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I get poor performance in the game in most areas on my rather powerful computer. I notice that the camera movement is way more laggy what is playing out on my screen if my camera is idle. My reported FPS seems false, way higher than usual. In Lion’s Arch I actually get worse performance with Crossfire even though my reported FPS is nearly doubled when using Crossfire. I’ll get a reported 50 FPS with Crossfire in Lion’s Arch but it plays like 15 FPS. When I disabled Crossfire I get around 30 fps but it is so much smoother and more playable. During these times my GPU utilization is very poor, generally 50% on 1 card and 20% on the other. I swap between full-screen and windowed mode and lately I’ve been keeping it in windowed mode because it has a better worst-case performance but oddly in some areas Crossfire gives much better performance. I’m having a hard time grasping what is exactly going on.
Enabling Vsync actually helps the camera be more responsive. With an FPS cap in some areas it helps smooth it out. The sluggishness I feel is very regular. By regular I mean it is skipping a very consistent amount of frames, it isn’t jerky when it is running slow, it kind of slows down “fluidly”. It feels throttled or poorly optimized, but this is a gut feeling and I don’t have much for facts to back it up. What I can tell you is that my 2nd card’s utilization is very erratic, if it is averaging 50% load it is rapidly jumping from 25% usage to 75% usage.
For reference, I can play WoW at the absolute max settings @ 1080p in a busy area and average 100+ fps. Same with BF3. I’m quite tech savvy and work in IT as well. My hardware is running fine, as far as I can tell. It seems like GW2 is just simply not able to make use of my video cards. My CPU averages 70% load and very rarely spikes past 95% on 1 core. I think I should be able to run this game much better than it currently is with this rig.
I have no real solution. Just throwing my cards on the table.
Specs: i5-2500k @ 4.7 GHz
RAM 8GB @ 1866MHz 9-10-9-27
SSD Storage Crucial M4 64GB
Crossfire’d 2x Asus 7870s @ 1100/1300MHz
GPU Driver – 12.8 with 12.8 CAP 2
I am having the same issue. The FPS on the counter doesn’t seem accurate when moving the camera about. I run i5-2500k @ 4.7GHz, crossfire 2x 7870s. The entire time my second card is spiking in utilization while the first card uses 25-55% utilization. But this only happens in some zones some of the time. Oddest thing.
Didn’t do anything for me =/ I’m not lagging or anything. I get like 30 fps on my one card, but I want to know if I can get higher. That download didn’t increase any of my fps when I turned both cards on. Is there any official news from Anet that Crossfire does work for GW2?
Try turning Vsync on. That did the trick for me. It didn’t lock my FPS to 60 but it started playing better with Crossfire. Let me know if you get the same results… I’m running 2x 7870s