Guild Wars 2

hi guys,

maybe i am wrong or something but why is your hwinfo64 showing a real bandwidth bus speed of 2,5gb/sec although mine hwinfo64 indicates pci 2.0 × 16 (5gbs/sec) x16 (5GBSEC).
just trying to help you. is it some power savings feature?

have to say gw2 runs great on my pc and if your real bandwidth bus speed is 2,5Gb/sec then it is not so great. I would advise you to take a look at this with gpu-z

i would like to add my contribution to this fps issue. I’ve been searching for weeks about how to increase my fps in wvw and i ve contacted the support of Anet many times and today i made a change in my 3 configurations that made my fps much more stable in wvw compared to the 15-20 fps i was getting in zergs fights before.
first i am going to give you my 3 rigs that are more or less the same and based on Asus motherboards.
1) maximus 4 extreme z , I5 3570k, 16 go ddr3 corsair vengeance, ssd samsung 128go and asus gtx580 1,5go
2)p8z77-m pro, i5 2500k, 8go gskill sniper 1866mhz, ssd corsair performance pro 128go and gtx560ti
3)p8z77-v I5 3570k, 8 go corsair vengeance blue 1866mhz, ssd crucial m4 256go, clud3D gtx660ti.

me and my 2 brothers were all getting bad framerate in wvw in zergs fights only and we really didn’t know why it was averaging the 15-20 fps with a massive stutter due to a , we believe, abnormal loading time even if we are all 3 on SSD’s.

Then i came on a post speaking about HPET (high precision event timer) and there are 2 variables of configuration (so 4 possible configuration). Most people on this post were speaking about activating it in bios and in win7 (with the bcdedit function in cmd.exe) to force your computer to use the platformclock. Some others kept saying you have to disable it in bios and in win 7 in order to play games.

what i know is that i am not an informatician but just a geek like many of us and i gave a try this morning and disabled it in win 7 (via the bcdedit function) and left it enabled in my bios. I then gave it a try in wvw and guess what? in really massive encounters my pc worked flawlessly without the stuttering and with minimum 35 fps and all this without overclocking the cpu. It stayed at 3,8ghz turbo mode enabled.
I think that the asus owners of the mobo i’ve listed should give it a try.

Of course, when i overclocked the cpu wvw went better (i am under a intel thermal solution watercooling and i always checked cpu and gpu temperature while gaming) but what made me think there was something wrong with my pc is that i was still getting 15-25 fps with my cpu overclocked at 4,5ghz (the 3570k) during 10-15 seconds in massive encounters although prime95 had clearly showed me a stable cpu and configuration during 11 hours and according to the posts here on this forum people were saying that it should stay above the 30 fps with a 3570k at 4,5ghz.

I am now making this post to help people with asus mobo to tell them to give a try about configuring their HPET correctly in BIOS and in windows and maybe that could also help owners of different new mobos with the HPET function. Worh giving it a try!

I would also like to add that i am not an IT so i dont know what HPET effectively does but a bad configuration of HPET can make your pc’s performance worse that was clearly obvious on our 3 systems.

ps: sorry for my poor english, not my mothertongue.

ok thanks for your answer. of course not i was’nt trying to use tri sli with 560 ti’s and a 580. But according to the manual i can make the two ti’s work in x16 x16 using another chipset integrated to the motherboard (the NF200). I have to place them in the second and fourth slots. I googled a bit to know that.

Anyway thanks to you for your answer.

ok thanks for the tip

I know now for sure i can make the two 560 ti’s work for sure in x16,x16 mode but it has to work with another chipset(NF200) which isn’t required for the x8,x8 configuration. (in fact it depends where you put the cards into the pcie slots). According to some benchmarks there is no to little improve in performance between x8x8 without having to deal with the NF200 and x16,x16 dealing with the NF200. Asus recommends using the x8,x8 configuration because using the chipset (NF200) increases in a certain way the time data are being sorted out

Hi guys,

I am looking for some help here.

First my specs:

I5 3570k oc’ed to 4,3ghz (intel watercooling)
asus maximus 4 extreme z
sli gtx560 ti’s asus or asus gtx580
ddr3 1600mhz corsair vengeance pc3 10700 16 go ram
SSD samsung 128 go
psu corsair HX 1050watts modular

I noticed that my sli of 560 ti’s give no boost in performance compared to my gtx580 alone and maybe it is even worse.
I ask myself if i placed the 2 ti’s in the good pci express slots: I put one in the first under the cpu and the other one in the third pci express slot.

According to the manual, in dual gpu configuration my motherboard works in x8,x8 but in tri way sli my motherboard is supposed to work in x8,x16,x16 but i am not sure about this information and i would like to know if there isn’t a trick to make both cards work in x16,x16.

Can someone please help me about configuring my sli and also tell me which driver version is needed and also which sli configuration for gw2 (i am only playing gw2)

Ps: sorry for the poor english, it is not my mothertongue

thx in advance for your help

hi,

I would like to know if it is the reason why my sli configuration(2xgtx560ti) doesn’t work better than my gtx580. my motherboard is an asus maximus 4 extreme Z but they say that in sli or crossfire dual it is x8 x8 or in tri sli configuration it is in x8,x16,x16.
Can someone please confirm that? my processor is an i5 3570 oc’ed to 4,3 ghz. Have i missed something by not placing the 2 gtx560 ti in the good slots? because there are 4 pci express x16 slots.

Ps: sorry for the poor english, mothertongue is french

hello here are some pieces of advice.

First i had the same problem with an I5 3570K i had to rma the processor because it is it that controls the pci express slot. now that it has been replaced i have no more problem with it.

Try replacing your gpu by another one and see if it works. If it work it can be either the gpu or the cpu but i am sorry to tell you that but driver failure is mainly an hardware problem.

What you can also try is a increase in the registry value for the TDR delay and see if that helps. google it and you’ll surely find how to do it in your registry.

If that doesn’t help then it is probably an hardware problem so check your gpu by replacing it by another one and see if it works you must determine if the problem comes from the gpu, the pci express slot or the processor but it can only be one of those 3 things.

I hope it can help you and apologize for the poor english but mothertongue is french