Prior to upgrading the game was running ok. Typically at 22 to 50+ frames per second. This was with an ATI 6850, 4 gigddr2 ram and a core2quad 2.8ghz.
Other than my graphics card and ram I have made no other changes to my computer.
I replaced my ATI 6850 with an ATI 6870 re-installing the driver (they happen to use the same one but i downloaded it again anyway) in the correct manner. After playing some games and noticing some improvement i thought great time to upgrade the RAM.
So I replaced my two sticks of ddr2 2 gig ram for two sticks of ddr2 4 gig ram. Giving me a total of 8 gig of ram which windows does detect. My loading times are noticably a bit quicker, and windows7 (64bit) and programs like CPUID do detect the new hardware correctly.
All of my other games such as The Secret World, Rome Total War 2 and Old Republic and StarCraft 2 are running better than before. But for GW2, the performance has worsened. Drastically. It’s really bad.
On the mainly medium settings which i had in place from before the frames dropped to average 8 frames a second, when i used to get 22-50+.
On low graphics/best performance settings it went to 13 frames a second.
What has happened? How could this be possible? I’ve raised a ticket but i understand it can take a long time to get a response, if you get on at all. At least thats what other players said in game. Is that true?
I hope not, and hope someone here can help me, I have always loved and been a supporter of GW2, and have spoken well of it to my friends, of how cool it is. And now this happens
So if someone knows whats going on and how i can fix this i would seriously be grateful. For the record the aforementioned ticket had to be done through ncsoft rather than direct through GW2 ‘due to security concerns’ the email told me, so I set up an account direct with ncsoft too so I could at least have an open ticket underway.
