Guild Wars 2

From time to time, the sound from the game stops working and it just plays the same sound in a loop for ever.

When that happens my fps drops to something between 7 and 15 fps.

Not only that, but when i try to close the game it doesn’t quit and i have to force it to close through the task manager doing it impossible to send any report.

This has happened to other guildmates, but i’ve suffered from this bug since the release of the game. I though that with the release of the expansion it could be the right time to finally fix this.

P.S.: this has happened to me in all kind of places and situations in the game. I’m using Windows 8.1

^ Happens to pretty much everyone I know including myself.

For example, I could be running Arah and then suddenly the sound repeats the same sound (usually background sound), further sounds are no longer played, and then the FPS keeps on dropping until 3-10 FPS. I think it eventually crashes, but it needs a force quit to get out of the game.

I can confirm I’ve been having this issue pretty regularly for the past few months

Try dropping the sound quality slider a notch?

I’ve gotten this three times in two days after the last patch.

I can confirm this too. Happened to me in WvW yesterday (in an empty camp). The game sound stopped working and my FPS dropped to 10 FPS (and stayed there as if it was limited to that number, but my frame limiter is set to “Unlimited”). A restart of the client fixed it, but I too had to kill the game in order to restart it…

BTW: I don’t even manage to reach 10 FPS in large scale fights with graphics settings maxed out except for character models. Character settings are set to highest amount of visible players but low-mid model quality, since i don’t care what my enemies on the other side of the map look like… Thought I’d mention that, before anyone gets the idea to blame my hardware…

Had this issue occur for the first time last night (2015-Mar-02). FPS dropped to 5 and sound went out. Had to use Task Manager to close the game. At first I thought it was the consequence of a Tier-1 3-way Garrison fight (though I’ve participated in plenty of those in my time with nothing other than normal lag) but when I logged in this morning and went to do the Modniir Ulgoth event the issue popped up again. No sound, FPS dropped to 5-9, and though the FPS issues seemed resolved when I returned to Lion’s Arch I still had to use the Task Manager when I wanted to close the game. First time having this problem, hoping to find a way to prevent it in the future.