Guild Wars 2

I made a bug report in game, but since I could reproduce it so reliably I thought I’d post here too.

First of all look at the attached screenshot (attachment #1, taken in south blazeridge steppes) to see the UI corruption I’m talking about.

Note in the screenshot where it says “Crossing” in the upper right. This appears to be part of the text “Twin Sister’s Crossing” that would have appeared on the map (attachment #2), the text is the same size as it would have been on the map as well. I can consistently get various “map text” such as this to appear depending on the surrounding area.

How I trigger it is as follows (can take a few tries to get the timing right):

• Talk to a scout so that they begin to pull up the map that shows you heart-quests
• Immediately and rapidly mash the map key 3 or so times so that you get back to the adventuring view right as the map is going to appear. Timing is important so it might take a few attempts.

This can be triggered after changing zones, and after restarting the game.

This corrupted text can be fixed by anything that causes it to change or update, so minimizing and maximizing the story quest will fix the story quest part of the UI for instance. It can also all be fixed at once by completely minimizing and unminimizing the GW2 program itself.

My graphics card is an Intel HD 3000, I am running on Windows 7 in windowed mode.

I have also attached a game advisor report that I modified to remove some personal information (attachment #3)

Intel graphics problem, most likely a driver bug. I suggest looking for updated drivers for your GPU.

Lexandro.1456:

Intel graphics problem, most likely a driver bug. I suggest looking for updated drivers for your GPU.

This is a very minor bug and driver hunting is a pain. I certainly wouldn’t be too surprised if it was a GPU issue, but I’d also be interested to see if anyone else (intel or otherwise) could trigger this bug.

Ive done what you described many times, that is cutting off the scout early. I now do it as soon as they speak as standard. Ive never had an issue on my display as you have, though I have an ATi card (its old).

I havent seen an Nvidia user post a similar issue, though its entirely possible they have. But as I said earlier my money is on the GPU/drivers. Intel HD graphics are known to be problematic at best in games though they are getting better than they were not so long ago. I know its a pain but I really suggest a driver update check.

Best of luck on finding a solution.