So I’ve been having an interesting issue starting after the 5pm (Pacific Time) patch on Friday 9/6/13: it seems that whenever a Sylvarri is on my screen for a variable amount of time, my game crashes.
1) What I mean by crash: my entire computer goes dark and then gives me the “blue screen of memory dump in progress”. Trying and immediately restarting my computer makes it cycle restarts and crashes, but if i leave it alone for at least 5 minutes before restarting it my computer (a 2007 desktop) works just fine.
2) My computer ONLY crashes when it becomes over heated, but this recent crash type isn’t making my computer overheat or any peculiar noises: the game stutters and then the computer dies. No other programs are causing this crash, and it wasn’t happening even 12 hours before this daily reset.
3) I have several characters, of varying types: when I was trying to make a sylvarri character, this crash occurred repeatedly, but when I was on a human character it only happened when a sylvarri came onto my screen and was present for more than 5 seconds (I was crafting in Divinity’s Reach, so there were never many Sylvarri near me very often). I was able to use the trading post and other services just fine, and my other characters seemed immune, but anything to do with the plant people seemed too much for my computer.
I suspect this is either a server (Jade Quarry) or a client issue: I am currently running the repair client in an attempt to fix (3:30 AM 9/7/13) and will post an update pending the repair and further investigation if necessary.