Guild Wars 2

I’m getting the OOM error, can usually manage to get an hour in game before it crashes (I’m here now after a crash after 43 minutes).
I’m running 64-bit Windows 10, and i7 3770k processor, a GTX 980 graphics card and 16GB RAM (which is always at under 50% being used).
The one thing I’ve noticed is it is far more likely to happen in world events (since this began I haven’t been able to complete VineWrath, or Tarir as I always crash a few minutes after they start). I don’t know if that is related or just that that is what I tend to be doing most in-game so am more likely to crash there.

I have swapped out from zerk to marauder and it has made open world HoT so much easier, I can afford to make mistakes and survive a hit now! I now understand how to play staff way more as well, so may slowly change things back to zerk but to be honest the dps feels pretty similar, and the extra 3k health makes a huge difference. I’m also using runes of scrapper for extra toughness and 7% damage reduction, but also thinking of changing those back to something more dps oriented, though will wait to see what the raids are like first. Just need to keep experimenting with your build.

Phew, I was worried I had done something wrong or got a dodgy card or something. Thanks for the explanations.

My game keeps crashing, especially during world bosses. I see it says OOM, which I’m told means out of memory, but I don’t understand how/why.
It has been happening since HoT came out, but also last week my GPU died, so I upgraded to a GTX 980 which also arrived on Friday, so I’m assuming that is somehow the culprit? I have updated the drivers for it. Crash report is below but I don’t really understand it, any help would be appreciated.

—> Crash <—
OOM: Heap, bytes=8389088,
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 21620
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 01090000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 54595
When: 2015-10-27T19:04:12Z
Uptime: 0 days 0:56:10
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: KIERAN-PC
IpAddr: 192.168.1.83
Processors: 8 [GenuineIntel:6:10:9]
OSVersion: Windows 6.2 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 8222MB/16345MB 50%
Paged: 22752MB/32729MB 69%
Virtual: 325MB/ 4095MB 7%
Load: 49%
CommitTotal: 9977MB
CommitLimit: 32729MB
CommitPeak: 11500MB
SystemCache: 9165MB
HandleCount: 74542
ProcessCount: 156
ThreadCount: 2330

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 3258MB
WorkingSet: 3064MB
PeakWorkingSet: 3329MB
PageFaults: 55386616

—> Memory Category Usage (Inclusive) <—
[Category] [Size(MB)] [Count]
VRAM 1259.41 30699
Root 1069.31 1669691
Art Assets 491.37 18813
Programmer Data 430.40 459773
VRAM – Prop Tex 391.17 1206
Anim Import Models 238.39 1001
Anim Import Packfile 238.39 1001
VRAM – Gr Postproc 219.38 20
Engine 201.88 285904
VRAM – Character Geo 148.30 397
Game 135.09 111478
Gr 125.41 178952
Character Models 121.49 1739
Uncategorized 107.89 1137009
VRAM – Effect Geo 107.22 525
Map Assets 104.42 12566
Content 96.47 37301
Prop Models 90.39 6701
Prop Packfile 85.02 541
Composite Models 72.40 1234
VRAM – Gr Geometry 64.49 335
Collections 64.48 8697
Dictionary 62.10 1772
VRAM – Composite Tex 58.00 93

—> Memory Category Usage (Exclusive) <—
[Category] [Size(MB)] [Count]
VRAM – Prop Tex 391.17 1206
Anim Import Packfile 238.39 1001
VRAM – Gr Postproc 219.38 20
VRAM – Character Geo 148.30 397
Uncategorized 107.89 1137009
VRAM – Effect Geo 107.22 525
Content 96.47 37301
Prop Packfile 85.02 541
VRAM – Gr Geometry 64.49 335
Dictionary 62.10 1772
VRAM – Composite Tex 58.00 93
Character Packfile 48.91 291
VRAM – UI Textures 46.98 1864
VRAM – DDI Shader 43.85 24345
Gr 40.94 7753
Composite Packfile 37.85 1068
Composite Tex Pool 34.51 72
VRAM – Terrain Tex 32.33 46
VRAM – Gr Shadow 32.00 1
VRAM – DirectX Geo Buffers 30.56 1520
Map Zone 29.29 12013
Text 26.99 3378
Effect Packfile 24.21 282
Gr Umbra 21.85 2666

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 10.0.10240.16384 (64/32-bit compatible)]

—> ClientContextThreadProc Thread 0×5ecc <—

—> Trace <—
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Pc:0146e377 Fr:06bff890 Rt:0146e4bc Arg:06bff8f8 001555a0 0000002a 06bff988
Pc:0146e4bc Fr:06bff8b4 Rt:013c110a Arg:00000000 0000002a 8ebf9844 8ebf9830
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Pc:01435bc8 Fr:06bff98c Rt:01435ebf Arg:06bff9a4 0000002a 05186c10 00000016
Pc:01435ebf Fr:06bff9a8 Rt:0143663b Arg:016d6b64 06bffa34 0786dab8 05187854
Pc:0143663b Fr:06bff9d8 Rt:016d8fcf Arg:3cc3341d 0154caa3 05187810 05187c60
Pc:016d8fcf Fr:06bffa80 Rt:0154aa2e Arg:05187810 00000002 00000002 00000010
Pc:0154aa2e Fr:06bffafc Rt:0154bc32 Arg:4455e859 01d110ea 9cd0938f 00000001
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Pc:0154a201 Fr:06bffb5c Rt:014f09b0 Arg:04ff3e10 9cd09327 014f0a5c 00d66d10
Pc:014f09b0 Fr:06bffb94 Rt:014f0ad8 Arg:014f0a5c 06bffbb4 75683744 00d66d10
Pc:014f0ad8 Fr:06bffba0 Rt:75683744 Arg:00d66d10 75683720 5a8deb4a 06bffbfc
Pc:75683744 Fr:06bffbb4 Rt:770ea064 Arg:00d66d10 06448b4f 00000000 00000000
Pc:770ea064 Fr:06bffbfc Rt:770ea02f Arg:ffffffff 7710d7e1 00000000 00000000
Pc:770ea02f Fr:06bffc0c Rt:00000000 Arg:014f0a5c 00d66d10 00000000 00000000

—> Thread registers <—
eax=06bff3b8 ebx=06bff80c ecx=00000000 edx=06bff80c esi=75689ec0 edi=00000000
eip=0139d7df esp=06bff7e8 ebp=06bff850
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00200246

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ebx-32 06BFF7EC 0203a8c8 0000022c 00000000 06bff8ac
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edx+32 06BFF82C 06bff850 0146df14 00000200 00000000
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esi-16 75689EB0 cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc cccccccc
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esi+32 75689EE0 08358b56 85757208 cc850ff6 33000148
esi+48 75689EF0 fc4d8bc0 e85ecd33 0000b9e8 c25de58b

—> Code <—
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—> Stack <—
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—> Error Logs <—
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—> DirectX Device Info <—
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DeviceId = 0×13c0
Version = 10.18.0013.5850
Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Compat = 0×00100000
VidMem = 4095 MB

While I’m not entirely convinced we need weapon swap, we do definitely need some sort of way to have range while in d/d or other close range set-ups. I too often find myself run into a dynamic event chain which has champions appear at some point, and suddenly I can’t do anything. If I try to attack I am dead constantly as I can’t take many hits, and in these events there is so much going on I can’t see the champion to see when the attack is coming so can’t roll out the way. But as I usually run around d/d I find I’m stuck in close range or not taking part in the event. Or running away until it says I’m no longer in combat so I can go to inventory and swap to staff and run back just in time to watch the champion die and the event is over…

I absolutely love playing elementalist, however you have to be able to play it right. From what I’ve heard it takes more skill to play it properly, which I like to think I do. I just want to say if you do role ele, my advice is remember to pick traits which allow you to swap between attunements easily, as many elementalists seem to overlook this (as I did initially, and since completely changing my play style it has made a huge difference to my effectiveness). Also I love the arcana tree as the 30 trait point skill turns your roll into another attack, and this mixed with an earlier skill in that tree (something about chance for extra vigor on crits, which basically increases roll recharge rate) means that you can just keep dodging and rolling out of danger while still landing dmg.

It is a class all about constant movement and knowing how to flow between dmg, defence and healing and back through again, but once you understand it, it is so rewarding. Even if it is underpowered like some people claim, for me, when I successfully nail some epic combo and dodge stuff it looks so cool and feels so good I couldn’t play anything else.

I have to say I agree with you if you pick certain traits, such as more dmg in a certain attunement, you loose any desire to swap out. I fell into this trap with fire, and found the game incredibly difficult to solo. My opinion is to avoid these traits. Personally I would like some of these traits to be replaced with more helpful things, as these lead people down paths which make elementalists less effective.
What I have recently started doing is d/d with full arcana and auto-cast on the auras from air and water. I then put all traits in giving me boons for stance-dancing and applying auras, which gives me near permanent swiftness as well as long lasting protection, fury and might and health regen, which makes up for lack of natural dmg. This basically makes me need to swap all the time, but also has made my elementalist a lot more powerful, I have gone with struggling 1v1 to being able to take 3 or more at a time (though it took some time to get used to as it is a lot harder play style). Also I agree with above about the arcane trait which gives a chance to increase vigor, as you get so much rolling ability from it, and couple this with the arcane trait that does an attack after a roll and suddenly the best/most different part of this game just became better.

The vid that helped me a lot was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PKPbboLqzM&list=UUYUY9_i44IDNOs_Ja815mlA&index=5&feature=plcp though I have altered the build slightly for my own personal choice (found I wanted to swap attunements even quicker then it was allowing, so took fire down 10 to put into arcane).

All that said I don’t know how this matches up in pvp. Good luck.