Guild Wars 2

Thanks so much for posting your tips. I bought the game on launch mistakenly and i have an old rig like yours, looking for solutions every day to make this playable on my machine. Only difference is i havent oc my e8400 as i only have a stock cooler and temps get too high through bios tweaking. Got to 3.3mhz but was worried about 85 to 90 degrees with fan on full (1600). I have a 1 gig gtx 260 and 6 gig of ram. After much fiddling about im playing at 1920×1080 on auto detect settings, a few things are on low but im getting 35 to 40fps in pve. Not going to touch pvp or wvw (in it for the journey). Im going to disable some windows 7 services tonight and see if i can pull a few more frames is it dips a bit in heavily populated places.

Only thing is my gpu sits at around 35% most of the time and cpu on full so something may be wrong there.

Hey there. I havent encountered your issue but i would strongly advise you NOT to compress your hard drive. It effects performance so ive been told. Check your hdd for errors like the technical support suggested

Ill gradual increase and see where it takes me, im just scared ill screw it up again if i mess about too much, what is cuda umbra gpu if you dont mind me asking?

Ive got an e8400 3ghz core duo with 6 gig of ram and a gtx 260. I think the majority of people here are having trouble with their higher end cards. Dont get me wrong i dont have all my graphics options set high but to be honest it looks kitten fine on the resolution. Im not pushing my luck with medium or high settings, im quite happy with how it looks. Looking forward to actually playing it now!

I have been having problems with fps ever since the official launch of gw2. This isnt a magic fix but it worked for me. I thought that every time i did a custom install of my nvidia drivers it was a proper fresh install but reading on guru 3d’s website driversweeper was mentioned. I thought i would give it a go so i uninstalled the nvidia drivers, restarted in safe mode and ran driversweeper. I was amazed what nvidia files were still on there so i ran driversweeper and removed the rest of the files. After that i restarted in normal mode and did a fresh install of the very latest nvidia version files, restarted again, set my control panel to performance, power settings to max and single display and booted up gw2. Before i was dropping to 8fps when turning and moving but now have a steady 50fps. I could even bump up graphic settings in game and boost it a little. My rig is old but now i can play in 1920 and it looks and plays beautifully. Just try it for the giggles. I, like a lot of people on here were getting incredibly frustrated but now i can actually start playing properly. I really hope this helps somebody and hope you have some luck. Just make sure to follow the driversweeper instructions to the letter.

Cheers

Nick