Guild Wars 2

After more testing, the start up frame lag only seems to effect me when there is some sort of fog effect and only for about 15-20 seconds. For example LA right now kills my machine. It also shoots my CPU temp up to 85. I can go to any other major city or zone so far and it will never go above 70. Has anyone seen this type of issue?

My Nvidia driver’s aren’t crashing on me. I think my issue is related to my CPU. I’m currently patching on my backup PC with the same specs just an older video card. I’ll see if the issue persists on that machine. My CPU utilization during GW2 play is at 60% on avg.

I am currently trying to troubleshoot this problem also.

I have similar specs

I5-2310 No OC – I’ve tried normal and Turbo in the bios settings no change
16gb ram
geforce GTX 660 ti on Beta and live drivers
Updated Bios on P8Z68-V Gen3 motherboard
Windows 7 64bit SP1

I did have CPU temp issue during GW2 play. It spiked on my monitor to 73c. I pulled it out repasted and seated it. Now it topped out at about 66c. I am going to grab a better CPU fan tomorrow morning. The problem is much worse in capitol cities. I’ve followed the FPS issues guide with no change. I’ve turned everything down on low and no change. Though on low the “recovery” time till it stops stuttering is considerably lower.

My current installation of GW2 was on a different HDD from my windows installation. I also believe it was from a former installation of windows. I’m currently installing a fresh copy of the game to work with to see if that helps.

Attached is a more detailed list of specifications of my pc. Any and all insight is greatly appreciated.

edit- also defragged, virus scanned cleared. The 660 TI is brand new today, as I had this problem with my 2x GTS 450 SLI, but even with the massive upgrade the issue persists.