Guild Wars 2

Recently, my game has been freezing and then crashing to desktop (not A TON but it’s annoying when it happens). I play BF3, DayZ (Arma 2), Planetside 2, and Skyrim all maxed with reasonable temperatures but when I play GW2 this sometimes happens. It’s not overheating, my card doesn’t give a warning that it crashed or anything. All drivers are up to date, this has honestly started happening since the Halloween update. Not really sure why. Anyone else freezing and crashing? I have the EDID in my CCC off so that I can set it to 1440×900 (my monitor size) and a refresh rate of 75hz. No overclocking of anything either.

I now occasionally get a strange hiccup effect where I will go through a period of a minute or two where I experience 10+ second lag from the time I activate a skill to the time it actually triggers. Then the client disconnects and then I get dumped back to my character select screen (or sometimes it just freezes and hangs…in neither case does the GW2 diagnostic pick it up and ask me to submit a bug report). If I exit (or ALT-F4) and restart the game, all is well again. If I just try to reload that character I will get a few minutes of good performance, then it will drop back into the lag.

This only seems to occur after a couple continuous hours of play on the same character. This is also an effect/issue that I never experienced prior to mid-October (can’t remember if it started with the first Halloween patch or later, and initially I dismissed it as a ISP problem at my end).

My system if relatively high end (significantly exceeds GW2 requirements) and I’ve made no changes to it in the last 2 months that would account for introducing a new problem (although you never know what new bugs can come with Windows updates…).