Ravenhunt.2735

Trading post awefully slow or passing an error. It was perfect before the attempted chromium update. Now it is a pain to sell stuff. It needs nearly half an hour to sell stuff from a farming run because of the laggy and slow error throwing mess the trading post is now. TPing to a waypoint sometimes leads to an endless loading screen. I needed to use TP to friend in the end to get into the map by time to make it to a meta event. Other players reported the same problem. Something really went wrong with that recent patch. Sheesh...

Samer issue for me. Sometimes backpieces and Mounts change their colors to red, black etc. Despite the color who was given. Graphics option texture quality changing fixes it, till it appears again. Playing with DX11 renderer. Didn't tested yet if it happens with DX9 as well.

Another example of a false color on my mount: https://i.gyazo.com/18c844b218c1e1c44dc7c4ca1d7e9d46.jpg And again the backpiece: https://i.gyazo.com/6042f5dff92607a306e111e959ba860c.jpg

As said. Some dye slots from mounts and armor are continously changing their colors. It's not dependant on a specific armor piece. Happens on all characters. Other palyers see the colors correctly. Changing doesn't help. Only teleporting to another map. Happens also by using the waypoints. So i guess anything that loads the character model will triggering it sometimes. Someone else experiencing that issue recently? Example image

Set the GPUs clock manually at a higher rate to prevent the downstepping in clocks in certain situations that causes most stuttering. It can help. For me DX12/VK didn't help with that issue though. Running a 6900XT, it is super annoying. It started with a specific driver for me but can't remember which one it was. Before that Zergs with maxed out settings run just wonderfull. Hopefully DX11 will help with that, hopefully.

Blizz does that as well. Would be amazing.

Did you checked the behavior of your CPU when running the game? Did you checked other games as well about their performance? Did you checked different drivers? (Older ones for example) Did your driver has auto update active and did a recent update before that problem occured? Windows had a few updates as well who affected gaming performance for a few people. Check out what updates are known to do that and see what updates are installed. Maybe remove them temporarely. Get an overlay to see how much your hardware gets utilized when running GW2. Does any backround threads run? Did you installed any addons for GW2? If so, uninstall them and test it without.

Make the test. Use the hummingbird mount or a player who has it. It triggers it always for me. From 200 down to 40FPS, ridiculous. Sometimes up to insane levels. Some players have it less others worse. So far it seems AMD cards have even worse performance decrease when these whatever effects occur. I can counter test it with a 1080ti if there is a similar impact. Edit: Tested it now with my old computer. (Ryzen 7 1800X and 1080ti) No issues, at least nothing to shout out, same settings. (Using Hummingbird: ~120 down to ~111FPS) Nothing near the amount with the AMD card now. The new Card CAN have twice the FPS, but drops insanely low with some effects. I guess my problem is more related to AMDs drivers maybe?

I got a similar issue since the last patch. For some reason, in my case, some effects from auras and certain mounts impact the performance drastically. It seems worse with certain AMD cards but also has effect on nvidia cards as well. In my case it dropped from over 200 down to 30 in specific situations. Only when using the hummingbird mount for example. Tested everything. From lowest settings, to highest. DX12 wrapper, reinstalltion, drives... nothing helped so far. Before the patch, everything run perfectly fine. Zergs, no problem. Mounts, no problem. Auras, no problem. It's super weird. Zergs are a mess to play now. Because the game drops periodically in FPS and backs up to normal again. That's like you play in bullettime effect when that happens.

No one having that issue? I know at least a hand full of people i tested that with who have the same issue of performance impacts of 20 to nearly 80% with the hummingbird and some auras. You can test it yourself easily. Find a person with a hummingbird mount, go to a silent area so your performance is not impacted by anything else. And try it out with unlimited FPS if you are above 60 in average to see the impact. Surprising to be honest no one notices it. Or just don't care/not noticing it while in action?

I post this here as well, because i guess that is a bug. Since the last patch it seem the hummingbird mount, some auras and other specific effects have a major performance impact for some users. Without hummingbird Mount: https://i.gyazo.com/8ccee0ec6859400714aa5480f416a999.jpg With Mount active/riding: https://i.gyazo.com/9c7ff1e1fe05c0b7b43099b9222ddc24.jpg Others experience a performance hit as well as i tested it with some players. No graphics option change that behavior. Driver or Game side doesn't matter. Graphics card is an AMD RX 6900XT, paired with a Ryzen 9 5950X. (No overclock, stock settings.) In my case. No other game experiences such weird behavior. Reinstallation has no effect. DX12 wrapper has no effect. Graphic settings has no effect. (Lowest or highest doesn't matter.) It also seems that some auras have a similar impact/effect. Would explain these weird "slowmo" like drops in Zergs now. (Besides the normal decrease of course.) Game runs normal without player with auras and not all aura effects have that effect. It's a very specific one that impacts the performance so drastically. EDIT: Updated the Thread. Because it's not only the hummingbird mount having that effect.

Friend has a framedrop as well with it. Some others too. It would be nice to know with what hardware configuration that happens. And if other effects (Auras maybe who use same techniques for rendering/shader effects) have the same impact. For me: CPU: 5905X GPU: 6900XT That shouldn't happen with that hardware, AT ALL. Maybe an AMD problem? Problem with their driver? I noticed after the patch also some weird "slowdown" behavior on the game in bigger zerg groups. That's why i mentioned also Aura effects above.

For some weird reason, when using the hummingbird, the performance drops by a LOT. When others use it the same happens, even worse depending how many. Never saw that behavior, except after the last Update patch it seems. When using the hummingbird: https://i.gyazo.com/9c7ff1e1fe05c0b7b43099b9222ddc24.jpg When NOT using the hummingbird: https://i.gyazo.com/8ccee0ec6859400714aa5480f416a999.jpg That is a difference from nearly down to one 6th or the normal performance! o_O Edit: Can someone else test that? Will test that with a friend now if he gets that performance drop as well.