Guild Wars 2

Right so I recently came back to the game, not having played for over a year. However, ever since I came back I’ve been plagued by these very frequent game crashes. This happens randomly, and at several points. When entering Lion’s Arch, when I get out of a Vista, during world boss fights… and so on. I did notice that I start hearing random popping/ticking noises (sometimes very loud ones) regularly before a crash.

I ran the repair tool which did… well, nothing much. Thing is, it’s impossible to play WvWvW/kill worldbosses/visit the cities without risking a crash (which as you can imagine is incredibly annoying). Any advice?

Error #2 after posting the first one.

I just came back to the game also after not playing for about a year. I’m getting the same crashes as you. I just built a brand new machine (everything is new except my graphics card, which is a gtx 560 Ti) so its irritating that the game is doing this.

It’s been a problem for a long time. Sadly, the problem has largely fallen on deaf ears. Since not everyone is affected, ANet have essentially chosen to ignore those of us who have been. You can check my thread out, and you’ll see that a lot of us have been battling the problem, off and on, for almost a year now. ANet haven’t acknowledged the problem, or offered any real solutions.

And here’s the third.

Similar story after long break. Crash to black (occasionally background music goes on happily). Started in January.

Because of the 3.5g memory limitation of of the 32bit version of Windows you all are getting the OOM error (Out Of Memory) error, so to fix this you need to reinstall Windows with the 64bit version. This will allow access to at least 8g of ram for games and apps instead of 3.5g in the 32bit version also the game will run extremely better on a clean install of Windows with just the game and the latest drivers if you don’t have the 64bit version you can download it. The product key works on both version you just need the same flavor like home premium, pro, or ultima and if you have service pack1 or not.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Cyan-to-Yellow-gradients-on-screen/first#post3517301

After following the instructions of Deathmond.7328 I never crashed again in gw2.
I am running 32bit Windows on 4gb, and it has nothing to do with it.