OOM Crashes, let’s fix this
I’ll start this with my personal experience with gw2, so feel free to skip this part:
I bought the game at day1, i was waiting for it since A LONG time. I had (and still have) an old PC (running a 32bit Win7) so i was pretty sure that i could not play heavy stuff (like wvw raids and crowded world bosses); but i just bought the game to try it.
The first month it ran smoothly, i had medium settings and well, except for the really crowded parts, it worked fine. Then, patch after patch, the client became heavier and i started having crashes that made me set everything to the lowest possible (window mode too) and with that too my regular crashes would happen like every 30 minutes (at some point they even told that gw2 was not “32bit OS friendly”, so the problem started a long ago). But even with that i kept playing Gw2, why? Cause it’s a kitten good product and Anet did a kitten good job on it, it was a top tier game for me 3 years ago and it still is. That’s why i spent a lot of time on it (yes, crashing/relogging every 20-30 minutes regardless of the game mode) and, when HoT came out, i just bought it “blind mode” without thinking about the core+expansion price and stuff (it was a discussed matter) cause i thought (and still think) that Anet deserved support/respect for the great job they did.
Now, after HoT went live, i can’t stay in the game more than 10 minutes (even just standing alone in an empty map) so i thought that it could’ve been just me, since i’m playing with that same old pc, running a 32bit Win7, and knowing that Gw2 always had problems with it (but was still playable). Then i started refreshing the forum and i noticed that A LOT of people had my exact problem..and not just the 32bit OS owners. But, as someone posted, Anet’s replied stating that is a straight 32bit OS problem.
That’s all we know about this problem:
- It’s related exclusively to the HoT expansion update (even if it’s noticed in both the
core and HoT maps), before this everyone was able to play with no or just some crashes (for me it was the 30 mins crashes i discussed up here).
- People tried everything: lowering settings to minimum,reinstalling the game, graphic drivers, cleaning HDD, invoking the sacred Colin Sohandsome in person..nothing worked.
- It’s NOT related just to 32bit OS, since a lot of 64bit OS owners got this problem.
- Someone stated that it could be a conflict with Nvidia cards, actually i remember a similar thing being discussed in different crashes a while ago, BUT even ATI owners are
suffering from this problem.
- It’s an out of memory crash related, but even people with high-end PCs (having 16gb RAM and that kitten 64bit OS) got this issue (within an hour though).
Now, i’m not a programmer or something..but when you’re a nerd you just learn how some things work. What i’m feeling is that there’s something wrong within the game (code or whatever) that just absorb a HUGE amount of memory in %, so no matter how much RAM you got..you will still crash at some point.
So, sorry..but it’s not just a 32bit OS problem. i’m feeling also that it’s just a single fix, where people with good PCs will play without crashes and i could get back to my lovely crashes after 30 mins. And i will be kitten happy with it.
This is not a “kitten you Anet give my money back!1!!1!11!!” post, i still trust Anet to
find and fix the problem.
So please, give it a try, work on it..and give us something here.
I invite all the people affected by these crashes to post in this thread and add stuff (just in this thread, if possible) to keep it visible, keeping it clean tho (just
constructive discussions on the problem and crash logs under spoiler).
Let’s make this the “sad kids” official thread and (hopefully) fix this situation..so i can
get back to swearing about pvp matchmaking (sorry, i had to XD).