Guild Wars 2

Nothing big, this is my only problem with the game because everything else runs fine.

Still, after some months of having this it’s finally time to find a possible solution!

When it happens:
Right after pressing Play from the launcher, I get a black screen that lasts 35-45 seconds, only after that my characters will appear (Can’t minimize or do anything for as long as it lasts).

Specs:
4gb ram
320 gb hdd (48 left)
ati radeon hd 4670
core2duo e6600 2.4
1368×768 resolution
windows 7 ultimate

This didn’t happen back then around Q3 2013, even when I had less ram (used to have 2gb).

Any help will be appreciated.

Well, pretty much the whole system, but what I suspect having the most impact is your HDD. Based on your other specs I suspect it’s quite old and 85% full means it’s starting to slow down. Have you defragmented it lately and deleted unnecessary files? My suggestion is buy another hard drive, 500GB-1TB or even more, better yet buy an SSD and you’ll be blown away. Loading to Lion’s Arch (or when it was still possible) takes 12 seconds and PvE maps takes 5 now.

On the other hand your system is maybe 5-6 years old so pairing some sweet new high-end technology with that is like painting racing stripes on a snail, but it’s a good start and you can carry it on to your possible (and eventual, at some point) bigger system upgrade. At least check your motherboard’s compability with the new drive, be it an SSD or a normal hard drive.

locx.6412:

Well, pretty much the whole system, but what I suspect having the most impact is your HDD. Based on your other specs I suspect it’s quite old and 85% full means it’s starting to slow down. Have you defragmented it lately and deleted unnecessary files? My suggestion is buy another hard drive, 500GB-1TB or even more, better yet buy an SSD and you’ll be blown away. Loading to Lion’s Arch (or when it was still possible) takes 12 seconds and PvE maps takes 5 now.

On the other hand your system is maybe 5-6 years old so pairing some sweet new high-end technology with that is like painting racing stripes on a snail, but it’s a good start and you can carry it on to your possible (and eventual, at some point) bigger system upgrade. At least check your motherboard’s compability with the new drive, be it an SSD or a normal hard drive.

My system isn’t old. Pretty much all the components were bought before this game release since they were the best I could afford at that time (sept 2012). The mobo and ram were recent, Q4 2013 if I’m not wrong (had to reinstall OS for that too).

Pretty much the reason why my hdd is so full is because I have a lot of fraps clips from other game.

I’ll go with the hard drive defrag, even tho my C partition is new I don’t think I’ve defrag’d my D in ages.

Pretty new? Ok then, your GPU was released in 2008 and you CPU in 2006, that’s why I thought so.

Where ever your GW2 file is installed, defrag that. Also you can download any health analyzing S.M.A.R.T. program to see how healthy your GW2 drive is. Keeping it too full and defragmented will all decrease performance and increase loading times.

I mean new as in it only has almost 2 years of use.

I know it’s outdated by today’s standards. Anyway ty for the suggestions.

Fair enough, I didn’t think you could find unused parts from ‘06 a few years ago anymore but what do I know. Anyway like I said, those don’t impact this issue too much, the hard drive does, when you’ve emptied it a bit as well as defragged, tell us if it made it any shorter.

I defragged it, but nothing changed. Still flat 40 seconds to start gw2.

Did you free any space on the drive and do the smart diagnosis?