Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, I’m here because I have serious problems with GW2 performance, and I hope that someone can help me. Before I start, I must say that I am absolutely not an expert of PCs/software/hardware, and I never overclocked or ‘manipulated’ anything.

I play GW2 on an Asus G73sw laptop, and its specs are

Windows 7 64
Geforce GTX460M 1.5GB (with the latest beta drivers, checked daily)
8GB RAM
Intel i7 2630QM

I play with everything on medium, and while normally my fps is about 50-60, after a few seconds I log in a strange phenomenon begins: often, even if I stand still, the fps drops to 15-20 for about two seconds, and then rises to 50-60 again. This event occurs spontaneously, but curiously also every time I open the Black Lion Trading menu, when I change tabs, and even when I look the various Style Tab accessories. These continuous slowdowns are totally destroying the gameplay, because the game shifts from 60 to 20 fps almost cyclically, creating a frustrating stuttering experience expecially in combat situations.

I read about checking CPU and GPU temps and usages, and I did various tests in game, so here’s my observations and notes.

- While the slowdown seems to happen when the game needs to ‘load’ something (Black Lion tabs for example) and I thought that it might be a Hard Disk problem (like for the infamous Diablo 3 stuttering issues), in GW2 the HDD leds don’t blink during the stuttering so it doesn’t appear that it’s ‘working badly’. I also tried with an external drive, and it didn’t change nothing. I run the defrag tool every week so it’s not a fragmentation problem either.
- Modifying graphic settings alters the maximum fps, but it does not stop the problem. Even putting everything to minimum does nothing for that.
- When there are ‘special effects’ like snow, smoke, and combat flashes, the problem appears more often. It’s not that my pc can’t handle those effects because even if there are 10 pgs, it stutters randomly for two seconds and then jumps back to 50-60… Only to return to 10-20 after a couple more seconds. For example, in Hoelbrak and Lion’s Arch crafting area I stutter almost cyclically, while in more ‘plain’ zones these slowdows are less frequent.
- It’s obviously not a ‘specs’ issue because a friend of mine with an inferior laptop plays with less maximum fps, but no stuttering problem, using the same (if not superior) graphic settings.
- I noticed that while I play, the CPU usage is about 25% average, but ‘CPU 7’ in the monitoring program appears to have a constant 80-90% usage (that becomes 99% when I alt-tab to check). I don’t know if it’s a meaningful detail.
- CPU temps are about 70 °C.
- GPU usage is constantly 95-97%, and its temperature is about 85-92 °C when I’m playing and not alt-tabbed.

Since I understand almost nothing about Pcs when things become technical, I have no clear idea of what the problem could be. I read somewhere that for a GPU such a high temperature is ‘not alarming’ and ‘normal’, but I’m not too convinced about that because others said that it’s too high. Before telling me that I should have opened my laptop to clean everything as my first try to solve anything, mind that I can’t do that without making the warranty void, so I tried other solutions first. While I still suspect that it may be the cause, can the GPU overheating really be correlated with fps drops during things such exploring the Black Lion Trading menu? Or are these problems ‘know issues’ or something similar that don’t have nothing to do with the heat? Can I consider myself in the “unreasonable GW2 bad fps club”?

Thanks in advance to everyone that knows something or has ideas about this. And sorry for my ignorance if the solution is stupid. :P

So, I have a Norn Guardian on Fissure of Woe (but this doesen’t really matter), and I’ve take a personal story helm reward (Strong Helm of Vigor).
It was pretty cool and I’ve trasmuted its skin.
…Aaand..
The NOSE clipped with the helm! Absurd.
Now I have a kitten helm with a ‘mikey mouseish’ nose (like a dot at the center of the face).
I understand that clipping isn’t the most important issue that Anet devs have, but this is lacking of good sense, especially after all those words on the importance of the aestetics and the character personalization :\
I mean, is the FACE clipping with the helm. It’s like if foots were clipping with boots, but it’s worse becase it’s the face (one of the most important part of the body, aestetically speaking.)

I’m sorry if this post took your time, but this is a shame. Yet, sorry if my words are flaming-like, I’m only heavily concerned about this lack of attention.

Best Regard,
Kaithros Vijzbarkas.

Hi Gw2 Community & Staff! it’s my first post in this forum, so don’t be rude, please. I’ve already reported this bug ingame, but I want to be sure that someone reads it (No offence intended.)

So, few days ago In the ‘Fissure of Woe’ EU server, while I and my friend were in the same party in the Wayfarer Foothills, maybe an overflow version, we trade some stuff via mail. (I’m giving as mach data as I can.)
Nothing happened, but when other guildmates tried to mail me smething, their mails never arrived to me. Nor mine to them.
In this way we lost 4 silver 2 Green equipments and about 100 Iron ore.
My ingame name is Kauthros Vijzbarkas, if it will help.

Another big issue happened today. I was buying [Bone Shard] at the Black Lion Trade Post when the ‘Buy’ button freezed. My intent was to buy 3-6 of them (1s each), so I clicked a few times.
Than my founds lowered by 34s, more or less.
I checked in the ‘income’ box, and it results I bought nothing. I’ve looked up the ‘Things I’ve Bought’ log, and only 3 Bone Shards were registered.
So, Is there a way to repair this loss?
Or are those money/mats/equipment lost forever?

Sorry to bother, and thanks for your Time.
Shanaxe

P.S : English is not my motherlanguage, I hope my writings are readable.