Guild Wars 2

Hello, i am using a radeon r 7 240 but my problem is this… i can play the game (everything says i meet min req’s) but with every graphical setting on LOW or LOL my GFX has a spaz after ~20 mins in game (what happens is… i get a mash up of rainbow lines and pixles on my monitor,,, the sound goes haywire and my desktop is completely UN-interactive… can’t open task manager or ANYTHING!!! and my monitor flickers on and off… my setup is as follows

asus quad core i5
8 gb ram
windows 8.1 (standard/home … w/e)
Radeon r7 240 2GB
mobo is asus m11ad
EDIT: i am using DVI monitor

i have every single driver updated… i have over clocked/underclocked and everything is the same (i though i was winning last night when i played for over 2 hours)

I have asked support but they only say to run the test prog they link me to, and then run speccy but i know for a fact i can handle this… however this is the ONLY GAME IT DOES IT TO (sorry caps… im frustrated)

games i can run very well (without issue at all):
far cry 3
World of Warcraft
League of Legends
DOTA2
Planet Explorers
Stranded Deep
Doubble Action Boogaloo
Farsky
Dragon Age Origins
Neverwinter (online)
Path of Exile
Eve online

and a lot more GFX intensive games… this game is older than my pc, please help thanks

still no answer to this????

well i have lowered my resolution a few touches and it works for longer… but then same thing happens again…. i can only lower the res one more time… come on GW tech heads when will there be a compatability patch for AMD/ATI!?!?!

Hello, I think I have a similar issue that you do.

Does your crash look like this (see attachment)?

For me, it’ll freeze up for about 30 seconds to 1 minute (depending on how many people are on the screen) and resolve itself for the rest of the session afterwards. During the freeze up, the sound will be distorted, however I can move the mouse around.

I’d check whether or not the graphics card is over heating. I dont know which type you got but reference design of that gpu looks like it’s from the 2002. Just check with HWmonitor. It’s a free tool just google it. Also how old is your power supply? and what is its rated wattage?

ok… to the guy who posted that screen shot… no… mine is a lot worse… the entire monitor can not be seen… and when it happens it flickers on and off a few second and then turns itself off… even though the pc is still on and there is still the power light on the monitor… i have pressed my print screen when this happens and every time i turn pc back on again and look at the screen shot it is perfect, aas if the issue never effected the game!!!

to the second guy, i don’t know if you are talking to me or the guy above, or even both of us but my pc was built (by ASUS, not me) and i baught it from PC world, it was on offer at £395 (down from £460) it has been 3 months since i bought it, and it was a demo modle in the shop for about 2 months before that… they had to do a factory reset for me to be able to buy it… i’m wondering if they did sometrhing wrong in the shop…. but if they did then ALL my games would have the same issue!

Edit: my PSU is 360V but it NEVER over heats neither does my GFX (33 c max for the GFX and 55 C for the PSU when my crash happens… when i run Far cry 3 my GFX will spike to 68 C on load up and then power back down to a steady 40… my PSU spikes to 79 C and then will go back down to around the 62 c mark… so it must DEFFO be an AMD/ATI compatability issue)

WHy the specs for this game on tons of sites DO NOT say this is beyond me, as i have cheked the written specs, i have also checkd system requirement labs… i have also asked my dad (who is a computer repair engineer… been doing it for 43 years) and every single thing says you can run this stupid game… go and buy it… SO TECH HEADS… come and give us a patch for this… PLEASE! or… even better… put on your own site (and others) if you have AMD/ATI then you can ** off!!! but then saying that… even the Nvidia users are starting to have problems with this game!!!

You say your PSU is 360v or is it 360w meaning watts we need to know the watt rating if it’s 360watts then that may be your problem, it may be to low of a wattage to handle this game. Your PSU may not over heat but may start to do odd things when driven to hard. In most gaming PCs you want at least 500 or more, I never go belowe 600watts on any systems I build and you want to look for a good brand like Cool master or Corsair. This game will drive your system to it max on the CPU because it does most of the game rendering in the CPU not in the GPU like all the other game you listed do GPU rendering.

oh… right oh… i just find it odd… that all the others are GPU…

and yeh its 360 watts… but as i say, i have ran my diagnostics alongside the game… and when it DOES crash… the MAX it has been (i will say again because its stupid to crash at these temps) is 33 C for GPU and 55 c for CPU… 55c is not even PUSHING it!!!

good job i’m saving up for a sapphire R9 270x + a 500-550 Corsair (just need to find the best deal for UK prices… buuut if i change anything there goes my warrenty… and i am not paying PC world to install them as they can charge up to £75 PLUS the package price of £240 for the GFX and PSU)

and the write up about my specs is… mid-range Gaming PC

But cheers

It looks like your power supply is the problem. It’s probably a cheap, no-name brand – so although it claims to be 360 watts, chances are good that the real maximum power is much lower than that.