Guild Wars 2

For about the past 2 weeks (or so), I’ve had an annoying condition of being able to see through the geography of the game. Some might consider this exploitable, seeing as I’m able to locate mobs and other items which would not normally be seeable. I find it annoying, since it makes travel difficult, especially when in tight quarter areas such as hallways.

Attached are images of what I am describing (hopefully the links work – they aren’t showing in preview). I will show regular view, and then what occurs when I move the camera at certain angles. The effect is unchanged regardless of zoom. I use an EVGA GeForce GTX 570 running the most recent driver 306.23. This was also occurring when I was running the game recommended 306.02 beta driver.

[img]http://decimation.fhgn.org/GW2/gw032.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://decimation.fhgn.org/GW2/gw034.jpg[/img]
[img]http://decimation.fhgn.org/GW2/gw035.jpg[/img]
[img]http://decimation.fhgn.org/GW2/gw036.jpg[/img]

Didn’t work…so I attach them as replies…

Standing in Black Citadel:

Same shot, two steps forward:

Another photo attached…

Last example attached…

i’ve been having the same issue, kind of.. it looked less buggy and just made the geography transparent. im actually surprised you managed to take a picture since when i try to do it, it just takes a pic of the game normally as if there is no bug.. very annoying.

While not exclusively, this issue can be pointing to a physically failing GPU. I don’t mean it as a guess, but as an actual experience. In case you didn’t, it may be worth checking if all of your usually played games render correctly.

Also in case you didn’t try, you might want checking that particular "completely reinstall drivers from scratch" option in the NVIDIA installer (being the only option there, it’s kind of hard to miss, but still), and see if it makes any difference.

only happened to me in GW2 and i have since then uninstalled all drivers and installed the latest ones. to no avail, might i add.

Simply uninstalling NVIDIA drivers - at least to my knowledge - doesn’t remove all settings and presets from the registry (as this kind of changes from version to a version, it’s hard to constantly keep a track on it).

That particular check box I pointed to should ensure all settings are completely reset to defaults, which is always a good thing to start with if it wasn’t attempted before.

Coincidentally, this may also be related to the issue:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Any-updates-or-plans-to-resolve-the-reflections-issue-with-nVidia-600-series

That last link is the solution, Spaceman, thank you for that (I didn’t see that in my own search).

“At this time we can also confirm that the Ambient Occlusion profile added to the game yesterday can result in certain pieces of terrain becoming transparent. If you experience this issue, simply turn off Ambient Occlusion in the Guild Wars 2 NVIDIA Control Panel profile.”

The Ambient Occlusion was set to Quality on my card. I made a program specific profile in the 3D settings for GW2, and turned off Ambient Occlusion, and voila…no transparency.

It HAS to be set for Off, setting Performance is not good enough.

Hopefully the devs (or nVidia devs) can figure out what’s going on and fix in future patch. For now, I’m just glad I can run around normally.

Not that anyone cares, but I had the exact same problem, and turning off Ambient Occlusion fixed the problem for me immediately.