Guild Wars 2

Reporting in as well. I have the Chak Cache achievement completed.

For those of you experiencing this issue look into swapping some RAM! Another friend of mine experienced this very same issue(!!!) and swapping some new RAM in fixed it entirely.

Leamas.5803:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/19792/Intel-Processor-Diagnostic-Tool-64-bit-

The ROG Asus Realbench utility (Works for any brand of motherboard, not just Asus) can be used to benchmark the machine and has a test that will stress both CPU and GPU at the same time rather than isolated tests, such as Furmark.
http://rog.asus.com/file/?download=RealBench_v2.41.zip

These will be useful for any diagnostics in the future, thanks!

It looks like the RAM was the culprit, even though it had been stable for quite a long time beforehand. I’ve already placed an order for some new RAM from Amazon. The performance decrease was just completely unexpected and occurred in the middle of a play session for no discernible reason. Nor could I figure out the cause. Just trial and error of going through each and every piece of hardware/software and whatnot proved to be my solution.

I’ll mark this as tentatively solved for now. Thank you for the assistance. After swapping some more parts out, my preliminary diagnosis is either a bad RAM stick or a dirty socket. Using some 6 year old RAM seems to be working, though I may not be able to survive at 8 gigs.

Leamas.5803:

Check your Windows event viewer and see if it’s throwing errors or warnings somewhere that might point to an issue.

Just as a test, try lowering your GPU clock speed to, say 830 (~10% reduction), just to see if anything changes. Probably won’t help in this case, but would potentially rule out flakey GPU overclock as a possible cause. GW2 tends to be very GPU heavy and can cause issues with overclocked GPUs, even those that are factory overclocked.

Event Viewer:
Nothing out of the ordinary here, mainly just service announcements to tell me they are enabled. I do have one warning that is interesting, it is telling me one of my ethernet cables is not plugged in. This is true, as only one of my NIC ports is filled.

GPU:
With the base overclock

With the underclock

Dronikal you’re in a fight with a few dozen people in an area with some sketchy optimization. My issue is persistent in all game modes with no discernible reason why.

Staring at the floor in Auric Basin in an area with 1-2 people was about 3 FPS.

I’ll open this topic with an image: left is ingame, right is some data

My Computer specs:

Windows 10
Intel i5 2500k @ 3.4ghz (issue occurs at 4.0 overclock as well)
16gb DDR3 RAM
Radeon HD 7970 (Using new beta drivers, problem occurs on rolled back drivers as well)
OCZ-AGILITY4 128gb SSD (Game installation drive, OS is on a Crucial M4)

I am at complete wits end. I am the one who usually helps people with issues of this nature. I have run the extreme gamut of ideas to identify and fix the problem I am having with JUST Guild Wars 2. I am getting >100 FPS in Planetside 2 (a game with legendary performance issues) with all settings maxed in quiet areas, and 40-60 FPS in busy fights. My computer also runs just fine in Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft. An hour long Prime95 test did not unearth any facts either.

I was running around Tangled Depths last night when my frames suddenly dropped to ~5 FPS. I figured it was some sort of antivirus scan so I opened up task manager to find that Guild Wars 2 was utilizing <20% of my CPU instead of the usual 80%+. Figuring a fluke, I restarted the game and watched the CPU usage. Everything up to and including the character screen worked fine. I could rotate my characters, swap between them easily and they would load all nicely and behave. However, the moment I would try to enter the game world, GW2 CPU utilization would begin dipping rapidly, and my frames would go with it.

A full restart of my computer proved fruitless, with the pattern repeating itself no matter what I tried while using the 64-bit client. I tried just about every option and command line available to modify how the game would run. I tried many permutations of graphics options from extremely low (on average a 1 FPS gain) to extremely high (no difference). I tried this same testing on the 32-bit client as well. I copied the game folder over to another one of my SSD’s and tried running the game from there — still ~5 FPS and <20% CPU utilization.

In frustration, I formatted my C drive and did a full reinstall of Windows 10 to rule out any malware present that would specifically target GW2. I installed the latest beta drivers from AMD for the 7970 and started the game with nothing else installed and all options left default. To my dismay, 5 FPS and <20% CPU utilization. I ported to different zones, Divinity’s Reach and Auric Basin to see if it was a zone specific issue (god save the queen) to no avail. I took the next logical step and uninstalled my GPU drivers and removed the 7970 and ran the game on integrated graphics. Predictably the game ran incredibly poorly, but still indicated <20% CPU utilization on the task manager.

My computer is clean, inside and out. Temperatures are not a problem, I do not smell anything burning and my fans are functioning. I have made zero hardware changes recently (what is money? baby don’t hurt me) and prior to the issue, no driver or other software/firmware changes that would explain this.

(Note on DxDiag — I installed the AMD beta drivers after I started experiencing this problem. Before the format and reinstallation of Windows 10 I tried an older set of drivers and that did not help either.)
DxDiag:
http://pastebin.com/QEjVBFMu

Collecting the Invisible Mushroom Spore only counts for one of my elite specialization collection achievements. It seems like this item is only available to loot once per day from the event completion chest.

http://imgur.com/a/JmjSw

There is a screenshot on reddit of someone with a 28s time on the leaderboards. I wonder what this person was doing?

http://imgur.com/PULWr5v

Why is this a thing? It doesn’t even show the correct locked dialogue. Don’t lock me arbitrarily out of content because a clock says so. Especially for content like this that requires refinement for hours on end. I don’t want to have a forced break.

I do not see how it is possible, barring some crazy movement hacks, to obtain a time anywhere near a minute. The course is so long, I do not see how anyone can even get near a 2 minute time let alone a ONE minute time.

If you have anything even sub 2 minutes, post a video here please.

The class feels like it’s in a very good spot right now, apart from a few minor flavor issues I have with the class. The only major feedback I can provide is the difficulty I have changing legends out of combat, especially when I have the Herald elite spec. The little arrows are so small that I’ve ended up just swapping active legends and putting it on a 10s CD or activating Facet of Nature.

Maybe adding a right-click option to bring up possible swaps, or making the arrows a teensy bit bigger (especially for the left, inactive legend) would make this little UI quirk much easier to handle.

It does not do that Kronos. A friend did that for his characters for the previous weekend and he still had his old bank. He deleted them a week beforehand.

Here’s my issue: occasionally when I zone into a personal story instance, after a few seconds (3-10s) I will get a loading screen, and I’m back in the regular game world where I started the story. I have struggled with this with the personal story from level 10 to Victory or Death. I zone in and without any warning (or sometimes even any input, no hands on keyboard) I get zoned out.

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and do NOT recall having this issue before. I am out of ideas between the googles and a variety of help topics I’ve searched through. I’ve looked through firewall settings and whatnot, but I didn’t find anything out of the ordinary there. I have some video evidence I can search through and upload if that will help, but it’s just me running around then getting ported out.

I get gold by spending about 1-2 minutes at an event. Make the mobs drop loot, maybe I’ll stay.

If the mobs dropped any kind of loot I may be more inclined to stay.

But as it is, nah kitten that, meteor shower and move on. :^)

Scaling all the way from one green to the big daddy, a rare Shaman’s Insignia.

You appear to be overencumbered.

Ayrilana.1396:

Nikaido.3457:

I don’t know how I should feel about this game these days. They removed all the effort spent in levelling alts to higher levels and turned us lvl 30 account wide without even fulfilling the very simple promise of : shortening the dredge fractal and making sure we don’t get some of the most bore-ish fractals one after the other.

I am trying very hard to give this game a shot again but all I hear about the last patches just make me think I better not enter this time sink once more.

Neither were promises though. They were stated as options that they were looking into.

Indeed they did look into them! They looked at the Dredge fractal and decided they needed MORE dredge than before. Along the way they also decided to remove a couple of the ways we used to make dredge just a smidge more tolerable instead of fixing the problem that made exploiting a preferable option to playing the kitten game as intended.

Cliffside is a t2 and t3 fractal, while Dredge is a t3 fractal. It’s very possible to get both back to back. On a side note, I haven’t had Thamanova more than once since it was introduced and I do multiple fractal runs every day.

Got Cliffside and Dredge again today back to back. What an aggravating and timewasting kittenshow. Dredge is such a poorly designed and rage-inducing fractal.

As part of the Fractured update, many fractals were supposed to get a tuning pass. Many players (myself included) were pretty excited about the possibility of their least favorite romps through the mists being shortened or made much more comparable to other fractal levels. Instead, Dredge was actually lengthened by the addition of random dredge mobs patrolling about, while Cliffside was left relatively untouched. Both fractals (some Mistlock instabilities excepted) are not difficult, and are only a time wasting slog through the mud.

Both fractals have an instant demoralizing effect on the group. I have been in fractal groups where upon the beginning of the Dredge fractal people have left without a word within seconds of being plopped in front of a million dredge. The other three tier 3 fractals, Aetherblade, Volcanic and Thaumanova all have unique, interesting mechanics that can be challenging. However, the modus operandi for Dredge (and in the past Cliffside) has been to get by with as many exploits and ways to avoid fighting the legions of enemies as possible. Neither are fun, and getting either honestly feels like a punishment for trying to enjoy Fractals. Both are in need of actual adjustments to bring them in line with the other tier 3 fractals in terms of length, fun and difficulty.

I could type something profound here, with reasoned arguments and thought provoking statements, but we all know that dungeon hosting is ridiculous. I just had a nailbiting moment near the end of a fractal today. Not that the fractal was kittenly that we had been engrossed in completing it for around 2.5 hours and were very much invested in getting it done — all of which could have been upset by the whiny complainy “Dungeon host” who threatened (near the end of Dredge, our third fractal) to leave and screw us out of our time every 20 seconds.

It’s ridiculous that all of our effort and playtime are hedged on ONE PERSON DECIDING that he would like us to finish. We eventually beat dredge, and by placating him we got to Mai Trin, where he again threatened again and again and again to screw us out of our efforts and time if a single person screwed up on Horrik’s cannons and died.

He’s an immature little kitten and I’ll never group with this individual again, but I should never have to worry about having the carpet slung out from beneath me and have 2+ hours wasted because one person wasn’t having a good time/was being an immature kitten.

I’m not alone in feeling this way, there’s been countless posts on the forums/reddit and yet one person still has the absolute power to kitten over four other people.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1rt5di/this_ends_here/

People put up a big enough stink about flamekissed armor on Reddit/Forums and it was changed. Why can’t this issue be next?

After the servers came up I proceeded to complete some events around Caledon forest and was only receiving 25 xp, 3 Karma and 1c at level 23. I’m very certain I’m not suffering from DR as I’ve gone quite a ways away from where I was before and completed some events that I haven’t done in days.

Is anyone else experiencing similar issues?

Edit: I’ve moved to Diessa Plateau and the problem has not fixed itself, so it’s not zone specific to me.
Edit2: Restarting the client hasn’t resolved the issue either.
Edit3: Other characters are getting regular rewards. What gives?

Edit4: Capping a tower in WvW on the bugged character and going back out into the regular world seems to have fixed it. Very odd!

This matchup has been good for some occasional open field fighting or some open tower defense against Ebay and Yaks. Other than that, this matchup has been awful. Endless zergs from all sides, but especially late night zergs from YB. Tap a tower or keep and you get 5-10 seconds of skill lag, silence for about 2 minutes, then 40-50 of Yaks coming out of nowhere. I’m finishing the league meta and joining the bandwagon of people who are waiting until next friday.