Potential Fix (for some users)
I spent all day on this. I don’t have as good a rig as many of you on here, BUT I am running the game on high at around 30-40fps (which is plenty fluid enough for me). I only use x2 SLi Nvidia 260GTX cards. I haven’t done much in the way of large scale battles yet as I am still fairly new.
I was getting and average FPS of between 5-10. This was the same no matter what settings I put into the game. After hours of troubleshooting I nailed it down to the CPU. even though there was plenty of spare memory the game wasn’t using it (no idea why this was). So I downloaded the NVidia System Monitor and System Tools (you won’t need these, it was just to help me fact find).
I opened up the Nvidia Settings and changed them to run GW2 through my GPU instead of my CPU. Just for good measure I also got a game booster (I use iOrbit, but there are others) to close down all background processes whilst the game is running.
This solved the issue for me. I understand that this won’t work for everyone, but i can now play the game without it looking like I’m on a CCTV camera! I can now run the game on almost max graphics with around 30-40 fps. I’m sure there will be a better solution soon, but anything that alleviates pressure on your CPU should do the trick. The ultimate solution is get a better CPU. I’m still on a dual core, but properly configured (or overclocked) it does more than enough for me.
If the fps drops during large scale events or battles I simply plan to lower the settings, which my FPS now responds to
If this helps just one of you I’ll be happy – good luck guys