Guild Wars 2

iv been playing the game for about 5 hours today, as soon as the update happened my game is non stop crashing anytime i do anything. every world boss i go to just as i enter combat it crashes and an error report comes up. iv never had this problem before

My game also has never crashed before today, and has crashed twice since the update.

Same here. Keep crashing non stop

Confirmed, I crashed right after logging in. It usually takes a couple hours in Maguuma to crash me.

Have dc’d three times from EOTM since patch d/l. Game completely shuts down, no error/warnings, just bounced out to desktop. Others reporting same.

Add’l info was running solo, not in squad/party/etc/

me too, nothing today, then twice since update

Yip.. welcome back to CrashWars

Same here. My game crashed when I first log after the patch (was with my warrior at Lion’s Arch), then the game crashed again when teleported to another map, also crashed in the middle of Tequatl, and crashed again when switched to my Thief at Malchor’s Leap.

Before today my game only crashed some times when I tryied to teleport to another map after Tequatl.

Same issues on Mac client. Crash after log in, when trying to engage and choose answer in conversation window, when opening other windows. The game simply closes, just like that, without any error info or any other appearing window. Closed 3 times in last 15min. After first two I was able to launch it again, after third one it says the application is not responding, I need to restart computer.

I, too, keep crashing. I’m on the mac client if that helps.
I’m not even playing yet!
here’s what my morning has been:
log in, select main, click guild hall button, disapear (no message, no pause, just game is closed)
open it back up, log in, select main, go to guild hall, open TP delivery dude, relist some things, crash.
open it back up, log in, select main, open TP delivery dude, relist rest of things, donate stuff to treasury, exit guild hall, try to wp to camp resolve (pact supply network), crash.
open it back up, log in, select main, wp to camp resolve, wp to other pact supply network peeps, wp to rata sum, walk 10 feet, screen turns shades of orange with weird tiangles everywhere, crash.
this was all in the last hour.

here, I took a screen shot of the latest crash.
uhhh, I jumped off the cliff above the small pool of water into that pool of water in dry top, then walked out of the water, then crash

+1 once the update started I crashed. Everytime I reopen the client it instantly freezes and crashes.

But dear ANet, today you made something I doubted to be possible at all. When I start the client auto-repair, even that crashes xD.

Please, for the sake of your programmers and our nerves, do a beta test next time. I won’t try until tomorrow evening. Keep your spirit vale.

EDIT: Windows 10, 64 Bit, Intel i5 6600k, Nvidia GTX 960

Having freezing in heart of thorns and map is not demisting no matter how far I travel
to reveal map areas.

restarting to see if it happens more will update if doing same

Constantly crashing as well.

Same, constant crashes

Also constant crashes, also on mac client. Often seems to accompany trying to look at map view which appears with big black boxes or misaligned, then crash happens immediately.

Reliably crashing every 2 minutes since update.
I can’t even fast travel without it crashing right after

Crash Crash Crash. Getting worse after the patch.

Same here, stopped playing after the 4th crash.

I just crashed aswell when I tried to open the TP. Before doing that I already had some really weird graphical issues occuring like super stretched out airship models in Verdant Brink (all this has been taking place there). When relogging it fixed itself for a short while but quickly came back when I was gliding around. I also noticed that my map was full of fog several times (minimap still worked fine). I’m not sure if this is an issue with my harddrive/gpu or that it is something specifically to the patch. I rarely crashed in the past and I have never seen these stretched out textures/models before. This map fog issue is also something I’ve never had in the past.

When my game crashed I did get an error log but before sending it I decided to check this forum. By the time I had done that the log window closed itself so I can’t send a report.

Are these OOM crashes? 32-bit? 64-bit? Mac?

after latest update I’m also having crashes … never had them before
using Windows 10 x64
last crash was when DS last boss had 1% health … tried to get back on the map to collect reward but why should that work lol

Windows 7 64 bit here, crashed 4 times in about 3 hours – its baddd Twice were in DS on Mouth (of course I couldn’t get back to either of them), once was LA, once was VB next to raid entrance area.

same here. It usually crashes about every 1-2 hours or at bosses, but since the update it’s only a party pooper

Crashed 3 times today, twice in wvw once in Verdant Brink. Getting really annoying.

Started crashing non-stop now (after the update) . It used to take a few hours to crash but now every few minutes the game is crashing. This is really getting out of hands… >:|

I can’t even play this anymore.

Yeah, been 4 crashes since I attempted to log on an hour ago. :p Mac client if that matters, though this seems fairly widespread.

Same here.. Running windows vista home edition.

The crashes were happening 5-10 minutes apart during the halloween event and then got better when that ended leaving the game crashing with the OOM error only every hour or so.. but after today’s update, i login and crash almost immediately.

Crashes almost as soon as i log in.. I can stay in a maximum of about 4 minutes then it crashes… shortest time has been 1 minute after logging in.

My character was in tangled depths if that helps any.

Yup, same here. I even crashed just launching the game for the first time after patching. I didn’t even get to the character selection screen. On the second try I at least got into the game, but it crashes every minute or so. Totally unplayable.

It wasn’t this bad for me when HoT launched (but almost as bad). “Improved” to the point where I could get a couple hours in before frequent crashes ended my playing day. But now this. I was actually naive enough to hope today’s patch would improve everything.

Every other game and program I have works flawlessly. If Anet thinks I’m going to go through the hassle and expense of upgrading. Or jump though hoops to play this one game (which was stable for me from open beta 3 yrs ago, the initial launch and then the years before HoT), they are sorely mistaken.

I also crashed 2 times today in 4 hours play. I have never crashed before. I’m using the 32 bit client but will try the 64 bit tomorrow.

Win7 64bit. Default client. Never had crashes before. Four or five in a row. It settled down then and I was able to rebuild VB central camp until minutes to nightfall. Then dropped straight to desktop. Lost all the work, all the xp. Pretty much had it with this game.

the windows 64 bit client isn’t really 64 bit.. it uses the same DAT file that the 32 bit version does. The only changes are that the LAUNCHER is 64 bit and gives the game a slightly higher memory string to read from.. the game will still crash just the same.

The processes are all still 32 bit as well as all the files except the launcher.

I have been having crashing problems since HoT launched.

At first the people on the forums were inclined to believe it was a Nvidia problem or AMD problem since people with Intel HD video DO NOT GET THE OOM crash.

Since the halloween event ended, the crashes had subsided some (leading me to believe it was a mismatch in the coding from a 3 year old event) but today, the game is just unplayable for a lot of people, me included.

I can log in and i crash almost immediately. If i do make it into the game, i can stay on between 3-10 minutes maximum, then the error box to report to anet pops up and the game closes.

I hope they fix this ASAP because right now there are a ton of people who are starting to get really mad.

Same. Crashed FIVE times in the TWO hours since I installed the patch.

Same here. Me, my wife and 3 of my guildies (different regions) had their game crashed 2-3 times after the update. And cpu usage seems at %94 when only gw2 is running, which is abnormal.

any devs want to comment on this pls?

can we get confirmation that someone knows this is happening?

I posted this in another thread already but try switching to Windowed Fullscreen in graphics settings… it seems to solve crashing for me, at least the part about being stuck on loading screens

Crash, crash, crash just doing ordinary things – step out of waypoint, crash, rather than the occasional event crash.

Stopped playing. Waiting for a fix.

I crashed right when I hit the “play” button on my character screen after updating. The second time I finally was able to get in game and do some stuff in LA. Then when I went to talk to an NPC after a bit it crashed again. All within mins of both crashes, so whatever they did with this update really messed something up.

AS the title says, I’ve put in 3 ingame reports which never seem to do any good- but each time I switch a map or pull up my map- Boom crash.

I’ve never crashed before until the HoT which was once evry blue moon I would crash, now it’s every map switch or each time I pull up my map.

that’s an interesting error (I’m on a mac)

update: I’ve now crashed 4 times during this teq fight, and we aren’t even to the first burn phase yet. 5. 6. 7. got the loot! lol no green dragon chest, guess I was in another instance when credit for that was given. this is why I don’t play meta events anymore.

Same for me. Before today’s patch I basically never crashed, even after HoT launch when lots of people were reporting constant crashed in DS etc. After today’s patch I’ve crashed three times already.

Great. The new patch made it worse. Now I’m crashing in core, PvP, and WvW Borderlands.

If they don’t want my Gems anymore, they could just tell me they are not going to fix this and I could move on to Star Wars or something that fixes these.

Same here. Never crashed before in-game, despite being on a Mac Beta client, until today that is, where I’ve crashed twice. It’s not pretty and I was in an organised DS event. Mildly infuriating.

Edit: We’re talking about white screen of death. No other option than force quitting GW2 and then restarting rMBP. Happened once during story and once during DS. Excellent way of making me go to bed though.

I have been crashing on and off since HoT, and then multiple times today after the patch. I am running win 10 64bit, and am going to try the 64bit beta to see if that helps at all…

Crashing about every five minutes now. This pretty much makes the game unplayable.

Mac Client
Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 (64 bit)
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIAGeForce GTX 680MX 2048 MB
OS: OS X 10.9.5

The game started crashing regularly after the HOT update. I’ve been getting by by changing my video settings to “Best Performance”. After this patch that doesn’t work for long and I’ve been crashing every 10 minutes or so whether I’m in the world or in a city.

It’s very frustrating especially considering that there are no plans to update the Mac client to 64 bit.

before this patch i couldn’t play the new maps without crashes, but the core game was fine and running, no crashes whatsoever but now, with the new patch, they just enabled “upgraded HoT mode” for all of us.. wich means MORE crashes and in EVERY mode or map, being the new ones or just the core game…
i guess this is how they plan to “deal” with us who have the misfortune to crash and don’t have a 64bit OS: by just IGNORING us and making everything even worse, so we’ll just stop playing on our own and the problems will magically disappear! just look at what support says: if u got a 32b, they tell you to get a 64b, and if you have a 64b,
they tell you to try the 64b client… and if you have a 32b and can’t/don’t want to upgrade? for them you’re just trash… and we’re being treated as such, mocked and ignored. and i bet that they’ll soon just say “32b OS are not supported anymore!” and that will just be the end.

6 crashes in 2 hours, upgraded to 64 bit and now I cannot stop crashing out of WvW….

Ha, I crashed literally upon entering the character select screen

Kyx.4380:

before this patch i couldn’t play the new maps without crashes, but the core game was fine and running, no crashes whatsoever but now, with the new patch, they just enabled “upgraded HoT mode” for all of us.. wich means MORE crashes and in EVERY mode or map, being the new ones or just the core game…
i guess this is how they plan to “deal” with us who have the misfortune to crash and don’t have a 64bit OS: by just IGNORING us and making everything even worse, so we’ll just stop playing on our own and the problems will magically disappear! just look at what support says: if u got a 32b, they tell you to get a 64b, and if you have a 64b,
they tell you to try the 64b client… and if you have a 32b and can’t/don’t want to upgrade? for them you’re just trash… and we’re being treated as such, mocked and ignored. and i bet that they’ll soon just say “32b OS are not supported anymore!” and that will just be the end.

I would rather they just be bloody well honest and SAY THAT.

It worked fine in BWE. No problems. Then all the issues since launch. No fixes. Very few comments on it. The only place they admitted the memory fragmentation issue was buried in a thread here and one buried on reddit. No front page sticky of, ’We’re working on it."

I am really starting to feel like they are saying “we got your money already, we don’t care.” to their (admittedly small) 32-bit user population, and their Mac populations, and that is terrible business. I will never pre-purchase from them again, and they will never see another dollar for Gems.