Guild Wars 2

Also, do not buy a Pyro Patriot SSD.

I had one of those and it failed after 3 months on the dot. Computer recognized it, but drive path showed up as “unknown” instead of (C:/)

Also take note: never defrag an SSD.

SSD’s do cut down on load times, so enjoy!

PC or Mac? Run it as admin if on pc, and/or check your firewall settings, make sure that gw2.exe is not being blocked by Windows firewall.

if pc, what are your specs?

A daily chest will appear at 4:00PM PST during gameplay, or after logging in after the daily resets (which occurs at 4:00PM PST).

Completing 3 dailies allows you to get chests for each, that bear certain rewards (depending on what dailies you do). For example, doing a daily foraging/lumber/mining will give you sub-chests that contain plants/wood/ore.

You should get your daily chest upon the next time you login on or after 4:00PM PST

Edit: Please read the latter part of my post, I believe I found the source of my problem with performance drop / “memory leak”.

I actually have had this problem before. It usually occurs on my alt characters, or if I am on my main and I have just waypointed (or go through an Asura gate).

My FPS goes from about 115 to 5 or less randomly in areas where I usually get perfectly smooth fps.

I am not talking about karka queen, or meta world events when I naturally expect my fps to take a hit

However, these are my specs:

intel core i7 970 @ 3.33GHz
16GB G.skill ripjaws RAM
GeForce GTX 970 4GB
PNY Optima 480GB SSD (only 17% of it is used up, which is just GW2 and Windows).
^SSD is less than a month old, and nothing else lags for me.

I was running GW2 fine with the GTX970 and intel core i70 970 combo and never experienced a memory leak or massive frame rate drop in places where the frame rates is usually very smooth, so it is definitely not cpu/gpu bottleneck. I check the load % on my cpu and gpu when running GW2 with “OpenHardWareMonitor” and it really never reaches full load.

However, if I get the massive fps drop in places where my fps is smooth, I alt-tab out and check Task Manager and GW2 starts rapidly eating up my RAM. It usually only consumes <1GB of my RAM but lately has been eating up upwards of 2GB or more, and this is when I haven’t even been running the game very long (about less than an hour).

All drivers are current, windows 7 is updated.

I only started experiencing this memory leak within the last month, after Wintersday ended and I had reinstalled GW2 client within the last month too— still getting some Halloween sounds in Lions Arch which never makes sense to me (by the Banker near the WP that is somehow still contested).

But, the memory leak/massive fps drop is the issue I am most concerned about.

I don’t defragment my SSD obviously…
just updated windows
rolled back my gfx drivers and then reinstalled the latest driver, problem is still there.

Cleared cache, lowered the settings on windows to best performance, using OpenHardwareMonitor to keep my fans running high so everything runs cool and comfortable, cleaned my computer out in terms of dust…practically did everything known to man to fix the issue).

It mainly happens on my alt characters, which I have wanted to level recently to help out my guild more (my main is level 80 thief, trying to level a guardian and a mesmer to 80 right now).

I’m suspecting something is being overwritten on the core file as I play my alts that causes the memory leak?

Edit: I am fairly certain of what was causing the problem. I had 100% map completion on my main character, and this massive fps drop was only occurring on my alternate characters when roaming in PvE and open world, and they do not have 100% map completion.

I realized that my computer actually shut off when I recently installed GW2 on my new SSD during download/install, and so some of the files were never fully downloaded, so the RAM was being consumed rapidly and slowing the game down because the CPU was trying to fetch files that weren’t completely installed, thus, the massive performance loss. I am redownloading/reinstalling the game client again in entirety and I am sure the issue I am having will be resolved.

I would suggest OP do the same, as that will probably fix the memory leak—-it’s not actually a memory leak, the cpu is just confused when it is trying to fetch files that are either incomplete, most likely due to a bad install or interrupted update download, so it is caching an enormous amount of extra memory since it is looking for traces of files that aren’t there, leading to the memory not being able to be dumped and reused.

So, OP, please try redownloading the game client in its entirety and any updates and that should fix the problem.

I am redownloading / reinstalling the game client to make sure that everything is fixed (including the Halloween sounds in LA/Lion’s Arch).

My apologies for bumping an older topic.

I will report back after redownload/reinstall is complete to verify if the bug/issue has been fixed for me.