Guild Wars 2

You’re not really going to be a able to use supersampling at that res with that card without really cranking back some other options.

I’m running a very similar system you yours, factory overclocked (and some more) 560Ti, i7 930 @ 4.2GHz, 1920×1200 display. I get pretty much 50-60 FPS (except in heavy WvWvW/busy cities) using FXAA, native sampling, high shadows and reflections at the mid-setting. All other settings at max.

The moment I tried supersampling I would start being GPU bottlenecked (checking with realtime GPU graphing). I would suggest trying settings as I have them, not sure how clocked your EVGA card is but you shouldn’t be too far off my own performance since you’re playing a a slightly lower res.

Personally I don’t believe this should ever become an option, reason being is that it is no more than a band-aid. All focus should be on fixing the performance issues, not covering them up.

“Ah well, they can just turn off the graphics, all is OK.” – No thanks.

Nvidia users should look into http://blog.orbmu2k.de/tools/nvidia-inspector-tool with it’s Multi Display Power Saver module. While it’s mostly to work around the multi-monitor driver bug, you can use it to force performance/power states on either an application level or GPU/VPU usage threshold.

Personally I noticed that GW2 wasn’t always triggering the P0 (maximum) power state and used this to fix it.

This is also a great game profile and tweaking tool for your cards.

Edit: Google translated link http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://blog.orbmu2k.de/tools/nvidia-inspector-tool&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://blog.orbmu2k.de/tools/nvidia-inspector-tool%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1256%26bih%3D1000%26prmd%3Dimvns&sa=X&ei=zDlOUPTzBMm5hAfc7oHQCQ&ved=0CCAQ7gEwAA