Guild Wars 2

PixelArmy.7489:

Sawgrim.8471:

PixelArmy.7489:

I cant manage to have more than 30-45 FPS setted all low in Subsampling rendering.
20-25 (standing still) All low, no reflections, no AA, no Shaders, nothing.

So i checked, i monitored the usage of my CPU and GPU during a game session.

GPU Usage is something like 70-90% and this is kinda ok, but the real problem come with my CPU, the game use only one core of it and only the 10-15%.

Problems came out after the 8th September patch, i’ve tried everything, but nothing fixed it.

I know that my Laptop is not the best, that’s not an Alienware or something like that, but i was capable to run it at release to all mid on +40 FPS.

ATI HD RADEON 6490M (1GB DDR5)
Intel Core i7-2670QM @2.2GHz (3.1 GHz with Turbo Boost)
8GB RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium x64

There is a screenshot that show you the 1x core usage.
http://i47.tinypic.com/207okd1.jpg

Change your power plan to HIGH PERFOMANCE. Some multi-core CPU’s are parking, losing perfomance after that patch.

That was just setted on High Performance. :\

Are you sure you’re not in throttling issues because of heat?

Sawgrim.8471:

Read it again, i said that it not overclocking. Just FIXED the FPS. Like a unlocker.

I confirmed that worked with 3 friends. They all use Nvidia.

They went from 30~35fps to 60+. Not because overclocking, a a little raise in the voltage like that dont damage you GPU.

This “fix” worked with lots of games in the past, including warhammer online.

The engine is not activating the GPU full potential, so raising the voltage a little bit forces it.

The engine IS activating my GPU full potential since i’m forcing it via DRIVER, not via OVERVOLTING.
And i’m still having FPS issues, because this game is crappingly CPU bounded, and my VGA is just waiting for my CPU to work.
Overvolting is not a solution, so just dont propose it as a panacea.
If you think it works (with this or with other games) just explain me why.

EDIT: just tried and it didn’t work, as expected.

turning up voltage IS NOT overclocking, since CLOCK is measured in HERTZ and not in VOLTS.

Nontheless, turning up VOLTAGE without turning up CLOCK is nonsense, since you’re just overheating your video card, as more current is flowing into it, without using it.

And even if you turn up VOLTAGE without turning up CLOCK it will lower your hardware’s lifetime and health.

And, as it wasn’t enough, it WON’T fix your FPS. If there’s inefficiency in the graphics engine, a little overclock won’t help you.

Please ANET, just ANSWER HERE, because people are proposing overclocking solution with mystical powers, resulting in hardware damage only.

Confirmed, happened to one of my guild mates.

Same here with E6850 @ 3.5 Ghz.

sirius.8614:

No No and NO!This was one of the most lazy workarounds in AION.I hated it in AION that you only saw player names.Arena net needs to optimize the game and not use cheap tricks to make FPS better.

It’s a workaround to make the game playable IN THE MEANTIME they fix the performance issues. It’s said in the first post, if you read.

gosu.8153:

Terrible idea. WvW is heavily focused on teamwork.
I do not want useless players on my team running around with invisible allies.
I don’t care if you think you can play well with invisible allies. It’s a serious handicap.

Because playing with teammates that cannot neither see movements because they are playing at photo-frame speed is not a serious handicap, isn’t it?

Xceptional.7985:

I don’t think that would really work.

You’d probably either just run blindly after your target because I think most people won’t pay much attention to the enemies this way.
Or you’d have a hard time selecting a new enemy.
Aside from breaking the immersion that is.

Ps. No graphics issues here.

Clearly you don’t know what SHIFT+F12 did to enemy characters in Aion, that is —> no effect.

Anyway just let the people choose. And this workaround is intended to come TOGETHER with a FPS optimization.

Anyway i did make another thread about this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/WORKAROUND-Character-hide-hotkey-for-more-FPS/first#post45809

UP for some guy in ArenaNet reading this?

Zee.1294:

Well if u dint play AION here how works :
Press Shift + F12 All chars disappear except your target end your party but u see there names . Simple end keeps FPS up full time. . At this point we need any help we can get end having one more option in your list wont break the game.

Actually, you could also see the names of your allies around you, without their bodies, just to know they were there; and by “allies” i mean people that are on your side, but not in your party.

Please Anet, just listen to somebody that just can’t stand with this FPS anymore.
I waited so long for this game faithfully, because it has the best PVP balance ever seen, but.. god, I’m soooo disappointed now that I can’t play PVP decently.

Anet, just give us a word from one of your team members, let us know if this proposal has been at least considered, and if it is scrapped, just tell us why.
I’m a software developer too, and i see that there are some nonfunctional requirements that are to be respected.. and I actually SEE that this workaround just makes the game lose its immersivity, but.. god, playing at 3FPS it’s not funny at all, so maybe instead of playing a broken game we will just stop playing WvWvW.

ANet, give us a word about this!

ZaxanRazor.6235:

It is GPU bound. It uses far more GPU power (aside from some people having specific driver / game issues) than CPU power.

But it’s also an MMO. They will use CPU more than other games can get away with.

You are not funny OR you don’t know what is the definition of the “CPU/GPU Bound” term.

This won’t help you much on lower end hardware, i think. This will only prevent the CPU from “stopping” when idle.

In Aion Character rendering was also slower than the world rendering, because of the CPU. There was a magic hotkey (SHIFT+F12 i think) that hidden all the allied characters making them invisible, apart from their name and legion, that was still displayed (with no performance impact). Only the enemies were displayed.
This was pretty much useful on lower spec computers during zerg matches and castle sieges.
Since we are experiencing character rendering lag, in the meantime that ANet fixes the character rendering (if they ever do), I was thinking about this work around: implement this hotkey in GW2 too.
This would make people stand the WvWvW framerates that on mid-specs machines are EXTREMELY low (3 fps lowest in zerg sieges with i3 + 540m).

What do you think about? Anet? Anybody?

People are sayin that Anet will optimize it.. i’m just too much disappointed for now, and I don’t think it will happen.
Btw go for a 660, i’m keeping my 470 cause i bought it more than a year ago and it’s still good, but i wouldn’t buy it now, as there are newer VGAs.

Probably overheating. Model of your laptop?

You have my exact same CPU with the difference that I overclocked it of 500mhz, and that i have a GTX470 instad of a GTX275. And the game runs like kitten in WvWvW. I’ll do an upgrade, but this game is using too much resources.

HAH, i’m getting 2-3 fps too on a Core2Duo E6850 @3.5GHZ +GTX 470 (but on my i3 is the same).
This game’s character rendering is just so bad.
I just died 2 times in WvWvW against invisible enemies. I was 2v1 against an invader, and then i started getting damage from nobody. Then I died.
And then, ONLY then, my comp loaded the enemies that killed me. They were 5.

That sucked so bad that I left WvWvW.
I was so happy in playing GW, and have waited for this game so long.. i’m so disappointed.

Up, i’m noticing this aswell.
This happens because the CPU won’t load the models in time… to make me defend myself, so I just die against an invisible enemy.