5-10 second freeze followed by a black screen

5-10 second freeze followed by a black screen

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Posted by: Raul.5207

Raul.5207

If it matters, I have an AMD 6870 DirectCU.

Seemingly randomly, the screen freezes for 5-10 seconds, then goes black for a few seconds, and then the game fades back in. Everything not display related (Mumble, music, etc.) all works and it seems like all my keyboard commands are recognized as well. I’ve tried re-installing my graphics drivers with Driver Sweeper (using the latest release version) and setting my AA setting to “use application settings”, but none of that fixes it. Any other ideas?

5-10 second freeze followed by a black screen

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Posted by: starlinvf.1358

starlinvf.1358

Its the graphics drivers doing a soft reboot on the card. I’ve had my GTX590 do a on a few occasions during long play sessions or abnormally high levels of activity (WvWvW being a fast track to bug discovery).

No idea if this is specific to the drivers or not, but they’ve had issues with NV cards.

5-10 second freeze followed by a black screen

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Posted by: Raul.5207

Raul.5207

It doesn’t seem to be correlated with high activity, I’ve only been playing in the 1-15 areas and there aren’t too many people around that often. I do have the graphics bumped all the way up, but there’s no other stuttering problems and I’m getting a constant 60+ FPS. I’ll have to keep an eye on GPU/VRAM usage.