Guild Wars 2

Changer the Elder.2948:

It’s not just the asura, the new angle’s horrible with charr as well. While it fixed the issue of taller charr going off-screen, it now gives them a very nasty bobblehead effect. :/

Believe it or not, my head’s not the size of my ribcage >..>

Charr much?

Jozeiax.8465:

screen occasionally flashing

sweetfx & gemfx don’t work anymore (fortunately radeonpro with SMAA, ambient occlusion & AF still works

ReShade+SweetFX

It is certainly fast enough to play GW2.

I have DSL from AT&T and their fastest DSL package is 6 Mbit Download / 0.5 Mbit Upload and it is good enough.

Most games do not take much bandwidth, unless it’s a streaming client which is downloading the game in the background.

I would suggest you run the DirectX runtime if you are getting d3dx9 errors.

Follow this link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

Click download > click no thanks and continue > run/save the dxsetup.exe file from Microsoft’s website and let it run. It will download and update any files as needed. I would then reboot your computer to be safe and then give GW2 another shot.

Thanks for the reply everyone. I have suggested him to do those following things except for submitting a ticket.

He said over his mobile usb dongle that his IP changes all the time. I think he said he has approved and remembered his IP authorizations atleast 6 times now. I will tell him to keep approving and hopefully all his dynamic IP’s can be remembered.

If he continues to have troubles I will get him to submit a ticket. Thank you again guys.

Hello I am posting on behalf of a friend of mine that has recently bought the digital deluxe version of Guild Wars 2.

His problem is that he is from India and has a mobile broadband connection via a USB dongle and every time he tries to login to GW2 his IP changed because I’m assuming his ISP is setup to where he has dynamic IP’s so it is constantly changing on him.

I’m not sure if he can even disable email authentication anymore or not but he said he would like to keep it enabled for security purposes obviously.

Any help or suggestions?

I have the helmet unlocked for some reason. It’s like a dang tease ArenaNet. Makes me want to rage a little because I took some time picking out a whole armor outfit and then it comes down to the shoulders which is a mega buzz kill.

Man that’s too bad. I put together a medium armor set together on my thief via the wardrobe system at my bank and come to find out these shoulder isn’t obtainable anymore really saddens me cause we don’t have a whole lot of good looking armor pieces.

ArenaNet if you see this please consider making them obtainable again.

Sorry for the necro thread but I am dying to know if these shoulders have ever been made obtainable via PvE I have searched and searched to no luck of finding any hope for them to ever be obtainable again.

Whenever you went to install guild wars 2 did a firewall exceptions pop up and ask you to allow it access?

Also let me ask you this. When you went to go pick back up the download you didn’t click on gw2setup.exe again did you? Because the initial gw2setup.exe file is there to get the actual game installed and started and would then ask you where to install GW2 to and will create a Guild Wars 2 icon on your desktop and this is the one you use to play and finish downloading out the rest of your game.

That’s very odd. Do you guys have the free or paid versions of Avast? My Avast is not showing up any kind of threat from the awesomium process.

You guy’s didn’t happen to set the Sensitivity of the active shields to a higher level?

Behellagh.1468:

My feeling is the engine ran great until they added loads of players. By then it was too late to do anything significant.

It is basically a heavily modified engine that GW1 ran and that game was instanced based.

GW2 did appear to run a lot better in it’s early days I do agree.

Game engine running DirectX 9, need I say anymore?

Same here man. I see some people from Season 1 didn’t even get their chests which is pretty bleeping messed up on ArenaNet’s end. All these people and their hard work and probably hard earned cash/in-game gold goes toward these seasons.

I’m from JQ which placed first yet my achievement shows 2nd place and I completed all achievements but 2. I have been on JQ for a very long time ago so transferring isn’t my problem.

Just check out all these people who also got screwed over this season: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/No-Reward-from-WvW-Season-2

See image below.

Server: Jade Quarry

My image shows I got 2nd place but I’m on JQ so this is not true.

http://i.imgur.com/YABrhPn.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6SagCSD.jpg

If your willing we can try to repair the client.

On your desktop right click your GW2 shortcut and go to properties.

*A box will pop up and you will see a box field next to Target:
*Mine looks like this Target: “D:\Game Files\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe”
*So it should look like this in the end “D:\Game Files\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair

Simply add -repair to the end of this target path and click apply then ok and try launching the client. It will begin to repair and will close itself out when it’s finished.

Remember to remove the -repair from the Target field within the shortcut properties afterwords when it’s done.

You can also take an extra step (if repair does not change anything) and delete the Local.dat file. This file contains your graphics/audio settings locally and will reset it to default.

To do so simply hit WinKey+R to bring up the run box.
Then it will bring up a list of folders -> Go into the Guild Wars 2 folder.
Then locate the Local.dat file and just simply delete it.

Relaunch GW2.

And if none of this works and you continue to only get around 30 FPS. I would suggest updating your DirectX runtimes.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

This will provide updates to DirectX 9.0c which is what GW2 uses (WHY ANET???, Why code your game on old outdated technology?)

If this game was only more optimized….reflections are broke as hell btw.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Reflections-setting this is a good thread to read upon that problem.

I cannot chat either. It also says when whispering someone that they are not online.

I think it was related to picking up a guild banner boost. Maybe? I did pick one up.

Under —> Crash <— in your report look at Module: ntdll.dll

I believe this is the culprit so check out this link.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/programs-close-faulting-module-ntdlldll/54aaaec5-2b53-4e9f-b9a7-b7889a1cd4b6

This guy said that Windows Update automatically updated his GPU driver and on his next format around he excluded the GPU update from Windows.

How are you updating your GPU drivers. Through windows update or through nvidia’s main website?

If you are grabbing it directly from nvidia’s website then there may be something wrong with your ntdll.dll and you could try running the sfc /scannow command through an elevated cmd prompt to see if that would clear up the issue but try at your own responsibility, just ask for help if you are willing to give it a go.

So I come here wondering if I can get help exchanging my medium armor that I accidentally bought on my elementalist at a dungeon vendor.

Whenever I clicked it, I could have swore upside down that I was on the light armor set, but come to find out it was a medium armor piece and I am just wondering if I can get any help exchanging it into the equivalent light armor piece.

If this isn’t possible then maybe an option to exchange an armor piece back to the vendor within x amount of time and if you have not equipped it yet. I can think of certain other mmorpg’s that allow you to do this just in-case this accident does happened.

Thanks

Ok my buddy saved up enough Fractal Relics (again) and put another versatile infusion on his ring and it gave him the intended +10 AR now.

Nevertheless this appears to be a bug and should probably be addressed rather than more and more people wasting their fractal relics on a bug.

Ok he infused his ring and then put a Versatile Infusion which gives +5 AR on it and then he put a crafted +5 AR infusion which is made via Artificer and he said the one made by Artifice overwrites his Versatile Infusion and to my knowledge this is how 10 AR is acquired on one piece of gear. Correct me if I am wrong please. Just don’t be snappy about it.

My buddy has a fractal ring and has put a versatile infusion and a crafted +5 AR infusion into and it his AR only reads 5 and this isn’t a wide spread bug so ArenaNet appears to not be helping anyone with because my buddy has submitted a bug report and never had anything fixed

This is preventing people from progressing into fractals and ArenaNet is ignoring these people? I came across threads about this bug and not a single staff post has been made.

Other sources of this bug;
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Agony-resistance-bugged-1
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Agony-Resistance-Bug-1

This is game breaking for people who do Fractals.

Please ArenaNet fix this. You are preventing people playing with their friends and progressing through fractals. Thanks.

Try right clicking the Guild Wars 2 icon (depending upon if it asked you where to install and it created a desktop icon) and click run as administrator and see if this will allow you.

Also make sure Guild Wars 2 Game Client is added to your windows firewall allowed programs list.

You can also try deleting the local.dat file if it has of course created one during the installation procedure.

To do so open up Run via WinKey+R or simply clicking your start button → typing run > hit enter and then copy and paste in the following line

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2

and hit enter, a folder will pop up and you will see local.dat file just delete this file and try to re run GW2.

Uninstalling via device manager will not suffice. I skimmed through your log and the driver version appears to date back to Feb 2013.

You need to go into control panel and uninstall the nvidia drivers there and reboot and download the latest drivers from http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Perform these actions and if it still happens it could be the famous nvidia and new gw2 update that seems to occur every time they release an update.

I know a couple buddies who has nvidia gpu’s and they seems to crash over and over after a new gw2 update, they eventually release a hotfix that fixes things.

Here are some steps for you to take.

1. Shut down computer and clean it the best you can. Take off the little fan shroud on top of your video card and clean out the dust with an old tooth brush as others have stated. Be gentle.

2. Boot up and uninstall your old nvidia drivers from the control panel add/remove programs. Reboot and then delete any nVidia folders you find within program files if there is any present.

3. Go here http://www.geforce.com/drivers and choose the geforce 9 series and then your operating system, with 8GB of RAM I assume you have 64 bit. Example: Windows 7 64-bit. Download and install the latest WHQL driver from nVidia which is currently 331.65 – WHQL. It will probably ask you to reboot after install.

Hope this helps and to further address your high heat problems make sure you clean everything up in your case and under your gpu fan shroud.

Also if you are interested in downclocking your card to it’s stock clocks I would recommend MSI Afterburner this program should work.

Stock clocks can be found here: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-9600-gt/specifications

As for the defaut voltage all I could find on it is this from techpowerup.com “Default vGPU voltage for the GeForce 9600GT is 1.10 V at idle”

if cleaning and drivers don’t find your problems then I would try the msi afterburner and setting clocks to their reference clocks.

If you need to know something do not hesitate to ask.

If your GPU is idle it will read that it’s running at x1 speed due to power saving features.

Launch up your game or run a quick Furmark or you can simply click the blue question mark next to Bus Interface and click start render test, so monitor GPU-Z and see if your Bus Interface reads one of the following

PCI-E 2.0 x16 1.1
PCI-E 2.0 x16 2.0 or maybe it reads 2.1.

It may also read PCI-E 2.0 x4 which means you may have it in the wrong PCI Express slot as Behellagh mentioned.

I checked out your motherboard on ASUS website and your PCI-Express slots are as follows

1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (blue)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode, black)

So make sure you have your GPU sitting in the blue slot.

Same thing is happening to me and since I read your post and you just started playing. It leads me to believe there is something wrong with the Local.dat file.

Today I deleted it because I am kind of OCD and like to start fresh with my cache files every once and awhile and after I done this I cannot launch the game.

When it tries to re-download the Local.dat file it does it very rapidly and it use to do this it would take 3-4 seconds.

Please ANet look into this. Thank you.

Any chance on game performance improvements this patch? I heard someone say optimizations was coming soon. How true it is, I don’t know.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Order-of-Whispers-Medium-Boots

Same thing happened to my armor.

Nothing in the dye panels show red. So this is some bull that Anet needs to fix.

This also occurred on my Charr Warrior with the heritage chest piece.

Dye it OUR way is the way it’s meant to be and not this rubbish.

Thumbs up for Pownguin’s video. My vote is off to his.

I discovered that the Molten weapons from the Cathedral of Flames dungeon armor/weapon vendor that the Molten Harpoon is actually a Spear and the Molten Speargun is actually a Harpoon.

So these are labeled incorrectly and could mislead some people into buying the incorrect weapon they want.

My suggestion is the A10-5800k with dual graphics. It will run you around $200 and get you a nice budget performance computer.

Keep in mind black friday is coming up soon. I would definitely wait on black friday sales before making your purchase just so you can see what all is on sale and you might get an incredible deal.

You are welcome and I’m glad to see you got it resolved.

I figured the -repair option would of caught something like that.

Anyways best of luck to ya with the pumpkins.

I think nvidia has a more recent driver. I would try updating your GPU drivers and see if that does it.

Could you post the full error log in a spoiler for us?

Use this as an example

[ spoiler=Name it] put the error log between these 2 fields [ /spoiler]

take the spaces out of the [ spoiler=name here] and [ /spoiler]

If your willing we can try to repair the client.

On your desktop right click your GW2 shortcut and go to properties.

*A box will pop up and you will see a box field next to Target:
*Mine looks like this Target: “D:\Game Files\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe”
*So it should look like this in the end “D:\Game Files\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair

Simply add -repair to the end of this target path and click apply then ok and try launching the client.

Remember to remove the -repair afterwords when it’s done.

Use at own discretion this might cause a large download and I’m not 100% sure it will work for ya.

Navigate to this location in windows explorer by clicking start and click Documents.

C:\Users\your user name here\Documents\Guild Wars 2
or
C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2 (if your running Windows XP)

*You will find a file called Local.dat.
*Delete this file and try relaunching your client.

It’s possible this will fix your problem. Worth a shot.

This is still occurring and I’ve had more people comment on my video on youtube so this problem is still happening out there.

I also noticed this and decided to record the audio from my GW2 youtube link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcPFIUVH70Q

I’m pretty sure this is the noise that you are talking about it annoys me to death when its raining. It’s extremely noticeable and annoying and kind of distracts you in-game. Also when I have my ear buds in it gets to me even worse and it feels like I’m undergoing some kind of torture haha.

Time to try and explain this bug if that’s what it actually is.

Ok so I will randomly get these loud pops and it echoes throughout the game and it just doesn’t sound like it should be natively coming from GW2. At times it will be a loud pop and at other times it will be hardly audible. It happens underwater or above water. It happens randomly and at any time during gameplay.

I recorded the sound it makes and uploaded to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkavVdhdPeo&feature=plcp

It occurs between 8 and 9 seconds. I took the picture from audacity and put it in the video so you can notice the pop in the audio map or whatever that thing is called.

In the days to come I will try to get some better recordings of this popping sound.

This seems like an appropriate place to post this since it’s related to sound issues, but every so often I will randomly get these loud pops and it echoes throughout the game and it just doesn’t sound like it should be natively coming from GW2.

Time to go hop into the game and I’ll try to update later with the sound it makes.

Ok I recorded the sound it makes and uploaded to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkavVdhdPeo&feature=plcp

It occurs between 8 and 9 seconds. I took the picture from audacity and put it in the video so you can notice the pop in the