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Play GW2 the way it’s meant to be played with people you want to play with.
[PACT] is a mature, social, multi-game community. We value having fun and recognize that gaming should be an enjoyable break from real life and we understand that your real life comes first. Our members are friendly, helpful, cooperative, and just a bit crazy. You will enjoy our inclusive and can-do attitude and will have fun with us whether winning or losing.
[PACT] GW2 features:
1. A mature (as in, “responsible adults,” and not, “backroom of the video store”) group of friends to hang with.
2. Robust TeamSpeak3 server customizable by all members.
3. Both regularly scheduled and impromptu events.
4. A focus on PvE with a splash of PvP and WvW.
5. Website for sharing news, events, stories, tips, and random happenings.
6. Connections to other games with guilds that have the same values.
To apply or learn more visit www.onepact.net or contact Snicky.5427
This is a driver issue, and since you are under windows 10 I hope you are running 15.20.1062.1004 or higher, as that has fixed it for the systems I have a HD7790 and/or R7 260x in.
I have been running the latest driver, version 15.20.1062.1004-150803a1-187674C, but the issue remains unresolved. I’ll try the MSI Afterburner trick next.
More textures to load and more animations to run with more people in the area.
I know the game is very CPU dependent. One of the things tried was giving a higher priority to the gw2.exe process and its sub-processes. Doing so has no effect.
The rig is capable of higher fps — it was running 60 fps for a few weeks for a while. Now, it’s really low.
FPS for GW2 is really low, but in the past it’s been high. What’s happening?
A while back I got a new graphics card; a Radeon HD 7700 Series. My fps for GW2 increased to the 40 to 60 range and the game looked much prettier. It was a happy time.
Then something happened. I don’t know what, but my fps dropped to 20-30. Still playable and still pretty. I was content. This seemed to only happen to GW2 and no other game.
After a while and for a mysterious reason(s) the fps dropped to 3-10, making the game virtually unplayable. After trying everything the only remedy that seemed to work was to completely uninstall the driver (including Catalyst), reboot, run a special uninstall utility, reboot, reinstall the original driver, and finally reboot again. Additionally, only the original driver worked (after it was installed I could install updated versions and things would be OK). This would restore my fps to 20-30 for a while. However, on occasion the fps behavior would drop to the low 3-10 range and I’d have to go through the uninstall-reinstall process again. This seemed to happen most often after a Windows update or my computer rebooted. Again, Guild Wars seemed to be the only affected program.
Finally, something snapped and GW2 was stuck at the 3-10 range for a long while. I tried everything I could come across on the internet. Dxdiag was normal, RAM checks were good, HD was good, no viruses, no malware, etc.
I tried updating to from Windows 7 to Windows 10. No change in Guild Wars behavior.
After a lot of digging, experimenting, trial and error I came across some advice — update the drivers for EVERYTHING. Finally! after updating the BIOS the game was running at 60 fps again. No reboot was even needed! Two months ago life was good and GW2 was running great.
Then it happened. Again. About a month ago and with no changes to the system my frame rate suddenly dropped to 3-20 (average is around 12) and has stayed that way ever since.
Changing the video options in game, in Windows, and in the Catalyst CC seem to make no difference — the fps stays stable in the 3 to 20 range. I’ve also followed the guide on the forums, PC FPS and Performance based issues., tweaked other settings, and gave higher priority to gw2.exe and related processes.
On average the game is choppy, clunky to play, and very unresponsive. It’s a miserable experience.
Most all other games I’ve tried work well; 30 to 60 fps on medium or max settings. These include games like Batman: Arkham City, Firefall, PlanetSide 2, Warframe, Skyforge, etc. The only other game to give me problems is Civilization V; animations for various leaders exhibit low fps and are very choppy.
I’m out of ideas on how to resolve the issue. I know GW2 can run at 60 fps with my current setup and Windows 10 — I saw it happen!
Does anyone have any suggestions on where to dig for info?
Why is it only GW2 and a scant number of other games are affected?
Is there something else that can be tried or tested?
System Specs:
Graphics Card: Radeon HD 7700 series
Current Driver: amd-catalyst-15.7.1-with-dotnet45-win7-64bit (latest version)
Original Driver: AMD_Radeon_HD_7790_12.101.2.1-130313aVista Win7 & Win8 driver
OS: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.20 GHz (4 cores)
Ram: 8 GB
Virtual Memory: 120 MB (was higher before upgrade to Windows 10)
Thanks for the references, Healix. Those will come in handy.
Snowman, adding the entry to the dictionary was just the trick. How did you know about or where did you find reference to “Referer”?
This isn’t strictly related to the API, but this is where all the cool kids hang out so I’m posting here.
I’m currently building some automated tools for guild management using the information from the Achievements Leaderboard page. The program first needs to log in, however. Looking at the sign-in page, the form submits an ‘email’ field and a ‘password’ field via POST method.
When attempting to log in, I get back an error 400 (bad request) in response. Any ideas on how to diagnose the issue?
For reference, python code is as follows:
import Request
url = "https://account.guildwars2.com/login"
content_type = 'text/html'
payload = {"email" : username, "password" : password}
headers2 = {"User-Agent" : 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)',
"Content-Type" : content_type,
}
s = Session()
req = Request ('POST', url, data=payload, headers=headers2)
prepped = req.prepare()
resp = s.send(prepped)
There’s been a lot of talk about population balance, but so far it’s been based on individuals moving between servers. This is wvw; individual contributions don’t matter as much as this discussion has been implying.
It’s not simply individuals moving to servers: it’s GUILDS moving servers. When guilds look to jump servers they look at a few key factors such as chances of the new server winning, queue times, and how influential their guild will be on the new server.
Second: Commanders. Good guilds have good commanders, and commanders (good or bad, with or without a guild) have more impact than groups of uncoordinated pugs. I’ve seen good commanders with a small guild or no guild be effective at taking and holding objectives than some large guilds. However, serious wvw guilds tend to grab the good commanders (but not always).
Guilds > Commanders > masses of individuals.
In the spirit of balancing servers is there a way to a) identify the influential wvw guild and b) entice them over to a server that needs help?
Can the same be done for commanders?
Recruiting people new to GW2. We do nightly dungeons/fractals and other pve events. We take having fun seriously.
Interested but don’t want to commit? Feel free just hang out with us in our TS. Details at ptxgaming.com.
We will stop taking applications for the position soon. If interested, please contact Abbot.8496 or apply at http://ptxgaming.com.
PainTrain [PTX]
Website: http://ptxgaming.com/
TeamSpeak: 63.209.37.155:9151
Guild Focus: PvE/WvW/Guild Missions/FUN!!
We are looking for WvW commanders and those who love WvW in general. We mostly run small groups, but will attach to and lead large zergs. We have a long history in WvW, which includes running with some top tier servers and alliances. In fact, some of our antics have had direct changes to the rules of WvW!
If you are looking for a leadership role, just want to run around and have fun, or perhaps are new to WvW and want to learn then join us!
Who We Are:
PainTrain [PTX] is a competitive, organized and democratic based Multi-Gaming Community made up of veteran gamers located throughout the United States and Canada. Our member base is primarily over the age of 30 with years of gaming experience.
Philosophy:
In PainTrain, we take having fun seriously. Our focus is making sure that our community is active, helpful, mature, competitive and most of all, FUN! To accomplish this, we ask that our members be active, represent our community with integrity and use the social forms of communications we provide. It is very important to us that every member of PTX participate on the website and TeamSpeak on a consistent basis.
What We Look For In Our Members:
PainTrain is looking for active and mature players that want strive to be successful all while having fun rolling over our enemies! We are in need of members that enjoy organized gameplay, theorycrafting and having fun in TeamSpeak. If you enjoy being yourself and gaming with others, PainTrain is the community for you!
Requirements:
-A mature yet fun loving attitude.
-TeamSpeak 3 (This means a working Headset W/Mic)
-Must be 18+ (Special exceptions may be made.)
Now recruiting for WvW and sPvP players!
Although we do nightly dungeons and other pve content, we’re looking to swell our memberships in the various areas of pvp. If you’re new to the game and want to get your feet wet in pvp or if you’re a battle-scarred player slayer, we want you! We are a competitive yet casual guild that takes having fun seriously.
If interested, message me in game, visit our website at http://ptxgaming.com, or come hang out in our TS.
Now recruiting for WvW commander position who can rally troops and lead us to victory (or at least a good time).
Also looking for more people to join us in WvW. Players of all skill levels welcome. Interested in learning WvW? We’re the guild for you!
We’re currently looking for people interested in dungeons and fractals. We typically run stuff nightly starting around 9 pm or 10 pm EST. If you have little experience, no worries — we’ll teach you!
We’re also looking for people interested in running around WvW. We are hunting for people who want to learn WvW, those who like running in small and efficient groups, and those who like to lead.
Did I mention we’re seeking a WvW commander? If you think you’ve got some leadership skills and mesh well with the guild, we’ll give you a promotion and pay for your commander tag.
This weekend we’ll have guild bonus XP, magic find, and gold boosts up for the guild. We’ll also be helping people with fractals for their monthly and dungeons for achievements. Feel free to join for events us or ask for a temporary invite to benefit from our guild boons.
Need help with personal story missions, beating the game, or leveling your toons up? Just ask! We’ll be helping people get their characters beat the game as well as farming some high end dungeons.
Even if you’re not part of PTX, feel free to ask for help or join us on our dungeon runs.
I’ve dusted off and started playing necro again. Maybe I’ve forgotten, but has death shroud always prevented healing or is that a recent change?
Maybe it’s just a string of bad luck. I used to be able to run around to hologram nodes and occasionally get pirates to spawn. Lately, however, I can’t get them to show up from hologram nodes.
Is it just me or is anybody else having the same issue?