Having the same issues, sitting on an i5 3670k @ 3.40 GHz, and a GTX 670 with a butt ton of RAM.
Managing a clean 20 FPS in Lion’s Arch, turning absolutely cripples the FPS to 1.
Have tried tweaking every setting in both Nvidia control panel and GW2. Task Manager has nothing consuming any CPU power besides GW2 at about 40% or so.
Lions Arche is typical 40-60fps
Lions arch with a bunch of extra stupid looking tree’s and snow particles + fog density… well, there’s your 20fps.
turn environment down to low and reflections to off or medium. that should get you to a somewhat smooth 30-35fps.
This game needs more control over particle density and geometry lod
That’s a really poor excuse; my rig is much weaker than hers and is doing about the same performance-wise.. There is some optimization problem with the GTX600 series cards, there has to be.