Guild Wars 2

Hello devs i’m having trouble with sPvP crashing all of a sudden in the middle of a game. This ONLY occurs during sPvP and ONLY on the map “Legacy of the Foefire”. I do understand many people are having issues with lagging on this map, but not me the game just stops all together.

It goes like this….. ill be fighting mid-map(just noticed this every time its mid-map I don’t know if that counts) and after a few intense frames per second the game freezes, goes black, and gives me a courser with a wing. I can move the courser but everything else is set in stone. Sometimes i can open task manager but right after everything is frozen and i cant open any windows or anything.

I don’t know if this is due to the map, just my computer, or the leader-boards being implemented. (By the way for those that don’t know the leader-boards are active just can’t use them as of yet). Is there anyone else with this problem? As for now as sPvP being the sole purpose for why I play GW2, the game for me is declared unplayable. I know the devs are working day in and day out concerning the game as a whole. But this issue seems a bit extreme. Please fix soon.

yeah i’ve been having these issues as well

Evan Lesh.3295:

This could be one of many many problems. We would need more information to track the bug down. Were you able to submit a crash report? If not, do you have exact reproduction steps?

No I was not able to submit a report due to literally everything being frozen.

I played some more to see any consistencies in the matter and this is what i found..
-My frames drop considerably when I ride the lightning.(although it doesn’t always crash when i use this skill).
-Usually crashes when right after the lag.
-Mid-map every single time.
-Only me (all other players seem to be unaffected)

This is all I could think of for the time being. Hope it helps. I am considering that my drivers are out of date so i’m doing a full system restore/clean up/ scan/update. Then i’ll try again and see if the issue persists. Thanks for the quick reply.

P.S. I’ll try to get a video of it crashing on my phone. No promises.

“-My frames drop considerably when I ride the lightning.(although it doesn’t always crash when i use this skill).”

Invisible nerf!!

on topic: I hope the anet devs can help you and fix it asap

I had this exact problem on foefire mid-map during the beta, if that helps.

I don’t think my problem is the same thing, but yesterday when I was playing SPvP my game would often crash on the loading screen for foefire map. I would then get error accessing login or something when I exited the game and tried to log back in on the same character. It did it about 3-4 times yesterday, but the 3 games that I played this morning were fine so maybe it was just happening to everyone yesterday, although when I asked in guild nobody else experienced any problems. Has anyone else been having this happen?

Ok. After all updates have been done, I resumed playing as normal in sPvP. Usually the crashes occur in about 3-5 games. I have played about 10 games and no crash. However I have experienced lag on multiple occasions in various games, ranging from the “studder” type of lag to that 3-10 second lag that makes everyone look like idiots running in one direction the whole time. Maybe my graphics card reacted to the lag worse than everybody else. What ever the case may be GW2 never had lagging problems with me (aside from WvW).

I don’t know if this helps but I game on an Alienware m17x R4 full spec with the Nvidia(680) card for my graphics. If you need anything else i’m willing to cooperate as I do still love the game.