Guild Wars 2

Mine has started crashing over the last 24 hours. I’ve blown out the dust, but am lacking in the techy goodness required to undertake those other tasks. Aside from the world’s worst internet connection – the game has run pretty well on my PC since beta.

My crashes have consisted of game freezing (ctrl/alt/dlt doing nothing) as well as instantly powering down. Is not doing this outside of GW2 – temps are bouncing between mid 40s to mid 50s.

Unfortunately cannot be of assistance to your good self, but thought if multiple folk post, Anet may look into it?

Windows 7 / 64-bit
16Gb RAM
i7 – 2600 @ 3.4GHz 3.4GHz

Location: Newcastle, Australia.
Time: About 15 minutes ago.
Server: Crystal Desert
Description: Mapping into LA.
See attachment. Please advise if there is some trick/method to alleviating this. Again, it looks like Level3.net is faulty. Any response would be welcome. Has been happening for over a month now. Thanks.

Pathping issues are apparently not interesting my ISP. As an at-times contrary so and so, I’ll commence path-pinging my way across Oz (have already found packet-losses).

Please advise if there are any workarounds so I might get some relief for the latency in GW2.

Thanks guys.

From what I can see – it all falls over once it hits level3.net
A quick google search points to major issues with this ‘seamless service’. I’ve sent more pathping screenshots to my ISP, so hoping they might be able to re-route me?

Your location: Newcastle, Australia
Time and date of incident (plus time zone): Just now (9:05pm East Coast Oz, daylight saving time).
Game World: Crystal Desert – in CDBL
Brief description of what you’re seeing: Some significant spikes in lag upon leaving Garri (took about 10 seconds to head out south inner portal, made it to the SW Garri sentry, then ported back to inner Garri again).

Please advise if it would be helpful to check other areas in game.
I’ve included the specific server, as well as a pathping to guildwars2.com

Your location: Newcastle, Australia
Time and date of incident (plus time zone): Just now (8:26pm East Coast Oz, daylight saving time).
Game World: Crystal Desert – in CDBL at Bay
Brief description of what you’re seeing: Significant lag, nil reduction in FPS. Multiple skills flashing (not actioning). Undertook IP search in-game – to upwards of 15-20 seconds.

Please advise if you need any other information. I can still cap camps, but am not competitive against a human anymore.

Your location: Newcastle, Australia
Time and date of incident (plus time zone): Just now (6:12pm East Coast Oz, daylight saving time).
Game World: Crystal Desert
Brief description of what you’re seeing: No drop in FPS at all, but serious (over 10-15 second spikes) skill lag. Didn’t get booted though. This was in the Borderland in WvW if that helps.
Can anyone direct me to a series of things to try? It looks very Anet related – wiki is also slow to load, but other sites are fine. I tried the cmd ping test and got 100% loss for gw2.com and arenanet.com. I got 0% loss for google.com (average 17ms) and 0% loss for news.com.au (average 40ms).

Your location: Newcastle, Australia
Time and date of incident (plus time zone): Just now (9:00pm East Coast Oz, daylight saving time).
Game World: Crystal Desert
Brief description of what you’re seeing: No drop in FPS, but latency in both WvW and in Orr.

Your location: Newcastle, Australia
Time and date of incident (plus time zone): Throughout the day/night over the last 3 or so days.
Game World: Crystal Desert
Brief description of what you’re seeing: No drop in FPS, skills failing to fire, other players leaping about. Burst of skills at once after a delay. I’m dreadfully novice when it comes to techy things, but packets seem to be dropping when trying to ping guidwars2 servers.

Awesome job. Server pride right here.

I think this is a tremendous idea, the combination of his knowledge and his easily-accessible presentation of that information warrants it.

He does not need to have been the first bloke in-game, nor strolling forums for years – he is a Lore populariser, which is far more useful a role than a +1er in my book

+1

That’s a nasty way to discover the lack of a confirmation button.

Have an up-vote. Here’s hoping you may get some lee-way in terms of the mountain of gems it has cost you, even if you need to go sit in the corner of another server to think about your actions ;o)

I am mystified by the formula that results in 5th and 6th playing 12th (Crystal Desert). I get that randomisation happens of course, but throw us a bone soon Mr Glicko sir, a lot of frustrated folk due to being matched at higher tiers for weeks on end. The match-up below us currently consists of 3 servers that are higher than us.

My brain hurts now.

JonPeters.5630:

timidobserver.7925:

I have a couple of serious questions.
1. Did the person that came up with the math for this graduate from high school.
2. To prove it, please upload a copy of your high school diploma.

How about just a copy of their resume. I don’t see his high school experience on there. Hopefully the other stuff can count as relevant experience for your assessment.

http://www.glicko.net/cv.html

Well played, well played indeed.

Very much looking to a reduction in server stagnation. Thanks guys.

To any developers/powers-that-be that might stop by this thread – this concern will not go away. It is your own fault really – you absolutely nailed it with Factions, some of the most beautiful vistas in any of the expansions, along with a story-line and character development that lived up to that beauty.

I am not one to whine, pout or stamp my foot at things in a whimsical fashion, but there are a myriad of those that will. On a more significant level – GW2 will be irrevocably lesser for the absence of Cantha. I suspect you love this world as least as much as we do – so would not want some awkward conversations with Management preventing the full realisation of your vision.

Wishing you all the best,

Ardie :o)

I’m from the Australian east coast. Have noticed lag sufficient to boot me on a few occasions for about 6 hours or so. Getting lag spikes of about 15 seconds at a time (certainly interesting display of multiple skills flashing at once at the end). Have been just PvEing. Guildies from Australia are not reporting lag spikes though. Have logged out quite a few times – not resolving currently.