Guild wars 2 horrible frame rates

Derza10 said:

Maybe try overclocking to 4.5ghz ( if you have an after market decent CPU cooler ) and see if you have any improvements. If you are getting these low FPS in crowded areas - that is because your cpu is capped out. I play GW2 some and i have a gtx 680 (@1250Mhz) paired with an i5 2500k (@4.5Ghz) Playing at 6040x1200 resolution and most of the time i have 55-60 FPS but when I get in groups of people ( 30-50+ ) My FPS can drop to around 30 and this is because all 4 cores on the cpu are running at 95-100% aka bottlenecking.

MMOs are very cpu intensive when you get a lot of people around.

plattman02 said:

Wow really? Thats surprising...and really annoying. Ill try overclocking some more. I figured it might be that and went from 3.8 to 4.0ghz and that really made no difference at all. It seems as though the two 7970s would be able to handle everything though. What load is being put on the cpu?

Derza10 said:

The CPU is going to be responsible for doing the following in games:

1) Tracking Objects - calculations of mobile objects in the game, such as NPCs.
2) Hit detections - Along with those tracking, in offensive games, needs to approximate where some things will be hitting or if they will be hitting. With large data sets, such as multiple NPCs and yourself firing or doing actions, each action has to be taken into consideration and the resultant data.
3) AIs - The game AIs, ranging from the NPCs to just the simple "door handling" has to be processed based on actions and also program responses to situations. AIs use State mannerisms and timing.
4) Sound Processing - Regardless of the sound card, you still have a software converting a file's digital data to output back out into sound. There are different data formats, and even in game cutscenes, you are no longer using CD/DVD analog tracks, you are now using pure digital data files to output sounds, including background music and ambient sounds.
5) For Net Play - there is still going to be large data sets of information doing the above and passing back and forth as well as communicating to other machines, which puts even more of a burden on your system as it has to crunch some of that data and represent it to you and also respond back to that data and send it back out to the other machines.

The only way you can really keep your FPS up to a decent amount with a lot of people around is to OC it, you have one of the best gaming CPU's.

samuelspark said:

CPU isn't his problem... Don't give people false information.

What's the rest of your system specs like PSU?

samuelspark said:

CPU isn't his problem... Don't give people false information.

What's the rest of your system specs like PSU?

plattman02 said:

I have a coolmax 1000watt psu

Derza10 said:

How is my info false? lol, I stated if he is seeing these low frame rates while he has a lot of people around, it is due to his cpu limitations. Plattman02 are you normally at 60 FPS but when you do large events or go to a town where a whole lot of people are around your FPS drops? Or is it bad fps all the time?

samuelspark said:

There's a good chance that that's your issue. It's a trashy PSU maker. Most likely it only gives off about 600w of real power and that's not going to be enough to run two OC'ed 7970's and an OC'ed i5. It's probably what's holding you back from overclocking more as well.

I would replace it immediately for something of higher quality. This is an excellent deal. $45 off right now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006

plattman02 said:

Well all other games work perfectly fine with great frame rates at full resolution and ultra settings, so why wouldnt It be the problem in any other game?

samuelspark said:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/guild-wars-2-performance-benchmark,3268-7.html

samuelspark said:

CPU isn't his problem... Don't give people false information.

What's the rest of your system specs like PSU?

kitsunestarwind said:

Please can people stop blaming PSU's for Frame rate drops
if the PSU cannot supply the rated Power to the system at full load the system will HARD REBOOT or Just turn off, not drop in performance..

Secondly his System is plenty powerful enough to handle GW2 at those res/settings
but like all MMO's sometimes the slow down from large crowds of people is network related especially when buffering item and player data.

My advice is Turn off Vsync and keep it off (it does not help in eyefinity and can cause massive frame rate drops)
Make sure all your drivers are updated, and you have the latest CAP

AND DO NOT set Render Sampling at SuperSample, only Default
Your system is not powerful enough to run render sampling higher then default and will cause a massive drop in performance in eyefinity
(hell it causes massive performance drop on my system in eyefinity)

Derza10 said:

Any other bright ideas sun shine?