Guild Wars 2

I have an issue in a specific area that will cause my video card to crash. Both screen will turn ‘purple’ usually and the sound card will play feedback like it is interrupted. The only way to resolve this is to unplug the computer, wait for the video card to cool off, then do a restart. Soft booting will not fix the displays even during BIOS evaluation.
I was able to complete the story by going into windows mode, changed Settings Preset from Best Appearance to Best Performance and manually sized the windows to about 1/3 of my visible desktop.

The storyline is “Bad Blood”. The spot is when you are running over the walkways to avoid the wind. I also get this outside of the story mode in exactly the same spots. For those that don’t have the story it is in area Lonar’s Pass, just south west of Pinnacle enclave Waypoint.

My current computer configuration is:
Processor: AMD Phenom™ 9950 Quad-Core Processor 2.60GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 8.00 GB
System type: 64-bit Operating System
Windows 7 Professional

My video card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
NVIDIA Control Panel Version 4.8.750.0

I didn’t change any of the default application 3D settings on the video card, but here they are for reference:
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: Application Controlled
Anitaliasing
- FXAA: Not Supported
- Gamma correction: Off
- Mode: Application Controlled
- Setting: Application Controlled
- Transparency: Off
CUDA – GPUs: All
Maximum pre-rendered frames: 3
Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: All
Power Management Mode: Multi Display Performance
Texture Filtering
- Anisotrip sample optimization: Off
- Negative LOD Bias: Allow
- Quality: Quality
- Tilinear Optimization: On
Threaded Option: Auto
Triple Buffering: Off
Verticle Synch: Use 3D Application Settings

I have not taken any options in my BIOS for overclocking, etc.

I have changed my secondary monitor to be my primary monitor and I use that one for the game play, usually on Best Appearance Manually sizing the window to take up the fill area of the desktop (2560 × 1600) this is on a HP LP3065 (31") monitor.
Please let me know if you need any more details on this.