High end systems seem to be on the lower side of performance for some reason. I’ve had the same issue with my 7970 and my 3770k, not being able to get over 45-50 FPS. Installed the Catalyst Application Profiles which made the whole game a lot smoother overall. Sadly, that won’t help any nVidia user though.
Thanks ever so much, installing those Application Profiles has greatly improved my performance, to the point where rotating the camera hardly causes a decrease in FPS anymore!
I’m running an Intel i7 3370K at stock speed (3,5 GHz). I have the latest AMD Catalyst, 12.8 installed, and have no idea what CAP is!
I find it a shocker that the game runs so poorly even if it’s capped to the CPU, since the 3770K is one of the if not the best CPU money can buy right now for desktop PC’s.
I have updated the original post with all my hardware specs.
I’m running an Asus HD7970-DC2T-3GD5 at standard clock speeds, and I was expecting it to make quick work of Guild Wars 2, as it does with nearly any game.
However, I’m only running about 45 to 50 FPS when running all graphical settings maxed out, which is a shocker to me. Surely such a powerful GPU should be able to handle the game at a constant 60 FPS? There are also FPS drops when I quickly look left or right, down to the 20’s area most of the time. A couple of friends of mine all run a GTX 460 and are getting comparable frame rates with their settings on medium to high, which I find rather odd!
I could order a second one and run them in Crossfire, and probably will if it keeps running, but I was wondering if there’s something I am missing that could cause my frame rates to be this low?
Edit, my hardware setup is as follows:
Intel i7 3770K CPU at 3.5 GHz
Asus HD7970-DC2T-3GD5 at stock speed
16GB Corsair RAM at 1600MHz
ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE Motherboard
128GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD on which the game is installed
