Guild Wars 2

For WvW, ESP since you are starting out, Either get Knights or Soldiers Gear(WvW vendor has both for BoH’s, you can buy Knights from the TP for about 2g a piece). Go Staff (Bersker’s) and get Berserker’s Rings and Cavaliers Accessories (Bathazaar Temple IIRC 42k for each. you need 2). For the Neck get ascended with Utility slot (For +20MF, +20% Karma, or +20Gold Find), Stat wise I am not sure as I went Celestial on mine.

Runes;

Either Sup. Runes of the Centaur, or Sup Runes of the Traveler (Even with your staff swiftness Skill, its just one less thing to worry about)

for your Trait Build, referr to the Ele sub Forum. I play glass so I run 30/30/0/0/10. But its survivability isnt that great for WvW. you might want to run a Water/earth spec.

Avelos.6798:

This is so horribly off topic now

yes, yes it is :-)

SolarNova.1052:

Also and as the silicon lottery pays huge part here, you could be as lucky as this guy getting 5 GHz on Haswell with air cooling (it was delidded tho) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHm2qHI3gc

Oh I wish you didnt mention Delidding, now we are going to get a slew of idiots that remove the IHS to try and do serious overclocking!

But since it was mentioned, that’s how I got my i5 4670K to 5.1Ghz :-)

you need to clear the vents and such. 1 year is long enough for Lint and other things to get trapped in the heatsinks Fins and what not. If you live in a dry climate, then consider tearing your Laptop apart and replacing the CPU/GPU compound with IC7 or something ceramic, NOT Arctic Silver.

But your laptop, with that 610M, I am not sure how that is supposed to handle GW2, maybe on Lowest settings? 610M is a bottom of the barrel Budge GPU.

Zeplar.9174:

I want to build a new pc for guild wars 2. I mostly play WvW and want a computer that can handle big zerg fights. Im not asking for amazing FPS when in a huge zerg fight but i want decent fps in zergs. How much would it cost to build a pc to do this?

Depending on what you play GW2 on now, it may not be worth it to build a system just for WvW.

But as the other posters have said, 900-1000 for a high end rig is about what it will cost. But you should expect 20-25FPS at Medium/High settings in WvWvW at large (60vs60vs60) fights.

cmud.5689:

Hi all,

although not caused by GW2, I have an issue that prevents me from properly playing the game. I got an Intel i5 3.4 ghz but amazingly, the CPU runs at half speed (literally 1596 mhz) even while under load. My compliments to the GW2 tech support that helped me identifiy the issue.

Does anyone have exp with a similar issue? How to fix this? Stuff I tried up until now:

- checked bios / driver updates
- checked power management on the desktop, made sure max performance is ticked
- went into BIOS and turned off Intel speedstep (EIST) and the Cx settings
- monitoring under load done via several programs, most notably speccy

Thanks for any help

Is this a new system build, or did you upgrade your CPU/Motherboard? Maybe the PSU doesnt have enough power to push the 3.4Ghz Clock.

As suggested, start with resetting your BIOS (if you are using AHCI you will need to reset your SATA controller else Windows will BSOD), and verify your Clock speeds with CPU-Z, verify your CPU temp with CoreTemp, and run Prime95.

Default Clock your i5 should be at 55-60c under full load. If it gets hotter (80c+) it will throttle. So pay close attention to CoreTemp when Prime95 is running.

also while Prime95 is running (15-20mins) feel your PSU and make sure its not burning up. If its getting hot, you will need to replace it (not powerful enough for your CPU).

The first thing you need to do is realize the limitations of the AMD FX CPUs and why they are just not good for GW2.

The FX Series have 1 Module per 2 CPUs, and in that Module is 1 I/O Path, 1 L1, L2, and L3 cache that is shared between BOTH Cores in that module.

Where as Intel has separated each core out into its own set of resources, nothing shared but the Memory Controller (IIRC).

GW2 is SINGLE THREADED. That Single Thread will spawn 30+ helper threads to offload SMALL jobs. But the CORE FUNCTION of the application is SINGLE THREADED. That is why AMD takes a HUGE hit here over Intel.

One thing you can do to help increase the performance is to disable the 2nd Core per Module in your BIOS, or Install the Win7 FX Patch that will tell windows how to schedule the threads across your CPU correctly. <- THIS has fixed alot of FX related issues with regards to HUGE performance hits.

NOW, that being said, NO CPU can handle GW2 on Ultra with more then 24 Players on the screen in full Combat. The MAX FPS you can get there is like 24. So double/triple that Number for your champ farms, World Boss Trains, and WvWvW and you are 15-18FPS with the best of the best CPUs. Its just how the game is designed.

To combat that you MUST overclock your CPU. Your FX8120 can be pushed to 4.1Ghz with air, 4.8Ghz with Water (from what I have been reading), by Upping your vCore and the Multiplier. Some say the OEM heat sink and fan will do 3.8Ghz safely, but anymore then that and you need an aftermarket Cooler (I would suggest water for AMD since those things pull ALOT more power when they are over clocked). I am not going to tell you how to overclock nor what Coolers to buy, do your own research there. But that is the ONLY way to get decent performance out of this game, to Overclock.

Even my i5-4670K takes a HUGE beating to this Game. Default Clock under heavy action my FPS is 15-18. OC to 4.5/4.6 20-22, OC to 5.1~ 24-25-26~. (Fully Queued World Boss Map last night, 8FPS at MAW with my 5.1ghz Clock, FYI…that’s 79 other players if I’m correct)

Its just how the game is threaded/coded. So you have to work around that fact if you want better performance.

Else just put GW2 away and play something else.

TY, gives a more accurate reading.

Luminarin.2301:

Some extra info here:

I bought a pretty tough machine recently and I ran GW2 at 99fps, super smoothly (in LA as well) on my 1366×768 resolution screen. I even tested Battlefield 4 on ultra and I had around 180 fps.

A couple of days ago I got my 27 inch HD 1920×1080 screen and my Guild Wars 2 went kitten itself – my fps are now like 45 and 20 in LA/FoTM/WvW/PvP.
The strange part is, as soon as I set the sampling on native (not supersample) I get my 99 fps back ;o

Awkwardly BF4 is still around 140 fps on 1080p….

My spec is:
- i5 3350p
- 8GB ram 1866
- GTX 660 OC
- GW2 and OS is on an SSD
- Z77 series motherboard
- 12 MB/s internet bandwith

going from 1366×768 to 1920×1080, yea that is completely normal.

The higher res is going to push your CPU more in GW2, which will lower the graphical performance.

and LA is the WORST place to test your FPS, btw. go someplace else.

Does anyone know of a good power supply voltage Calculator? I was using this one by Extreme, but it doesn’t calculate the OC on the CPU correctly nor the GPU.

Avelos.6798:

SirSquishy I’d like to point out that the R9 variant of 7970 is still new, so that one may be exempt from the dying GPU part. However OP’s i5 3470 and 7970 as well as the first commenter on the video he posted have the same CPU and GPU so maybe there’s some sort of hardware fault.

If its a driver/compatibility issue you see graphical issues. Such as Flickering, size, distortion issues, and as well as graphical Lag.

But doted Pixelation on the screen (Red, Blue, and Green Dots) is memory corruption mainly due to either over heating, bad ram, or dying core on the GPU. Which is why i still suggest the OP, and anyone else having this issue, to check their GPU Temps (my HD7790 was running at 83C before I even noticed it myself…put new TIM and now my peaks are 70c..had i not caught it, I would be having the same issue eventually!).

locx.6412:

chris.9142:

For gw2 a Hd 7790 is more then enough my 7770 can run it on ultra with about 20% spare power

Sure, my GTX 660 (which is more powerful and more expensive tho) keeps the FPS pretty much the same despite the graphic options (except all maxed with supersampling vs everything on lowest), but it’s not worth to build a system to run just 1 game. Most other games use GPU much more so it makes sense to have a little more headroom on that front.

That is what it means to be CPU bound. At a certain point, higher end GPUs make no difference until a better CPU is added to the mix. Which is why I’m VERY content with my HD7790 too. Works in GW2 very well, and almost perfect in every other game I have thrown at it. Worth every penny of the 117~ I paid for it :-)

Behellagh.1468:

Agreed. However the game is handling other players around you, it has serious scaling problems.

such major scaling issues!

pandora eight.9451:

Window Black Lion Trading Company is empty, it displays a round icon download.

This PC. Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, service pack 1.

Ah i get that from time to time. When that happens I usually log out then back in to fix it. Or zone to a different place (Like Lion’s Arch to QueensDale) and it will usually auto fix in 5-10mins.

pandora eight.9451:

Since the purchase of the game I’ve never been able to take advantage of the auction. All Auctions tab window shows all load indicator and nothing more happens.
How can I fix it?

I have no idea what you are asking/requesting.

are you saying the trading portal doesnt work for you, or that you cannot buy gems…ect?

artifacts usually mean heat issues, or a dying GPU. I’d start with verifying your Temps, then go from there.

lets not rule out viruses and spyware too. As they can nest on a HDD and cause slow downs too.

yes the game is not optimized under stress situations. Anyone who says otherwise, is just ignorant.

the OP never listed his system specs/OS version. So even if we wanted to ‘help’ him to get better performance, with out some info its impossible.

it is possible to get 175FPS in dungeons and in the open world, but in WvW, Boss Trains, Champ Trains…anywhere there are more then 8-12 players you will take a serious performance hit on any system. I go from no players on the screen at 175-210 FPS down to 80FPS with just 12 players on the screen. When combat starts that drops down to 45FPS~.

kittenball.1086:

I get mostly playable frame rates outside of large cities (avg about 40-45fps), but I feel like I could achieve a solid 60 if the game put more of my CPU to work.

Right now GW2.exe only puts my CPU under about 25%-35% load. This might be fine if my CPU was super high end, but it’s not. I’ve always read that this game relies heavily on CPU, so why the hell isn’t it using it?

Is there something I can do to get higher CPU usage, or is the game just that badly optimized?

AMD x6 1055t @3.3ghz
ASUS 5850 DirectCU @ 850/1150
4gb g.skill

I know i’m due for some upgrades, but I see no reason I should have to when the game can’t even put to use what I have now. I get better performance in newer games like Battlefield 4, perhaps because it actually puts my system to work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

use GPU-Z and let us know if your GPU pegs at 99% utilization, and what % Your per core CPU% is.

Also, what zone(s) are you taking these performance samples from? LA is going to be the worse, because the Fountain is using a high res graphic for the snow glob under all setting models. So that is why LA sucks the most right now. Best testing is done out in the world, like QueensDale.

Did you change any graphic settings at your driver level?
if you drop the MipMap down to Performance, that would do this for your Visual as well.

LightBeing.1824:

Riblain.2730:

So, last time i played GW2 was about 6 months ago, and, in that time i always had 50/80 FPS with every option in High.
Currently I’m stuck between 8/15 FPS…
I placed everything on low, and it’s the same, i just used the repair tool and nothing changed.
I keep playing my other games exactly how i used to, this is only happening with GW2 and i really have no idea why.

My setup :
Windows 7 Ultimate 64x
ASUS M5A99X EVO
AMD Phenom II X4 965 – 4core 3.4 ghz
AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB DDR5
8 GB DDR3

I already checked for drivers and that kind of stuff.

Thank you for reading, any tip will help me here

Have a nice day

My pc is m5a99x + gtx580 + amd phenom 955 upgrade to fx 8350, 8gb ram.

with amd phenom 955 x4 = good fps but event dragon & lion city drop fps to 10-12fps.
with fx 8350 – 8 cores (gw2 use 4+2(6) in mu 8core cpu) 20-30fps
in dungeons, pve etc – 50-80 fps. 19×0×10x0 ultra settings.

for play gw2 good need Intel 7 o i5 of 300€ mínimum + gpu 200€+ XD

bad optimize

Don’t Necro a 5month old Thread. Instead make a new one and put a Reference Link to the older thread. What was happening 5 months ago might not be happening today.

And the performance for your Hardware (Give or take any OverClocking you are doing) is pretty normal. Even on my i5-4670K at 5.1Ghz Zerg Events fall down to sub 20FPS (ESP if I join the World Boss Train with 80+ Players balled together!)

Avelos.6798:

Fermi.2409:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2uaXP

This would work well. You could probably drop the GPU lower and opt for a better CPU cooler, but it’s your call.

The power supply can also be dropped to 500 or even 450 and save some bucks.

No, a 500W PSU cannot handle an OC on the i5-4670K. It will heat up and eventually pop, like mine did. 600w is the min if you are going with a 4th gen K.

MrKaru.8293:

Today I reinstalled my Guildwars 2 onto my SSD, since I’ve recently got back into it and wanted to decrease the load times.

After installing and patching the game, I logged in and realised that my frame rate had more than halved.
Before, my frame rate would be a stead 60 (I limit to that) and would only drop very rarely to kitten (fourtyfive to fifty.. Why does that flag as a swear word?) if a lot was going on onscreen.
Now, however, it hovers around 20-25, and stutters fairly badly.
I’ve tried the same graphical options, detected graphical options and best performance options, and at best I stretch to 25-30 fps.
Why is this? Almost all games I try on my SSD are only effected by decreased loading time, FPS and performance never seems change.

The SSD I use is the Samsung 840 pro. I have one or two other games and my windows installed, leaving around 50% free space.

I’ll post my specs too, but I want to point out that I’m sure its nothing to do with the other components since it worked fine on the HDD;
i5 3570k OC @4.2GHz
AMD 7970 3gb
16gb RAM @1600 Mhz
Windows 7 x64

What should I do? Reinstall back onto the Harddrive, hope it works like it did before and just deal with the increased loading times? Or is there an easy fix I’m missing?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.
-Karu

What Motherboard do you have? Have you verified the SSD’s SATA connection speeds (DMA mode #)?

Some older Motherboards will down rate shared SATA bus Ports to the lowest speed of the connected Device , IE. If a HDD on that Sata bus is at DMA2, but the SSD can run at DMA7, it will force it down to DMA2 slowing your SSD’s performance.

Have you ran performance tests on the SSD to verify read/write speeds? A quick Read test would be hdtune’s Benchmark. A more intensive test would be to run IOMeter. And it could just be that you got a bad SSD (about 10% fail during shipping from the factory, then you do have shelve Life – IOMeter will tell you if the SSD is bad by a simple 64k and a 512k IOPS test).

TinkTinkPOOF.9201:

Avelos.6798:

RAM doesn’t need to be installed in pairs of 2+2 or 4+4. As long as the two sticks, if 2 GB and 4GB are the same spec and latency, it won’t matter.

If it is not installed in pairs, it will not run in dual channel. Which cuts through put a good bit, however, this computer might be running 2×2 and 1×1 for a total of 6GB.

For dual channel, run Memory in Pairs, for Tri-Channel run them in 3’s, Quad Channel run them in 4’s…ect. Everything about the memory needs to match, else you start to load up one bank of ram over the others when they are working in Sync.

2+4+2 = bad, cause that extra 2gigs on Bank2 will cause issues (even if its 5-8%)

Best advice? Build your own. Even if you buy the pieces from the local shop.

Expect to pay 200 for a GOOD intel i5 CPU (15-20 more for the K Series).
You will probably want to get a 1150 socket motherboard and a i5-4000 series CPU.
If you get a K series CPU you need to get a Z chipset to do the overclocking.
For Cheap you can get a HD7790, I paid 119 after taxes.
and memory, its cheap for decent ram today. I got a set of CL10/11/10/24 1866 2×4GB for 49.99 local just a couple days ago.

and go cheap on the HDD for now, you get can between 500-1TB for 50-75 bucks via Newegg. Going cheap here (SSDs are 100+) will let you put more into the CPU/MB/RAM (the core of the system).

Then you need a keyboard/Mouse/Monitor if you dont have that already.
But the desktop I described above (same thing I run in my Signature really) will be leaps and bounds faster then your laptop :-)

chris.9142:

Because AMD CPU have much lower single threaded performance compared to a same clocked Intel guild wars puts mist of its rendering in to 2 or 3 CPU threads

its one main thread that does the bulk work for the game engine. That’s why AMD struggles with this game when compared to Intel.

Any other game, its a 20-30% margin.

But this game, its like 20% AMD and 80% Intel for over all performance.
(IE on top ended OC AMD rig you can get 45-60FPS, on Intel you can get 80-125 -Ultra Settings)

its called Trolling, and as a mesmer you should be kitten good at it.
in PVP I troll my PU build (Scepter/Pistol + Sword/Torch) all the time, its almost unkillable, and i get yelled at for it all the time. No my fault I can outlast 99% of the players in PVP with a simple PU build!

So, OP, take it to the next level. Start to Troll them when they act like that :-)

After upgrading to 8.1 you should uninstall your Video Drivers, boot into safe mode and run any of the 3rd party Driver cleaners found on guru3d, then reinstall your drivers (download the ones specifically for win8.1).

GW2 options > Display > Character Quality Limit = Low or Medium ( your currently set to Lowest)

Um, it kinda looks like you have the Red/blue 3d enabled in your GPU Driver. Or some 3rd party application (such as PowerDVD) is enabling it for you.

Avelos.6798:

Shift Focus may be running a rather high clock in wvw on a lower server that doesn’t have as big of fights as Black Gate / Jade Quarry / Sanctum of Rall. Always keep that in mind.

Probably the case. On IoJ the biggest we see are usually 30vs60vs40’s. And my FPS will drop from 60-80 down to 25-30. Though MOST of the time when I check my FPS its at 28.

SnobbishRaptor.2367:

locx.6412:

Can you give us some more info please. Hardware specs, software specs, is this everywhere in GW2, cities, open world, dungeons, WvW, PvP? How long have you been playing and what has your FPS been before?

Everywhere in GW2 I’m at max 26 instead of 45-60, and I’ve been playing this for a year. The drop just suddenly happened earlier tonight. Tried to search for updates for my drivers, but everything is updated. But I’ve experienced alooooooot of FPS issues with this game before, and it always goes up again, so I guess it’s Anet’s neverending patch-never-remove-old-content-just-throw-more-kitten-on-it-until-the-fps-blows striked back yet again.

You are still not telling us a Thing about your desktop.

CPU – OC?
GPU – OC?
MB
RAM size and speed
OS Version
Driver Versions
Verify PCI-E is at 8x or 16x

Skribulous.3521:

chris.9142:

Do a tracert test to The server that will at least show we’re The lag and packets loss is coming from

Related to OP, I did just that to mine. Interesting results here:

C:\Windows\system32>tracert guildwars2.com

Tracing route to guildwars2.com [64.25.40.16]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    59 ms    53 ms    56 ms  <my ISP address>
  3    52 ms    56 ms    55 ms  <my ISP address>  
  4    82 ms    70 ms    70 ms  <my ISP address>  
  5    70 ms    66 ms    67 ms  <my ISP address>  
--> 6   361 ms   357 ms   360 ms  *POS1-0-0.IG4.SAC1.ALTER.NET* [152.179.125.129]  <--
  7   349 ms   348 ms   346 ms  0.xe-7-1-2.XT2.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.125]
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *      443 ms   404 ms  GigabitEthernet7-0-0.GW12.DFW9.ALTER.NET [152.63
.97.98]
 10   301 ms   330 ms   309 ms  65.205.119.210
 11   303 ms   303 ms   302 ms  64.25.32.9
 12   303 ms   302 ms   303 ms  64.25.32.26
 13     *      305 ms   310 ms  64.25.32.82
 14   307 ms   304 ms   304 ms  64.25.40.16

Trace complete.

I’ve taken the liberty of redacting my ISP’s addresses for privacy purposes.

The addresses 152.179.125.129, 152.63.48.125, 152.63.97.98 come up as belonging to “MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business” when plugging these into Google.

Someone with more technical knowledge can shed more light in this matter, but I think I may have a good idea which company is responsible for this.

Contact your ISP (of the Hop before the Line in Bold is actually YOUR isp) and tell them they have a head to head issue between them and alter.net, then supply them with the above trace route. They can and will take care of it from there. If there isnt a HOP issue, then the connection they are paying for to alter.net is just over subscribed (Looks like the connect is in NorCal, which really isn’t that unusual for that part of Cali.)

*Edit – Looks like you cant Bold on Quotes anymore?

Windows 8.1 is OK. It is better then Windows 7 in most ways. You can get away from the horrible Metro UI by installing ClassicSHell (Start menu Replacement for Win8).

The only issue I have ran into are apps that run on Win7 but refuse to run on Win8 (even in Compat mode). But your mileage will very.

Wintersun.7056:

AMD FX-8350 @4,4ghz
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
GIGABYTE RADEON HD 7870
8 GB G.SKILL F3-2133C10D-8GXM
All drivers are up to date.

Even when playing on the LOWEST graphic settings I’m experiencing low fps in places like crowded Lion’s Arch and WvW, and I’m talking of the very lowest settings, I just can’t play with higher settings… I was wondering if there are known issues with my hardware, is GW2 compatible with my CPU?

have you verified your PCI-E Link speeds (you want 8x or 16x), did you install the OS patch for the FX core leveling? I think Win8 has it by default, but Win7 needs the patch to use the cores effectively. Did you use Prime95 to make sure your OC is stable? lets see..

oh yea, have you tested your CPU/GPU utilization with the settings inside of GW2? GPU-Z has a nice Sensor tab that will tell you Core Clock speed, Memory Clock speed, and Utilization. If you cannot get that util to 99% then its just the CPU, or how its configured.

But that FX8350 OC’d should get you mid 30’s in LA with the current Holiday Patch (my buddy has pretty much the same rig as you and that’s what he gets when looking at the fountain with all settings on High.)

XFlyingBeeX.2836:

On low i get at 3,5GHz FX 6300 , 32-40+ in LA

Go in bios set as 1 core per module… why? GW2 use only 4 cores actually even 3 core wont go to 100% usage

So you can get higher OC- with 4M/4C

Pentium/i3 stock cant compare to OC Athlon/FX even in GW2

Actually, that is not why you disable the 2nd core per module. its because of the I/O Resource sharing between the cores in each module. By disabling the 2nd Core per module you make the 1st core in that module more effective, add in an OC and its not that bad in all reality.

GW2 will thread on its own up to 6 cores, you can force it up to 32cores (I have tried, and was able to see GW2 spread across 32 of my 64cores when I was testing this).

heero yuy.4057:

Feirlista Xv.1425:

Sounds like you PCIe is not set to x61 or you have your video card in the wrong PCI slot.

that would mess with other games like crisis (that runs on max no problems) or metro last light (that runs on max but the frames drop on this one level when I’m going across a bridge + that game just does not like AMD cards at all the benchmarks show it)

and the card is in the top slot (my motherboard goes like this: 2X pci-E X16 (X8 dual mode – that means if I have a card in each X16 slot they run at X8) and then theres another one at the bottom that’s at X4 or something

also I fixed the problem sort of – I had taken the overclock off a bit ago while I did some testing with things (overclocking the ram) and forgot to put it back on

It wouldn’t really affect other games though. Even at 1x, a game that is optimized to use the GPU correctly isn’t going to suffer that much. But when the game is heavily coded to use the CPU and only put 30-40% back on the GPU is where that 8x and 16x really shine.

You should download CPU-Z and verify that your PCI-E is linked at 8x or 16x at the very least, if its not fix it.

Another poster had the same card as you, and the exact same issue. His was linked at 1×. Once he got the card linked at 16x the his FPS went through the roof.

LuX.5180:

If by reseating you mean remove the card I don’t think that is going to happen since I’d have to disassemble my laptop to do that.

I’ll try restarting again and then try bios settings if that doesn’t work.

Your on a laptop?

Make sure your power settings are set to Mixed or High performance. Power saver/Battery Saver will force your GPU down to that low rate.

Also make sure your AC Adapter is working good too, as if that isn’t giving enough AMPs it will also cause the laptop to lower its performance.

Bad ram or damaged file system on the HDD/SSD.

First, start with the -repair option (look at the forums stickies). If the issue persists, run memtest86+ for 3-4 days and make sure there are no memory errors.

If the issue persists after that, look at your disk (Crystal DiskInfo) and look for raw read error rate, sector reallocation, and Seek Error Rate. If any of those sections have raw values you might need to replace the disk/SSD.

the errors are pretty clear in the Log;

• Error Logs <—*
  onPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×082245’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
  TRY_ALLOC failure on arena(Character) category(Composite Packfile) size(113496) whiteBox(false). Evicting unused model files and attempting again
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘aura’ not found on model ‘0×00ecf4’
  TRY_ALLOC failure on arena(Default) category(Character Packfile) size(327676) whiteBox(false). Evicting unused model files and attempting again
  TRY_ALLOC failure on arena(Default) category(Character Packfile) size(2876624) whiteBox(false). Evicting unused model files and attempting again
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×08223f’
  Texture missing mip chain: 0×00e689
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristr’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Model ‘0×00df13’: LightningSetActionPoints: destination action point ‘fxwristl’ not found on model ‘0×082239’
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  Material ‘0×034fc5’ is missing textures.
  TRY_ALLOC failure on arena(Character) category(Composite Packfile) size(88112) whiteBox(false). Evicting unused model files and attempting again
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LuX.5180:

And how would I go about doing that?

Have you done a reboot yet? Its possible the ASM link management (ACPI tables for PCi-E power saving) wont unlock to the higher performance.

You can try reseating the card, and resetting your system bios as well.

iVlad.9421:

maybe it pldt that is having problems? i myself cant do tequatl anymore… but i did note that several players on the TTS teamspeak also were crashing alot these days (december 2013)

You need to create a new thread, and stop hi-jacking EVERY OTHER THREAD on this board.

also, you are not giving any information about your system or the issues you are having.

Krystian.2871:

Hi,

I have new PC, my spec:
http://prntscr.com/2dt7ri
CPU: AMD FX-9370
RAM: 32,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 440MHz
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme4 (CPUSocket)
Graphics: 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (Gigabyte)
Storage: 223GB KINGSTON SH103S3240G ATA Device (SSD)

GW2 when start I have low fps on all settings high or low, about 9-14fps. I dont now why, I thinks i have very good pc. Where is can be problem? Thank you.

—
best regards

Using a program called CPU-Z, what does your PCI-E Link speeds report?

1x 4x, 8, or 16x?

LuX.5180:

So yesterday 12/24/13 I was logged in fine doing my regular daily runs. Everything was running fine and I was getting ~40fps while in places like Queensdale.

Look ahead 5 hours after coming home from a Christmas Eve party and I can’t get anything higher than 8 FPS.

Absolutely nothing has changed in the 5 hours I was gone, my laptop didn’t even change locations.

I have a decent system:
2.53ghz i5
8gigs of ram
ATI Radeon 5850

I went through and checked everything that all other threads are suggesting like re-installing drivers, re-installing the client, changing the graphics settings to minimum, etc but nothing has helped.

While playing my cpu is only at 29% and ram 42%.

Someone mentioned using gpuz to check that and I have no idea what any of this information means but it all looks like information for my card. The bus interface is PCI-E 1.1 1×16 @ 1x 1.1

Does anyone have a solution to this? I’ve played almost every single day for the past year and never had any issues with anything..

Your issue is that your GPU is linked at 1x running under PCI-E Version 1.1 specs. You need to get that card linked at 8x or 16x running 2.0 or 3.0(if your board/card supports it)

first, don’t build for WvW. It’s a fruitless endeavor.

If you do build for WvW, expect a max of 25FPS with the bleeding edge range of hardware (i7 Extreme on the 2011 Socket – 1k + just for the CPU).

Now that’s out of the way, on my i5-4670K I get 20-25FPS in WvW (Depending on how many players and how many effects are on the screen). My Max Low is 18FPS with a 60vs60vs60 on High details. So that is the best you can get really, IMHO.

If you cant put 400~ into a new MB+CPU+Cooler for an Intel swap, I would just look into upgrading to a FX8350 and OC that to about 4.1Ghz (you can push more, but heat becomes an issue). That would be the most cost effective route.

Repost the trace when you are having lag. Those traces look very normal.

If you can identify time based latency, and what hops are affected, Open a ticket with your ISP and explain what you found out. Chances are they are paying for an oversubscribed Trunk out to the backbone.

First, verify that your system uses a AM2+ Socket (I’m pretty sure it does), Verify your BIOS version with the manufacturer(Update to the latest if there is an update), and see if they supply a CPU Supported List.

Then, For a cheap upgrade, I recommend getting a AM3 Phenom II X4. You can get a B93 (OEM 830) for 50~ on ebay.

And pick up either a 5550, 6650, or 7750 (they are all very close to each other, and under 80bucks).

that will get you up and running and able to play GW2 on Medium to Low Settings.

If you have 600-900 I would just recommend buying/building a new system. As even the upgrades I suggested are not ‘great’ for this game.

JTan.1687:

After the patch i can no longer play guildwars 2. i hope anet fix this.. i wanted to play on vacation day. but i can’t even do pve.

going to need WAY more info. system specs, OS version, and what is happening.

Ewan.7193:

Can’t bind the extra buttons, any suggestions?

You gotta create a profile in the software, then setup your mouse bindings in the profile, then push it to the mouse preset (I have a m95 as well).

The presets are actually saved to the mouse’s onboard flash. so you dont need the software after you program the mouse.

Fermi.2409:

Looks fine to me, although I do still suggest Windows 8 over 7.

I agree, except on the Win8 Front.

Win8.1 is ALOT better over all then 8.0 was. But there are still a hand full of applications that do not work, yet they work under windows7.

The performance between win8.1 and Win7 is very similar, so that isn’t an issue really. Just comes down to the start menu, and application support (the apps I run you probably don’t, as they are mainly networking applications and I am waiting for Vendor updates to fix the support issues…But the issues are still there.)

Just from a personal point of view, I never recommend an OS that I can’t work 100% under with out bugs (even if they are specific bugs that most users would not encounter).

Tink is absolutely right. You are having network latency and not system latency.

When you are having the issue, type /ip and it will reveal the current IP address of the server your connected to. Just do a Tracert from Command prompt to that IP address to find out where the issue sits (you will want to see high RRP times and unusal spikes).

key point, if the issue is not at the servers IP end, or your End, there is nothing you can do to fix it. as it sits in transit between you and the remote server. best you can do is log the tracert, and submit it to your level 3 support group at your local ISP for head to head troubleshooting between the pairing partners. but that only works 25% of the time and relies on your ISP of having a SLA with the failing connection.

Here is a sample TraceRT from my PC to the server I was just on Lions Arch with.

as you can see, each hop has a normal response time with each other. If i was lagging and it was a network issue, I would expect a hop to respond at 100-250+ MS while the rest before that hop are sub 50MS.

Tracing route to 64.25.33.56 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.16.100.254
2 8 ms 9 ms 9 ms ...
3 10 ms 16 ms 8 ms ...
4 13 ms 14 ms 11 ms ...
5 13 ms 13 ms 9 ms ...
6 21 ms 23 ms 23 ms 68.1.0.136
7 27 ms 22 ms 23 ms 206.223.123.36
8 46 ms 45 ms 46 ms 64.129.234.190
9 45 ms 44 ms 47 ms 207.71.18.206
10 45 ms 45 ms 45 ms 63.164.96.250
11 52 ms 45 ms 56 ms 63.164.96.50
12 46 ms 53 ms 46 ms 66.18.0.202
13 46 ms 61 ms 46 ms 64.25.32.9
14 47 ms 50 ms 51 ms 64.25.32.26
15 45 ms 46 ms 53 ms 64.25.32.82
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * ^C