Guild Wars 2

Phaze Delta One.2834:

GW2 is using Havok Physics. It doesn’t matter what you switch Nvidia Physx to in NVCP, the physics itself will always be calculated off the CPU.

you would think that. However forcing physics on the gpu in the nvidia control panel dropped my cpus usage from 100% to ~50%.
I doubt changing that one thing in nvidia would have done this is if wasn’t related.

I’m runing:
i5-2500k 3.3ghz
16gb ram
460gtx 1gb
win 7

I would like to add that I boosted my fps by forcing the phys-x to be done on my graphics card. Doing so dropped my cpu usage from 100% to 50%. However, my graphics card still is maxed out.

Also, my card only thinks it is maxed out. When the loader comes up (game isn’t up, just the login client), my gpu jumps to 85-95% load. So, either that is onekittenimpressive splash screen that it taxes my gpu more than other games do. Or, the game is confusing my card into think it is using resources it isn’t. I mean forcing phys-x onto the gpu instead of the cpu increased fps, despite the gpu being at “100%” previously.

Nothing is being throttled as far as I can tell. I’ve disabled throttling and monitored speeds. They are all still clocking appropriately.

One final note, changing settings between minimum and high results in a difference of maybe 5 fps.