Guild Wars 2

All sound drivers and other drivers are up to date. All hardware trumps recommended and my connection is sound. Yet every now and then, sound will either totally vanish or loop. This is most annoying when inside WvW, as you then have 3 choices, ignore it which becomes increasingly frustrating, play music though sometimes I dont want to listen to music but simply play, or I need to exit the game to get the sound working again.

No matter what you add to entertain those waiting for WvW, those who waited 2 hours to get in, only to be hit with bugs and skill lag should have a grace period of at LEAST 5 minutes to get back in from your game crashing. OR add a refresh feature which totally reloads the game sound and graphics.

I have never had issues with the game up until the last patch whereas suddenly now I rarely go a session without sound totally bugging out. Not to mention, in big fights, yes big fights the servers struggle we know that, but the skill lag is nigh on impossible at times, yet certain national servers seem to gain an advantage being closer to the hosts, really sucks for a lot of us.

If you are having skill lag, turn off your auto attack.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

If you are having skill lag, turn off your auto attack.

It has nothing to do with auto attack, it’s server issue. At least in WvW.

As for sound, I had the same issue occur two times two days ago, didn’t happen to me once over a course of a year+ before, didn’t install any new drivers/programs prior.
Also I found out, that if you ignore the sound issue and continue playing without reloading the game it eventually crashes (after few hours) with “serious error”.

I got that info from the server programmer’s post on here, so it is quite possible to be a correct solution.

As he said, it’s a race condition where your autoattack beats the client keypress, so the server doesn’t hear your attack.

This needs to break into 3 separate bugs… I experienced “skill lock” tonight at Lyssas, so Bish I may stand corrected!

I’ve separated the key lock issue I experienced to this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Skill-Lock-not-Skill-Lag/first#post3184872

I can promise you its not my auto attack in one fatal swoop. I am a grenade engineer, I have no auto attack. The skill lag is also felt by tens to hundreds of other players. Only occurs in mass battles, but it is game breaking and needs attention. But thanks for helping none the less. I have experienced your skill lock. but what I pointed out here was lag.

As for sound, it is occurring to me right now! WvW, EB, joined friendly zerg, met enemy zerg, sound crashed. It creeps back if I am solo, until a lot of players are on screen again. I have no lack of processing power, in fact neither my CPU or GPU are being phased at all!

And again, I must stress, that when I decide to restart for the sound issue, or as the other poster said, the game crashes (only happened once, but game does fail to close properly) I should be given a grace period to enter back in to wvw instead of being in que for 2 hours again.