Guild Wars 2

Not looking for help just letting arenanet know. Had 4 blue screen crashes yesterday. Have had maybe one every 6 months in the last 3 years. Definately not normal. Two of the four happened while the game was running. The other two happened while I was doing something else but the game HAD been running earlier. If I don’t run the game after a fresh boot up at all, no crashes have happened yet.

Check if your computer is over heating. Also, check if your powersupply is ok.

Very doubtfull that it is the game client that is causing your BSOD’s. Mostly they occur because of hardware issues not software issues.

So do what searias said and also do a memcheck , restore you overclocks on your cpu and gpu(s) ,check hdd’s for errors ..etc and go from there.

When i first build my new system I got BSOD for a whole 3 weeks. After searching around, I found out I had to underclock my ram. It wasn’t the mobo chip set that was the problem. It was my Proscessor. apperantly the Prosecessor delieverd to me from new egg. was revision C2. which was know to have Unstable Isuess with Dddr3 memory with fast clock speeds.

Smackjack.5071:

Very doubtfull that it is the game client that is causing your BSOD’s. Mostly they occur because of hardware issues not software issues.

So do what searias said and also do a memcheck , restore you overclocks on your cpu and gpu(s) ,check hdd’s for errors ..etc and go from there.

Well that’s what i told people in the start but BSOD also apear in driver errors ALOT. And in this case. 20-50% of the posts on the Tech Support forum, is about BSOD, Black screen crashes, freezing computer etc etc. I’ll put my money on the graphic drivers won’t cooperate with GW2 or the other way around.

“Swag” found a temporary solution to Crashes on some computers. If you downlclock your GFX 10-20%, it should prevent the crashings. No promises though!

An easy way to check why BSOD happened is to get minidump file viewer (just google it).
After u got this u will see which file was causing the crash and just google it for solutions.
ex. file.sys BSOD and that error number

Tjynde.1604:

Smackjack.5071:

Very doubtfull that it is the game client that is causing your BSOD’s. Mostly they occur because of hardware issues not software issues.

So do what searias said and also do a memcheck , restore you overclocks on your cpu and gpu(s) ,check hdd’s for errors ..etc and go from there.

Well that’s what i told people in the start but BSOD also apear in driver errors ALOT. And in this case. 20-50% of the posts on the Tech Support forum, is about BSOD, Black screen crashes, freezing computer etc etc. I’ll put my money on the graphic drivers won’t cooperate with GW2 or the other way around.

“Swag” found a temporary solution to Crashes on some computers. If you downlclock your GFX 10-20%, it should prevent the crashings. No promises though!

Yeah true but those driver errors are caused by hardware conditions. One evening between 2 patches on the game client about 1.5 hours in between those 2 patches the 2 fans on my gfx card went to 100% untill my driver crashed and i had to reboot. I had done this 5 times but each time i launched GW2 the fans went to 100% (not on other games i tested then) and it only started happening directly after the last client patch that night and kept doing it until the next patch about a hour or more later.

A overheating CPU or GPU can and will cause BSODS, downclocking helps prevent this which is why i suggested exactly that already in my earlier post.

I have not blue screened so far today, though i have not been able to play much. I think it was the significant client patch from the night before and having not updated to the new catalyst application profile from a couple days ago that was causing the errors. I will post again if they resume.