Guild Wars 2

I apologize if someone has posted about this issue already, but I skimmed this subforum and didn’t see anything. Basically, my game has suddenly decided to crash when I’m dying my armor. I was on my Warrior, and after transmuting some gear, I wanted to dye it. I used the dye remover so I could start fresh, and closed my character screen. As soon as I hit H to close it, my game crashed. I tried again two more times and the same exact thing happened.

When I log back in, the dyes on my armor are the same ones I had before erasing them, so nothing is getting saved.

My game has never even crashed before, and aside for some FPS problems due to the game not being 100% optimized yet, I don’t have any problems running the game. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a solution? I would really like to be able to dye my gear. :[

Edit: Computer specs, in case they’re relevant:
CPU: Intel i7-980 @ 3.33GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 (using 306.02 beta driver)
RAM: 24GB

Update: I’m able to dye my gear without the game crashing. After testing it a bit, it appears that my game only crashes when I use the dye remover. Anyone else have this problem? O.o

Bumping this because I’d like to know if anyone else is having problems with the dye remover.

Hi did you tried the new nvidia driver 306.23 WHQL
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Legend.9421:

Hi did you tried the new nvidia driver 306.23 WHQL
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

I haven’t. I read something about Ambient Occlusion causing problems for GW2 in the latest driver, so I was hesitant to try it. I could always download it and see for myself though. :3

I have the exact same problem and i am using the newest drivers from nvidia. I dont think its related.

Im using amd drivers, and had not had this problem prior, but today it suddenly started up for me. Luckily I remembered this thread.. so its not isolated to just Nvidia it seems.

Had this exact same problem, only when dying the “Noble” Medium Armor Set, but I found a workaround. Just toggle dye mode off instead of closing down the character screen, it won’t crash.

Are you sure you don’t have a corrupted installation?
Maybe the problem is inside your downloaded GW2.dat that contains errors.

Same problem, its not a corrupted install. Have been fine till i updated to the new nvidia drivers, now random crashes and dye armor crashing.

EDIT – Yea, im still getting the issue every time i dye the armor, but if you get out of DYE MODE before you X out of the screen, it wont crash. It wont fix random crashes, obviously (im still getting some of those now) but the little work around thing, works.

I am also experiencing this issue, and can confirm exiting out of Dye Mode prior to closing the screen will not crash the game.

I just duplicated this about 20 times. I crash every single time I remove the dye from my armor and close the window. I can dye it fine, but removing it will result in a crash 100% of the time after closing the hero screen. The only way to fix it is like other suggested, exiting out of Dye Mode prior to closing the Hero screen. I have the latest AMD drivers. This definately did not happen last week because I’ve never exited out of dye mode before closing the hero screen. This is a new bug.