Guild Wars 2

Hey there!

I recently built a new PC and since I’ve been using it, I’m able to run GW2 on highest settings (which I’m super pleased about!). However, the last two times I’ve done Tequatl, a strange bug has occurred.

Basically, I notice it because the sound gets stuck, with this weird buzzing/electrical sound (I think it’s the sound from a skill or something) continually playing, along with the music The game continues to run though and I get no error messages, so I can still play it and finish Teq off to get the loot. When I try to log out though or close the game, it doesn’t let me and when I go into task manager it says “Not Responding” with the sound still playing in the back ground.

I have to use my keyboard to navigate the task manager, because it has the GW2 arrow cursor on my desktop and it won’t let me click on anything. Then I can exit it out of it that way.

I was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if there’s any solutions to fix it? or anything on what could be causing this bug?

Many thanks in advance!

I have had something similar a couple of times, with the difference that the game gets slower and slower when the sound is looping, so it’s eventually unplayable.
I also can’t kill it in the taskmanager (but then, win8’s taskmanager sucks) and have to reboot.

Both times it happened just as I came out of caves, but I don’t know if that’s significant.

It’s also only happened twice in the three weeks I’ve been playing (and I’ve been playing rather a lot).

It seems like something people are fairly familiar with. I’ve seen it mentioned in in-game chat several times, at least.
I’d guess it’s probably some sound driver issue, but I don’t know. Might just be a random glitch.