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Finally got it to a stable 50 FPS (not the best, but I’ll go with what I can get) without any stuttering, although the GPU usage is still 100% the entire time. For those who may have the same issue, I went into the UEFI for my motherboard and enabled VT-d under chipset configuration.
Grats on solving the problem, or at least getting better fps. Do you play in a virtual machine?
No, I did try it with a VM but the issue was also the same on Windows 7 (until I enabled VT-d). I play it just fine on my main OS now.
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You get rewards for 100% completion, some random items and extra experience and such, so that’s something to keep in mind.
As for experience, all experience gains in GW2 are percentage-based regardless of what level the content is. So killing an enemy, finding a vista, completing a map heart, mining a resource node, all of it will always get you a certain percentage of progress to your next level, no matter if you’re level 10 or level 70. So you’re basically free to level however you want (you could in theory level all the way up to level 80 doing nothing but starter zones, or you can rush ahead and try to “keep up” as far as areas and your own level), and no matter what you do you’ll always be progressing your levels.
Great incentive for me to finish areas then, and a great way to do leveling in general really. Thanks for the detailed post, appreciate it.
Hey, just started GW2 recently and wondered if I should finish areas (get every last thing in them) or just skip them when I reach the next areas level like I’d do in WoW. Does EXP scale if I do them at a higher level?
Finally got it to a stable 50 FPS (not the best, but I’ll go with what I can get) without any stuttering, although the GPU usage is still 100% the entire time. For those who may have the same issue, I went into the UEFI for my motherboard and enabled VT-d under chipset configuration.
The user in the video seems to be getting high framerates at the very least, which is something.
Ya, it’s not he same problem. But its strange that he gets 100% GPU utilisation in a scene with not many players around.
Yep, definitely strange. I’ve had my fair share of experience with games being poorly optimized for AMD card on release, but GW2 is over 2 years old with several drivers made by AMD to resolve issues with it IIRC.
I’ll try sending them a ticket before I go to bed, hopefully they have some useful information. Even them knowing that it’s an issue would be better than nothing.
Hm, you could try an older GPU driver version and reinstalling the Intel INF Chipsetdriver. Reinstalling Windows and all other Software is a pain (unless you have a backup-image) and you have no guarantee that it solves the problem.
But after reinstalling the drivers and redownloading the game, i would be out of options too.
EDIT: I search for: AMD 290x 100% and found that other have the same problem with GW2 too.
The Video is from 14 nov 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP4tcfAQsS8
Tried installing two different old drivers, entirely uninstalling the one I had installed previously with DDU and the issue persists. I don’t think it’s a driver issue. I’ll be starting a virtual Machine with Windows 7 and then redownload the game on both just to make sure it’s not an OS issue. After that, well I’ve got no clue.
The user in the video seems to be getting high framerates at the very least, which is something.
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Have you checked running the game with no sound? add -nosound to the targetline in the GW2 shortcut.
You could check if the gw2 archiv is broken with the -repair command. Doesn’t take as long as redownloading the whole game. Going to try installing older drivers for my card and see if that changes anything.
You could also check if you get better performance with the -umbra gpu command.
Tried running two games as suggested early and the same issue occurs, tried with boss Dark Souls 2 and a heavily modded Skyrim both in windowed mode. Alt-tabbing to GW2 just brings up the usage to 100% as usual. The no sound command didn’t seem to help either, I’ll try repairing the game’s data archive now, hopefully that helps.
I’ll try out the umbra command after it goes through the repairing process.
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The repair didn’t fix anything unfortunately. Tried the umbra command and it raised my CPUs usage to about 30-40% but the GPU is still sky high at 100%…
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This is indeed strange. Have you checked for Viruses? Could be a Bitcoin mining Virus.
Yeah, I’ve scanned my computer entirely using both Malwarebytes and Kaspersky just to make sure it wasn’t a Bitcoin virus, both show nothing. Even if it was there and neither of them could find it, why would it only run when Guild Wars 2 is open?
I’m not sure if I have many options short of redownloading Guild Wars 2 or reinstalling my OS (not willing to do the latter). If I can’t manage to find a solution to the issue I’ll just have to download the game overnight.
My first guess was that the GPU stays in a low power state (low GPU core clock), but you said it doesn’t.
Made sure of it using MSI Afterburner, monitored temperatures, clock speeds and usage.
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Recently bought this game in the sale due to the amazing deal. I read that this game is CPU intensive more so than GPU intensive, but it seems to be always capping my GPU usage at 100% while my CPU cores are around 10-20% each. Whether this is the cause of my extreme stuttering and lag, I don’t know.
I’m getting 10-20 FPS (with insane stuttering) in the human starting zone regardless of what settings I use, it’s always capped at 100% GPU usage and I can say for certain that the GPU isn’t underclocking itself. Running a XFX 290x reference card, with an Intel i5 4570. Tried reinstalling drivers, de fragmenting my hard drive and scanning for any potential malicious software that could be bogging everything down but no luck. All other games run fine, tested Shadow of Mordor, FFXIV, Skyrim and they all run just as usual with no problems.
Any help would be appreciated.