I’m running into some serious problems with GW2+HoT.
It started about 2 weeks ago. My screen would freeze randomly, but the sound would keep going. I’d exit the game, reboot and things would be back to normal for a little bit. However after an hour, game sounds would start skipping. For example if an NPC said something, it would stutter and repeat what it was saying. “Hey-ey-ey-ey, that farmer up the hill just punched me in the fa-ce-ce-ce-ce.” That is the tell tale sign that I’m about to get screen freezes again.
I’m not a complete idiot and figured that my game data wasn’t working right so I repaired it following the steps on the website. The game ran fine for a few days and then the game would start screen freezing, NPC speech and sounds skipping. Then finally, night before last I tried to log in and GW2 popped up and said that the last time I had run GW2 it encountered a problem and that the data may be corrupted, and recommended that I let GW2 repair the client. I said yes.
It repaired itself and when I tried to log in, I got a notification saying that GW2 can no longer run, contact support. I uninstalled the game, downloaded it again and when I tried to install, it told me that my A: drive was open, that I should check the volume information and it couldn’t install.
1.) I don’t have an A: drive.
2.) My C: drive has over 500 gigs. So it’s not a volume problem.
I cancelled everything, rebooted and got the game to install. Things were running great for a day; 12 hours. Then it started the screen freezes again and the sound skipping. I logged out just a while ago and GW2 tells me that it encountered a problem the last time it was loaded, needed to repair. Again I said yes.
The screen freezes still happen. I’m at my wits end here. Repaired, new install, still same problem.
CPU: AMD Athalon 2 XII – 250, Video Card: ATI Radeon 7500 Series. (Up to date drivers) 4 gigs of RAM. Windows 7 64 bit edition.
Up until now, I’ve been able to play the game fine, no problems, so I can’t figure why it’d be a RAM problem, video card problem or even a CPU problem. This is getting nerve racking, as this install is not even a full day old and the problems are back. I can also play other games just fine.