Guild Wars 2

Last night I decided to play on my TV screen through a HMDI cable. Everything went fine and after about an hour or so of enjoying Tyria on the big screen I logged off.

But since then, whenever I try to log in the game freezes after I press the Play button. I don’t even get to the character select screen, my cursor changes to the little hand but my screen stays black and my whole computer freezes. I can’t even alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del my way out of the it.

I seem to remember a lot of posts about a ‘black screen of death’ right after launch but my game always ran fine (apart from some lag issues) so is it possible something went wrong because of the HDMI connection? Like my computer tries to go into ‘hdmi-mode’ whenever I launch the game? (idk I’m just grasping at straws here…)

Peclipse.6197:

Last night I decided to play on my TV screen through a HMDI cable. Everything went fine and after about an hour or so of enjoying Tyria on the big screen I logged off.

But since then, whenever I try to log in the game freezes after I press the Play button. I don’t even get to the character select screen, my cursor changes to the little hand but my screen stays black and my whole computer freezes. I can’t even alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del my way out of the it.

I seem to remember a lot of posts about a ‘black screen of death’ right after launch but my game always ran fine (apart from some lag issues) so is it possible something went wrong because of the HDMI connection? Like my computer tries to go into ‘hdmi-mode’ whenever I launch the game? (idk I’m just grasping at straws here…)

Well lets try experimenting here, don’t use your tv and see what happens. If it works, then its the HDMI connection, if it doesn’t work then its something else. I have a feeling its the tv though. Might be as simple as just resetting the connection between your graphics card and the tv by simply unplugging the HDMI on both sides and plugging it into the graphics card, then the tv.