Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure if this helps anybody but here is what I have experienced.

On my laptop I have a NVIDIA GeForce 660m card. It has worked great for 2 years. I recently decided to overclock it a bit with EVGA Precision X16 and found that it will crash GW2 although other games run fine. What I experience is a black box around my GW2 cursor and if I WP or open up the world map it crashes to the desktop with no error. When I set the clocks back to default the crash still happens. I then restarted my computer and did not run Precision and the game did not crash.

I just built a new desktop with a NVIDIA GeForce 970. I have not even tried to overclock it but with Precision running I experienced the same crash. That happened twice. Once I closed Precision and ran the game I have been playing just fine for over an hour now.

Both systems are on Windows 10 with the latest NVIDIA driver. All I am saying here is that there MAY be an issue with EVGA Precision X16 and GW2. It could be something else entirely. I have read lots of post with problems people are relating to NVIDIA drivers, Windows 10, and overclocking.

Windows 10 here. Fresh install last week so fresh drivers etc. I even deleted and redownloaded gw2. Found that after I deleted precision x (just using it for a fan curve) my game ran smooth again. I was getting a noticeable spike in framerates, which has since went away. I’m running 2 780s in sli.

Nice heads up!

Win10 has issues with some programs that control hardware. I have Bricked a laptop by doing an in windows Bios update on Win10(HP DV6), Coretemp seems to lock up on some hardware configs (Z87-G45 with a 4670K) and MSI Afterburner bluescreens when overclocking a 295×2 and 280×. Where as on win7 none of this happened.

I think there is something in windows10 that forces conformity with the drivers/HW that is breaking these tools.

I would say for now, dont OC on win10 unless its done at the EFI/BIOS level. Just don’t do it with in win10 at all.

Good Tip; Thanks Sir!

I was just getting ready to try out Afterburner, but will hold up until windows 10 gets a bit more stable in that regard.

Glad this helped some folks. I was fearful of my new build after reading some of the not so good posts but glad everything has potential to be ok if I just keep things to default.

My only issue with Windows 10 (3 machines – 2 laptops and a desktop), is that when they are all logged into Microsoft accounts – sharing files between them over the network is unreliable. On the laptop I often have to re-enter the password to connect to one of the machines (the same password, which is stored in the Windows credential).

They will authenticate if I try a few times, but it is annoying. Sometimes they work right away – other times I have to keep clicking the share (“network location not available…”) to finally make the connection. I’ve been gone through registry settings, OS reloads, Security settings and Group policy settings. Nothing seems to solve the issue.

All of these Windows 10 machines seamlessly connect to the Windows 7 machines and vice-versa.

All of these computers worked flawlessly sharing files when I had Windows 7 on them.

I also ran into this issue. I purchased a EVGA GTX 980 Ti, and I wanted PrecisionX 16 just to use for fan control. I didn’t like how its current settings let it get so hot. Although when I got PrecisionX up and running my video on Gw2 will freeze.

Anyone find any other solutions to fan control that works as well as PrecisionX without the adverse side effects?