Guild Wars 2

hate to admit this but i installed the game on my wife’s pc (amd 4 core which is slower than 6600) and it has a radeon 6850 where i have the 7850. fps is 2x higher!

i’m guessing its due to the overheating issues.

My cpu was overheating (70-100c) on a q6600 even when not overclocked. I dusted my pc out and noticed 2 bent cpu socket pins. Gave me an excuse to cry to my wife to buy a xeon setup (great deals for used parts on ebay, bought 1600$ pc for 300$)

hopefully this fixes the issues. should be comparable to i7.

This is whats happening to me,, this post is great. southsun areas are even more intenese (1-5 fps) and large instances are not worth it (1fps for dragons).

I lowered every setting in game and with radeon pro, same issues.

Same issues here. Its not cpu/gpu overheating or gpu drivers or settings. overriding game settings or in game settings to extremely low settings on radeon 7850 net the same results. 1-15fps especially during events. use to get 40+

I had 40-60fps before May (started in april). I’ve thrown every gpu tweak to the card (radeon 7850) and have a quad core intel cpu. This game has room for optimization. There is a reason why people get 1-5 fps at major events like dragons.

good to know. so far no luck with tampering radeon pro and control panel settings:(

i did revert my overclocked q6600 back to standard settings to make sure it wasnt heat related. i got a stellar 15fps at fire elemental today. the cpu usage never goes over 60%.

if the game is cpu dependent would be nice if it used as much possible, same issue when ran as high priority.

I tried -multi switch parameter to launch file, no improvements. it seemed like 30fps+ at first then back to 10-15. a real good place to test is camp karka in southsun cove. another would be any dragon, global event or fire elemental.

cpu usage never peaks past 57% or so. (game looks like crap after doing all this fyi, mostly from tessellation and mipmapping tweaks)

trying this idea next:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1861804

In short, here is the better method from sky60234:-

- Go to Regedit

- Find this key:- " 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 "

- Within this key, there is a value called: " ValueMax "

- This value represents the % number of cores the system will park – the default 100% ie: all Cores are potentially park-able

- Change the value from 64 to 0 so the " ValueMin " and " ValueMax " are both zero

- You will have to find the key a few times and repeat the process for each time it is found – the number of instances will depend on the number of power profiles in your system [ in my DAW it was only found twice ]

- Do a full shutdown and power-off and cold-re-start

UPDATE —-—
waste of time did not work. still using 55% cpu usage on average. spinning helps show fps drops to from 25 to 15 to 10….

korago overclocking wont fix 40-60 fps drops to 1fps at the dragon. also my fps was 50-60 up until the end of the last major event. since the may major event started its gotten worse.

I have to say, I fought my first dragon and saw my fps go from 30-50 down to 5fps. used recommended settings it was 1 fps. I then turned off fsaa, reflections etc back to 5fps in big battle wow.

I’m trying a few things I’ll post findings.

for radeon:
a. turned some settings to performance
b. turned tessellation to 2
c. trying idea below (off first) but i had to turn it on to turn it off which makes me think it wasnt on before. (right click command prompt first to run as admin)

i wasn’t so fps choppy a month ago when i joined gw2. i can’t recommend this game to others including family members if the parts that would be exciting are unplayable. 3ghz quad core intel + radeon 7850 with 8gbram

bcdedit /set useplatformclock true
The operation completed successfully.

bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock
The operation completed successfully.

UPDATE—-

none of that worked. used radeon pro utility to dumb down gpu even more. turned everything to performance mode, changed settings to match fps/gpu to refresh rate, turned off tessellation etc. the game looks horrible now but it has the same fps rate. doesnt appear to be a gpu issue (radeon 7850) but a client issue with multicore chips or just code needing optimization.

quad core cpu, never goes past 57% cpu usage even in high priority mode, rest of cpu is primarily “idle”

I am new (less than 1 month). I fought my first dragon (teq?) today. What a bummer:(

1-5 fps the entire fight with intel quadcore cpu and 7850 radeon card. I turned all settings from medium to low = same fps. the recommended settings of high should not be recommended at all.

is this being addresses?
i have tried several new radeon drivers including beta with same results. even dumbed down settings same issues.

i cant recommend this game to friends who are use to this type of “event” without the lag in other games. i’d like to recommend it!

also using razer’s game booster and find that closing chrome helps:
http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster

These are beta drivers use with caution. I am back to 50fps +

1. download the latest beta drivers 13.5 beta 2
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_5_beta_2_download.html
(they may not be stable for all games, if it doesnt work out ose whql 13.4)

2. uninstall the drivers via the 13.5 beta 2 download (select remove not install)
-dont reboot

3. control panel > system (small icons view) > device manager> display adapters
right click and uninstall yours, check the box or at prompt to delete drivers

4. download driver sweeper, once installed/open use the radeon/amd checkbox
http://www.guru3d.com/content_page/guru3d_driver_sweeper.html

if you are worried also use
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_un_install_utility_download.html

5. NOW REBOOT

6. after the reboot proceed to install the latest 13.5 v2 drivers
7. after install reboot
8. keep stock settings
9. play!

as a new player i bought gems. bought gold with the gems then the runes.

i will no longer be buying gems for cash on items that do not work as they say they do. it does not work with the shield-healing buff, the virtue heal or any heals other than the #6 heal skill.

it does not work on skills that also heal but only the #6 heal skill.

please be more clear.

as a new player this is frustrating. i just spent all the money i had on superior runes of altruism. the bonuses on heal dont even work unless its the #6 spell.