Originally posted by Normandy7
The game probably is not optimized properly for higher end cards.

Indeed...A friend of mine never got that micro stuttering problem and he got a 560ti...

I have had this problem as well.

When I try to turn to run away it freezes for a second or 2. Had to learn how to avoid doing this and find another solution! Most of the time it's fine and you have enough time anyway, and with the rest your one hit down anyway!

Originally posted by Normandy7
The game probably is not optimized properly for higher end cards.

Kind of defeats the purpose of a high end card.

Originally posted by Normandy7
The game probably is not optimized properly for higher end cards.

Well it's not the same card, but it is in the same series and mine runs great! GTX 670. 

Like I asked the OP before, is your card overheating? You have two cards in your box, is it ventilated enough?

I remember people during the beta weekends saying that the game was still cpu bound, and that the processors were not being fully used.  Idk if it ever changed.

Originally posted by Amjoco

Originally posted by Normandy7
The game probably is not optimized properly for higher end cards.

Well it's not the same card, but it is in the same series and mine runs great! GTX 670. 

Like I asked the OP before, is your card overheating? You have two cards in your box, is it ventilated enough?

Don't have anything installed that can tell me, but I doubt it. I've played Crysis 2 for like 12 hours straight with it and it runs like butter. Everything else I play runs like butter too. It's only Guild Wars that plays bad. And my case in an Alienware Aurora R4, so it has whatever ventilation that has.

Originally posted by RelGn
get rid of the 7800 crap and update your drivers

Originally posted by RelGn
get rid of the 7800 crap and update your drivers

Like going black, once you go 4 monitors, you can't go back.

I assume the OP is running the game on his primary monitor, and since he said he isn't running anything else, that the other monitors are blank?

Most games are not suited for multimonitor use in this aspect.  You either need to run the game on one monitor, or have a multimonitor setup hat would allow you to expand the game across all monitors (not copy, but basically giving yourself a really high resolution.).

I see that you turned off your Shadows.  That is another thing that typically increases performance.  Shadows are a massive memory hog.  Another thing is to turn off reflective surfaces.

Originally posted by engellen
maybe your computer realizes how terrible the game is and doesnt want to play it for you anymore?

 ahahaha true :)

Originally posted by Wootloops

Originally posted by Amjoco

Originally posted by Normandy7
The game probably is not optimized properly for higher end cards.

Well it's not the same card, but it is in the same series and mine runs great! GTX 670. 

Like I asked the OP before, is your card overheating? You have two cards in your box, is it ventilated enough?

Don't have anything installed that can tell me, but I doubt it. I've played Crysis 2 for like 12 hours straight with it and it runs like butter. Everything else I play runs like butter too. It's only Guild Wars that plays bad. And my case in an Alienware Aurora R4, so it has whatever ventilation that has.

Portable version if you just feel like checking. Portable GPU-Z.

It is easy.

Remove the 7800GTX from your system.

Get the most recent drivers for your GTX690.

Run the game with only 1 monitor, vsync on.

If it runs fine you found out your problem.

Originally posted by Roguewiz

I assume the OP is running the game on his primary monitor, and since he said he isn't running anything else, that the other monitors are blank?

Most games are not suited for multimonitor use in this aspect.  You either need to run the game on one monitor, or have a multimonitor setup hat would allow you to expand the game across all monitors (not copy, but basically giving yourself a really high resolution.).

I see that you turned off your Shadows.  That is another thing that typically increases performance.  Shadows are a massive memory hog.  Another thing is to turn off reflective surfaces.

I don't play it with surround, I play it in a window on my primary monitor. I've tried it in fullscreen windowed mode and normal fullscreen, but the performance is the same.

The old dual gpu cards could just use ONE gpu as an option in certian games/or hard turn off and on... i would first see if this is still an option. Some times dual gpus stutter (badly) if the first gpu is slower than the second (even in dual gpu cards). Also it might be a hardware issue with dual gpus and gw2 (i don't see this however) .

Originally posted by Amjoco

Originally posted by Wootloops

Originally posted by Amjoco

Originally posted by Normandy7
The game probably is not optimized properly for higher end cards.

Well it's not the same card, but it is in the same series and mine runs great! GTX 670. 

Like I asked the OP before, is your card overheating? You have two cards in your box, is it ventilated enough?

Don't have anything installed that can tell me, but I doubt it. I've played Crysis 2 for like 12 hours straight with it and it runs like butter. Everything else I play runs like butter too. It's only Guild Wars that plays bad. And my case in an Alienware Aurora R4, so it has whatever ventilation that has.

Portable version if you just feel like checking. Portable GPU-Z.

 

The first GPU in the 690 is at 82C at 60% utilization on average, and the second one is at 72C at 50% utlilzation on average. And the 7800 is at 65C at 4% utlization. Don't know if those are good temperatures or not.

just unpark cores in your CPU

strange that no one told you that

all these experts in this topic :)

Originally posted by saurus123

just unpark cores in your CPU

 

strange that no one told you that

 

all these experts in this topic :)

What does unparking mean?

Originally posted by Wootloops

Originally posted by Amjoco

Originally posted by Wootloops

Originally posted by Amjoco

Originally posted by Normandy7
The game probably is not optimized properly for higher end cards.

Well it's not the same card, but it is in the same series and mine runs great! GTX 670. 

Like I asked the OP before, is your card overheating? You have two cards in your box, is it ventilated enough?

Don't have anything installed that can tell me, but I doubt it. I've played Crysis 2 for like 12 hours straight with it and it runs like butter. Everything else I play runs like butter too. It's only Guild Wars that plays bad. And my case in an Alienware Aurora R4, so it has whatever ventilation that has.

Portable version if you just feel like checking. Portable GPU-Z.

 

The first GPU in the 690 is at 82C at 60% utilization on average, and the second one is at 72C at 50% utlilzation on average. And the 7800 is at 65C at 4% utlization. Don't know if those are good temperatures or not.

Hmm, I'm no GPU expert at all. Maybe Quizzical or Aerowyn could help more on this. My load runs at about 19% and 43C in Lions Arch. I think from what I read around 80C is fine so I guess that wouldn't matter. I'm just wondering why your utilization runs so high. 

Also, I did read where others have had problems with that card but that was from months ago. Sorry I can't think of anything else other than what folks have said. Get rid of the 7800 and update drivers.