Guild Wars 2

Problem: Screen flickers to desktop during loading screens, most notably during initial loading. I found this video that demonstrates my issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgAImXHQil0. The flickering would also happen during ingame loading screens but it was much shorter and only had 1 – 2 flickers.

I think this started when I got the Windows 10 Creator’s Update a few months ago but I can’t remember exactly. I got a new graphics card a few days ago and updated the drivers, the problem existed on both my old card and the new one. Both Nvidia cards.

After reading an old thread today I changed the compatibility mode to Vista SP2 and the flickering stopped but the game was noticeably slower to reach the character select, but there was no significant difference between the in-game loading speeds at least.

Any other potential solutions that doesn’t compromise performance? I want to continue playing in full screen.

I have noticed that the creator’s update is causing issues in general (e.g the other annoying issue I have – not keeping colour profiles, so that when I alt tab out of a full screen game my display settings revert) so maybe these issues will resolve itself with the next major Windows update coming in a few months.

I had this issue too with the 64bit client and Win 10. Go to graphics options and select “Windowed Fullscreen” at the first drop down menue. After doing so the flickering should be gone forever.