Guild Wars 2

loseridoit.2756:

Guild wars 2 is a cpu bottlenecked game. Normal behavior

But using upwards of 100% of a cpu clocked at 4.64? I think that’s a little steep even if it’s cpu bottlenecked game. I guess I should also add that it’s an i5-3570k.

So I just noticed this today, but it may have been going on for longer. In Lion’s Arch, my CPU is consistently using over 90% of my CPU , even with the clock speed at 4.64. That’s crazy. It’s usually at 100%, but it lowered when I alt-tabbed out to take the screenshot. Has anyone else seen this happen? I lowered my graphics settings to the minimum, but the usage still above 80%. I have no other task open that take more than 2% of my cpu, so this is pretty absurd.

So after a few hours playing today, my client started freezing (windows telling me the application is not responding) about two minutes after I launch the client, whether that is in a loading screen or playing. I tried multiple characters so it doesn’t seem like a regional thing, and went ahead and check for driver updates and disabled virus protection. I also checked for any extra processes that may have been running, but I’m still getting these freezes/crashes. ArenaNet log attached.