Sadly, me and some of my friends are in the same boat. We just can’t seem to find justification for the pricing when we have already paid that same price already for the core game. Yes it was 3 years ago but that’s less of a point since the core game is now free. People who join now pay the price for both games while the people who were dedicated to the game (original owners) need to pay basically twice as much for the same product. We’ve decided it’s not going to happen. Not when you even have to unlock what you already paid for. Shame on you Anet. Shame.
Yeah this is why I mentioned the monitor but also why I later mentioned I’ve read up on it from what I’ve seen, my card is more than capable and I have no problems running high settings in other games without issues. I forgot to add that the sapphire card is some Twin Frozr w/e. Some extra cooling system and a little bit of factory OC.
Do you think I’ll get an improvement if I upgrade the CPU or/and are you saying I actually need another/new graphics card?
**Edit: Other games as in Battlefield, Diablo, Wildstar. Don’t think there are others worth mentioning but I suppose one or two of these could compare.
So I looked up what TRIM and NAND is. Trim was fairly easy to understand but NAND is likely beoynd me.
I got the CrystalDiskInfo and according to it, my SSD health status is Good (99%). It also offered a firmware version CMX02B1Q. On Samsung’s support site, the most recent firmware they offer is CMX03B1Q, released almost exactly a year ago. I got my SSD in December 2012.
Does that mean my firmware is decent or should I update? I’ve had bad experiences updating firmwares before so I prefer to ask before doing.
I honestly can’t tell you. All I know is the model name. It was near 2 years ago I ordered it. If it was an old model they had lying around or not I can’t tell and my old order information doesn’t give me more information than that.
All I can tell is that I read up on each and every component before ordering and there was talk of shaky SSDs back then but this one was a recognized OK model.
The NAND and TRIM problems you’re describing (I’m decent with computers but some details are beyond me without me looking it up), is this something that can show 2 years on or would I have noticed problems earlier if that was the case? And how exactly would these problems appear?
**Edit: Found the maker’s serial number (or whatever it’s called) if that is of any assistance.
I tried the reflections change and gained from 88 to 94-95 so I’m running that on Low now, thanks. The post processing setting didn’t affect my fps at all.
The fps doesn’t actually cycle down with the phenomena I explained, nor does it seem to have any connection. Running while watching the fps-meter, I can’t see any correlation between fps and the slowing-down effects I experience.
What you said about the HDD sounds like something I knew from years back but have forgotten. I’ll see if there’s anything I can do to remedy that, like freeing up more space but other than that, I haven’t got a clue. Got 40gigs free out of 120. It’s an SSD, albeit it’s a few years old now so could perhaps be that.
Loving the help btw. I didn’t have these problems when I played a year back.
Yes it says 88 FPS because I’m standing still in a starting area with no people around. As I mentioned above, it jumps between 45-100. Standing still on this spot was 88 solid. If I move the camera 45 degress to the left which I did afterwards I had 101. When I started running in that direction it was jumping between 50 and 90 at that particular time and place.
I was perhaps not too clear on what exactly I wanted or was hoping to achieve.
With the rig I have and comparing to other games I’ve run I would at the least like a more steady fps, especially in low-populated areas like the starting area I was in where it can jump anywhere from 45-100.
I would of course also like not to have as low as 15-20 fps during world bosses etc. I was hoping 30-40 wouldn’t be too much to ask for. How zergs in wvw compare to that I don’t know, I don’t do wvw zerging.
I also forgot the weird… don’t know if stuttering is the correct wording here. I’ll try to explain as best I can; Imagine running forward, smoothly, with proper fps and then for a second it slows down momentarily only to catch up again and then repeating every other second or so. It doesn’t feel like low fps and this is not the first time I’ve encountered this phenomena but I’m not sure what it’s called or what causes it.
I’ll try the changes you suggested though, thanks! Although I honestly don’t feel like I should have to lower everything so freaking much because, to me, I have a decent enough system to play this game and still enjoy the beautiful graphics.
I realise there are other threads like mine and I’ve read through most.
I also realise the game might be optimized poorly.
However not all setups are quite alike and I would like a second opinion on what might be the root of my issue.
Long story short; haven’t played for well over a year and I got this pc roughly 2 years ago.
The only thing that has changed on my end is an upgrade from a 21" 1920×1080 monitor to a 27" 2560×1440.
I added a screenshot below for my graphic settings. My fps does jump quite alot. In LA semi-crowded it jumps between 40-70 fps and in the middle of a starting area it jumps between 45-100. World bosses with a decent amount of people around and such put me at 20fps which is the real nuisance for me. Also not having a solid 60fps in normal zones without alot of people seems very odd to me.
The rig I’m running this game on includes:
Mobo: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K Processor
Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 16GB CL9
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz 3GB GDDR5
SSD: Samsung SSD 830 Series 128GB
Now my question: Could my cpu be bottlenecking? I looked around and supposedly my graphics card should be able to run 2560×1440 without trouble. If not, I would appreciate any advice on what could be causing the low fps in general. I understand the fps will take a hit in zergs but I run a decent pc for a reason.
