Guild Wars 2

It is NOT “working fine”.

Lion’s Arch was at 100% completion when I started tonight, I left there to do the WvWvW maps.

I finished map completion tonight, even got my reward and the star next to my name. Upon looking at my map – it actually said 99% and that I was missing 1 POI.

But, I had my reward and my star…mmmk. So I port out of Eternal and back into Lion’s arch and low and behold, now I’m missing the new POI at the Fractals door, which I haven’t been missing since the patch. It is NOT working 100% correctly.

Good luck getting an actual informational answer for this, like any developer is going to come out and admit that they said “No” to something like this.

I’m seriously beginning to think either the engine is inherently flawed and not able to be easily fixed, or they just have no clue how to go about it. There are mountains of evidence about how poorly this game runs on various hardware configurations, and even sometimes drastically different on very similar setups, and all we’ve really gotten is a very vague and simplistic blog post about optimization that explained nothing, admitted nothing or even really acknowledged anything.

I love the game, my opinion of the company however has been a constant downslope from day 1.

First off, I did not say say running in legacy mode wasn’t horrible – nor did I recommend it. You made a blanket statement that was untrue. Why you bother posting one article about a manufacturer screwing up and having to release new firmware to fix their screw up is beyond me. The fact is, TRIM works in legacy mode.

Pagefile, show me some benefits or even logical reasons why you’d need it on in a 64bit high memory system? I’ve done plenty of research and benching.

We could go back and forth all day about this nonsense, that doesn’t change my original point -neither of these things has anything to do with how well or crappy GW2 runs.

“AHCI mode is not required for TRIM to exist or function, and an AHCI driver does not enable or add TRIM to a PC. TRIM is a SATA protocol command, specifically an ATA Data Set Management command. What is needed is a program to send the TRIM command, and Windows 7 does just that, as well as Windows Server 2008 R2.”

I ran SSDs in IDE mode with Trim enabled for months before I reformatted and switched to AHCI – and that has NOTHING to do with framerate.

If you have enough things running while you’re gaming including the games memory to go over 8GB – let alone 16 GB, then you shouldn’t be gaming period. If you do have the Pagefile on for some strange reason, the benefit to having it on a different drive ended with WinXP/2000. Try again.

Pagefile with 16GB of ram, huh? You don’t even need a pagefile with 8GB. Also, having an SSD doesn’t matter except for load times, and whether that SSD is in AHCI or IDE barely matters with that.

Biggest problem I have is huge fps drops only in WvWvW. Had issues of dropping to 10fps during battles rendering it unplayable. I did update Nvidia drivers to 306.02 beta and it helped by increasing to around 23-25fps, making it somewhat playable but still a slideshow. This is the only place I see these drops, not in large PVE world events or regular gameplay – I hang around 60-70fps there.

AMD Phenom II X4 965
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 2833MHz (9-9-9-24)
MSI 890FXA-GD70
GeForce GTX 570 (EVGA)
119GB M4-CT128M4SSD2 ATA Device (SSD)
ASUS Xonar DG Audio Device