Guild Wars 2

I used the fix on the sticky post on this issue and it still happens, I thought it was fixed cause it haven’t happened for a month but today during fractals (on last boss) it just randomly dropped my display again, screen goes black says power save mode on and graphics card fan is just going crazy, tried few mins to try to bring it back by unplugging monitor and plugging it back in, mashing buttons, nothing….after a few mins I had to just restart pc. I guess when this happens your character is still in game because I did get credit for the level, just lucky I was on last boss and it was almost dead.

This first started happening after the 3rd or 4th game update from release, please fix this! It hasn’t happened for a while till today, but when it was happening alot more often was from zooming in/out of World Map, panning an area’s scenery, and sometimes just randomly while I’m running. My graphics card driver is fully updated and it’s set to use application settings for anti-aliasing.

Radeon HD 6850
Phenom II x61100T processor
ASRock 970 Extreme4 mobo
750 Watts Corsair PSU

graphics card fan is just going crazy
Sounds like a heat problem on your end not Anet or drivers.

No not heat issue, pc is in basement it’s very cold down there, cpu temp monitoring at all times never goes over 22 C during this time of the year, in the summer max would be 30 C. Display only drops while playing GW2, no other games.

Just adding more info:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
DirectX 11

When display crashes it’s only the display, my pc isn’t crashing or restarting on it’s own.

Where does monitoring the CPU Temp imply in any way, that the GPU is not over heating.

Ugh, is there any fix to this, i too am having this problem just after the patch today. Display crashes but pc isn’t crashing.

Pretty sure pc would shutdown if gpu was to overheat same as cpu not just display crash.

Also gpu seems to stay 55-60 C. Max temp on 6850 is 80-90 C.

Also, it’s never crashed during a heavy load situation, dragon events, special events (Lost Shores in LA) etc, if it was doing that during those situations I can see the conclusion of “overheating” but it does not crash display during any of them, just when I’m just standing there with hardly any load, or lingering/zooming on World Map.

Ok just tested it, I went ahead and just lingered on World Map and watched GPU temp, it was consistently at 53-55 C while I was lingering on the map, I just sat there for between 1-2 mins and bam display crashed. Can we please drop the notion of “it’s overheating” now so anet can try to fix this. It’s like guarantee display crash if I stay on World Map for longer than a couple mins.

It can be the card memory overheating.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Has-anybody-solved-crashing-ATI-7850-issue

happens mostly on ATI cards in this game.

try to get a 3rd party utility that can downclock the card memory speed, and reduce it by ~20-25%