Fractals causing crashes?

Fractals causing crashes?

in Fractals, Dungeons & Raids

Posted by: Sunrend.6798

Sunrend.6798

I’ve played GW2 from closed beta 3 and not once has it ‘crashed,’ (had a few disconnects but that’s network related etc.) but I’ve experienced two crashes whilst running FotM. The first was in the Ascalon fractal. The party had gotten through the main gate and was clearing the alleyways when everyone dropped to desktop. The second (and the reason for this topic) was during the infused shaman fight in the Grawl fractal. The party was near to killing the boss when he spawned his 4th, maybe 5th, round of lava elementals, at which point my game simply froze. I couldn’t minimize, close, alt+tab, anything. Eventually I had to ctrl+alt+del to the task manager and close the game via that route.

The reason I haven’t posted this in the tech support forum is that I don’t feel it’s a hardware related issue; as previously stated, I had not experienced a CTD or freeze up until playing FotM. However, I won’t object to being proven wrong.

Anyone else encountered the same or had similar problems?

Jet Lili – Elementalist
Gandara

Fractals causing crashes?

in Fractals, Dungeons & Raids

Posted by: RoyHarmon.5398

RoyHarmon.5398

Last night, I was in the fractal with all the krait. We had been turned into dolphins and had nearly found our way back to human form when I realized that half of my armor had completely broken. I double-clicked an instant repair canister and the client crashed.

When I loaded the game again, I was standing in Lion’s Arch, unable to join my group. I tried to enter the gate and was presented with the same dialog as when I first started, except the level was higher because it wasn’t considering those in my party with a lower fractal level. Since the dungeon didn’t give any indication that I had anything to do with an instance of it, I thought I could switch characters and craft something. But wait! I was the party leader, and while the game may have forgotten that I was ever a member of the party, it definitely did NOT forget that I was its leader. The rest of the party was promptly booted.

The moral of the story: If you get disconnected from a fractal, don’t expect to be doing anything for a while. Also, don’t try to instantly repair your dolphin.

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and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.”
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