Guild Wars 2

I got an SSD for Christmas, and I installed and migrated my OS over to it yesterday. Ever since then I getting freezes during combat, whereas it did not do this before. In detail, what happens is all the action pauses on my screen, but I can still move around. About 1-2 seconds later all the action “catches up” very quickly. The more action, the worse it gets.

Obviously it’s an issue with my SSD/OS setup. So I’m hoping I’m missing something here I can easily correct. I run Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium, I have 8GB of RAM, and I installed a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD and used Samsung’s Data Migration Tool to move the OS over from my old HDD. Anyone have any ideas?

Before anyone asks. Reinstalling the OS is going to be difficult, I upgraded from Vista to Win7 years ago and lost both disks during a move 2 years ago (I still have the valid codes, though). So I don’t know, maybe I’d have to call Microsoft to get a new Win7 disk?

Windows 7 64bit home premium. Burn yourself a new copy. You still need a valid key, but you already have that. Link is legit, from digital river an online seller.
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65733/X15-65733.iso
(source)

Clean install when migrating to SSD is best.

Indeed i would do a fully clean install of W7 64bit.

Clean installs are always best, trying to trasnfer things over even if itsn ot the OS (i.e programs and games) can have unexpected results.

On another note. Dont get tempeted and go Windows 8, its still to new and has compatability issues, not to mention the UI sucks :P

Couple of other things to try first. Make sure you have ahci enabled on the hard drive in your bios. Make sure you have the latest bios update on your computer, and lastely make sure you have the latest firmware on your ssd.

If your still having problems then try and the clean install.

I’m having this problem myself, I clean installed everything on an SSD, redownloaded GW2 and I’ve been having freezes on GW2 ever since. It used to be alot more often, but then I found somewhere that it might freeze because of power shortage, and that you can choose to “never put your hard drive to sleep”. I did this, and the freezes stopped…for a couple of days, now I just had a new one… Any ideas?

I had an SSD that would freeze after high transfer rates, which according to the manufacturer’s forums, it was a rather common problem and they were working on a firmware fix, but that never happened. I had 4 SATA3 ports and 4 SATA2 ports and half of each were divided between Intel and Marvell. I had 4 HDDs and the 1 SSD, so I decided to try different configurations. I eventually found that the SSD would only work without freezing if it was connected to the first Intel SATA2 port.

I just reinstalled GW2 on my new computer with an SSD, also a Samsung 840. I’m having freezing issues during game play. I play several other games from the SSD with no problems (Rift, Skyrim, etc.). NPCs randomly stop responding, although I can often keep moving. Sometimes they catch up and sometimes the client crashes.

I have the exact(!!) same problem, also read that power shortage could be a problem, that fixed it for a couple of days, but now it just froze again. It’s also a Samsung 840 256GB SSD, clean install of w7 64 bit…

Question : Do you have you Windows also on the SSD or on a normal HDD ?

If Windows is on a HDD disable the power-features that parks your HDD after x-minutes
since this can cause lags whenever GW2 wants to access your user-directory when the
hdd is parked.

Beldin.5498:

Question : Do you have you Windows also on the SSD or on a normal HDD ?

If Windows is on a HDD disable the power-features that parks your HDD after x-minutes
since this can cause lags whenever GW2 wants to access your user-directory when the
hdd is parked.

I have Windows on a HDD. I checked and they were set to park when idle so I turned that off. No change in the game, however. When GW2 is running all four cores constantly hit 100%—which I’ve never seen in my other games. I run every game at max graphics full HD.

The processor is an Intel i5 4670K, 8 GB RAM, nVidia GTX 670 with 2 GB RAM. The OS is Windows 8.1 64-bit.

LeCreaux.3087:

Beldin.5498:

Question : Do you have you Windows also on the SSD or on a normal HDD ?

If Windows is on a HDD disable the power-features that parks your HDD after x-minutes
since this can cause lags whenever GW2 wants to access your user-directory when the
hdd is parked.

I have Windows on a HDD. I checked and they were set to park when idle so I turned that off. No change in the game, however. When GW2 is running all four cores constantly hit 100%—which I’ve never seen in my other games. I run every game at max graphics full HD.

The processor is an Intel i5 4670K, 8 GB RAM, nVidia GTX 670 with 2 GB RAM. The OS is Windows 8.1 64-bit.

This tells me its something else, GW2 only has the power to make a 4760K hit 100% on all 4cores if your CPU is over heating and being throttled down to 1.3ghz or so.

Check thermals and clock speeds via Core temp/HwInfo.

sirsquishy.8531:

LeCreaux.3087:

Beldin.5498:

Question : Do you have you Windows also on the SSD or on a normal HDD ?

If Windows is on a HDD disable the power-features that parks your HDD after x-minutes
since this can cause lags whenever GW2 wants to access your user-directory when the
hdd is parked.

I have Windows on a HDD. I checked and they were set to park when idle so I turned that off. No change in the game, however. When GW2 is running all four cores constantly hit 100%—which I’ve never seen in my other games. I run every game at max graphics full HD.

The processor is an Intel i5 4670K, 8 GB RAM, nVidia GTX 670 with 2 GB RAM. The OS is Windows 8.1 64-bit.

This tells me its something else, GW2 only has the power to make a 4760K hit 100% on all 4cores if your CPU is over heating and being throttled down to 1.3ghz or so.

Check thermals and clock speeds via Core temp/HwInfo.

Here’s two screencaps, one with GW2 running and my character standing still. The cores are all almost max at 3.4 GHz without even moving. The second screencap is as soon as I shut down GW2. All the cores drop to nearly nothing.

Running GW2 and standing still:
http://i.imgur.com/VGGUxoo.jpg

Immediately after closing GW2:
http://i.imgur.com/EgUdyYx.jpg

Sounds for me just like some kind of read errors on your SSD.

Have a look in your windows system log if you see anything there first.
Then maybe change your SATA cable against another (if you have one)

The last time i had such a problem it was just the cable and not the drive.

Also to make sure that the HHD parking is really not a problem you can move your
user directory to the SSD with something like

mklink /J “C:\Users\You\Documents\Guild Wars 2” “d:\games\GW2\Settings”

assuming your Windows is on C: and your GW2 ond d:\games\gw2

Hm, that could make sense, I used my SATA cable that hooked on my old (6 years) HDD drive, and used it for my SSD drive, did the speedrate of a SATA cable change (or at least the need) when SSD’s came out?

Was just a cable-break on an old cable for me i think.

I reset my main router yesterday morning and didn’t experience the lag that day. Will see if that holds up today, I wish I had tested the game before doing that. My game wasn’t freezing…the NPCs were not responding. That does sound like a possible data lag.

For 840 EVO SSD users.

http://techreport.com/review/27212/samsung-840-evo-update-fixes-slow-reads-with-old-data

Thanks for the link, I’ll try it out but I doubt this will solve my case as my installation was clean and therefore “not old”, since the freeze happened like a couple of days after install.

Behellagh.1468:

For 840 EVO SSD users.

http://techreport.com/review/27212/samsung-840-evo-update-fixes-slow-reads-with-old-data

Thanks! Running this utility right now.

The link with the repair utility didn’t fix it for me sadly, going to try another SATA cable (it’s over 5 years old).

Edit: cable doesn’t make any difference

Btw.: have you tested copying GW2 to your HDD and start it from there, just to
make sure that the problem is or is not your SSD ?

For some reason the download fails when I try to install it on my external HDD….

Coreation.9306:

For some reason the download fails when I try to install it on my external HDD….

Just copy it from your SSD. However external HHD is much slower than an internal.

I think it’s been badly formatted, I can’t seem to copy 19GB in one go. But recent development, I ran furmark, since I’ve come to see on some forums with similar problems, that’s in fact the graphics card… So I ran furmark benchmark, and the same freeze happens right AFTER furmark hits its 15 min mark (so when it tries to close the bench). Also ran a small test, tried to rescale the furmark screen, …freeze… So I think I’ll plug in my old gtx 260 and see what happens.