Guild Wars 2

Just wanted to thank whomever fixed SLi for the 8700m and maybe others. I am REALLY glad you all pay attention to your user base.

This is where I think too many other companies fail.

You have created a lifetime supporter of your products.

Oddzball.4280:

I just feel that Ive worked on enough computers in my lifetime to realize that 90% of the time its something on the user end, not the program.

Your graphics are either turned up higher then your hardware can support, you’ve got driver conflicts, a virus, virus scanner is slowing performance, OR it is possible that the 690GTX just has issues with the game. That isnt Anets fault, thats your hardware vendor’s fault.

Lol…

Previous to this last patch I could turn on the Nvidia SLi Visual Indicator and watch my GPU’s peak up to 80-90%.

After this last patch the NSVI stays mostly between 20-30% and never gets past 60% utilization. No matter what zone im in.

I am now getting 5-10 FPS no matter where I go in game.

However, in the character select screen my GPU’s hit 80-90%.

Someone tried to ‘optimize’ settings making this game unplayable again. This happened to me at launch too. 2 weeks later a game patch came out that fixed it…

Hope someone at AN is reading these….

Intel Duo2 Core 2.4Ghz
4GB RAM
Nvidia 8800m GT SLi 512mb + shared memory space

Yes you are 100% correct about the way they utilize 2 GPU cards I have dual 8800m GT’s on mine. For the first 2 weeks I was unable to play on a freshly formatted Windows 7 install with only GW2 and thier 2 reporting tools installed.

I turned on my SLi indicator and noticed that it peaked to 60% in the character select screen and 20% in the actual game screen.

It took them 2 weeks of telling me that I had something else installed on my ‘vanilla’ computer before one day magically after a ‘game patch’ everything was running smooth at near max settings. That was the day some dev said “oops, we forgot support for a whole bunch of Nvidia cards!” and added them in.

OF course tech support was not informed because they kept sending me ‘advice’ an how to optimize my PC (which i faithfully did to appease thier needs) yet fully knowing the problem wasnt on my end.

They have serious issues with thier Nvidia GPU support. There are a lot of cards that utilize ‘shared memory’ that never gets used up in GW2.

After this last patch im back to 5-10 frames everywhere in game. Im guessing that some other dev went in messing around trying to ‘optimize’ things and broke us again.

Of course, my buddy just bought his ATi 7870 (it looks beautiful) and was getting 40-60 (vert-sync=ON) frames all day everywhere.

Until this last patch…