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Unfortunately, gw2 is limited to CPU performance because it only makes use of 2-3 threads.This means that the speed of your CPU and not the number of cores determines your overall performance. This is assuming your other components are enough not to throttle the system in other ways, but I can guarantee your CPU is the throttling factor here. I have a similar system to you and get similar fps in LA. The only thing you can really do would be to overclock your CPU. After over clocking mine from 3.6 to 4.5, I got a few more frames consistently.
I will try to keep this nice and clean. Short story, if I salvage and refine a large number of items (10k+), my computer starts to get bogged down like nothing else. If I try to close the game at this point, it will freeze and I will have to force close it. As soon as I restart the game, things are back to normal.
Long story:
My Rig:
intel i7 5930k overclocked to 4.5ghz
nvidia geforce 980 ti
windows 10 home
16g ram
gw and operating system are on a solid state hard drive
Problem:
I have a system in which I buy large numbers of items from the tp, salvage them, and then refine and use the materials. When I say a large number, it will commonly be between 10-30k items/day that I will sit down and do all at once. When I go through and salvage these and then refine them, my computer gets increasingly bogged down and slow. It almost acts like lag, but isn’t since my ping is still good. I have started to watch my memory and cpu usage during this time. CPU usage seems to stay the same(bottlenecked on a couple cores while others are free of course, but that is gw2 for you). My memory usage increases throughout the process and the game seems to get pretty slow when it is using about 4.25gb even though there is plenty more ram available for use. If I wait a while for the items to scroll through on the side of the screen long enough, this usage slowly goes back down and the game gets less jumpy.
My evaluation:
The game seems to be storing all of the item “transactions” in a log so to speak, meaning that all of the items entering my inventory from the TP and then from salvaging are put into a queue that is then fed across the side of the screen. This queue eventually gets very large since I can salvage much faster than they scroll down. My guess is that gw2 has some sort of max ram it is able to use which is why I am running into this issue. Closing the game causes this cache to clear which is why it is back to normal when I reopen the game.
My Question(s):
First, do you all think my evaluation of the situation is correct?
Second, Is there a way to increase the amount of ram that is available for gw2 to use or force it to clear this cache from time to time without closing the game?
Third, is there a way to have the game simply not store all that information in the first place? I really don’t care if it scrolls across the screen or not.
I saw a QoL thread a while back, but don’t see it now, so I am going to make a new one. I don’t know about other people, but I find it quite irritating that have to sit and wait so long for my mithril/elder wood/etc. to refine into their respective forms (ingots/planks/etc.). Even with the “Craft All” button, we still have to wait a significant amount of time for it to craft which seems like it is simply a waste of time and not a needed part of gameplay in my opinion. An option that would simply allow us to instantly craft X number of the refined goods would be extremely helpful, but I can see how this could cause issues with the calculation of XP from crafting and and such. If that is the case, then maybe just speed it up. I know that refining luck takes less time than planks for example. Is it possible to just make them all go a bit faster or a way to let us determine how fast we want it to craft?
As previously stated, gw2 doesn’t make good use of multi-cores. I am running a 5930k (6 cores, 12 threads). If I look at my utilization by thread, 2 threads are maxed out while all the others are between 0-30%. The only thing I have been able to find to do to improve performance is overclock ( I have it up to 4.6 stable right now). My GPU doesn’t limit either btw (running an overclocked 980 ti).
A key ring for all the various keys(chak acid, bandit keys, crowbars, ect.) would be great.
Another option for UI size to make things more playable in 4k would be great. Making the UI scale would be even better, but I would settle for a “largest” option that was just another size up from what is currently available.
Something to do with luck after MF 300%. Maybe just something that consumes some everyday like mawdrey and all the others. Maybe make it traceable or useable in the forge. Jus something productive after we hit 300% MF.
I don’t mind the way the UI looks personally, but I would love to see it scale with screen resolution or have more size options. Because there are fixed sizes, it becomes unreadable at 4k resolution.