have to believe me but, running medium settings and doing events and stuff, i can reach 80fps. Don’t know how…

Screen shot or it never happened.

Seems like the last patch did something to cause people to get lower FPS. Doesn’t seem like anything is wrong with his system.

All that has been done here was people claiming that someone is lieing about what they had happen and the goal was for him to know how to fix his problem: he had x fps and the next day he had much less fps and I have the same problem so you should not post if you’re not going to add a response that would help him, add to the discussion, or say you’ve had the same problem.

In Control Panel, try setting your Power Options to High Performance.

lol, laptop screen resolutions impact the most, OP is probably running sub 1080p which is why he can hit those FPS.

I can hit over 120FPS on my rig and apparently it will hit the FPS ceiling at sub 1080p but my screen is 2k (2560×1440) can barely keep up at 60fps at Ultra settings. Make senses.

Edit: LOL I just figured this is a really old thread.