Guild Wars 2

does anyone recognize this graphical oddness and know the cause? or is it actually normal? I would expect something like smoke/mist instead of these boxes.

http://imgur.com/M9d069W

its been around on my install of the game since launch. i’ve gone through a dozen driver updates since then, usually stay current on video drivers, and its always persisted. its even persisted through an clean install of windows 8, after being there on windows 7.

Dual Asus GTX 670 in SLI driving 3 monitors for Widescreen resolution of 6050 × 1200

Do the instructions in the picture, your install has corrupted particle shader files or some other effect.

thanks! will give that a shot

unfortunately a repair doesn’t touch this issue, nor does a full reinstall. has anyone else encountered this glitch related to gfx settings or drivers?

Since the repair didn’t do anything we can start working with drivers. Use a full driver removal program and:
1. remove all traces of the nvidia graphics drivers from your system
2. restart as necessary
3. reinstall, restart!
3.5 Don’t adjust your settings yet!!!
4. test with gw2
5. adjust your settings until you find the problem.

actually went through a full wipe and reinstall of the entire OS, reinstall of game from scratch, same results

had fiddled with all the individual in-game gfx settings previously, never found anything that touched it.

will have to chalk it up to an unresolved driver issue

I too am having this problem, would love to see it resolved.