Guild Wars 2

hi guys i would like to ask, why i have lags in WvW of GW2. my PC ’s characterisics are 4g ram,
intel core I5-650 3.20ghz
and asus eah 5570/di/1gd3 lp 1gb.
could you tell me plz what i have to upgrade to not have lags in WvW with many ppl

also often my game crashes with asking to send a report.
thank you very much, waiting for possitive answers

Read this to understand why it lags in WvW

Read this to see what other people are running

tl;dr version
WvW is very CPU intensive & you will need a overclocked 2nd/3rd Generation core i5/i7 to run it without lag. (e.g i5-2500k or i5-3570k)

Do you actually mean LAG ? as in its true meaning? (high latency/ping causing delayed response)

Or do you mean ‘low fps’ ..meaning stuttery, juddering display ?

If its actualy LAG your getting then that is likely an issue with ur ISP or modem/router.

If its FPS issues then see what Kirito linked

thank you guys
It is like everething like a pictures slides, what does it mean lag or fps?

and i have also window fullscreen 1920×1080

The problem is your gpu, it cannot handle full hd resolution with that many players on the screen. Also overclocking the cpu might help your minimum fps.

kavlaki.9521:

thank you guys
It is like everething like a pictures slides, what does it mean lag or fps?

Thats low FPS. .not lag.

It is highly likely that if changing your graphics setitngs to low does not change anything, then your CPU is what is causing your low fps.

Yeah i have the same issue. I was watching my cpu usage when i was lagging and i saw that some core (i have an i7 quadcore) are overused (100%) while others are below 30%.
Im no specialist but it could mean that some code was written by a monkey…
Other games i play have a better balance of core usage…

GW2 has roughly 50 threads it uses to run. Of those around 3 are highly used and matter most for performance. When any1 of those 3 are running as fast as your CPU’s single thread performance can manage, thats when FPS starts droping.
Becouse of this you will see FPS droping even though your CPU & GPU are not yet 100% usuage, and this is also why you need a CPU with very good single thread performance to run GW2 WvW without droping below 30 fps (Intel 2nd/3rd gen i5’s(2550k/3570k) and above with OC)

Note: Thread does NOT = Core.

GW2 will not utilize more than 4 cores ‘properly’ becouse it runs on the old GW1 Engine (modified) and in DX9.

If you are using task manager to view core usage it can be misleading. What you are seeing is the avg cpu usage over time displayed. Threads work in short burst so a core can be at 100% for a fraction of the second, but task manager will display it as 15-20% etc. The OS will also juggle & bounce threads to different cores dynamically.

(Read Q8 to understand why in detail)