Guild Wars 2 Stress Test

[May 10, 2012, 9:17 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Guild Wars 2 Facebook Page has word on a stress test next week (thanks Ke). Here's word:

We’ll be conducting a stress test on Monday May 14 from 11 AM to 6:00 PM PDT (-7 GMT).

This special test event is open only to Pre-Purchase customers who have registered their accounts. With your help, we can conduct important tests and address some of the issues we identified during our first Beta Weekend Event. During this event, all you need to do is play normally with a new or existing character on your Beta account using the same game client. Please note that since this is a stress test of our servers, you may experience some in-game performance issues. If you’ve pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 and wish to participate in the stress test, we recommend that you register the account and download the game client.

Pre-Purchase customers, log in to the Beta Forums for more information and/or to download the Beta client if needed.

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/stress/news/Getting-Started/169235

Having issues logging in? Contact Support: https://support.guildwars2.com/

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Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test

May 11, 2012, 15:13

Titus

HorrorScope wrote on May 11, 2012, 14:57: Many reported stupid crazy low percentage of use on GPU's and several had low CPU usage as well. Low CPU usage if you look at the total CPU. If you got 4 (or 6) cores and one thread is maxing out one core and limiting the rest of the threads, you'll only see 25% (or 16%) plus a bit CPU usage. You can't split one thread over multiple cores. That's why certain lower end CPU's with good per core performance could run this better than high end AMD 6 core systems, where the per core performance is worse. Concurrency is the bane of modern computing, ever since 'Moore's Law' could only be kept intact by putting more cores on a processor. Tim Sweeney held a great talk about innovating computer languages for game development years ago. Most processing languages nowadays favor the Object Orientation paradigm, where mutable state is all over the place, which makes locking issues hard to prevent. Too bad nothing much has changed. This comment was edited on May 11, 2012, 15:30.

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	1.	May 10, 21:32	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Cutter
	2.	May 10, 21:38	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Fion
	3.	May 10, 21:41	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	nin
	4.	May 10, 21:50	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Fion
	13.	May 10, 23:47	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Kitkoan
	5.	May 10, 21:52	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	eunichron
	8.	May 10, 22:09	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	nin
	10.	May 10, 22:27	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	zombiefan
	11.	May 10, 23:00	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Slashman
	6.	May 10, 22:05	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Turglar
	9.	May 10, 22:25	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Yifes
	19.	May 11, 03:10	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	InBlack
	20.	May 11, 03:50	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Wash Washburne
	22.	May 11, 08:48	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	nin
	23.	May 11, 12:51	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	HorrorScope
	25.	May 11, 13:46	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Titus
	26.	May 11, 14:57	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	HorrorScope
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	30.	May 12, 01:31	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Squirmer
	31.	May 13, 16:29	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Ant
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	12.	May 10, 23:44	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	xXBatmanXx
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	15.	May 11, 00:01	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	xXBatmanXx
	16.	May 11, 00:02	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	Kitkoan
	17.	May 11, 00:20	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	OpticNerve
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	24.	May 11, 12:52	Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test	HorrorScope
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