Guild Wars 2

SlippyCheeze.5483:

atheria.2837:

Eltruism.6581:

It seems this is a widespread issue.

I am looking for a fix.

I play, then randomly, it seems, the screen goes black. As it goes black, I get a chirp/completion sound. The GW cursor stays, the music seems to stay but it remains black.

I have a i7-4770k, and updated drivers with an gtx 970.

I can play for an hour or somethimes only a few minutes then it goes black.

I have to ALT-F4 and restart.
I’ve read about somethign about DDOS protection on routers, or some stuff like that.

Anyone have a bypass/fix?

Some say run in windowed mode via command line commands. Is this mode full-screen windowed or non full screen windowed?

Any help is appreciated.

It is breaking my immersion and fun.

If all of your drivers are up to date.

If all of your connections are solid to any other website, application or game.

If your ISP isn’t having issues.

It’s not you. It’s not.

Unfortunately, your mental model of how the Internet works isn’t quite accurate, and it’s led you down a perfectly logical path to an incorrect conclusion.

Think of it more like the roads in a city or something: there are lots of paths, some smaller, some larger, and you can get to different destinations without covering the same paths.

So, if your ISP is working fine, ANet servers are working fine, but something on the path between the two happens to be busted up … problems with GW2. If that isn’t on the path to, say, google, or netflix, or some other game, it doesn’t mean the problem doesn’t exist, you just took a different set of roads to a different destination and bypassed the issue.

https://www.pingplotter.com/fix-your-network is a good guide to tracking down where on the path between your computer and anet the issue falls; if it is with the anet servers, then screenshots showing it will be compelling proof in a support ticket that anet need to take action.

Although I do understand this “pathing” , I still had to read it to convince me that a VPN may work.

Thanks, I’ll try that.

VPN’s are so cheap now o_O

It seems this is a widespread issue.

I am looking for a fix.

I play, then randomly, it seems, the screen goes black. As it goes black, I get a chirp/completion sound. The GW cursor stays, the music seems to stay but it remains black.

I have a i7-4770k, and updated drivers with an gtx 970.

I can play for an hour or somethimes only a few minutes then it goes black.

I have to ALT-F4 and restart.
I’ve read about somethign about DDOS protection on routers, or some stuff like that.

Anyone have a bypass/fix?

Some say run in windowed mode via command line commands. Is this mode full-screen windowed or non full screen windowed?

Any help is appreciated.

It is breaking my immersion and fun.