Guild Wars 2

In my personal story, “A Fragile Peace”, in the middle of the first cinematic I decided to switch to speakers but the sound was too low, so I pressed F11 and brought up the Game Options dialog. I then clicked on the Audio tab and the game froze. Nothing worked, incluing alt+tab. This is on Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del and selected Task Manager and then was able to kill of the Guild Wars 2 task, which was marked as not responding. The reason given aftereards was an AppHang B1.

I second this. I think for the most part if I just wait a little before clicking the sound tab (a couple seconds, give or take) it’s generally not an issue. However regardless of the fact, I still find it very irritating when this does happen during those lapses in judgement where I forget to wait.

I just experienced this again in a FotM group. The Fire Elemental I had spawned was beating its wings so loud my ears were ringing, so I decided to tone down the loudness of effects, and opened the options dialog. I clicked the audio tab, moved the slider (had no effect), clicked on the close gadget and my game hung. The screen froze. I could hear the music in the background. Couldn’t Alt+Tab, nothing. Finally Ctr+Alt+Del took me to place where I could select Task Manager. In the First tab on that, GW2 wasn’t even listed. I had to kill the process which was listed.

Then of course I couldn’t rejoin my team after restarting. So then we all restart, we get through the first one, get to the second one (Swamp) and suddenly one of our guys disappears. Then he reappears. Then all of us except him are suddenly kicked to LA.