Guild Wars 2

Hrm, it’s odd. Playing GW2 my CPU is around 50% useage. But the GPU is only between 20 and 30% when I have the windowed fullscreen GW2 in focus. If I click to have the youtube video (chrome) in focus, then the GPU utilization actually raises to 50%. This is measured in AIDA64 (Utilization -> GPU).

Overwatch (as another example) I’m getting 97% GPU usage. And it behaves normal best I can tell (and around 100fps).

It’s almost like it doesn’t know GW2 should have priority. I get high FPS, but then it stutters, and the FPS fluctuates alot.

I upgraded to a i7 6700k, and currently use a AMD 280x, running Windows 10 64-bit clean install with the latest 16.5.3 crimson drivers. I’m running the latest motherboard drivers/firmware and so on.

I’m having trouble tracking down the cause of random stutters where the game will constantly freeze the screen for a split second, then go back for normal, every 10 seconds or so. Meaning I can’t even turn around in the world without it stuttering. I’ve tried both the 32 and 64-bit clients and the problem seems to happen with both.

The only cause I can find so far is if I’m running a video, youtube, twitch, whatever on the second monitor the stutter happens continuously / reliably. Even if I’m running something simple like Spotify on the second monitor. And if I run nothing on my second monitor then the game runs quite smooth.

This mainly seems to be a problem with Guild Wars 2, as I haven’t noticed a harsh stutter like this in any other game. I originally thought it was Samsung Magician or Asus AI Suite 3 that were causing the problem. I removed those and things were buttery smooth… as long as I’m not running something on my second monitor.

Thanks for any help. Getting stumped on this one.

I should add, that for me it didn’t seem like ‘just’ a fps issue, but actually random pauses for a second here and there.

edit Eventually found out it appeared to be a bad motherboard driver or something else having an adverse effect (it was a fairly clean/recent install). I installed Intel RST and Intel MEI… without those my system is running way better overall. The stutter was just most noticeable in GW2, but was apparently effecting me overall as I’m now getting double to tripple my FPS in HoTs as well.

Wondering if there is any official word about the 64-bit client and performance issues? There is a huge thread on reddit about it. I for one am running a core i7 6700k and amd 280x, Windows 10 and the game was randomly pausing really bad. But going back to 32-bit and it’s silky smooth.

Anyways, love the game. It’s been driving me crazy trying to figure out what is causing stutters, but it appears to be the 64-bit client being the worst offender for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4lmcqd/is_it_just_me_or_are_the_fps_getting_worse_and/