Guild Wars 2

Hello Arena Net,

I was having the blackscreen after [play] ‘bug’ last weekend, untill i downloaded the latest patch on this friday 8march2013, resulting in fixing the bug and I have been able to play on friday and most of tonight (saterday), but then:
The game crashed entirely at the moment i jumped into a portal to goto another map, the game crashed ‘validly’ as it did make an error report, which i send in (at around 00:15h GMT on ‘sunday’ 10 march 2013).

Now when i try to start up the game I end up with exactly the same problem, right after i click [Play] the screen goes black, and it throughs out my GFX driver (as when i check my GFX settings on my second screen it mentions that the driver set is one of a previous windows version, and all settings are like totally messed up, f/e my resolution says its -1/+1 pixels :P ) …

I have attached a Game Advisor Report to this post, Hopefully with that, and the bug report i send in, you may be able to narrow this bug down, and why it reappeared after the crash…

- Another think i can note is that today i was ‘guested’ yesterday i was not, but that didn’t seem to interfere with my gaming experience at all.
- And another thing i found somewhat strange is that usually my ‘daily missions’ restart at 00:00h GMT, today they did not, this may be related to the crash as i stayed in one map for quite a long time (in which time the daily should have reset) then somewhere around 00:15h GMT i mapped to a new area, which resulted in a crash.

Update, as i discovered something in relation to GW2, i posted this in ‘bugs’ aswel, seeing it seems more software related then computer related…

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I have been having some issues with GW2 lately, mainly the ‘black screen’ after hitting [Play] bug. This issue seemed to be fixed after the latest patch… I played for 2 evenings and then GW2 crashed with error report, and for some reason the ‘black screen’-bug reappeared?

So i have been going through my system, atleast doing some maintenance (seeing we are nearing spring, a total cleanup seems to be the seasons ‘thing’ to do). Here i noticed that GuildWars 2 is ‘not installed’ ?!? Atleast it is missing from my ‘software’ list in the ‘configuration screen’ ?!?

Now i checked my c:\program files\ and there is a GW2 folder (obviously), but it is still named ‘c:\program files\GW2beta’ … as i haven’t touched GW2 since i installed the beta version and took it from there… When i click the shortcut obviously the program starts running, but i still wonder why my WinXP doesn’t list GW2 as being an installed program, and with that i wonder if it may have something to do with the bug i have been experiencing, maybe something with limited system resource for it not being properly ‘installed’ ?

Some other questions:
- Can i rename the c:\program files\GW2beta folder to c:\program files\GW2 and simply recreate the shortcut to the gw2.exe
- Is there any way to get WinXP to see GW2 as being installed, without actually reinstalling the whole thing again? (i am mainly concerned about the hours of d/l’ing that may take )

And obviously, could this be in any way related to the program not functioning properly?
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Disable the /3gb switch for window xp 32 fixed this very same problem for me, maybe it will help you too.

The same thing happen to me ‘again’ today, the patch solved the blackscreen issue and i could log in straight away, no problems, played for the better part of the evening… then i teamed up with a friend, got a waypoint ping, as i was in LA … used the nearest waypoint … and CRASH including a crashreport … i rebooted my computer and said a lil prairer to the Paletree, but to no avail …

the bug is back! after i press [Play] the screen goes black and all is messed up … sigh … for a moment i had hopes i could play the better part of the weekend this time, and mainly for it to be fixed …

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@Nerphez , if i knew where to find it, and how to do so, and what the risks are (if any) for the normal operation of my system … then it may solve my issue ‘/shrug’ but i don’t … and i have somewhat already decided that i will remove GW2 from my system and try to reinstall it… hopefully that will do the trick … if not, then i will figure out what the H*** you mean with that sentence and try that :P

I did btw make sure the Antialiasing – Mode is set as recommended (it already was) in the sticky threads on the blackscreen issues…