Guild Wars 2

Mako.3948:

There a quite a few threads already started about video crashing since last game update.

And I looked through them, but none of them seem much help. I’m going to try to set up a manual profile myself, now that it has been suggested, and will get back to you guys once I’ve done that and play tested it.

What boggles me about this is that it’s only this suddenly became a problem.

*Edit: It still takes about 30 seconds for my video card to decide nope.jpg, and fail on me. It’s possible I’ll be dropping by the store later on this week and updating my graphics card, although doing something like this because of one game is kind of pathetic.

Looking around the forum it seems that you’re right and there’s been a huge increase across the board in video related problems since a certain patch. I suppose we can only hope that they find some way to code it so that middle-of-the-road video cards don’t kitten the bed quite as often.

I’ll be checking periodically.

At first I thought this was similar to the posted ‘black screen’ issues, but it’s an issue with the hardware rather than the software.

I am running a GeForce GTX 550 TI. For the last two months I have been playing GW2 with no trouble whatsoever on my desktop computer. Out of the blue, I suddenly can not play GW2 for any more than ten or fifteen minutes at a time on any settings without the video card crashing – turning the settings down helps some, but only adds about five or ten minutes onto the play time before the video card crashes and burns, forcing me to manually restart my computer to get any more video feed out of it.

I play other graphically comparable games fine; it only seems to be GW2 that is giving me this particular issue. I would like to say that I have been having this issue for the past two weeks. All of my NVIDIA settings are factory default, I do not overclock, and I have already cleaned off my card and verified the fan is operating.

Has something changed? Does anyone have a similar problem?

And, how do I fix this?

I hate you so, so much right now.

WTF? Goonswarm? WHERE?

Removed.

Thank you for pointing that out.

I firmly agree with two things; first, the server transfers should be locked down or require gems to accomplish. Second, we need to wash this whole ‘record’ free and start over with a better method of ranking the servers against each other once the huge server jumping issue is done and over with.

Free transfers, where people can bandwagon around to winning servers over and over again without penalty, means that any data you accumulate that relates to server populations, to server skill, or even to basic information such as time zone, completely and utterly useless. It is not killing your game – it is destroying your statistics and creating ridiculous and impossible matchups between servers that on a core level should never even see each other.

Stop it. Stop it right now, and start over, because Try #1 has utterly failed.