Guild Wars 2

I’m just starting up the game. The very first screen where you select the server is fine, I select it and it shows then medals earned, etc.. I sometimes see grass below, sometimes it goes away, the bottom has 5 empty character boxes, I can choose create on the lower right bar to go to characters but no characters show up, they are blank. I can go to next and scroll through all 10 pages, soemtimes the screen goes black and sometimes it shows some options. Any idea? I have hardware and software capable of running this game, so that isn’t an issue. Please help asap, so I can start playing!

Thank you

So no one has had this experience? I’ve seen the issue of black screen AFTER character creation, this starts before I can even see a caharacter to create it

I have the same problem, tried to upgrade video card driver and play around the graphics setting but still not use. Exact same problem, flickering grass on the bottom, black screen after I press “Create”, if I skip to step 3 I actually see a human elemantalist, but if I press any other profession, the character (i.e. the man that was standing there) is no longer seen, only elementalist is seen. But you can still move forward to the next step even if you chose a profession that is not seen, but this makes customization impossible.

Tech guys please look into this problem, very annoying….

UPDATE!!! Everything is already updated on my drivers etc..

Problem as described above. No characters show when trying to create them at start of game, black screen during that process, etc..

Resolution: Changed the RENDER SAMPLING video setting while in the settings menu (F11) for graphics to either subsample or supersample and everything works. The NATIVE blacks everything out as mentioned.

Also a few notes, You can play around with Reflections changing it to none or terrain and sky and also changing the Render Sampling to super or subsample. Somestimes I can use Native with No reflections or set to sky and Terrain, but I run with Render Sampling: Subsampler and Reflections ALL

**Graphics card being used: Gigabyte Radeon HD 6850 OC

Total settings for everything is as follows:

Display:
Resolution Full Screen – 1920×1080
Refresh Rate : Default
Frame Limiter: Unlimited
Interface Size : Normal
Full Screen Gamma – 1.0

Advanced Settings:
Animation: High
Anti-Alasing: FXAA
Environment: High
LOD Distance: High
Reflections: ALL
Textures: High
**Render Sampling: Subsample (or supersmaple works for me) NOT Native
Shadows: High
Sahders: High
Post-Processing: High
(Checked) Best Texture Filtering
(Checked) Depth Blur
(Checked) Hi-Res Character Textures
(UN-Checked) Vertical Sync

I hope this all every else with these problems. I’d also hope that if anyone else ever has issues with items, and should they figure out the problem and fix it, that they would also share the resolution or the fix they found to work.

After some digging I have found the solution to this problem. You need to access Catalyst Control Center and switch off “override application setting” for AA, instead, choose “use application setting” and this will solve all your problems. I can see all characters now in the select race screen.

yes I also noticed I needed to update the catalyst control center it worked as mention above by Biologist. I then change my render samplnig back to Native.

I had GW2 installed in the default C:\Program Files (X86) directory. Moved it out of there (to C:\Games), fixed the shortcut to use the new location, and stopped having the issue – at least for now.) So if the above solution doesn’t work for you, you might check to see where the game is installed on your computer.

Biologist.2371:

After some digging I have found the solution to this problem. You need to access Catalyst Control Center and switch off “override application setting” for AA, instead, choose “use application setting” and this will solve all your problems. I can see all characters now in the select race screen.

unfortunately , nothing works or affect GW2 in Catalyst Control Center . Just leave it to default .. if you want to have better graphics , SweetFX is the only option because none of the setting in CCC will apply in Gw2.

The OP probably got the issue fixed, or stop trying as the OP post is from more than 2 years ago. =/