Guild Wars 2

shalldoom I use GTX 690 as well and get crap performance have tried a ton of things, such as core parking, HPET, nvidia inpector SLI profiles with 306.23 and 306.63 same stuff no improvements. I have also tested my FPS while looking into fog and i get 48 to 50 FPS depending on the area, sometimes in some events when there is fog i get 23 FPS no matter what settings on ultra or on best performance FPS is the same. Not to mention the horrible camera turning problems and FPS drops that come with it because GPU usage falls to 5% or 50% depending on the area again.

With the latest patch FPS got even worse if i turn shadows to Ultra and reflections to all the game gets even worse FPS like 30 to 40 FPS cant even imagine what FPS i would get in WvWvW probobly even worse, not to mention the camera turning problems that come with shadows and reflections it’s even worse than normal but as i mentioned i gave up on a game but i do hope developers fix it or Nvidia fixes it with new drivers that are not developer version.

I quit playing this game because of FPS issues, at least they said something after all this time. I do hope they fix these FPS issues soon because i like the game but i wont play while performance is so poor on high end system.

I have FPS problems with this game on 690 too it’s not worth wasting time on this game since even with good hardware you get crap performance. I have used EVGA precision to check GPU usage of 690 in SLI mode and it’s about 30 to 60% in areas like Lions Arch and FPS is at 40 to 20 on max settings and with reflections off and shadows off it’s at about 49 to 80 FPS with camera turning problems when you turn camera GPU usage drops to 1% or 5% and then goes back up which results in massive FPS fluctuation.

Also whenever there is fog the GPU usage falls under 40% and results in FPS below 50 and on single GPU the game runs even worse. Have tried countless profiles in Nvidia inspector it does not help i also tried unlocking all of the CPU cores, enabling/disabling HPET, overclocking CPU above 4.5Ghz and down clocking even just too see if it makes difference. I have even formated all of my drives and reinstalled Windows and installed only GW2 and still performance was crap so after spending countless hours trying to fix FPS problem i quit the game until ArenaNet give a statement on whenever it’s our problem that our hardware cant handle the game or whenever it’s their or Nvidia driver problem.

I have the same issues with my GTX 690 when i turn camera FPS drops to low 20s and even low 5s. I have used EVGA Precision software to check what’s my GPU usage when i turn the camera and the problem is that when you do turn the camera the GPU usage drops to low 20’s and 10’s on both cores and returns to higher 50’s and 90’s when not moving the camera.

For example in Char area i have very bad FPS because of the fog in the area it must be a bug or something. Also in PVP when there is lots of explosions and smoke FPS drops very low again. It’s not normal and i hope developers look into this issue.

Crawford I5 2500K has no problem utilizing GTX 690, there is not much improvement even using I7 Ivybridge with GTX 690 over I5 2500K when gaming go check out the benchmarks. Plus it’s custom build underwater PC so i don’t know what you are talking about.

Also just to add about GW2 FPS it looks like a lot of FPS drops are caused by fog effects, at least for me there is something that is causing massive FPS drops when fog effects appear but if i alt tab and alt tab back in the game FPS returns to normal maybe it’s just a bug.

Cito.6517 Please don’t tell me you are serious…. /face palm it’s problem with kepler architecture it’s new and most likely they are struggling to optimize it while fermi has been out for ages so it’s obvious 500 series gets better performance and some of the higher end cards below 500 series.

If you saw Oddzball post he said overclocking CPU is not good for this game apparently. Also if you read my post i did say that i tried running on one card.

Tried underclocking CPU to 3.6Ghz and CPU usage is at 60% both GPU cores at 45% to 60% load still same bad performance. It’s not my system it’s the game that has the problems.

You are running 500 series enough said.

The game just does not use full GPU power simple as. In other games such as World of Warcraft i get about 70 to 120FPS with Nvidia settings turned to 4x AA and Anisotropic filtering on 16x and in game graphics set to max with DX11. In WoW both GPU’s are over 80% load and my GPU temp is around 62* to 70* while gaming and 32* idle.

In single player games such as Sleeping dogs i get constant and smooth +60 FPS on Extreme settings and again GPU load is over 80% on both cores.

In my opinion 600 series cards have big optimization problems in GW2 which need to be addressed as soon as possible.

My friend for example runs GTX 570 with Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz ( at stock clock) and in GW2 he gets constant smooth 60 FPS on 1600x resolution i believe. In my opinion it’s 600 series that have bad optimization.

Hi all!

Right i am running GTX 690 with I5-2500K at 4.5Ghz and 8GB of RAM on 120hz monitor and i am getting 40 to 60 FPS, if i do turn the camera FPS drops to 23 or even lower sometimes. Also i just did world event in Norn area near Frusenfell Creek at it started snowing heavily during the event and my FPS droped to 23FPS i tried changing appearance to best performance and still had 23FPS…

I tried playing with shadows off, native rendering and all else on max and i get about 40 to 80FPS with reflections turned to Terrain and sky i get about 60 to 100 when nothing is happening on the screen. In fights they drop to 40 and 58 FPS.

I am running 306.23 WHQL drivers i have tested all other 306 beta drivers with no performance increase at all. I am running the cards in SLI and each card is at 45% GPU use when in game and sometimes drops even low and running on one card i get even worse FPS. CPU is at about 90% use.

I have tried core parking, Nvidia inspector, compatibility modes,Windows service pack 3, setting CPU to high priority on GW2 and more with no performance gain.

Arena net and Nvidia please sort this out as the games performance is terrible on GTX 690 with GPU use below 50%!