Guild Wars 2

Now, just for the record, my pc is far from great. However, since last patch textures tend to load significantly slower than before when using the waypoint system. It is especially annoying that it affects the map screen as well, seeing nothing but huge lego blocks before it fully loads. I have asked a couple of people and they have admitted to have the same issues since the new patch was introduced. Also, it started crashing again.

Please look into this issue. Thank you.

Yes this has been affecting me too ever since the latest patch, quite annoying. Hopefully this gets resolved soon.

Although thankfully for me anyway it hasn’t been crashing, just really slow loading of icons and the world map.

this and sometimes, when I move to another map, I see just black map with icons :-x never had this problem before. Started with the last update. Yes, my PC isn’t brand new but I never had problems like this. It must be something with your game, not with our computers.

Exactly this – have often had long loading screens, know that I will be disconnected if a zone is so busy I’m redirected to an overflow – I’m used to that.
However, in addition to this, every time I zone anywhere, Isee a black mini-map, occasionally with a couple of icons; the map is a complete blur.
I don’t know if it’s related, but on trying Sanctum Sprint yesterday, I had a skill delay of about 3-5 seconds, and was rubber-banding all over the place. That hasn’t happened since it was first introduced to the game.

Same here. If I load into a new area, it often takes ten seconds or more to populate new icons, and until then they are just invisible spots on the screen. Also when opening the map, which used to load up a clean map every time, it now loads up a super-low-rez blur for several seconds before the real map appears. This is all relatively new to the most recent major patch.

Same, longer loading screens and gotta wait for the map to load properly, also its laggy. Can’t see it being my issue, patch dropped and then all these problems arose – guess we’ll have to wait for a new patch?

Edit: also I tried moving the game to another partition, repair and deleted dat file – made no difference.

Still having issues with the UI, icons, map etc loading on zone switch or using a waypoint. Everything was fine until the last update, so hopefully they fix/revert whatever changes they made with that update. At this point it’s pretty annoying having to wait for the map to fully render instead of being a blurry mess or have icons take forever to load.

I have this issue as well, but im also constantly crashing, which ive never had any problems before

Having this issue as well, loading into new places makes all my icons invisible and they take forever to load, switching skills or weapon swapping will cause it as well. In new places, the mini-map will show up as a grainy mess, even trying to bring up my map screen while I’m exploring pops up a grainy map, which I have to sit and wait let load. The social, and graphics screens are also blank (except for their text) and take so long to load.

This has been happening since the new patch hit. I learned the hard way when I had to play blind and guess what skills I was attempting to use during an off shoot fight. :P

since the new patch my internet security trend micro titanium has none stop been deleting the short cut to guild wars 2 reporting that there is a virus and spy ware worm. This problem has never happen before, so i don’t know if there is one for not

Just to let people know, the solution (at least for me) to the excruciatingly slow loading problem (and missing UI pieces, invisible mobs, missing ground/terrain, etc.) was to repair my gw2.dat file. Instructions on how to do that are here:

guildwars2.zendesk.com/entries/28148006-Repairing-the-Game-Client

I did it from a command prompt, which just seemed easier than making an alias and hacking it. (Open a ‘cmd’ window, ‘cd’ to your gw2 installation directory and then run ‘gw2.exe -repair’.) Worked like a charm!