Guild Wars 2

That’s what happens when you didn’t bother to check if your problem was actually a graphics issue before spending loads of money.

My GTX 465 runs at like 40% all day long, yet I only have about 25-30 fps in town.

Try overclocking your CPU for a more noticeable improvement.

If it makes you feel better, my gpu is running at 83c right now. But then the GF100 have a thermal limit of 105C and they are well known for running super hot. Plus it was core unlocked to 448 cores and overclocked 13%…

Been running it like this the better part of the last year and a half or so.

And the previous post’s suggestion of checking your fan speed seems to be key. They like to err on the “quiet” side, and the default drivers run the fan pretty slow.

It would be nice to walk into an area and see old broken signs pointing out towns from GW1 here and there, or monuments/statues depicting what a town use to be.

I was thinking about this today in the… I think sylvari area, when I ran across some terrain that reminded me heavily of a mission in GW1, for obvious reasons.

Then, upon walking into a small outpost type thing later on, I realized it was yet another town from GW1 that hasn’t aged very well in particular. It would be nice to see remnants of the past, so to speak, in a much more obvious manner. Point these things out to those of us who haven’t been there in literally years, and to those newcomers who have no idea what they are missing.

I’m positive. I remembered a specific word in the dialogue, and upon my revelation did some googling and there it was.

Overclock that quad to 3.0 or so. Results may vary, but at 3 ghz with my Q6600 I am sitting at 30-45 fps out in zones, maybe 25 in towns.. but that is with maximum graphics settings @ 1920×1080. If I turn things down to medium I can get 50-60.

Going beyond 3 ghz has resulted in a drop in FPS for me since the last patch, but I suspect that it is a problem with my memory frequency.

Just to update things for the sake of information, when running at 2.4 ghz I was getting 25-30 fps. Bumped that up to 3.0 ghz and am sitting pretty comfortably at 40 fps in the same area, a difference of about 10 minutes so the population in the area has not changed much.

Turning my sound quality down got me up to 45. Now, sitting in a little town area with only 2 other players in around I am sitting at 55, which was totally unheard of before.

I think I am going to start shopping for a new CPU cooler so I can bring my cpu back up to 3.8-4 ghz like I used to run.

Yup, I am mixing up my games. In the process of typing out a big rant about how I can’t recall where I am getting this from, I remembered I am thinking of the female follower’s story from Diablo 3 and the Vizjerei ruling from their ‘beautiful, towering cities’.

But now I am curious.

I recall something vague about some grand magical society that lorded over everyone else from their high towers in the mountains, I want to say in the Shiverpeaks specifically, but I also might just be in a Guild Wars frame of mind right now and mixing it up.

I might be thinking of another game. But I am gonna go do some digging.

Actually with any decent motherboard it takes about 5 seconds to do. And the Q series has always been notoriously good at taking huge overclocks. My 6600 was up to 4.1 ghz on air. I would be running it that high now, but the fan on my cooler kicked the bucket months ago. I have been running it on purely passive cooling since, even with the OC.

Temps never go above 140F. Yes that is a bit high, at 60C if you are used to that measurement, but that is under 75-90% load on all four cores.

At any rate, if he has basically any aftermarket motherboard, he can do it in short order. Don’t even need to play the balancing act of performance vs stability and start messing with voltages, just bump it up a little bit.

My latency has always been extremely low, and I see this happening as well. I have unconsciously learned to just deal with it, but it makes timing dodges and blockskittennear impossible when an enemy is at very close range.

Check your utilization and temps on that card. Entirely possible that a driver and software conflict is causing a very specific problem that overheats your card. It has happened before.

Also, at the risk of being crucified here, RIFT has seriously horrible resource management as well, and they haven’t done crap about it except tell people to update their drivers.

Oddzball.4280:

OR it is possible that the 690GTX just has issues with the game. That isnt Anets fault, thats your hardware vendor’s fault.

I disagree with your statement, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Game devs typically go through a compatibility process with major hardware. This includes current, and to a very limited extent future hardware if something has been finalized internally but not released to the public. I am sure anet has all kinds of fancy software from both AMD and Nvidia to test compatibility, and hardware vendors typically follow a very strict set of guidelines in terms of what modifications they can make to a reference design.

They do not always however utilize it to its fullest potential.

That is not to say you are wrong, because you aren’t, just that this particular thing is on both sides of the fence.

Cbuzz.5083:

Masta Squidge.7438:

Cbuzz.5083:

PC is VERY low end OP. Do you really expect to run a brand new MMO perfectly with 5yr old hardware? C’mon now…

I do so just fine. /shrug.

Yeah it chugs a bit when I get 50 people on screen and am trying to watch netflix at the same time, but with my OC at over 3 ghz, it generally does just fine.

A 3Ghz overclocked quad is far from a Stock 2.33Ghz quad like Op’s. Not sure why you are comparing here..

What I am comparing is that he has a much better processor than I do, and is probably running lower settings for graphics.

His CPU can run 3.0 ghz all day long, should he choose to do so.
His cpu is better than mine in literally every single way except for the clock speed.

Cbuzz.5083:

PC is VERY low end OP. Do you really expect to run a brand new MMO perfectly with 5yr old hardware? C’mon now…

I do so just fine. /shrug.

Yeah it chugs a bit when I get 50 people on screen and am trying to watch netflix at the same time, but with my OC at over 3 ghz, it generally does just fine.

Hate to be that guy, but his list gave you all the information you need.

The problem here, as it is with most of us, is the CPU is the bottleneck in basically all MMOs. Every time I up the OC on my Q6600, my framerate increases slightly.

In some cases the bottleneck is a problem with the motherboard simply not being able to keep up with the hardware installed in it, but in general a low FPS that barely changes, or doesn’t change at all when you drop your graphics setting means your CPU is choking things.

A q8200 is stock at 2.33 ghz. It has better overall performance in properly multithreaded applications than my Q6600 @ 2.4 ghz stock, but the slightly lower clock speed seems to be the problem here. With my Q6600, I sit around 25 fps at its stock clock speed. This would be inline enough with his results given my slightly higher clocks and differences in hardware that I would consider it within the margin of error.