Guild Wars 2

Very welcome Fundor.

fmaga.1802:

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It should be correct O.o
in what we have to change? We have this problem only with GW2

Your GPU is also not going into its full x16 speed. Make sure its in the PCI-E slot closest to the CPU and re-seat it if you haven’t already.

Erickmwc.9135:

are reaching it’s maximum capacity even while I’m writing here with nothing more open (except avast) – http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/16/01/31/52j.png

We need to see a screenshot like the others have provided, the main tab on GPU-Z with Gw2 running.

MSI and ASUS is known to make quality coolers, the rest of the card is largely the same.

What’s your CPU, though? Gw2 is MUCH more reliant on CPU single core strength than anything with a GPU.

Infact, if your current GPU is moderately recent and mid-grade or above, you’re probably fine with it.

So to recap: What’s your current PC specifications? CPU,GPU, RAM and Operating System.

I don’t think its possible,currently,to do anything about minion/illusion/turret damage floaters. I know I would greatly enjoy being able to consolidate minion damage into a single 1 sec floater.

Auto attack+conditions+minions..it does get hard to read.

Yea load times in LA are pretty bad, even on an SSD.

The first load into LA upon starting the game will take +17 seconds, every load into LA after takes <15s. Loading pretty much any other map takes <6 seconds.

The biggest factor I can see in load times is the number of players in the immediate load area. Loading into Sparkfly takes no time…unless Tequatl is going on and you load to Caer Brier Waypoint.

Hello Mr.Peters!

First off,thank you for being so interactive with the player base.

Secondly; I started a thread on the GW2 Subreddit this morning moments after your request for feedback. It now has over 150 replies.

Give it a read

Hatebeast.5806:

Recently updated my GeForce 660 to a GeForce 960.

That wasn’t much of an upgrade at all. Discounting DX12 capabilities(which wont help in Gw2), your 660 is actually stronger in some areas.

They both have 2GB of vRAM but the 660 travels over a 192-bit bus compared to the 128-bit of the 960. Giving the 660 a higher Memory Bandwidth than the 960(144GB/s compared to 112GB/s)

The 660 has 80 Texture Mapping Units compared to the 960s 64TMUs. Giving the 660 a higher Texture Fill Rate( 78 Gigatexels a second compared to 72)

The 960 does have more Render Output Units than the 660, 32 vs 24, giving the 960 superior Pixel Fill Rates( 36 gigapixels per second compared to 19).

At the end of the day..Id consider this a sidegrade as far as Gw2 is concerned.

Slight upgrade for other,future, gaming needs.

StevenL.3761:

If you’re gonna dismiss the circumstances under which I did what I did then we cannot have a meaningful conversation.

The only circumstances you’ve provided thus far are

• You “cheated” (Which is a broad term. How did you cheat? Botting UW? Throwing GVG matches?)

• You were young

I was 16 when I started Gw1 and i knew cheating would get you permanently banned.

Going to need to see System specifications,ingame graphic settings screenshots,GPU-Z Screenshots and areas ingame where you’re experiencing these FPS.

Cant hardly help when all the info we’re given is “Game broke,plz fix now”…

First off,that video is a pretty terrible way to show performance/specs/settings by itself. And we still dont know what GPU/CPU you have.

Pictures would get you more views/replies.

Secondly, your settings, from what I could see, aren’t optimal. Certain options like Reflections, Shadows and Best Texture Filtering can really kill FPS with little to no visual improvement. Turn reflections to Terrain and Sky to start with,might need to drop more depending on your GPU.

And last but not least! Your CPU is getting throttled like mad. The highest clock speed I observed was 3.42ghz but it was usually running at .77ghz,or 770mhz,which is terrible for any recent CPU while gaming and is the largest part of your performance problems.

Summary; we need a list of your CPU specifications and screenshots of GPU-Z while GW2 is running. For now look into Power Profiles, i have a feeling you’re running a Low Power/Power Saver setting.

Edit: And temperatures, grab HWMonitor and watch your CPU temps while gaming. Post a screen shot of it here after running for a few minutes.

That is strange behavior.
You’re using Windows Resource Monitor to view the RAM usage?

Just loaded up to do some testing and the highest I could push the RAM usage was at the crafting station in LA. Used a little over 1.8gb. Tried various things for over half an hour and still 1.8gb was the highest usage and that’s with most settings on high.

Also, your GPU is up to the task of running GW2 on a mix of High/Ultra. The most crippling part of your GPU is the 1GB vRAM but GW2 uses very little vRAM. I’ve never seen it go over 900mb on my r7 260x 2gb. Gw2 is much more reliant on a strong CPU, which you have.

Crank everything up to high besides

• Relfections- Terrain and Sky or None (I run None)
• Shadows- High or Med
• Render Sampling- Native
• Character Model Limit/Quality- Medium/Medium
• Best Texture Filter- Unchecked
• High Res Character Textures- Unchecked

Those settings will determine your average performance more than others.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Why does the forum go down for you? Too much traffic where you live?

Some times the forums wont work for me,or is painfully slow, after a large update. Usually when the launcher is having trouble updating this happens.

As for OPs question: The Gw2 Reddit page usually has patch notes up very quickly(within minutes). Not to mention a user, That_Shaman, data mines the .dat file and finds all kinds of hidden things that aren’t mentioned.

Gw2 doesn’t currently, actively, support 4k. Meaning your User Interface/chat will be very small even on the largest settings. It’s not terrible at 1440p.

As for performance. That’s mainly dictated by your CPU.

Post your system specs and I can give you better insight as for what to expect.

Yep,its ANETs servers at fault here,that why this subforum is flooded with posts just like yours. (Heres a hint; this is called sarcasm)

You shouldnt post in the tech section with zero info about your PC/internet configuration,especially if you’re going to ignorantly point fingers at Anet.

Come back with more info about how you connect to the net,where you are,maybe do a Tracert and post the results here. We can figure out your problem.

Well..I’m going to assume the majority of us aren’t and cant read slovak. It might be good to put a little effort into your posts if you want help.

Aside from that. It’s an Ideapad. Even if it says “gaming” in the label, it’s not a great gaming machine. The processor(i7 4700MQ) isnt terrible but it is a mobile chip,which are low powered compared to desktop counterparts. The singlecore performance of your CPU is the largest factor in your overall performance with GW2 and a higher core clock would do much more than the extra threads that hyperthreading provides on an i7.

The GPU is mid-tier,at best. But it’s also a mobile chip which is,again, underpowered compared to Desktop GPUs. The fact that it has SLI doesnt help much at all in Gw2. It might actually hurt performance since SLI,from what ive seen, doesn’t play nice with Gw2.

If that’s the speed while idle on the desktop,that’s fine.

If that’s during Gw2,yet other games push the cores to full speed, something is amiss.

Not sure what would cause the discrepancy,what model of CPU and Motherboard do you have? My first inclination would be the C-states in your BIOS but if you havent changed/updated anything before or after Gw2s performance took its fall..im unsure.

Are you talking about Mastery Points?

…Might want to do some wiki searching on the issue. You should be spending those points.

Maze.3825:

Bellelaugh does have an incessant need to poke at apparently every single 4k forum post.
She or he also pretends to have Anet’s protocols for programming delegation in demand.
Question to Behellagh :
Which Anet protocol claims they or any other MMO revises itself based upon some quasi /steam / hardware review ?
Long live 4k dreams and 64bit clients!

Behellagh responds to posts..Almost every post made in the techsupport section. Not just those dealing with 4k.

Belhellagh also responds with a manner that is appropriate in regards to all the dev interaction we’ve seen about 4k UI, which is none as far as I can remember. Though im not searching the forums for this worn out topic at the moment.

There are very few knowledgeable people who frequent the techsupport section, you’re insulting one of them.

Have had very few latency issues in the recent months. Those I did have were short lasting, usually manifesting in the form of slight skill delay and other players warping around maps in 3-10 foot leaps.

Glad to see improvements nonetheless!

i5 4690k@4.1ghz, r7 260x 2gb 1175/1680, 8gb G.Skill RAM,Gw2 and Win7 Ultimate on an SSD.

East Coast with Time Warner Cable.

Leetsura.3507:

I wonder what’s so difficult with having someone post the same information on the forums, the first and foremost place every gamer has ever gone to when experiencing problems.

OMG THIS 100x
When i have a GW2 problem,i dont check Facebook,Twitter or Reddit. I do the logical thing and check GW2 Forums…I’m surprised they dont make us friend them on Myspace(thats still around,right?) to get information.
-_-

On topic!
I had maybe 2 minutes of errors trying to log in while a friend half a mile down the road couldnt stay logged in for more than 10 seconds.

This isn’t the place to get an anet employee to assist you about account transfers…that would be Customer Assistance.

Inculpatus’ replies haven’t been “pointless”,they’re on point as far as I know.

The CS team has not made any special exceptions for players wanting to transfer servers to be with their guild, military service or not.

SmoeboeZA.5849:

some kind of memory leak

In my experience,memory leaks just progressively get worse untill the game is unplayable and you have to do a restart. It never gets better on its own.
Then again ive never had a problem with Gw2 FPS/memory leaks.

Sounds to me like a process starting in the background and eating your CPU cycles.
Might want to run the game in windowed mode and start Task Manager while your game is running " 27-30 FPS" and take a screenshot of the active Processes,Then take another screen while its running “7-10FPS” to compare.

Cathan.8047:

Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit.
AMD Radeon R9 200 series HD. Two of them.
Intel i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60 GHZ
16.0 GB Ram, x64-based processor

Edit: It magically fixed itself when I quit the game and restarted it.

Glad it resolved itself but in the future,here’s some info for ya.

The R9 200 Series isnt a graphics card. It’s what it says it is,a series. An R9 290x is a specific card.
And the R7-R9 series doesnt use the HD suffix,that was from the previous AMD 7000 series.

That’s CPU-Z, it’s a similar diagnostic but it’s unneeded in this(and most) situations.

The problem is your “Bus Interface”, the motherboard is capable of PCI-E 3.0 x16 but what it’s showing while running is PCI-E 1.1 x16 which is severely limiting your bandwidth.

Try pulling the video card out and putting it back in, “Re-seating”. It usually solves the issue.

It should scale down to x16 1.1 when on desktop/idle. That’s normal.

If you’ve tried turning down the troublesome settings(Reflections,Supersample,shadows) and the problem still persist, I’d next flip over to the “sensor” tab on GPU-Z and keep an eye on your GPU temperature. If it’s reaching 80C it’s likely thermal throttling.

Your CPU will “downclock” to save power and create less heat when it feels the full speed isnt needed. These are called “Power States”.

I’ve never heard of Argus Monitor…I’d try CPU-Z to verify that the clocks are going full speed while GW2 is running. There’s 0 reason it shouldn’t be at max unless its over heating.

Also,after a large patch and if you have Gw2 on a HDD,you might try Defragging the Hard drive. Use a 3rd party tool,like Auslogics Defragger, to ensure the Gw2.dat is in good order.

Yea that’s just a power ceiling,not a forced boost. Required for extreme Overclocking mostly.

It is CPU heavy in the fact that it does most of its draw calling on 1 main thread off of 1 core. It won’t max out a newer and strong processor like yours,but it will stress what 1 thread can do on it.

Make sure your reflections is set on Terrain and Sky or Off, Shadows on high/med, character limits/quality on med/high( I like medium character limit for PVE,high for WVW), and make sure you have Effect LOD ticked.