Guild Wars 2

I tried reseating the card multiple times with no luck. It is definitely in the correct slot as well since it won’t fit anywhere else on my mobo. It appears to be completely plugged in since everything is spinning correctly. As for temps, I’m out of town but will check on Wednesday as soon as I get back. I’ll be sure to check the secondary power cables though. Thanks for the help this far.

Update: I checked everything a second time and there doesn’t seem to be any issues with the placement or cables in the way. The temperature is sitting at 60C with fans running about 35%. It still only runs at X1 and on low settings I get less than 20 FPS.

Yeah its in the slot closest to the CPU…I don’t think it would fit in another one since my board is smaller.

I just tried to reseat it and there wasn’t a difference. I tried opening Battlefield 4 with it and I get 60 fps maxed out and GPU-Z still only reads as x1. Is there another option to fix this?

Here’s some specs

i5-6600k at 4.1
PowerColor R9 390
G.Skill DDR4
With everything on the lowest visual settings I get about 20-25 fps outside of cities and 10 fps by LA. Here’s a screen shot of GPU-Z and CPU-Z with the game in the background…

Any advice would be appreciated!

Here’s an update. I downloaded Battlefield 4 to try out and see if my system worked on it and I’m running the game on ultra settings without any issues. I guess GW2 might just not be optimized with my setup currently.

I ran a few stress tests and everything has come back fine. Right now I have the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and AMD Catalyst up with GW2 in the background. My GPU usage is full tilt and my CPU dips as low as 3% and spikes at 20%. As this is the only game I play at the moment, I can’t compare it to anything else. I’m currently at 21fps in Metrica Province…

I tried this the other day and even switched out the GPU with a friends card to see if my card was defective. His card performed about the same in GW2 but in a benchmark test my card blew his out of the water. It’s in the correct slot and will run at 100% (1000mhz) in LA but will drop down to 300mhz in PvE elsewhere. This is why I’m thinking it’s the combo of Windows 10 and the new skylake processor.

I can’t seem to get anything above 25fps with high settings on all new hardware. I am running…
i5-6600k clocked at 4.0
powercolor R9 390
MSi Krait mobo
8gb Ram
My OS is currently Windows 10, might that be the issue? I upgraded to a desktop to play on instead of my laptop which actually seems to run the game better at the moment. Not a tech person so any advice would be great!