Guild Wars 2

Nvidia are the ones who develop the SLI profiles. Arena Net only develops the game and implements fixes to conflicts with the drivers Nvidia develops. That being said, if you are having SLI profile issues with Guild Wars 2, I would contact Nvidia.

I am currently using 2x GTX760s in SLI. My control panel clearly visualizes I am running Guild Wars 2 in SLI mode. (see picture attached). I can confirm that Guild Wars 2 is in fact SLI capable. Running Guild Wars 2 in SLI only reduces the stress on one card and spreads it to the other (Unless you plan to run the game above 1080p).

Guild Wars 2 is mainly CPU dependent. Once you reach the graphics threshold (from my testing 1x GTX760 is beyond that), You will not see a performance increase. If you are looking to boost your FPS, I would do some research to find out if your CPU is capable of running Guild Wars 2 at the desired FPS at the desired graphics settings. For example, if I were to upgrade my graphics cards to 2x GTX 1080 Titan Ti’s, I would not notice an FPS increase unless I was comparing my previous 4k resolution settings to the hypothetical new one. This is because my CPU would be the part that is holding my PC back.

I would try setting the following settings in the Nvidia Control Panel after making sure your drivers are up to date:

GLOBAL SETTINGS
-Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance
-Threaded Optimization: On (Allows games to take advantage of multiple cores)
-Triple Buffering: On (Smooths out V-Sync if FPS drop below refresh rate)
-Vertical Sync: On (Locks frame cap to refresh rate)

PROGRAM SETTINGS (Guild Wars 2)
Make sure all of the above settings are using “global settings”
-SLI Rendering Mode: NVIDIA Recommended (SLI)

I know this is a very late reply. Replying in case anyone else has this problem, as I have found a way to stop my game from crashing during world bosses. This may or may not work for all those who experience this issue, but it is worth a shot.

First of all, let me list off my complete system build.
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Asus ROG Maximus VII Hero
Intel i7-4790k @4.0Ghz (4.4Ghz Turbo)
16GB (2×8GB) G.Skill Trident X Series DDR3 @1600Mhz
2x Asus ROG Striker GTX760 4GB (equivalent to a GTX 970)
1000w PSU

Now as you can see, my system is well beyond the recommended requirements and should not have any performance issues while playing Guild Wars 2. I still crash about 90% of the time when doing large world bosses such as Teq, Jormag, and Karka Queen.

The solution that worked for me was muting main in-game volume while doing these high population events. Ever since I started muting my main volume, I have never crashed. It has been at least 2 years now, maybe longer, and I have yet to crash. Give it a shot and see if it works for you. If not, I’m sorry my solution was not the one for you!

Good Luck!

I tried to report this issue as a bug, but it seems the moderators of the forum do not care if their client / game has a bug that causes FPS issues and moved this thread to technical support which I was not asking for in the first place. So this thread is going to die with no one looking into this issue in the coding itself.

That being said, if a moderator would be so kind as to move this thread back to the section to report bugs, that would be nice.

Ellieanna.5027:

Behellagh.1468:

Ellieanna.5027:

Your GPU is running at x8 and not x16. You might need to reseat it, or check for dust.

He’s running dual video cards so on most motherboards that aren’t socket 2011, two video cards are supported by spliting the x16 PCIe to the CPU into two x8.

Oh, my bad.

The performance difference between x16 and x8 PCI-e is non-trivial, only 1-2 FPS at most would change. They are in fact running at x8 because I am running dual video cards and that is as high as they will go with both running. That could not possibly make my FPS in Gw2 cap at weird numbers. And let me remind you and anyone who reads this… this issue is not my computer being unable to bring the FPS up. It is Gw2 limiting the my FPS in the same way that V-sync does, or the 60 / 30 FPS limiter in the Gw2 settings.

Also, this issue has not been around for long. I suspect the update around the time of January 10th has caused this issue (this is not a specific date of the update).

Ellieanna.5027:

Chaotic.7615:

MrFayth.3546:

Chaotic, and everyone else with this problem.

If you could do a test for me. Download GPU-Z and when this problem occurs take a screenshot like this (Gpu-Z on top of the Gw2 window)

Ignore CPU-Z for the moment.

Here is the GPU-Z monitors on top of my Gw2 client. (There is one for each GPU). My FPS was not capped at the normal 17-19 FPS, however I made sure the FPS cap setting was not buggy by swapping it to 30 and back to 60 and it did not fix the capping issue. That being said, here are what the pictures are.
(GPUs overclocked from 1150Mhz to 1210Mhz and is very stable)
Pic 1 – High settings with low FPS
Pic 2 – Low settings with low FPS
Pic 3 – Low settings with high FPS (after restart)
Pic 4 – High settings with high FPS
Pic 5 – Ultra settings with high FPS

Can you post the picture with from the Graphic’s card tab as well.

Sorry, didn’t think you would need the base GPU information. Thought you just wanted the load information.

MrFayth.3546:

Chaotic, and everyone else with this problem.

If you could do a test for me. Download GPU-Z and when this problem occurs take a screenshot like this (Gpu-Z on top of the Gw2 window)

Ignore CPU-Z for the moment.

Here is the GPU-Z monitors on top of my Gw2 client. (There is one for each GPU). My FPS was not capped at the normal 17-19 FPS, however I made sure the FPS cap setting was not buggy by swapping it to 30 and back to 60 and it did not fix the capping issue. That being said, here are what the pictures are.
(GPUs overclocked from 1150Mhz to 1210Mhz and is very stable)
Pic 1 – High settings with low FPS
Pic 2 – Low settings with low FPS
Pic 3 – Low settings with high FPS (after restart)
Pic 4 – High settings with high FPS
Pic 5 – Ultra settings with high FPS

I would also like to inform everyone that my system monitor shows that the GPU / CPU / RAM usage all have very minimal usage. This FPS issue does not happen on any other game (tested on: AC: Black Flage, Unity, Battlefield 3 & 4, Call of Duty Ghosts, Smite, League of Legends, and Dying Light).

Recently I have started to have my FPS capped at random numbers such as: 17, 18,19, 31, ,32, 33 as far as I have seen. Most of the time it is either 17-19 though.

I have tried default clock speeds, disabling SLI, tested both GPUs separately. Nothing that I know of causes this to happen, it just occurs randomly for me. Changing my video settings does not improve FPS (this includes Fullscreen, windowed, and resolution changes). Ping is not relevant to my FPS capping.

As of now, the only way I know to fix the FPS issue is to restart the client. This issue as stated happens randomly on loading a new map (Very rarely) or after loading the game for the first time (most common cause).

PC Specs are as follows:
Asus Maximus Hero VI Motherboard
Rosewill Extreme 1000w PSU
G. Skill Trident X 16GB RAM – 1600Mhz (2×8GB)
Intel i7 4790k Quad Core 4.4Ghz hyperthreaded – integrated graphics disabled
2x Asus Striker GTX 760 4GB in SLI (Overclocked 10%) – drivers are up to date

This issue also occurs on my laptop (MSI GE72- 2QD Apache Pro)
Intel i7 5700HQ Quad Core 3.5Ghz – integrated graphics disabled
16 GB RAM 1600Mhz (2×8GB)
GTX 960m – drivers up to date

The first picture is my settings and FPS while at the laurel merchant in Lions Arch. The second is my FPS after a restart at the bank in Lions Arch. The third is my full screenshot of my autodetected settings (with one GPU disabled) in Verdant Brink.

More screenshots uploaded.

The new currency exchange WOULD be fine, if it was a new sub tab. Adding the quick exchange is cool and all, but it forces players to convert 70-80g to 400 gems just to buy a booster, phantom hood, or a Foil-Wrapped Candy… How do we know if we are buying gems during the peak or not? Oh right, we can’t because the price graph is gone…

BRING THE OLD CURRENCY EXCHANGE BACK!!!!

I am having the same problem but only with Jormag so far. It is really getting irritating. It seems to only happen on phase switches. ex: as the wall is destroyed, or as he lifts off after the melee phase.

I have tried lowering my graphics setting to the best performance option to see if that was the problem and it did not help at all. This happens every time I try to fight jormag and I miss out on his drops every time.