Guild Wars 2

my specs:
AMD FX™-6120 Six-Core Processor
10 gigs of ram
gtx 660 superclocked

i want to run the game on max settings but the fps is really choppy, sometimes its 60fps and above but sometimes it stutters and drops to 30,20 and sometimes even 10 for a split second. Is there something wrong with my specs that the game wont run smooth?

Did u check if ur gpu utilization was close to 100%? If you know how to oc and your motherboard supports it and you have good cooler I would myself overclock it. But core parking may help little ur fps problem.

http://bitsum.com/about_cpu_core_parking.php

When does this happen? large events or WvW? GW2 is CPU bound and your CPU is probably holding you back, I have a i5 2500k OCed to 4.8GHz and it still holds back my GPU. GW2 does not make use of the extra threads very well and does better on fewer higher clocked threads.

10 gig of RAM? That’s an unusual configuration. How are your sticks arranged?

It’s the AMD processor. GW2 favors intel’s single threaded performance superiority. Don’t worry; I have the same issue.

Avelos.6798:

It’s the AMD processor. GW2 favors intel’s single threaded performance superiority. Don’t worry; I have the same issue.

It’s not the AMD processor, depending on the setup some settings need to be sacrificed for better performance. The FX series processors love to be overclocked, but at the same time they spew tons of heat. Invest in good cooling, find what settings will bring your fps up higher then go from there. Also check around on Microsofts website for Bulldozer/Piledriver specific hotfixes for the Windows scheduler, those fix problems within Windows itself and helps GW2 performance as well.

Mikikira.1574:

Avelos.6798:

It’s the AMD processor. GW2 favors intel’s single threaded performance superiority. Don’t worry; I have the same issue.

It’s not the AMD processor, depending on the setup some settings need to be sacrificed for better performance. The FX series processors love to be overclocked, but at the same time they spew tons of heat. Invest in good cooling, find what settings will bring your fps up higher then go from there. Also check around on Microsofts website for Bulldozer/Piledriver specific hotfixes for the Windows scheduler, those fix problems within Windows itself and helps GW2 performance as well.

no, it is the the AMD processor. The intels are far superior in single threaded performance, which is what GW2 wants all of the time. My processor is overclocked to 4.2 GHz because I don’t want a huge overclock, it’s watercooled by a Corsair H100 high performance CPU cooler, and I still get only around 35-45 FPS in lion’s arch and awful performance in WVW zerg fights and world boss fights. Many people have stated this on the forums, even some IT guys. And those hot fixes will hurt the performance much worse than improve it. I have tried it and I uninstalled them immediately. They are untested with unofficial release notes. Then again I only really tried that ‘hotfix’ with a couple games before I even tried Guild Wars 2. But I’m fine with what I got for now so it’s fine. The only way you’ll get consistently good frame rates 50 and above in all areas if you perhaps overclocked to something like 4.6 GHz or better on an AMD FX 8 core processor or 6 core processor. But you’re running at 5.8 GHz so your signature suggests so that may be how you have good performance. But you have to put a lot of time and careful settings in to have that sort of monstrous overclock.

Where I get say 55 FPS on my processor in a place while running 4.2 GHz, my friend is getting closer to 80 or 90 on his i5 3570K build clocked at 4.3 GHz with 8 GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 7770.

The game’s engine is just outdated and horribly optimized for today’s stuff offered by AMD.