Guild Wars 2

Whenever I turn on the “reflections” options at all, everything in the game becomes see-through. Whether that is intentional or not, I don’t know, but it is really annoying so I don’t know why it would be intentional.
So naturally I have that turned off, but no matter what I do the character selection screen still shows my characters as see-through, more recently it stopped doing it on all of my characters, but the ones that it has stopped showing see-through have their clothing rather whitewashed.
The other terrible part of it, is that whenever I take a screenshot in game, it puts this horrible look on everything that is being screen-shotted so all the neat screenshots I’ve taken are ruined by hideous see-through landscape and characters.

The first screenshot shows the see-through, the second screenshot shows the white-washed gloves and boots, the third shows a screenshot that has been complicated and ruined by see-through landscape. Pretty sure there’s not supposed to be a cliff and chasm there.

Bumping this today for hope of a fix.

Run the -repair command on GW2 to repair any potential texture errors.

If that doesn’t work, try reinstalling/updating your graphics drivers. They may have been slightly corrupted and causing the issues you’re seeing.

If neither of those work, bump this thread and hopefully someone else has some ideas. This thread would probably be better placed in the Tech support forum as it seems more like a graphical problem on your end than a bug common to everyone.

ExTribble.7108:

Run the -repair command on GW2 to repair any potential texture errors.

If that doesn’t work, try reinstalling/updating your graphics drivers. They may have been slightly corrupted and causing the issues you’re seeing.

If neither of those work, bump this thread and hopefully someone else has some ideas. This thread would probably be better placed in the Tech support forum as it seems more like a graphical problem on your end than a bug common to everyone.

I will try to run the repair as soon as I get home.
The game has been like this since I installed it, at first the problem was fixed by simply turning the reflections off, but then it resurfaced on the characters select screen without me having to change the graphics setting at all.
The computer is brand new(just a couple months old, and I haven’t had to run a system restore or anything) so I would hope the drivers aren’t corrupted, but if all else fails I’ll give that a try too. Wouldn’t that be showing problems in the other games I play as well?

ExTribble.7108:

Run the -repair command on GW2 to repair any potential texture errors.

If that doesn’t work, try reinstalling/updating your graphics drivers. They may have been slightly corrupted and causing the issues you’re seeing.

Ok, so I tried both of these things and they didn’t fix the problem. Running the repair seems to have changed one thing though. The characters that were showing as white-washed instead of see-through in the character select screen are now showing see-through again.

Other things I have noticed related to this problem(I’ll edit this as I notice them):
-When the character screen is open and I’m viewing armors, the environment will become see-through until the character screen is closed.

While talking to a friend about this issue, he was telling me he had some problems with Diablo 3, it turned out to be a setting on his nvidia graphics card and that he had to turn off Ambient Occlusion to fix it.

I tried that, and it worked!
No more see-through terrain!
I figured I would leave this here for anyone else who is having this problem in the future.