Low FPS/Lag

[skidawgz]

ok that sounds exactly right then. Give both your card and your CPU a slight overclock. I know that 6850s OC well they are a very popular card. Also, reduce the settings down just a little so your frames run 30+. Probably should run "recommended" settings. Splendid may be the mobo, don't really beat yourself up over it, as long as your card isn't running as crappy as it was before.

[Izzy]

Hmm, this is interesting to me because my build is very similar. Except that I'm running slightly different brands and my CPU is a 965 BE, which I OCed successfully.

My FPS in-game is usually very good at around 50-60+, except in certain areas and WvW it jumps down to around 30. I run it on medium-high settings.

I have not OCed my video card but I've been thinking about it so let me know how it goes if you try it.

[Zaxxeh]

What specific settings?

My computer rebooted in the middle of the night....and Guild Wars 2 now runs like it did before....laggy, etc. I'm angry and frustrated to say the least.

In event viewer I keep seeing this from when I play.

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0. in System

[skidawgz]

weird.... suggesting something hard drive related?
Have you had any hard drive issues in past? Any clicking? BSODs?

[Zaxxeh]

A physical memory dump here or there, a slight lag/freeze here and there...I'm changing SATA ports, a possible solution I read about. Then AMD drivers.

EDIT: I'm currently defragging. As far as the error goes, it goes back awhile, well over 2 weeks ago, but only now is it just spamming my Event Viewer. When the computer is finished defragging and everything, I'll launch up GW2.

[Izzy]

I'm going to second that it might be a problem with your hard drive, or even memory for that matter. What speed is your drive and how old is it? Is it your only drive?

[Zaxxeh]

My memory is clocked at 1333 mhz, and is 6 GB total (2 GB each stick).

The hard drive is around 2-3 years old. It's also my only drive.

[skidawgz]

it could be the hard drive, easily.
do some HDD scans for bad sectors and such
and run memtest for RAM

[Zaxxeh]

RAM came back fine, and I defragged my HDD.

I read somewhere that some guy had it for his graphics card/drivers. I'm going to roll back to AMD's just to double-check. Doesn't hurt.

EDIT: Installed AMD drivers just fine. Booted up game, worked great as we were talking about earlier in this thread. I rebooted the compy, and then went back into Guild Wars 2. Now it lags terribly again. I'm unsure as to what is causing this.

EDIT: EDIT: I'm purchasing a new hard drive, see if this solves the issue. This is actually what's also going on for me. http://www.overclock.net/t/1294690/g...to-prevent-lag I install the drivers, works fine, reboot later for whatever reason, lags like crazy. I uninstalled MSI Afterburner, Kombuster, and am just looking at different things that conflict. Another link that says essentially what I think is happening: http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...t-2186289.html

[skidawgz]

let me know how the new hard drive works out.