Guild Wars 2

I seem to have fixed the issue buy capping FPS at 60, and enabling Vsync.
I cleaned out my CPU fan, since there was a little dust.
Paired with Speedfan, I’ve got the temp to go below 70 most of the time, which is a huge improvement.

Just as a final note about this…
The CPU usage was never that high, maybe 5% per core. I have other games that run CPU levels very similar, yet never caused overheating. The only time I had anything near this type of issue was with java applets, when there was some form of bug in Java itself.
It’s odd, but I’m happy to get my CPU into more manageable levels.
Gen2 i7’s run a bit hot anyway, so anything under 80 is good.

Stormcrow.7513:

I agree with Megido with the exception that there IS something that can be done on their side. Optimize the game for frack sakes! It has been months and the game still runs like crap in wvw and events.
Do NOT get your hopes up that there will be any patches to improve performance.

I do agree with you in that sense.
ArenaNet needs to work on the issues with the game engine. They were there in beta, and we were told that the optimization would take load of the CPU, in favor of the GPU. In reality, that never appeared to happen.

I’m curious if anyone has tried hard capping the FPS to something like 30 or so. Right now I’m running everything on high with about 55-60 FPS. If I limit, that in theory could take a % of the load off my system.

Yeah, I’m using a stock cooler, and a less then ideal case.
The replacement CPU fan/heatsink has always been in the works, just a matter of getting together the extra cash together. Need a micro case too, since it would optimize the airflow on the case.
I was just hoping for some type of software solution in the interim
Thanks for the input though.

Hello,

I’m running into an issue in Guild Wars 2, and this game alone, where my CPU temp with consistently run at about 80-90 degrees. The closest I’ve seen is Crysis 2 on ultra, which was admittedly more then my system could handle, and even still, I was below 75.
I’m running a i7 2600, on an Asus Gen-Z microATX board. I have a AMD 6950 as well (1gb unit). I’ve run a significant number of other games, none come close to this temp, even on higher settings then what I currently run GW2 at.

Drivers and firmware are as up to date as possible.

This seems to be an graphics engine issue, where there is too much strain put on the CPU, vs the GPU.

I’ve tried everything that I can think of to remedy the situation, but I’m at a loss at this point.
I’m currently running Speedfan to monitor the temp, and control the fan speed. Even with the fans constantly running at 100%, it can’t keep the temp down.

This has been an issue since launch, however it appears to be getting worse, as previously I would run at about 80 when playing GW2, now it’s over that temp the majority of the time.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, as at this point I’m going to have to stop playing.