Guild Wars 2

Hello, Guild Wars 2 Community:
First off, allow me to thank NC Soft and ANet for delivering such an amazing RPG. It combines the fine experiences I’ve had in Dragon Age and World of Warcraft.

Now, enough with pleasantries and cut to the chase: Guild Wars 2 has A LOT of bugs. And constant crashes. I’m showing you my hardware below:

Operating System:
Windows 2.6.1.7601 (Service Pack 1)
CPU Type:
Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz
CPU Speed:
2.82 GHz
System Memory:
3.24 GB
Video Card Model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Video Card Memory:
2.34 GB
Video Card Driver:
nvd3dum.dll

With the equipments above, I’m having the following 3 issues:
1. Low FPS at most times

2. Constant client crashes.
Averagely twice an hour. I’ve sent reports via the game client several times.

3. Yellow-blue squares tearing up the screen
This happens occasionally but regularly. I turned Vertical-Sync on all the time, which evidently doesn’t help with the issue at all.

Now, before you scream, “that’s not i7!” or “lol it’s 2 years old”. I’d like to point out that I can run both World of Warcraft and StarCraft II on High graphic settings (note, not Ultra), and normally stick to 60 FPS (with occasional drop to 40~50 during large-scale battles).

I’m running GW2 on fairly Low graphic settings and the FPS I can achieve is…..20~40. Add to that constant crashes which occurs (averagely) 2 times an hour.

What went wrong? What is biting at my hardware that it doesn’t seem to do what it is supposed to?

You should have posted this in the tech support forum. Also make sure to give your exact driver version; I hear the beta NVidia drivers work better than the stable ones.

My thanks for notifying. I’ll try to get the version of driver.

I’m also experiencing yellow-blue square screen tearing at times. Adding it to the original post.

Ferik.3127:

Hello, Guild Wars 2 Community:
First off, allow me to thank NC Soft and ANet for delivering such an amazing RPG. It combines the fine experiences I’ve had in Dragon Age and World of Warcraft.

Now, enough with pleasantries and cut to the chase: Guild Wars 2 has A LOT of bugs. And constant crashes. I’m showing you my hardware below:

Operating System:
Windows 2.6.1.7601 (Service Pack 1)
CPU Type:
Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz
CPU Speed:
2.82 GHz
System Memory:
3.24 GB
Video Card Model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Video Card Memory:
2.34 GB
Video Card Driver:
nvd3dum.dll

With the equipments above, I’m having the following 3 issues:
1. Low FPS at most times

2. Constant client crashes.
Averagely twice an hour. I’ve sent reports via the game client several times.

3. Yellow-blue squares tearing up the screen
This happens occasionally but regularly. I turned Vertical-Sync on all the time, which evidently doesn’t help with the issue at all.

Now, before you scream, “that’s not i7!” or “lol it’s 2 years old”. I’d like to point out that I can run both World of Warcraft and StarCraft II on High graphic settings (note, not Ultra), and normally stick to 60 FPS (with occasional drop to 40~50 during large-scale battles).

I’m running GW2 on fairly Low graphic settings and the FPS I can achieve is…..20~40. Add to that constant crashes which occurs (averagely) 2 times an hour.

What went wrong? What is biting at my hardware that it doesn’t seem to do what it is supposed to?

Just to get this out of the way first you can not compair a game like WOW to this game it actually made me pppeeee some.
Now for the low FPS this is probably your CPU it seems clock speed is everything and no you do not need a i7. Simple test turn your settings to a custome of mid with the shadows and stuff set to low, check your FPS, now in the same place in the game set your settings to best performance and cut all the eye candy off, again check the FPS.
If you show little to no improvements then your CPU is the problem (overclock if you can) if you have a big FPS increase then the GPU is the problem.
For the crashes you did not include the crash log or all your system specs so no help their.
Yellow blue squares could be a few things but it really looks bad for your video card. (the newest driver is not always the best) I was using a AMD driver from 11/2011 till I added anouther card in xfire.

Using a GTX 660 TI (i7 3770 w/H100, 16g Dominator Ram, game on 256g ssd, 800w PSU, latest drivers for everything) and having same issues (besides the yellow blue squares), horrible bad fps and lag, one sec I’m frozen doing a move the next frame I am dead. Did the dat thing, tried running in different compat modes, changed the settings to the exact sticky paramaters, re-seated cpu and ram, cleaned (though it didn’t need it), made sure my cpu and gpu were running within normal temps, set psu to high performance, etc etc…still horrible bad slideshow-time fun after about 3-5 minutes of play.

I DO have Win 8 Pro, and I know it’s not supported. Alot of folks have it and run it fine with no issues, yet there are a few of us who do. I am going to downgrade to 7 and see what happens, all out of ideas.

If you’re having issues with an nVidia card, I’d suggest you try using the beta driver. If you’re already using the beta driver and having issues… revert back to the stable driver, heh.

Also, see if enabling/disabling VSync does anything for you, namely helps with the tears.

Tried the vsync (on/off), does nothing. Though I hadn’t tried the beta driver, I will do so later tonight, see if that does anything. Thanks for the heads up.