Guild Wars 2

Game seems to crash about 3 or 4 times before it gets stable. I was just doing AC and made it to path 3 before the crashes started. Then when I try to log back in it comes up that it’s download the map and after a few seconds I get a pop up telling me the map is ready but as soon as I join the map I get disconnected within 30 seconds.

I’m on windows 7. Really annoying because I literally go through this everytime I start-up the game.

Please help

This seems to be a severe issue that has only cropped up in the last few days or so, as there were two threads on the topic that opened up here and here that found quite a number of people experiencing disconnects.

For some though, this has been a problem since the game’s release, and there are some measures you can take that might help to reduce the amount of disconnects you experience. You might want to read the developer response on this page, or try reducing some of you graphics options and see if that helps.

Otherwise, we will just have to wait until Anet address the issue themselves.

In the Tech board there’s a thread that seems to indicate that those in New England that go through the Level 3 backbone in Boston is having a lot of packet loss which is causing disconnects. Most if not all have Comcast as their ISP (at least those in or near CT).

I was hoping there might be an easy fix, I’m not really in the mood to do a ton of experimentation, which will take hours and make no difference.

I guess I’ll just have to live with the disconnects.

It can help to turn your graphics to the minimum settings. Not because it will cause less of a load to your system (although it will) but because there is less network traffic if your ISP suddenly starts throttling things. When you go from one map to another you are really going from one server to another so there are a few network issues that could cause a delay in connecting to the second server (everything from latency to dns entries not resolving correctly), which would disconnect you because the first server considers you gone now.

I don’t think that’s the issue, if that was the case wouldn’t the disconnects happen throughout the day instead of in the first 10 minutes (typically) and then being fine after that.

It all depends what the issue is. For example, your ISP’s network may react like it has a DOS on it’s hands then correct itself after it sees you connecting to several servers in the same domain.

Figured this out, as long as I stay in the area I start in for about 10 minutes it’s all good. Also i don’t use TP in the first ten minutes.