Guild Wars 2

At first I thought this was similar to the posted ‘black screen’ issues, but it’s an issue with the hardware rather than the software.

I am running a GeForce GTX 550 TI. For the last two months I have been playing GW2 with no trouble whatsoever on my desktop computer. Out of the blue, I suddenly can not play GW2 for any more than ten or fifteen minutes at a time on any settings without the video card crashing – turning the settings down helps some, but only adds about five or ten minutes onto the play time before the video card crashes and burns, forcing me to manually restart my computer to get any more video feed out of it.

I play other graphically comparable games fine; it only seems to be GW2 that is giving me this particular issue. I would like to say that I have been having this issue for the past two weeks. All of my NVIDIA settings are factory default, I do not overclock, and I have already cleaned off my card and verified the fan is operating.

Has something changed? Does anyone have a similar problem?

And, how do I fix this?

You’re describing exactly what i’m experiencing as well. Same gpu. I as well am at a loss about how to fix this, and i have tried everything except replacing the gpu. I’m starting to think that would be the solution.

There a quite a few threads already started about video crashing since last game update.

One thing i noticed is the gpu starting to run in excess of 75 degrees Celsius. I have changed the cooling in the sense that i took gpu cooling off auto and set up a manual profile, incrementally speeding up the fan. Now it runs at max 65 degrees, and i haven’t had a crash yet. It seems i had to learn pci-e based gpu’s are a bit more sensitive than embedded ones.

*edited for typo.

Mako.3948:

There a quite a few threads already started about video crashing since last game update.

And I looked through them, but none of them seem much help. I’m going to try to set up a manual profile myself, now that it has been suggested, and will get back to you guys once I’ve done that and play tested it.

What boggles me about this is that it’s only this suddenly became a problem.

*Edit: It still takes about 30 seconds for my video card to decide nope.jpg, and fail on me. It’s possible I’ll be dropping by the store later on this week and updating my graphics card, although doing something like this because of one game is kind of pathetic.

Looking around the forum it seems that you’re right and there’s been a huge increase across the board in video related problems since a certain patch. I suppose we can only hope that they find some way to code it so that middle-of-the-road video cards don’t kitten the bed quite as often.

I’ll be checking periodically.