Guild Wars 2

Hello

Did some upgrades yesterday and now GW2 is all weird.
Had a Radeon HD4670 and all was good except poor frame rate
in LA and Wvw.

No biggie. The GPU needed an update anyway’s
so I bought a Radeon 260x

Wiped out all drivers
Installed new cd drivers and started the game only to find
weird graphic stretching and textures.

Wiped out drivers and installed drivers direct from Radeons website.
Same issue.

Wiped out .NET and drivers with driver sweeper.
Removed Catalyst control and reinstalled

Installed drivers again. Same issue.
Played with different card settings and game settings. No fix and very annoyed.

Anything else I can try before I wipe out GW2 and have to re download 16gig
over the net?

AMD Phenomon ll
4 Gig ram
Radeon 260x with 2 gig
Win xp pro.

Any other games I play ( Dead rising, SW battlefront, ect ) Has no issues.
Its limited to GW2 for some reason.

I would take a look at the DirectX install. Run the installer http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35 followed by Windows Updates.

I would do a “sfc /scannow” http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ht/sfc-scannow.htm

No luck. Just more of this.

The only recommendation I can make is grabbing the new driver specifically made for all of the R7 and R9 cards (excluding 290 and 290X) and using that. Found on AMD website. I never install from the CDs anymore. Waste of time and almost always a year old. The cards are still new, only have one driver, and I doubt that it’s a defective card since I haven’t seen anyone report of good play with a new R7 or R9 chip on this game specifically.

Ok .. so further updates.

Windows XP gone. Windows 8.1 installed with 12 Gig ram.
Downloaded new Cata for windows 8.1 and drivers for the GPU.

Downloading the entire game and doing a fresh install of GW2

Ill let you know it goes.