Guild Wars 2

I am having a horrifically significant drop in FPS as of TODAY, 9 September 2012. I didn’t get a chance to play yesterday so there is a chance that the issue existed then as well, but since internal Beta I’ve been playing with a solid steady 60 FPS with all settings maxed out. As of logging in today I can’t get past 4-10 FPS even with all settings dropped to minimum.

I’m running an i7 at 3.5mHz with 16GB DDR3 and a GTX 580 1.5GB card. I’ve never had an issue and I don’t have any issues with any other applications or games.

The strange thing is that it isn’t even trying to utilize my GPU at all! None of my clock speeds increase of strain under the game’s load, and GPU temp doesn’t even get up past 30C!

WTF? This game was optimized so smoothly up until now, and none of the issues I’ve read about have had ANYTHING to do with poor framerate, so why was something like this affected or changed with a gameplay patch? This is pretty disappointing, and I can’t even narrow down the reason behind it. I’ve tried isolating every graphical option to see if it’s just one feature causing it to fail so massively, and no one option in particular seems to do it. I’m running the latest NVidia drivers, help?