Guild Wars 2

I want to emphasize the fact that my GPU and CPU are not being stressed at all, and changing my settings from ultra to low and back and forth makes NO DIFFERENCE in my performance.

Latency causing FPS issues? I don’t know about that.

My connection is 50 down 30 up.

I have been struggling with FPS issues in WvW since launch.

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 930 Processor (4x 2.80GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 – 1GB – EVGA Superclocked
Memory: DDR3-1800
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R

I get about 50FPS in PvE on high settings. Sometimes it dips to 40 in places like Lion’s Arch. I can turn the settings down to low and I’ll get 60 quite steadily.

In WvW, I get 10-15 FPS max during any sort of conflict with people and it fluctuates making me sick to my stomach. I can turn my settings to ultra, or to the lowest they’ll go and the FPS stays at 15.

Running EVGA precision and monitoring my CPU via taskmanager shows that my GPU never exceeds 70% load (hovers around 70c), and my CPU never exceeds 70% either. One thing I noticed on my card though is that when I have been WvWing for about an hour and the lag is bad enough, the core and shader clocks on my card will start fluctuating up and down. No idea what that means.

Is it my card? My CPU? Just the game? I’ve rolled my drivers back to the current release after using the 306’s since launch. Zero difference in performance. The fact that in WvW my FPS remains the same (~15) with settings on ultra or on low is what has me perplexed.

What is causes me to have these FPS problems? I have never had issues before GW2.

Help is appreciated.