Snooter.6832

So you never noticed any difference in performance, due to enabling Resize bar?

Hmm, just two things come to my mind about that 1. I didn't reinstall any drivers, only thing to enable resize bar for me was the bios flash on my Gpu, i merely stated the process for others, if they are going to get the resize bar option enabled on their rigs. So if the driver was wonky before, its a wonky one still. 2. My Cpu still averages 10-17% when i play the game, so it wasn't just my Gpu underperforming. As per Tomshardware they saw about 20% increase in fps, but Nvidia themselves have quoted 12% average improvement on selective games, GW2 isn't on the list last i checked, so not sure if there is any improvement from enabling resize bar or not. I would be very interested in seeing others who have this enabled on their systems and quoting numbers...for science!

I build a new pc recently, an rtx 3070 , mobo is gigabyte x570 auros ultra and ryzen 9 5950x. Ever since i started playing gw2 on the pc, the fps was 100-170 in most areas, averaging about 100, with wvw zerg fights at 40-60, all settings maxed, except for renderer which i had kept at native. The problem was, i noticed gpu utlisation at 1-8% never higher while playing the game, enabling resize bar via bios update for both mobo and gpu and having the latest drivers have boosted gpu utlisation to 50-70% and increased average fps to 150+, which is great. The game runs smooth as ever and no hickups so far, i would say go for the resize bar upgrade. Also a side note i do run arcdps and dx12 addons, so i'm not sure how much impact they have.

you should try playing Thief in PVP now, i'm dead before i even know what hit me...RIP my ranked dreams

You know they don't actually ignore these, right? They have people actively working on them, they fix issues when they can, they just don't pop in to the forums and comment on every single report of disconnects, high latency, etc. (Not to mention that a bunch of them are beyond the control of ANet, since you get at least a 50 percent hit rate on that when people actually bother to do diagnostics about where on the network the issue is.) Every game with online/persistent gameplay would always have a dedicated team of network engineers working to fix issues, having said that, i don't see how the said issue remains unfixed for many of us even after what one,two years? I play lots of pvp games online, i have never seen a game with lags issues as bad as Gw2.Period! it can be because of my local isp, my pc, the electrical interference in the ozone layer or w.e. kitten thing it can be, but so far, this game has remained the biggest challenge in competitive gameplay... for me at least.