Guild Wars 2

It’s been happening a fair number of times for me now, and it’s getting to be rather annoying to have it happen.

The game will freeze(lock up in a single frame, sound continues to play) and stop responding. Ony way to get out of this state is to use task manager to kill the program.
It can happen 5 min into the event, it can happen 40 min into the event.

As far as I’ve seen, it’s unrelated to the number of characters on my screen at a given time to, as it’s happened both during an event fight and when I’ve been alone walking to the next event. Do bear in mind as per character density on screen, I’ve never experienced something like this in WvWvW.

It’s cost me the end reward a few times now, along with completing frostgorge and firehearts for the achivement. I never experienced anything like this instabillity pre this curent living story, and nothing has changed in either my setup nor settings.

Is there anything to be done about this, or is it just a case of “tough luck, suck it up” ?

It could be due o the new culling. You may want o decrease some of your settings. Lowering player limit/quality, shaders, shadows, & reflections are areas for improvement. Even environment & view distance & best texture filtering/hi-res char models can make things more bearable for activity like this. At least test it for these events and see how you go.

If you need anything else, please post complete system specs plus OS version. And maybe peruse your system event viewer for issues corresponding with your crashes.

Well, specs are;

OS Win7 64bit 6.1, 7601.
ATI 6970 2gig running akittens default clocks speed of 880/1375.
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600MHz. 8 gig total.
Amd Phenom II X4 980 running at default 3,7ghz.
Game is installed and running of an Kingston SSDNow V+100 128GB.
(could post a full dxdiag report file i supose, but i feel that that would be unnecesary. It’s not going to tell anything new in terms of system related stuff that would suddenly be the cause of this crashing)

Everything curently instaled is as of this spring, with all drives being wiped clean and set up again.

IT could be due to the culling, that I agree with. But, I cannot see how it suddenly should cause freezes and crashes like these when there is no such problems in WvWvW. It is only happening when I’m active in an invasion event zone. If the culling is the cause, the issue lies with the game client/servers, rather than my hardware and system. Everything was fine pre patch, and everything is stil fine with the exception of the invasion events. Even in the midst of all 3 servers fighting for stonemist in EB, the game stil keeps up and dosnt freeze up.

Only thing that has changed is the game and game client, making it very hard for me to actualy play the games curent focus(living story). The only difference altering the ingame graphic settings do is improve/decrease framerate. It does not prevent the freezes. Nothing about gw2 having an issue in any event viewer I can find, unless it’s hidden deep somewhere sadly:-/