Guild Wars 2

I’ve been running into this issue occasionally for the past week or so.

I’ll be playing GW2 and suddenly I will lose game audio, except for some white noise. When this happens if I quit the game it will freeze. This makes the rest of my computer slow and makes certain sections of the OS unusable(I’m assuming this is due the load gw2.exe is putting on the cpu and memory). For instance I cannot force quit GW2 through the task manager. Instead I have to run cmd as administaror then run the command “taskkill /f /im Gw2.exe”.

Windows 8.1 & Windows 10 (Issue started before I upgraded to Windows 10 and has continued since then)

Same issue. Happens a couple of times a month. Mostly when doing tequatl or fractals.

One audio clip (ambient audio clip like people cheering) starts repeating infinitely and other audios cannot be played. Fps starts to slowly decrease and soon the game becomes a slideshow of frames.

Map change resets the fps decrease and soon the game is a slideshow again.

Game cannot be quit normally.

Problem happened on both Windows 8.1 and 10.

Happened to me twice this week, audio bugs out followed by a fps drop to low 20s. When I quit gw freezes aswell. Both times were during a pvp match where, compared to other areas like LA or HOTM, the game runs very smooth with 80+ fps when nothing is wrong.
Also using windows 10.

I’ve had this issue too last month: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Audio-and-FPS-issues-at-random-moments/first

I got this issue twice today. The FPS drops significantly too when the audio cuts out. I’ve only had it happen in WvW, but that’s kind of the game mode I play the most so I guess that doesn’t mean much.