Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,
I’ve been playing GW2 without any problems for close to two months now and yesterday night, it seems to have gone haywire. After logging in and playing for a few minutes, the screen completely blurs into what I would call “pixelisation” (Sorry, can’t seem to find another way to describe it).
I try minimizing or even CTRL ATL DEL to go into my start task manager window but can’t even do that. It just freezes my whole computer.
As said I did play endless hours without any issues whatsoever until yesterday (even if my computer is not the top of the line) so I’m not sure what has happened.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33Ghz
Windows 7 32bits OS
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

What I did:
1- Defrag and updated my Graphic card driver
2- repaired the exe file in the short cut (target line)
3- deleted the local dat (that helped for a bit this morning and was able to have a good 20 minute session)

Now once again, I know my computer is not the greatest but I was able to play without that complete freeze before. Unfortunately I cannot show you a printscreen.

Can someone help pinpoint what could be the cause and a possible resolution?

try disabling “in-depth blur” at the in-game graphics settings

Didn’t help and I also reinstalled the client.

Overheating and or failing graphic card maybe, try checking your temps when playing the game.

Not that computer savvy…How do you check the temp of a gfx card?

you can monitor your system’s/GPU’s temps either with realtemp, speedfan or (GPU only) MSI afterburner

2 other things which you might give a try:
re-install the nvidia drivers AND/OR go to the nvidia-CP and reset all settings

my little brother runs a GTS8800 which sometimes changes the resolution itself when in high usage (which is easely done in GW2)

This computer has 2 partitions, one of them being for gaming only so I don’t d/l anything. Not sure if it makes a difference but I went on watching a video on the other partition (so should be same gfx card) and had no issues.
I also reinstalled the card driver on the gaming/gw2 partition and still experienced the same issue.