Guild Wars 2

So, with a poor player, Thief is without doubt the worst. With a skilled player it can be a fairly good class in many situations?

That sounds about fair.

Alright, thank you for the replies. I will have to try Mesmer properly aswell to decide. I like Necro’s aesthetic more, but of course, the fun factor determines. In the original Guild Wars, Mesmer was definitely not the kind of caster I wanted to play, but it seems a bit different in GW2.

I was thinking of rolling a Necro, but I’m not interested in playing a caster unless I can spec for high damage. Is this possible with Necromancer? It doesn’t need to have the AoE damage capabilities of an Ele, of course. As long as the single target damage can compete.

So a downgrade in drivers might actually help?

That’s reassuring, and yet depressing.

If all this is because of poor memory safety in the program, well, gosh darn.

I’ve experienced very bad crashes from since I started playing GW2 properly. The crashes are frequent but irregular – at one point I went an entire night without crashes, and at worst GW2 crashes every hour.

The crashes can be so bad that Windows can’t boot and GW2 can’t even run the repair function. Every time the screen goes black first. I have music playing while I play, and the music keeps going for about three seconds before beginning to loop in approximately 0.1 second loops. Then the computer resets, and on some occasions Windows couldn’t start up at all afterwards – it complains something about the disk from which it’s booting. I didn’t save the error message.

This is very serious stuff, clearly, and I’ll be forced to quit if I can’t find a solution. I quit City of Heroes due to the same issue. Only NCSoft games have had this issue (but not original Guild Wars, just GW2 and City of Heroes). After crashes that even screw up Windows, I must be crazy for even running the game anymore. I’m somewhat addicted, but I’ll rather quit than risk anything.

My computer specs:
ATI Radeon HD 4800 with the latest ATI drivers
Inter Core i7 920
3GB RAM
Samsung HD103UJ ATA 1TB

I’m running Windows 7 with foobar2000 in the background. I’ve tried shutting down pretty much every other program, but the game may still crash rather quickly.

I realise I don’t really have enough memory for gaming on Windows 7, but there aren’t problems indicating lack of memory in the game performance. I thought maybe the game is using the disk as memory, and when the game crashes, it becomes corrupted? But then, shouldn’t the game be running really poorly if it’s using memory on the hard drive? And why does it crash, when games like Age of Conan and Skyrim run just fine.