Hello there, GW2 players!
So, lately I’ve been playing WvW with a friend, and when it comes to a zerg, my computer just stops try to render the game and the FPS drops even reach to 0. I know it’s a common problem, but hear me out.
The same friend of mine has a nVidia GTX 1650, an old GPU. I run on a AMD RX 6650 XT. When it comes to WvW, he sais he doesn’t suffer from freezes or FPS drop. He also runs on a i5 (don’t know the model).
I’ve been thinking on upgrading my setup, specially the CPU (I have a Ryzen 5 3600), and, as far as I know, GW2 tends to need better single-core performance (even with the engine upgrade). I’ve been also thinking on selling this GPU and buy a better AMD GPU.
Worth mentioning: I have 16GB of RAM and a SSD, where the game (among other stuff) is installed.
And this is not only on WvW. Sometimes, on Lion’s Arch, the FPS drop happens too.
Did someone happen to have the same problems?
So I have a pretty beefy system (Ryzen 5800x3D, 6900XT…) and just to let you know Guild Wars 2 tends to run bad even on those systems in certain situations. Most of the time those are situations where a lot of players come together, WvW, Meta Events or Lions Arch in general.
What really helps is setting the Character Model Quality and Character Model Limit to low (not the lowest!) and as a killer feature also put Shadows on Low.
I don’t have the feeling that I loose a lot of visual fidelity and on the other hand I gain a huge performance boost so that even heavy meta events run well above 60fps and feel a lot smoother. Maybe this helps you a little bit.
Thank you for your comment!
I’ll test those settings, for sure. Quick follow up: did you change anything in CCC for the game, or inside the game too?
CCC?
Catalyst Control Center
lol Is that the official name? I only have the anti lag option there activated
It is, yeah hehe
Thank you very much, I’ll try those settings ASAP!
let us know if it helped.
It helped a bit, I’ve been playing the past 2 hours, and I felt a bit of a FPS drop, but way too less than on tuesday. Now I could actually do stuff while being in a zerg.
Thank you very much!
Upgrading PC for your mmo of choice? Dedication! :D
It’s the only game I play nowadays, I’d like to get it run as smooth as possible :DD
GW2 is extremely CPU heavy, so you want to get the best CPU you can, as you said especially taking into consideration single core performance. GPU is of less concern so you should be fine with what you have I think. I run it on Ryzen 5 1600, and RX580 8GB. It runs alright, but you can really hear it. Biggest effect to me were CPU and SSD upgrades
I run with a Ryzen 5 3600, and I’ve been considering the Ryzen 7 5700X3D for a few days…
I bought Ryzen 7800x3d, improvement was huge from Intel 9th gen. Those x3d CPUs are really good at games. But you still have to: disable shadows, character limit medium or lower to keep fps reasonable. You can look for videos using processor you want to buy in GW2 on YouTube. If you also have solid AMD GPU, you can combine their fluid motion frames with good CPU to get best possible performance in GW2 right now. Fluid motion frames is a frame generation technology that you can turn on in any dx11 game
GW2 runs pretty poorly in WvW zergs on any hardware.
You should set shadows to low, character details to low and disable effects for allies.
I have a 3070TI and it still run like ass, when there’s a lot of people. Not zero fps though 😅
