Guild Wars 2

I get mostly playable frame rates outside of large cities (avg about 40-45fps), but I feel like I could achieve a solid 60 if the game put more of my CPU to work.

Right now GW2.exe only puts my CPU under about 25%-35% load. This might be fine if my CPU was super high end, but it’s not. I’ve always read that this game relies heavily on CPU, so why the hell isn’t it using it?

Is there something I can do to get higher CPU usage, or is the game just that badly optimized?

AMD x6 1055t @3.3ghz
ASUS 5850 DirectCU @ 850/1150
4gb g.skill

I know i’m due for some upgrades, but I see no reason I should have to when the game can’t even put to use what I have now. I get better performance in newer games like Battlefield 4, perhaps because it actually puts my system to work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

You’re right, with higher CPU usage you would get better FPS. However the problem is that this game only uses heavily 2 or 3 cores of a CPU and yours happens to be a 6-core, thus even at full demand you would’t see usage much higher than 50%. Whether this is question of optimization or something else (which at this point is quite irrelevant since we can’t do anything about it directly), the only option right now is to get a CPU that has higher per core performance. Just remember that CPUs with the same per core performance but 4 cores vs 8 for example will give you relatively same FPS, just different usage % (which being at half is not a bad thing, the computer needs to compute other stuff in the background as well)

kittenball.1086:

Right now GW2.exe only puts my CPU under about 25%-35% load. This might be fine if my CPU was super high end, but it’s not. I’ve always read that this game relies heavily on CPU, so why the hell isn’t it using it?

Is there something I can do to get higher CPU usage, or is the game just that badly optimized?

code work sequentially. The game is using as much resources as it can. The problem is that some portions of the code might be holding back the rest of the system or the other cores of the cpu.

kittenball.1086:

I get better performance in newer games like Battlefield 4, perhaps because it actually puts my system to work.

Anybody can make a system work. The real question is anet using those resources efficiently.

kittenball.1086:

I get mostly playable frame rates outside of large cities (avg about 40-45fps), but I feel like I could achieve a solid 60 if the game put more of my CPU to work.

Right now GW2.exe only puts my CPU under about 25%-35% load. This might be fine if my CPU was super high end, but it’s not. I’ve always read that this game relies heavily on CPU, so why the hell isn’t it using it?

Is there something I can do to get higher CPU usage, or is the game just that badly optimized?

AMD x6 1055t @3.3ghz
ASUS 5850 DirectCU @ 850/1150
4gb g.skill

I know i’m due for some upgrades, but I see no reason I should have to when the game can’t even put to use what I have now. I get better performance in newer games like Battlefield 4, perhaps because it actually puts my system to work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

use GPU-Z and let us know if your GPU pegs at 99% utilization, and what % Your per core CPU% is.

Also, what zone(s) are you taking these performance samples from? LA is going to be the worse, because the Fountain is using a high res graphic for the snow glob under all setting models. So that is why LA sucks the most right now. Best testing is done out in the world, like QueensDale.