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Why is my graphic performance so bad?
Wootloops
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I have a six core i7-3930k, a GTX 690, 16 GB of RAM, and an SSD, and for some reason the game is just choppy and slow, most noticeably if I spin around really fast, causing everything to lock up for like half a second.
I turned off dual GPU mode for the 690, turned off windowed mode for the game, and tried messing with the graphics settings but nothing really helped.
Maybe it's my Nvidia drivers, as I'm stuck on 307.74 because I use a second 7800 GTX card for extra monitors, and that's the last driver to support that card, but these drivers came out well after Guild Wars 2 was released.
With all graphics settings maxed (No vertical sync), running in a straight line in the Azura starting area I get like 45-60 FPS depending on the area, and as soon as I start even slightly turning, it drops to 25-45 FPS.
I feel like I should be getting better results with my specs.
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I just reinstalled Windows completely this week, so I did more than just reinstall the drivers, but it's still the same. And yeah my system is 64 bit.
I don't much follow the game anymore but lastr i remember they had a problem with their coding that helps optimize graphics.
I am tired right now ,so i forget terms but basically grahpics need to draw ONLY what you see,trying to draw everything in a map is just real bad.
Also different areas would matter,example how many opbjects are been drawn.One of hte main things to turn down in games is Shadows [off] and Shaders.
However as i have played EQ2 many times,they optiomized the settings poorly,where as changes seem to be more off or on with very little variance in settings.This could be the case in this game as well,so you might think you turn down a setting a little and it does nothing.
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It has 4 outputs, but with dual GPU enabled, you can only use 3, and I have 4 monitors. And I want to get even more monitors, too.
Turning shadows completely off finally makes the game run acceptably, but it's not really acceptable that I have to run with no shadows given my specs.
Many of my guildmates complain, there was something in latest patches, which made game extremely laggy (in graphic sense, not network lag). There is definitely something in settings, that literaly kills your performance...
I found shadows, reflections and postprocessing are the worst.
There are also some rumors about data flow in graphics card. I'm not expert in this field, but apparently it has nothing to do with processors and how much memory you have, but with how wide buses are and how fast your graphic card can transfer data.
Don't how the 7800 would be slowing down the system, other than by making me stuck on older drivers. It's not doing anything other than drawing one of my monitors, and even if I move my games to that monitor, the 690 is still the one rendering the games. And yeah you can use 4 monitors with dual GPU mode, but it's a worse GPU mode ("Activate all displays" vs "Maximize GPU performance"). Surround is one of the modes too, but I have monitors with different shapes and resolutions, so I can't use it, and I wouldn't really want to anyway, as I run all my games in non-fullscreen windows.
Regardless, I used Guild Wars 2 before I even put the 7800 in the system anyway, and it was the same way.
I read something about 690's having half the memory bus size because of the fact that it's two GPUs in one PCI slot, so perhaps that's part of the issue.
Multitasking. Currently I have it set up as such:
Left monitor: World of Warcraft, Mumble, Sticky Notes, my twitter app, and my chat windows.
Center monitor: Guild Wars 2, my video player (Game of Thrones), and one of my browser windows.
Right monitor: Second browser window.
Above monitor: Assortment of pictures, a looping slideshow, and a looping video of hot girls.
And I always run out of room too. The command center is never complete.
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Well yeah, that'd be ideal, but I blew all my budget on the main system, so now I'm chilling with my old 7800 until I can get a better card (Not so much in terms of power, but in ports, as the 7800 only has two). I hope there's a way I can run an AMD card with an Nvidia card in one system that isn't half broken, because 6 ports is bawse. I've heard windows can run 2 drivers at the same time, but it's buggy. Should look into that for even my current set up.
Well actually thats not ideal. A 690 and a 7970 would be ideal, and a 690 and a 680 would be more ideal than two 680s.
I've run it with everything closed, it makes no difference. With Guild Wars 2 selected, my processor utilization is only 37%, and if I drop WoW, it cuts in half. And my RAM is at 61%. Dunno what the GPU utilization is, but again, with WoW and everything closed, it doesn't change the performance, and that's to be expected with a 6 core processor with hyperthreading, and a 690. The only that isn't working as expected is Guild Wars' overall performance, regardless of what is open.
Seems like you are having a micro stuttering problem, it doesnt matter what pc you got, GW2 is a really bad optimized game, there is no solution for the problem...there are people that never got the micro stuttering solved and there are others that never experienced that problem, ati and nvidia drivers doenst work and arenanet informed when the game came out that they were going to fix the bug. Until today there is no solution what so ever only some little performance tweaks.
I´ve always played the game with that problem, and some of my friends aswell. That´s one of the reason i left the game.
Spec:
i5 2500k oc 4.6
msi 7970
16gb
ssd
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Indeed...A friend of mine never got that micro stuttering problem and he got a 560ti...
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I have had this problem as well.
When I try to turn to run away it freezes for a second or 2. Had to learn how to avoid doing this and find another solution! Most of the time it's fine and you have enough time anyway, and with the rest your one hit down anyway!
Kind of defeats the purpose of a high end card.
Well it's not the same card, but it is in the same series and mine runs great! GTX 670.
Like I asked the OP before, is your card overheating? You have two cards in your box, is it ventilated enough?
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
I remember people during the beta weekends saying that the game was still cpu bound, and that the processors were not being fully used. Idk if it ever changed.
Don't have anything installed that can tell me, but I doubt it. I've played Crysis 2 for like 12 hours straight with it and it runs like butter. Everything else I play runs like butter too. It's only Guild Wars that plays bad. And my case in an Alienware Aurora R4, so it has whatever ventilation that has.
^ especially with the 690 I know numerous games with issues with dual GPU cards..drivers generally fixes most of these issues.. Id try the latest betas which just released couple days agoI angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
Like going black, once you go 4 monitors, you can't go back.