Guild Wars 2

Nvidia has 306.23 drivers out now

Varna is correct… there are these underlying hardware driver “issues” that will take time to hash out… whether that will happen in the next 6 months, tough question to answer.

That in addition to tweaks with the GW2 coding… will see the results … give it 6 months… then re-evaluate… with all the recent MMO’s out; they have all had these issues… unless they were made for Pentuim 2’s like hmmm… what was that horrible game thats been around forever and still stinks… oh yeah… WoW… Kung-Fu Panda hax — roflmao

Update on my “tweaking”

Any other AMD-8150 users out there… make certain your mobo is latest bios…. some new ones came out recently… also make sure your mobo OS drivers have been updated as well… same thing, new ones out last few months. I get 15-25% better GPU utilization now and better framerates…

It’s not hard to admit. I see the data and have almost the exact results. It still plays great and I have no issues. At least I know exactly what to change on my PC for better gaming performance. Cheers to a processor/mb upgrade in the near future.

GPU – EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Classified
OC’d to 700 MHz cores, 1900MHz memory

296.10- 30-35 fps in general spikes to 40s
301.24- 33-36 fps in general spikes to 42s
301.42- 33-36 fps in general spikes to 42s
304.48- 34-42 fps in general spikes to 50s
306.02- 35-46 fps in general spikes to 54s Still not super but the best I tested

I recommend downloading the latest Beta drivers for you NVIDIA cards, not necessarily availiable from NVIDIA site but the most recent ones can be found easily on the EVGA website — http://www.evga.com/support/download/

Other tips for NVIDIA driver settings:

• Make your CPU the PhysX primary processor
• If you have the option, change Power Management Mode to Prefer Maximum
  Preformance (not Adaptive)
• I have a multi-GPU FSAA enabled (so will be SLI mode no matter other settings)
  and achieved better results with Multi-GPU rendering mode set to
  NVIDIA recommended (vs AFR 1 or AFR 2)
• Vertical sync and Triple-buffering Enabled

These adjustments helped my fps up 4-6+ easy.

Every system is different, but these would be the things I would look at tweaking first.

Hope this helps

Anjrew.5931:,
I’ve had same issues with OC or not having no effect on FPS. It’s barely tasking my GFX card at <55% GPU utilization per core, so that generally leads me to believe driver refinements are what will fix this problem.

CPU (Processor) – AMD 8150 (8-core) OC’d @ 4.0 GHz
Motherboard – MSI 990FXA-GD80
GPU – EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Classified
OC’d to 700 MHz cores, 1900MHz memory
RAM (Memory) – 16GB 1600MHz DDR3
Graphic Drivers Used – 306.2

GAME GRAPHIC SETTINGS
Resolution – 1920×1080
Refresh – 60

All settings maxed out/ultra

Getting 35-55 fps with dips into 22-27 fps range.

Plays perfectally smooth except for the occasional dips.

Not noticibly affected at all by mobs or effects.

Not sure why there is no difference in fps with 64x AA or 2x? no real visual difference either…

Questions:
1. Does this game disable FSAA, or is it just not currently availiable with my
current driver implementation?
2. Why can I not play this game pegged out at 60fps no matter the settings?
3. Are these just limitations with the way DirectX 9 is implemented in this game?