Guild Wars 2

HOW I FIXED MY ISSUE

I just got the game about a week ago and was struggling with low fps the entire time until yesterday.

System was:

i5-2500k OC’d to 4.3 w/LC
10GB Ram
nVidia GeForce 9800 GT

Thinking I was well over the min requirements I was very disapointed when I first logged in and saw this horribly choppy game right in front of me.
I made various tweaks but could never get above 20fps.

I figured it was my dated GPU so I ran over to Fry’s and picked up a shiny new Radeon HD 7950 2GB. Got home installed it and BOOM…same thing. I over/underclocked both my GPU and CPU, tried 4 different ATI drivers including beta drivers…nothing.

Then I read something that I hadn’t tried and didn’t even think of. I know it has been mentioned here before but I feel the need to mention it again since I spent so much time troubleshooting this. Open your case up and make sure your card is plugged into the high bandwith PCI-e slot. When I read that I checked min and sure enough it was in the low bandwith slot. I moved it over to the correct slot, installed beta drivers and logged in.

I almost kitten myself when I looked at and the fps was sitting around 110. Moved everything to “Best Appearance” and it still stayed around 50-70 fps.

Just something to try for the people not wanting to read through the entire thread.

TL:DR: Move your GPU to another PCI-e slot.