Guild Wars 2

Hello, recently I’ve been having a very strange issue regarding my frame rate. Essentially, after about 10 or so minutes of playing the game, my FPS drops to ~5-10 from anywhere between 1-10 minutes. After the sudden drop, I’ll then be able to play at a regular frame rate (anywhere between 30-50) for a few minutes before having another random FPS drops.

These FPS drops occur seemingly randomly; they happen when I’m questing without very many mobs around, just walking around a small outpost or in a city. Sometimes I’ll be in a huge boss fight with lots of mobs and attacks – no problems whatsoever. It’s completely random.

During the BWEs this past summer however, the game was perfectly functional with no frame rate issues at all. Even at launch I was not experiencing these sudden/random FPS drops. I can’t think of a specific update where these issues began.

Laptop specs:
Gateway P-7805u FX
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 @ 2.27 GHz
4GB of RAM
GeForce 9800M GTS 1GB
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601)
I also updated my Nvidia drivers to 306.02 (the beta)

Edit: I run the game on the absolute lowest settings. Shadows off, everything turned down to low.