Guild Wars 2

I am having the exact same ‘unstable’ problems here. One day the game is totally fine, with at least 80+ FPS.
The next day I log in, at the very same location, my FPS barely gets above 30. Actually, in the login screen it’s already noticeable in turning the character around.

EDIT: Point in case, I just logged in, and everything runs completely fine and smooth.

So.. No real solution yet? Today my FPS is horrible again. Every day it seems to be a gamble between fine-100 FPS and horrible-20 FPS.

As said, more people are having this issue since a few days.
It’s not a specific hardware related issue like dust or loose connectors, seeing that the issue spontaneously occurred to multiple people, who, before this, did not have this problem.

Well…
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/A-lot-lower-FPS-since-last-patch-es/first#post804349
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Large-FPS-Loss-since-last-patch-as-of-20-11/first#post826575
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Lagg-issues
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/What-s-wrong-with-FPS-dropping/first#post827934

More performance issues, by more people. The threads just keep piling on.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/A-lot-lower-FPS-since-last-patch-es/first#post804349
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Large-FPS-Loss-since-last-patch-as-of-20-11/first#post826575
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Lagg-issues

It’s not a one person, one specific computer setup issue. It’s a real and serious issue, affecting more people.

Exact same problem here. I already noticed this problem a few days ago:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/A-lot-lower-FPS-since-last-patch-es/first#post804349

You can try the thing from my last post in there. It worked for me a little while. After logging in today, however, the game is running horribly again.

I contacted support and after a few mails, I changed some settings on their request and now I have the game running smooth as silk again, just like before. This is what they said:

“Now upon researching your CPU, it appears that you have a Max Turbo Frequency of up to 3.3Ghz, which means depending on the load of your machine, your CPU may speed up, up to 3.3GHz

This can still cause issues, if the system isn’t properly balanced since it simulates over-clocking without actually over-clocking. Faster speeds means higher temperatrues, which can degrade performance. At this point you may think, “it worked before, why is this all of a sudden an issue since the last patch?” which would be an astute observation. It’s possible something in the last patch is making the system work harder, causing it to run at the higher speeds. Since this Speccy Snapshot was taken without Guild Wars 2 running, we know that with the game your might possibly be hitting that maximum Turbo Boost frequency.

We have a work around to disable the Turbo Boost, without having to go into the BIOS to make adjustments, I have included those steps below. Once complete please send us an updated Speccy with Guild Wars 2 running so we can check your hard ware configurations.

Go into Power options (Control panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options) and click Change plan settings near your plan

Then click on Change advanced power settings

Scroll down to Processor power management and expand it.

Expand Maximum processor state and modify the setting to 99%.

Then simply click Apply and OK.

Once done, try to RUN Guild Wars 2, let us know if your low FPS increases, and provide us with the updated Speccy. If the issues persists this will help us in determining the next troubleshooting step."

Try this and see if it works for anyone experiencing these problems.

Yeah, I noticed. The game isn’t that well optimized it seems. But I was content with playing on lowest settings for my native resolution.

Now that that’s not even possible anymore, this is just unplayable. It’s only playable at smaller than 1600×1200 resolutions. That’s not acceptable. I mean, noone is around, there are some deer, some trees, everything looks horrible and pixelated, and I STILL get around 30 fps.

I have, indeed, tried that. And while I re-downloaded something, and everything was reset to the defaults, this didn’t solve the problem. My FPS is still around 20-25.

That might indeed be a good thing to add. This FPS was not in a big city, big WvW battle, or in the Lost Shores event. This is just me roaming around in the Harathi Highlands. Moving to Gendarran Fields, a quiet zone in WvW or Heart of the Mists doesn’t solve the problem.

So, I have got this game for a little over 3 weeks now. When I got it, the settings were set to ‘Auto-detect’, and I got around 20 fps. This is, in my eyes, unplayable. The game and camera become a lot more unresponsive on low framerates.

So since that was unplayable, I put the settings to ‘Best performance’. This sets every setting to low, while keeping my resolution at 2880×1800. This was great, the game ran with about 40-60 fps, and was really nicely playable.

Now, since logging in yesterday, the game is, even on ‘Best performance’ with every setting on low, unplayable. I get around 25 fps, less when something is happening on screen.

I realize that there have been quite some patches the last few days. It seems like the patch yesterday caused this. I have not changed anything about my computer/windows or anything. I just boot to Windows to play Guild Wars.

My specs should be more than enough to play this game with low on every setting:
– Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30GHz
– NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory

I have tried the suggested steps in the ‘FPS and Performance based issues’ topic, but that didn’t really work. I never even had any problems since yesterday.

Is anyone else experiencing this since one of the last patches (specifically yesterday’s patch)?
Does anyone have any idea what to do about this? Having it on 1024×768 to have the game playable should really not be the case with these specs.