Guild Wars 2

This game likes to eat up your CPU with hardly even glacning your GPU. This is not OK and makes the game un-playable on systems that don’t have such a monster CPU. This should be optimized.

I’m not very informed considering overclocking, is there a way to do it without destroying the laptop? I’ve played for a bit, and got your task manager screen shot.

I’m not expecting to run medium/high settings, I already accepted the fact that I’ll be playing Guild Wars 2 on lowest possible settings. But I’ve seriously expected a game better optimized than this. :/

Ok so I’m running Guild Wars 2 on a mid-specced laptop of mine that runs games such as Assassins Creed: Brotherhood/Revelations, Crysis 2, Blacklight: Retribution. Those are all games of the same requirements or higher. I run them on medium settings with 40+ FPS, with rare drops to 25-30. Also, the requirements stated on the box are:
CPU: Minimum: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, Core i3, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or better
RAM: 2GB
Video Card: Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce 7800, ATI Radeon X1800, Intel HD 3000 or better (256 MB of video RAM and shader model 3.0 or better)
Now these specs should barely run the game with, I’m guessing 20fps-ish on the lowest settings. Now my laptop considerably overkills that.
CPU: Pentium® Dual-Core CPU T4500 @ 2.30GHz (the worst part but still better than required)
RAM: 3GB
Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 Pixel/Vertex Shader 4.0, 1GB of dedicated RAM
I’ve got all the newest drivers installed and I’m not greedy about graphics quality in-game. I’d be satisfied with the lowest possible settings, as long as the FPS doesn’t drop below 25. But my laptop runs the game like this: 30FPS MAX in very rare situations, 20-ish when nothings happening and 10-15 when I’m in a fight that consists of more than 2 subjects (which is almost every fight). ArenaNet stated that Guild Wars 2 will work properly on a wide range of PCs and I find this rather disappointing. I’m running a game that works on DX11 – Blacklight Retribution, with 40fps+ at all times, and it never drops below 25, with medium settings. I’m confused.

I’m thinking out loud here but I see no reason why not to post this. I’ve noticed the view distance in Guild Wars 2 is insanely high and I believe I can literally see from one zone to another. I, having a mid-specced computer, would like to lower the distance that the game renders as I find it irrelevant and consider it eye-candy. Currently, I’m running the game on possibly the lowest settings on 20-30fps, with rare drops to 15. I believe lowering the distance would fairly increase the games’ performance. I’m just wondering will there ever be the option to do so.