Well I just typed the entire thread out and then hit control enter so I have no idea what happened to it, but here we go again.
I had recently upgraded to windows 8 and bought guild wars 2. The first time I started up the game I had 20 fps and this seemed unrealistic to me for my PC specs.
I looked into this by first trying to run another game, called TERA. This game ran at 20 fps to.
I automatically assumed it was the operating system as I had been able to run TERA at 150fps on windows 7.
This being said. I reverted. 40 fps. Wow double my fps! (*not remotely impressive). Just what the kitten is happening I thought.
Well I’ve downloaded at least 300gb since I last ran tera so let’s start there. I wiped 300 gb of data from my computer and all my pc now had on it was guild wars 2, WoW, and TERA.
Then I defragmented like any smart person would do.
And then I wiped free space.
60 fps. I can run guild wars 2 smoothly but it still seems a little bit borderline.
NO PROBLEM TIME TO OPEN UP MY DESKTOP
~Holy jesus kittenting christ what the hell is inside my computer.
I kitten you not I took a vacuum and just vacuumed my entire computer. There was so much dust on my cpu fan that it didn’t have space to move. I HAD NO COOLING SYSTEM.
So now i had 65-70 fps on high settings! It looked so smooth and beautiful. BUT IM NOT SATISFIED.
TIME TO SPEND MONEY
I went to Canada Computers and bought myself an h80i and after spending 5 hours trying to figure out (yes actually 5 hours) how to get it to work, I INSTALLED IT!
I am now running the game at 80fps consistently never dropping below 60.
With what specs you ask? GARBAGE SPECS!
8gb of RAM (3.5 usable)
Intel Core i7 CPU 930 2.8GHz 2.79 GHz
GTX 470 Nvidia Graphics Card
Piece of kitten 6 year old HDD
That’s my story and I hope it helped someone out there, good luck fixing your FPS!
