Guild Wars 2

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I’ve played GW2 for several hundred hours, and was getting fed up with my pc not being able to run it at optimal settings. I saved up during the time period and purchased a new pc with specs that would play this game very well. But GW2 does not run well on this pc, not at all.. My recommended settings are all HIGH* And this pc has no problem playing other MMO’s such as Tera, which i’ve heard is hard for lower end pcs to run.

Here are my Pc-specs

Windows 7 64bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0×6719)
DAC type: Internal DAC
Display Memory: 2798 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1015 MB
Shared Memory: 1782 MB
Current Mode: 1920 × 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)

I’ve tried the following methods that were instructed to me previously:
1. Reseating Graphics Card- My PCIe are x16 x2
2. Unparking Cores (all cores are now Unparked)
3.Disabled hyper threading (Noticed large improvement on BF3)
4.Closing all in-neccessary processes in the backround
5.Overclocking CPU (Then reset after second thinking it)

I have looked on every link, up to like the 100th page (hyperbole)
Anymore assistance that might have been overlooked due to lack of information previously stated, will be deeply appreciated.

I did that, and It did improve my fps, it’s no longer in the 10-15 but now in 20-30, so we’re making progress. Anything that GW2 runs better with?

Yeah people tell me that on game when I send them my pc specs, but i’m not…sooo idk what the issue could be? Perhaps there is something in the bios I need to change for this game? Possibly the amount of cores being used per processor? Or it could be the number of processors itself.

It’s FPS, I have sampling turned to native and reflections on ALL. It seems the higher I OC my cpu the better it plays, but I don’t have inter cooling so anything higher than 4.2ghz would cause harm to my system. But my old rig only has 2.8ghz and it was able to run the game 40-50fps

Ashley Segovia.8276:

I’m with Ilithis Mithilander on this one. I would definitely recommend moving this card to the x16 slot to get the full benefits of the card. If the card is already in the x16 slot it is possible the issue you are experiencing is hardware related or bios related. Reseating is a good step to go with first.

I reseated the card and it is now 16×2.0 YAY! But the game is still just as laggy as when it was at 8×2.0. Anything I could tweak with, maybe in the bios? Or maybe my hardware is just not up to par for this game.

Intel Core i7 2600K Temp: Core #0 46-50C, Core#1 48-51C, Package 47-51C
AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series Temp: 75C
HD6900 Bus Interface is still PCI-E 2.0×16 @ x8 2.0

Just checked bus interface, It says the card is capable of running 2.0×16 but is at 2.0×8
All of this was taken, 5minutes after starting the game, in open world.

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Two things;

First, I want you to check the temperatures of both your GPU and CPU while in the game after five minutes. This will allow the load temperatures to settle in to their maximum temperatures. If you don’t already have software that monitors your GPU temperature and CPU temperature, then I recommend getting HWMonitor, which can be found here:
http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/1.23-setup.exe

Secondly, you’ll want to make sure your GPU is actually using all 16 2.0 PCI-e lanes on your motherboard. I usually do this by downloading GPU-Z, which can be found here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2252/techpowerup-gpu-z-v0-7-2/mirrors[/quote]

Hi, thanks for the fast response! I checked to see if my GPU is using all 16 2.0 PCI-e lanes here’s what it says “PCI-E 2.0×16 @ x8 2.0”

I’ve played this game on my older rig and keep a constant 40-50fps on all low settings. I’ve been wanting to get more out of this game so I built a new rig and barely manage 25fps on low settings, any ideas?

Here are my new Specs:
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz (OC to 4.3GHz)
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4078MB RAM
Page File: 2297MB used, 5854MB available
Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0×6719)
Display Memory: 2798 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1015 MB
Shared Memory: 1782 MB

I have NO idea what could be causing the game to lag so bad on my rig, maybe bottlenecking. I really do enjoy this game and any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks