142186-frustrated-with-poor-performance

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To preface this, I'm running a i7 3610 w/ 7970m. This machine may be a bit long in the tooth by today's high-end standards, but it still sits at or above consumer grade gaming laptops. I have absolutely no difficulty running games like GW2 at max settings while maintain 45-60fps. However, in this game I'm LUCKY if I break 35fps while soloing and heaven forbid I hit a populated area where I drop to the low teens. Adjusting the setting from low to max seem to offer little performance difference as well.
 
As fun as this game is, I imagine it will be all but unplayable at the raid level. My friends expereince has been no different with more powerful machines than I have. Sadly, the few that stuck out the server issues have quit because of the poor fps issues.......but that is besides the point. I want to stick this out and try to find a solution, but having already messed with the UI/folder settings I'm just betting that this game is poorly optimized from a coding standpoint. I really hope that isn't the case, as I much perfer this over Heart of Thorns.
			
				
	Edited October 10, 2015 by Vahlen I	
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It's the same for me and i have to turn down the game to medium now so it's playable in the area i'm now in, but still the FPS drops alot and my pc is not bad at all.
And this have been going on since i started playing this game on launch day when the game was P2P and after several mails with support i gave up on them helping me.
But i still play Wildstar since it's a really fun mmo but i don't think the fps will be better since i've had this for more than a year.	
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			It's a shame because this is quite fun..........but there's no reason that this game should require so much resources. There little discernable differece between this game and WoW in terms of graphics.	
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