Guild Wars 2

No, thats way over the top.

Lets see what you can get out of AC explo with the omnomberry bar which can be bought for 3-4 silver per piece from the tp:

Spider queen
~14-18 silver from the boss (bag and the silver the boss drops itself)
3 tokens
400 karma (600 with karma booster, you can stack those things and use the karma booster to acquire kittenloads of karma together with the karma jugs)

Kholer
~14-18 silver
3 tokens
400 karma
+ chest

Cave Troll
~14-18 silver
3 tokens
400 karma

Champion Stalker Graveling
~7,50 silver

Champion Scavenger Graveling
~7,50 silver

2nd Champion Howler Graveling
~7,50 silver

Last Boss
more than 40 silver
63 tokens
more than 2000 karma

Depending on what way you take and if the Cave Troll spawns you can make way more more than 1g (!) per way, even with the rep bills. The additional tokens don’t look like much but they add up. You have almost a guarentee that you get 9 more tokens per run (sometimes the bag doesn’t drop, instead you get a unique dungeon specific item) which means you get 15% more tokens through the bosses alone. Considering how easy AC explo is, the amount of money you can make here is INSANE. Maybe 30 minutes for more than 1 gold? Yes please. Dont forget that you can sell the stuff you find in chests for some quick cash, too. ~70 copper for blues, ~1,20-1,50 silver for greens and the yellow stuff you can sell on the tp for 15-20 silver or you can salvage them for ectoplasma. If you get extra lucky you can even find exotics in the dungeon chests. Running AC is so profitable it ain’t even funny.

Another bump, another crash (hope it’s not against the rules to bump threads if there is something new to say). This time it happened in AC explo way 3, during the event where you have to protect the ghost essence collectors against gravelings. constant 60 fps, lowest possible settings. Was whacking against one of those burrows when ZAP! – screen went black and I had to reset my PC because the whole system froze.

Bump because drivers crashed again in Lion’s Arch. Lowest possible settings, fps limiter set to 60 and with v-sync disabled. I don’t think I am doing my rig a favor when playing GW².

Another thing that I am reluctant to even start GW² because it crashes considerably often. Not that much that it would be unplayable, but for example going into dungeons or PvP where people might rely on me? Can’t do that without second thoughts because I might crash anywhere which can leave my team in a bad spot. This really is sucking the fun out of GW² for me, slowly yes, but steady.

Tried the driver sweeper, but it didn’t help. Not a bit. Another thing I tried was opening the case and clean everything the best I could. Because, maybe some dust inside the case caused problems. Didn’t to kitten either. Tbh this issue gets worse and worse, today I had 3 crashes alone. One in Lion’s Arch with everything set to the lowest possible setting. FPS limiter and V-sync were activated, had constant 60 fps with no frame drops whatsoever and then BAM, driver crash, please restart. Then one in Gendarran Fields with max settings during a haunted door event, the last one was again in AC explo on lowest settings, right at the beginning where the very first graveling burrow spawns.

I could play the last days without problems if I lowered the settings as much as possible, but it seems like GW2 will be unplayable for me if this continues to get worse. As I see it, it’s either my GPU dying a slow and painful death or GW2 is at fault. Because, like I said, other games run fine – and that’s the reason I believe that this is not a hardware related problem. If this would be a general software or driver related conflict then more games should cause this mess because I do think that most modern games should use the same tech for graphics (shaders, AA, texture filtering yadda yadda) than GW2. Tried everything I’ve read here and nothing helped, sadly. Still very much appreciate the effort, people.

If it is my PSU failing, then why does it only fail in dungeons and story quests i.e. instanced areas? I can run everything on high settings when I am not in a dungeon without problems. Sure, big events like the ones in Orr with 50 players unloading all their AoE skills on 100 mobs drop the fps like there is no tomorrow. But it doesn’t crash. Only in instances where the work the GPU has to do is significantly lower than in big events in open world scenarios. Btw the very first time this happened I didn’t get a freeze, a few seconds after the “no signal input” message from my monitor the GPU started working again and I got the error message that the nvidia drivers crashed. But since then every time this crash happens I get a full lockdown of everything.

I can’t wrap my head around this, seriously. If my PSU couldn’t deliver the power needed, then why does is cause problems when there actually isn’t any heavy load at all? If it would crash in said open world events I would understand. And any other game runs fine. I can even run Battlefield 3 on ultra settings – more or less. I would get 10 fps or so but it wouldn’t crash, I’d just have… low fps. Nothing more.

This just doesn’t make any sense if you ask me. It’s not an overheating issue and it really can’t be my PSU failing because then I would have issues everywhere, not only in one specific game and in that one specific game only in specific areas.

No, I don’t have two conflicting drivers installed. I also ran chkdsk and ccleaner but it didn’t help a bit. Quite the contrary happened, actually. Now I got two crashes in AC explo, one at the spider as usual and one during an encounter with normal trash mobs. Don’t think it has anything to do with what I did, though. But I have to say that I almost expected that running chkdsk and ccleaner wouldn’t help, because this measures are the standard things that are always mentioned when any kind of problem appears. But my problem is a very specific one and I doubt I can solve it with the usual stuff.

I lowered all my setting to low and this time no crashes at all. But my GPU doesn’t overheat and I don’t have FPS-issues at all, so this is only a temporary solution because I can play the game on high settings w/o problems and on low it looks like poo. But since I want the stuff from the dungeon I will just play on low during my time in a dungeon. Makes is hard to enjoy the dungeon, though.

Thanks, ran chkdsk /f and ccleaner. I plan on going into AC explo mode again today, hope this helps.

Hi there, I hope you can help me with a problem I have experiencing every know and then.

My specs are:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (newest available drivers)
Intel i5-2400 @ 3.10 GHz
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Now the problem: In certain instances my GPU crashes (or more likely the drivers, since my GPU still works and doesn’t have any issues in other games or apps). So far the instances that caused a crash were Arah (when you board the hightech airship and the eye of zhaitan + adds spawns), Ascalonian Catacombs (during the fight with the spider queen at the beginning) and one certain story quest where you have to defend the vigil keep against a horde of risen. Specifically the part where you have to shoot with the catapult from the walls of the keep to destroy the risen catapults, as soon as I hit a catapult from the enemy, I would experience a crash.

Keep in mind that the crashes ONLY happen exactly in the same spots, nowhere else. In Arah, only that event would cause the issue, the rest of the dungeon I could play without any kind of problem. Same with the spiderqueen in AC and the storyquest, before and after those events that caused the crash nothing bad happened.

The crash itself is very weird. First, my GPU seems to shut down. I get a blackscreen and only seconds after that my monitor tells me that there is no signal input. Sound still works for a few moments after that, then I would get a nasty soundloop and a complete freeze of my system. A hard reset is the only way to get rid of it, nothing else works. Any ideas?