Guild Wars 2

Hey, I just got my PC back from being repaired and at first it worked well but after playing for ~2 hours, everything froze and I heard a very loud kind of a buzz from my headset(not a pleasant experience-.-). I checked all drivers and updates and also that my fan speeds, voltages and temperature are good. This only happens while playing GW2.
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
8,0 GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit

Has it happened more than once?

There’s two things that cause that;

audio drivers or the beginnings of bad memory.

I used to get that on my Old system (Qx6850 cpu rig). it stoped once i formated my drives and reinstalled my OS.

Might be that, for what ever repair your computer went for, the people fixing it may have done forced/hard shutdowns one to many times and ballsed up the OS. A corrupted OS could be causing the audio bug.

As for RAM going wrong, that is another possible falt but i find that ‘sound’ tends comes out of the mothebroard speaker as a constant beep rather than through main speakers/headset.
RAM faIt beeps may well come out of main speakers though, its just i’ve never had it happen.

Happened 2 times today but I played LoL and didn’t crash and now I lowered graphics and no crash but I dunno if I have to play longer…

When it happend to me it was totaly random. i could go a day (5+hours) without crashing .. then the next day it could crash within 30 minutes. .then again 2 hours later. then again 1 hour.

i actually put up wiht it for a long time ..months ..before i decided to finaly sort out my OS.

When you say voltages and temps are good, could you elaborate more about the specifics of what voltages and temps you are getting?

Any game can crash with those symptoms in my experience. One could be due to some semi-random bug in the game or drivers. If it happens more often, but only to GW, it’s hard to say what that could be. If it happens outside GW, then it seems likely to be a hardware issue.

If not corrupt software or drivers, freezes are usually attributed to CPU and crashes to RAM.

You said your PC was repaired; what was wrong with it and what did they do?

I agree in that voltages, temps should be explicitly stated.

ZaxanRazor.6235:

There’s two things that cause that;

audio drivers or the beginnings of bad memory.

Ehm,there’s alot more possibilities then those two buddy….

Computer freezing with a very small loop of sound?

The two I listed pretty much cover 99% of the cases I’ve dealt with.

Actually, just simply locking up can cause that, if it was right in the middle of a sound clip.
My nintendo wii locks up randomly and does the same “buzz” through my tv speakers…

=P

It’s freezing in a state it wasn’t intended, and is sending power to the speaker out port.
Lowering the in game graphics, just allows the temps to go lower. And 5 hrs vs 30 can simply be how hot the ambient temperature is in your home, and how intense the thing your doing in the game is taxing the system, aka running around fields killing things, vs doing a frostgorge dragon with 50 sum people on the map.

A good software is HWMonitor to monitor temps of the motherboard, cpu, and gpu.
See what your temps are with highest settings you can run and low and see what your case temps are like.

I have the same problem, along with a freaking buzz sound loop.
It happened on W3 few times and while I was fighting a dragon…

It’s so frustrating , I’m afraid to join any bigger event now, cause I might just lose all my effort.

I play other games , but this happens only in GW2

I had the same problem with my old system setup with SC2. screen would freeze while a small sound effect would loop until i manually restarted it.

Fix for me was to replace the GPU.

This is a carbon copy of the previous problem that somehow seemed to disappear. Not sure if Anet made some changes that fixed it or if it was a Windows update. Either way it’s back now.

What ever the reason GW2 is causing kernel crashes. It shouldn’t be able to do that, yet it’s doing just that. Haven’t bothered to run memory and stress tests thi time around so there is a slim change that hardware has started malfunctioning since then, but last time this problem was occurring hardware was mint and problem only occurred with GW2.

Log always points to kernel crash, so that’s no help. It’s driver related. Might be the sound, might be the video. Somehow GW2 is apple to trigger whatever is causing this. Last time the attention was focused on video drivers, but perhaps audio was to blame all along? Need to test some solutions.

PS. Now that i think about it i swapped to table mic from a headset. Guess i’ll try with the driver disabled for now, but this is the longest of all the long shots ever. Timeline wise only 2 significant things has happened, new device and new patch.

NO,Dont Replace Card, just downclock your card, the geforce 460, 570 and other Factory OC cards have this issue. this was a common crash in beta from them not running the grahics proccessing on the gpu, but even since release and processing is on gpu now some cards expecially the OC cards still have the problem, Just DownClock The gpu clock till it quits crashing.

Rurick Mourns: Thank you so much for that. I did that and now for the first time in weeks I was able to play most of the night until I WANTED to log off I just downclocked the card like you mentioned, logged in, and no crash, no loud buzzing noise and I have the same set up as the OP. Thank you