Sound disappears, fps getting lower and lower
This has happened to me maybe twice within the last 14 months, but during the last 48 hours it has happened 4-5 times. So my sound either disappears (leaves only music or something) or loops something weird, and FPS drops below 20. Two first times it started exactly when my first vine in mordremoth event died. The rest have been totally random cases, just now it happened when I was running towards a failing tequatl run. And if I try to leave the game it will freeze, and I have to force quit.
My friend had this bug last night too.
Usually my computer runs GW2 absolutely beautifully.
I had this exact issue recently at a random moment on a random PvE map. Sound was hanging at the ’waypoint’ noise and my FPS was dropping rapidly. Could not alt+F4, could not alt-tab because the in-game cursor would ’overlap’ on the task manager and prevent me from clicking anything... I had to force a reboot.
Windows 10 as well. This exact problem never occurred for me on Windows 7.
On a likely related note, GW2 doesn’t alt-tab properly on Windows 10.
Thorny Scrub – Thief
Desolation
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I keep having this problems in areas with firepit or torch ambient sounds, such as Fireheart Rise and the Ascalonian catacombs. The game will keep spawning and playing more and more instances of torch fire sounds until it crashes. I then have to kill it from the task manager.
This has only been happening to me since the last patch.
Happened again just now. I was at Thunder Ridge camp and alt tabbed out. When I clicked into the window I got hit with more and more torch sounds until I crashed.
I like the irony of “going up in flames” though.
Happens A few times a week, after a few hours of gw2 running and alt tabing it in fullscreen mode.
Imac mid 2011 21inch