Guild Wars 2

Three way battle at garrison, could see literally zero people at times. At most, a few allies. But unlike usual, it never went away after the fight. I’ve never seen it this bad.

This picture is 10 minutes after the battle.

My whole guild is complaining about this. I too am having rendering issues. running a 7970 with the drivers that came with the card (i know, i know).

I was WvW’ing when the servers came down for patch and was rendering fine. Now i am hitting tab all the time just to see a red arrow over an invisible foe

I haven’t seen more than one or 2 enemies for the past hour in my group. In many cases I can’t even see friendly players.

Whatever is going on is ruining the WvW experience for a bunch of people.

LOL, ya think!??!

They(Anet) has now made Wv3 pretty much unplayable.

Do you know how to clear your ram? Because it helps me when it starts to stick like that.

If you don’t know how to go about it yourself, I recommend Game Booster 3 from sourceforge.

When you launch a game via the application it stops nonessential processes and services, giving your CPU a bit more headroom, and conveniently clears RAM. It does it instantly too with only two clicks of the mouse, and restores everything when you quit the game.

unfortunately killja that is most certainly not the case i this situation.
Its very clear that post patch rendering issues have gone from bad to worse.
i could not see a single player not for a few seconds during the “normal” rendering… i havent been able to see anyone for minutes of battle. No, i am not exagerating.

Killjagood.7830:

Do you know how to clear your ram? Because it helps me when it starts to stick like that.

If you don’t know how to go about it yourself, I recommend Game Booster 3 from sourceforge.

When you launch a game via the application it stops nonessential processes and services, giving your CPU a bit more headroom, and conveniently clears RAM. It does it instantly too with only two clicks of the mouse, and restores everything when you quit the game.

For some reason I keep waiting for a Snapple ad to happen or something though. Some sort of product placement.

In other words… the client needs better optimization? It’s my opinion, but you should never need a third party program to run another program effectively. For troubleshooting it makes sense to shut down other processes to root cause things; aside from that no one should have to go to great lengths just to play your game :P

I’m having huge issues now. People on my own team don’t render at times.

I also recommend a quality brand SSD. Not even two weeks ago I was bored as hell with grinding drops and decided to try running the game from the 7200 mechanical instead just to see the difference it makes and I couldn’t believe it.

In WvW, whole models took significantly longer to appear; running some of the popular events in Orr led to periods where players sort of flickered, pop-corn style, among the spell effects; and in general, high resolution textures sort of “fuzz” into detail in comparison.

Nothing quite like what you’re experiencing right now though.

sorry this issue isn’t related to peoples machines. What ever they changed in the patch made things super bad not only in pvp but in pve stuff just wont render.

Do a routine new driver release check maybe?

I wish I could tell you it’s server side, but I’m in Eternal at the moment shooting IoJs with a treb : /

Killjagood.7830:

I also recommend a quality brand SSD. Not even two weeks ago I was bored as hell with grinding drops and decided to try running the game from the 7200 mechanical instead just to see the difference it makes and I couldn’t believe it.

In WvW, whole models took significantly longer to appear; running some of the popular events in Orr led to periods where players sort of flickered, pop-corn style, among the spell effects; and in general, high resolution textures sort of “fuzz” into detail in comparison.

Nothing quite like what you’re experiencing right now though.

I’m on an SSD too and they still take ages to load. ANet has admitted it’s a server issue anyway.

We took SM with all 3 servers fighting in the Lord Room and no one could see anything. Everyone was invisible. The battle took forever before we took it. I still think there is a problem with skills that will not activate in large battles due to lag and that needs to be fixed too. 5 second delay on heals = death.

Which servers are you guys on? You’re on HoD that’s obvious by your sig. Kind of curious which servers and/or WvW tiers are affected. Tier 2 is jumping and going hard.

I’m on Jade Quarry, and it’s quite awful. I had to stop playing.

Its definitely the patch that has caused this. I never had these rendering problems until now. I can only see one friendly player that’s in my group and no enemies. However the npc’s such as player pets load. But the NPCs in the border keeps aren’t loading either.

Actually most NPCs aren’t loading now…

I am going to go out on a limb and say its not peoples pc’s…. im personally running raid ssd, quad GTX’s, on a i7-3930K, with 32 gigs of ram so im gonna say that its not the machine lol…..

Not sure why when theres a wide spread issue thats not isolated, people seem to suggest its someones computer…. thats just silly.

dev explains here its their fault.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-real-problem-here-is-invisible-enemies-Give-their-algorithms-time-to-match-servers-properly/page/5#post366605

Arson.4189:

dev explains here its their fault.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-real-problem-here-is-invisible-enemies-Give-their-algorithms-time-to-match-servers-properly/page/5#post366605

That post is old though. The new patch made it even worse, even for PvE.

Its a server issue, not a client hardware issue. I really dont think throwing money at your rig is going to help.

Edit: My theory is that they were having bandwidth/network/infrastructure issues so they are throttling a lot of stuff rather harshly to keep things stable. That is what finally let them get the trading post up.

Can’t play like this.
I’m expecting an emergency patch for this FUBAR of a patch.

How difficult is it to make things better when you patch, not progressively worse?

Had to take a break…hoping it fixes itself :P

It’s really really bad. Look at the screen, then at the map, then back to the screen. It’s like I’m soloing an army of ghosts.

ANet, if you gotta shut the servers down to fix it just do it. Your uptime during the launch was impressive and most of the customer base would understand if you gotta put in some serious fixing .

Are people serious? How the $%#@ can they make it worse…
I’m just about to log on but in all seriousness is everyone of the opinion that it’s gotten worse?

Yeah I had to guess with my arrow cart tonight in WvW. I can’t even see some of my allies. Had to log for the night because it’s unplayable.

Couldn’t see anyone in WvWvW tonight. Even after I had an enemy tab-targeted and 5 feet from me, they never rendered.

Using antipersonnel siege was a joke; the only thing I could use to target was the spell effects I’d occasionally see.

I’m afraid WvWvW is almost entirely broken at this point after this evening’s patch. You can’t see anyone, ever, save for a very small handful of players on either side.

Some NPCs are also invisible. On one of the borderlands I could not see the repair vendor.

Raptor.9863:

Some NPCs are also invisible.

I actually lol’d at this.

Sorry I guess it’s actually not that funny ><

NPCs aren’t rendering, some people in my guild couldn’t even see them in the spawn camp. It’s gone from “eh, this is annoying” too… “right then, see you next Tuesday.”

Yes, it did. much worse.

Terrible performance for me as well. I was just smashing autoattack hoping to hit someone

A SSD will increase performance by a great deal, BUT WILL NOT HELP WITH THIS PROBLEM. Sorry for the caps, I have a mediocre comptuer and my brother has a top end computer (with SSD) and he has the same problems as me in WvWvW. So dont buy a SSD thinking it will solve this problem, but do buy one if you can for all the other great reasons to get one!

I can attest to this. As of this patch, I can no longer see even my allies. Or NPCs. There weren’t even that many of us.. I’d say around 10. I just gave up after a little while.

We had a 3 way battle at the garrison on BG borderlands in the SBI IoJ BG matchup also and I couldn’t see anyone most of the fight. Freaking ridiculous.

SoPP.7034:

Raptor.9863:

Some NPCs are also invisible.

I actually lol’d at this.

Sorry I guess it’s actually not that funny ><

Great contribution!

For me it started out ok until my first death. Then after I resed, nothing was loading (NO enemy players what so ever and only the bank npc’s). Totally unplayable. Please do whatever you need to do to fix this.

I’m getting sick of having a pro computer that can meet the requirements easy for GW2 and playing at 10 frames in Wv3 in large fights. The invisible enemy issue is getting old as well. Anet will start losing people over this to other games coming out if they don’t get these issues resolved soon. It sucks because I really like GW2 and Wv3, but I don’t like it anymore at 10 fps and not being able to see my target.

Warhammer.
Age of Conan.
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.

Guess what all of these dying / dead games have in common. They too didn’t know how to program worth a kitten when it came to mass pvp.
Fix your kitten Anet. If people cannot fight they will not play your buggy game.

Didn’t think it was possible for them to make it worse, but alas, they did

I would to know only a thing… is this a fixable bug? Can they solve this problem? Because if they can’t fix this, I think I’ll quit with WvWvW…

Thanks

Time to go talk to the people at CCP games and findout how they managed to get 100+ user battles working.

Agreed, WvW is now unplayable.

Monsoon.2589:

That s it… SHUT…IT…DOWN madagascar style

There is no point keeping wvw open when you have invisible armies and constant orb hacks. The ladder serves zero purpose when the game is not working. Shut it down and fix it.

I’m……… actually happy with this….

If they need to bring it down for a day or 2… even 3? Just to get it functioning at an adequate level. I just can’t believe we’ve had this regression.

Read patch update, get hopes up, go online, hope is gone.

SoPP.7034:

Monsoon.2589:

That s it… SHUT…IT…DOWN madagascar style

There is no point keeping wvw open when you have invisible armies and constant orb hacks. The ladder serves zero purpose when the game is not working. Shut it down and fix it.

I’m……… actually happy with this….

If they need to bring it down for a day or 2… even 3? Just to get it functioning at an adequate level. I just can’t believe we’ve had this regression.

Agreed, it needs to be shut down until they manage to come up with a workable solution. However long that’ll take (and however bored i’ll become in the meantime.)

Hell, the ladder serves little purpose when free transfers are still available, everything else just adds to the pile. What’s stupid is that it’s not even an “army,” there’s 6 people apparently next to me and I can’t see any of them; but I can see every single ally/enemy pet in a 30v30 zerg, no problem..?

Same here (and this is a 15 character message)

Rebound.3409

Same here (and this is a 15 character message)

It’s 15 characters, the remaining 7 are just invisible >.>;