Guild Wars 2

I have given you an opportunity to try it out for yourself, and instead you are here whining and b*******.

tekwiz.8635: no im saying what i did works for me. if you are too lazy to try it then dont. i never said it was a myth. I already spent 15 mins writing this down. i guess its perls for swines (mostly). I dont really consider it worthwhile my time trying to convince you. In fact I consider it the height of arrogance even requesting it.

AndyPandy.3471:

Conditioned.2467:

AndyPandy make a video!

A video of what?

Btw “The other night when I was in wvw I noticed”, so basically u can’t reproduce this situation and ofc its not possible that the restarting of GW2 could be the reason for the FPS gain? Did u get the same bad FPS after a relog/reboot or did u directly jump to the conclusion of your HPET script?

Is your “test setup” in any way reproduce-able, if so how? What happens atm if u enable disable your script on your PC running GW2, does it still affect your GW2 FPS?

I simply wonder that u put all the effort into explaining what HPET is and how u enable it, but u seem to skip the part trying to reproducible validate that it actually effects GW2 FPS?

No, I simply refuse to spend more time with this because you are too lazy to try it out for yourself.

AndyPandy make a video!

I checked in two different installs of win 7 and its enabled per default in this version.

VirtualBs: I´m pretty sure thats default though.

Dricoust: Thanks for your input. I think the performance problems are probably both to poor design and poor implementation.

However, still awaiting for others to show reproducability, I would claim there are tweaks you can do to improve performance. It still not performing as well as it should beon my machine but its somewhat acceptable now.

AndyPandy I have already adressed your question. I did specifically mention 2 things I did. I rated the likelyhood of which one was the reason for my performance gain. The reason I added the hpet solution in here is cause it has been reproduced by 2 others in another, more technical forum.

Please make a video so we can know if you can reproduce this result.

Guess my dreams of becoming an asura are shattered. Now I know what it feels like to be a woman trapped in a mans body.

Yes I didnt see any fps drops at all. If you want to much around with dpc you could also try a little utility called timerresolution which increases windows timer resolution and possibly lowering dpc.

Swedemon (hej : if you have low cpu/gpu-usage I definately recommend it.

Riflebutt. Missing 50% since 2012.

First: Arenanet if this thread turns out to help people I would sure appreciate a magic conversion of my main character from human to asura.

With that said I have cpu @ 4.8 ghz and a Geforce 680 oc´ed. It should easily be able to handle Gw2 @ 120 fps constantly. The other night when I was in wvw I noticed i had mostly around 25 fps while usually I have 58 (I limit this in afterburner so that thats as it should be). My cpu sat at <20% usage and my gpu was at <50% usage. Being a long time fps player and computer tweaker I wondered. So I ran a script I use to start up fps games. And I turned hpet on and Voila I sit again at 58 fps stabily.

I dont know which one of these fixed this for me. Hpet should be enabled if your motherboard supports it at all. This is also not a magical fix if you have a slow computer. However if you have a decent or good computer, poor fps, and low cpu/gpu usage, there is a very high chance this should work. But I digress.

Heres what to do. Please note that I didnt test extensively what the actual fix was, since I changed 2 things at once, but I put the likely culprits in order. You will also probably be spending the better part of 15 mins or more in order to achieve this depending a bit on how computer savy you are.

Here goes;

1.) Powerprofile. Control Panel > Power Options. Choose “High Performace”. Click Apply. Make sure Core Parking is disabled in the High Performance power profile. It’s a bit tricky to do this but don’t worry I put in the misc section how to do that.

If this works for you, great. Scroll down for how to automate this, unless you always want to be in High performance (which will increase your usage of electricity. We don’t want that we care about the environment).

2.) Turn Hpet on / off. (Hpet = High precision event timer) First check if its enabled or not. Type “bcdedit /enum” in a cmd (Press windows button and type “cmd”). If it says “useplatformclock Yes” its enabled.
Previously it was thought disabling hpet was best for gaming but now it seems its better to enable. So here I would first test to enable it. Make sure its enabled both in windows and in the bios. If you don’t know how to get into bios read your motherboard manual. If you don’t know what motherboard you have go to astra32.com and download the little utility there. Run it and check.
How to enable or disable hpet:

bcdedit /set useplatformclock true (then reboot) is to enable HPET. Enable hpet in bios.
bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock (then reboot)is to disable HPET. Disable hpet in bios.
The bcdedit /set commands are both run in the cmd window.

If you have good fps by now good. If you not reverse the hpet process. Ie if you enabled it, disable it. If you disabled it enable it.
Misc:
This is mostly fyi. It´s not really related to the article. Hpet affects dpc latency. Make sure its good with http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon. You should sit at below 200.

I have uploaded my batfiles to box.com.
Please note that you need to make sure yourself that they are correct for you before you use them!
With that said they should be safe and I´m pretty sure should work on Windows 7 64-bit. However please check. In order to do that you need to go to Von Dachs tweak post @ http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1273328-performance-tweaks.html. Scroll down to to where it says “Disable Core Parking Windows 7 Tweak may improve performance”. Disable core parking in your powerprofile. Basically it disallows cpus to idle while this powerprofile is used.
The 2 batfiles which are there to change powerprofiles are Highperformance.bat and Balancedpower.bat. If you want to use my gw2.bat to start guild wars 2 you need pskill from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ and nvidia inspector from http://downloads.guru3d.com/NVIDIA-Inspector-1.9.6.6-download-2612.html. Again, please be careful before using this. Only use it if you know what you are doing.

Lastly forgive for this thread is being slightly poorly formatted. I also don’t supply all links directly in it. My health is poor and my concentration wavers. If this gets good response and someone wants to format it please do so and contact me on the forums. Please also let us know in comments if this works for you.

Volley fire malfunctions quite often, especially when sidestrafing and having an enemy <160 degrees.

My fps gamer experience is very relevant. There are no other games where every little ounce of performance or the lack thereof is as important and hence will make most playing at a high level more sensitive than most.

For once I just wish someone could just say ‘Ok I dont have it/cant feel it/whatever but apparently you have it and you seem to know what you talk about.’ But I guess people cant relate when they themselves cant do something.

Thanks for time you spend speculating, I understand you are trying to make sense of my experience. I have already taken into consideration all those factors and more. Repeatedly in fact. I dont come here and point out issues lightly, although admitedly it was a bit on the brief side.

So lets start again. I have ability delay. Arenanet, please fix.

My wording is precise, there is ability delay. Why do besserwissers always comment.

I have been a fps gamer for ~15 years at a high lvl. I notice when my dpc differs. Please dont talk about my wording.

Its just so frustrating. Just tried out the bolas btw (not really related). Miss about 50% of them, for no aparent reason. Poor coding.

Im getting a bit tired of the ability delay.

Hitting with Axe=at least .5 secs of delay.

Shooting with rifle gives the same thing.

Great Sword, yet again ability delay.

I have a 100% completion. I dont have any ability delay on my lvl 21 thief. Whats up arenanet?

Yea fix this please arenanet.

Agreed. People are asking about this all the time, you cant be on malchors leap more than 10-15 mins without someone asking about it.