Guild Wars 2

For all 32bit OS there’s probably a solution:
- run Command Prompt as administrator
- run this command: bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072
- restart your computer and play GW2

This was posted in another thread but it seemed to have got lost with the amount of posts that came after it. Anyway, since the novemeber 17th patch, my games been crashing like crazy. Like most people complaining here. Used to only happen in new HoT maps. Then the patch made it happen in core GW2 aswell. This little fix, that took very little time to do (less than a minute) worked for me. I’m on Vista 32bit.

I was able to play for a few hours, non-stop, without crashing. Managing to get my fractal dailies done… With graphics set to full. Not a single crash. So I’d say this fix is worth trying for those who havn’t yet done so.

This is along the lines of a common post thats going around, regarding the constant crashes. Ranging from 2 mins-30mins of playing (or more).

I was midway through a pvp match in unranked when the game decided it was a ripe time for crashing to desktop. Loaded back in, resumed playing, didn’t think anything of it (besides the annoyance of crashing -.-). After the match, I went to queue again, only.. I couldn’t. 15 min lock out for something I had no control over.

After I was able to play again, managed to do a full matchup without crash (YAY!). Afterwards, I queued up for another game. 30 seconds into queuing…CRASH! Get back in game, tried to queue…. 21min lockout from pvp! :’(

Don’t get me wrong, I love this system, to punish people who do nothing or emoquit in pvp. Its been needed for a looong time. Sadly, its also punishing the people who it shouldn’t be.

I get told; upgrade to x64. If only that was possible. My computers old, but its always been able to play GW2 without a problem. HoT launch, only crash issues in the new HoT maps. The core game remained fairly stable. However, since the november 17th patch, its like the core game now behaves like the HoT maps.

Point is, I shouldn’t need to upgrade, I bought the game and know my computer can play it (i’ve been playing since launch). I’m on vista x32 and unable to afford to upgrade for the forseeable future. So for me, upgrading to x64 is not an option.

Please remove this Dishonor system until the game is stable again. Or implement someway for those who do crash to not be giving a temp pvp ban.

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I used to be ale to play GW2 fin without any problems, maybe the rare crash here and there is there was alot of people on screen such as wvw… But otherwise its been pretty flawless. HoT launch, I experienced crashes on the Maguuma maps that happen anywere from 10 mins to an hour of playing. The core game continiued to work well enough, except a few crashes from time to time through the day. Now since this patch today, its like the core game has now come with the same kinds of crashes I’ve been getting in the HoT areas.

In pvp i’ve been letting the team down with constant crashes. Missing rewards in fractals by crashing on boss fights. Its furstrating. I love GW, have played it since launch and now feel I’m being given the middle finger because I’m unable to use this x64 thing people talk about. I’m a mother of 2, I can’t afford to upgrade my computer. Yes, its old, I’m still stuck on vista. But due to how Gw has played for the last 3 years, I would expect it to continiue working.

I really hope this gets fixed soon.

Don’t bet on it. It’s a problem core to the engine and memory fragmentation. The x64 is not a fix, it’s just letting their memory hog of a program have more memory to hog.

So basically, either put up with the constant crashing every 5-10 mins.. Or uninstal and leave the game until I can get a much better computer? Yay :’(

I used to be ale to play GW2 fin without any problems, maybe the rare crash here and there is there was alot of people on screen such as wvw… But otherwise its been pretty flawless. HoT launch, I experienced crashes on the Maguuma maps that happen anywere from 10 mins to an hour of playing. The core game continiued to work well enough, except a few crashes from time to time through the day. Now since this patch today, its like the core game has now come with the same kinds of crashes I’ve been getting in the HoT areas.

In pvp i’ve been letting the team down with constant crashes. Missing rewards in fractals by crashing on boss fights. Its furstrating. I love GW, have played it since launch and now feel I’m being given the middle finger because I’m unable to use this x64 thing people talk about. I’m a mother of 2, I can’t afford to upgrade my computer. Yes, its old, I’m still stuck on vista. But due to how Gw has played for the last 3 years, I would expect it to continiue working.

I really hope this gets fixed soon.

I’m getting crashes too. I’ll be playing anywhere between 10 mins and 45 mins, then GW crashes. I’ve sent the error reports that pop up after. Had hoped there’d be a fix to this by now. Before HoT the game used to run fine. It did work well yesterday but after the patch that was put in around midnight (UK time) I’ve started to get the crashes again.

First time I loaded in everything was alright. Then while playing in the Brink area, I crashed to desktop. Since then, the launcher takes so long to get past the “initializing” bit. Then sometimes freezes and locks up my entire computer. Leaving me to either wait 5mins or force close to instantly unfreeze everything else on my computer.

On the times I do manage to get in. The game runs fine but then between every 30 seconds to 2 mins, I get constant freezes that last for about 5 seconds. A bit of a pain when figting or trying the new challenges with time limits on them. This happens even while standing around in a rather empty area such as Queensdale.

My computer isn’t the best by any standard, but before HoT I was able to play the game fine without any problems. Today I’ve crashed to desktop at least 6 times in the last 3 hours of trying to play.

Crashed 4 times in the last 15 mins. Rejoining ongoing games only to crash a few mins in.

Happening on Piken Square (EU) aswell. Alot of people in heart of mists complaining they can’t join spvp or wvw. Something about “unavailiable while matches are being updated.” Its been appening for at least the last hour.

I play wvw alot and my main class now is a Condition Necromancer. I’ve recently just got all my ascended accessories and nearly have 1 ascended armour. Some people say tell me change a damage necro or switch gear, but that would become a painfully annoying grind again to reaquire more ascended stuff..If all you do is wvw then ascended is already a painful enough grind.

Last night I was defending wurm gate on bay against a small group. My conditions backed them away and then the ele comes over and holds on the ram. I was unable to scratch the ele at all to get below the 90% threshold. Also when fighting 1vs1 against an ele, the same thing. I couldn’t even use corrupt boon to remove all the buffs it had. In the process unable to remove that regeneration which stops me even more in getting it below the 90% mark..

I know, every class should have a weakness and conditions are pretty strong. But its unfair to make something that becomes immune to one of the two damage types. Make it have a strong defence against something but not completely immune. Imagine peoples reaction if Necros got a similar trait “Gain immunity to direct damage while above 90% health, only able to take condition damage”..Necro’s can send conditions to enemies which would be similar to the Ele’s near perma regen, which makes getting below the 90% mark even more difficult.

I’m not saying Diamond skin should be removed completely, its a good counter and would make some fights more fun. Its just completely one sided, like a tier 5 wvw server going against a t1. You already know who will win. Theres no counter.

My suggestion would be to keep diamond skin a good trait vs conditions still. But instead of 100% reduce condition duriation and damage by 33%, 50% or even 60%. That there makes them strong against bursting condimancers. Yet still gives us a chance to at least fight back, bringing skill back into play and timing abilities just right.

Recent patches have also seen more condition removals on classes, I agree that they was needed. It just seems the last 2 patches have really ade conditions much more worthless. I don’t think condimancers are easy to play, I drarely find myself auto attacking and kiting (only when all skills are on CD). I use utilities, skills and then swap weapons. Only have to auto attack when things are on their long cooldowns.

Its funny when people say Necro’s are overpowered. We have 1 decent stability which comes from plague form. Where, as we know, can’t recieve healing or use any of our normal skills like other classes. Not to mention it has a 180 sec cooldown. Stun breakers that we have also have very long cooldowns aswell compaired to other classes. Hammer warriors just ping pong me around and theres little I can do.

Getting away from fights is already hard enough, ele’s have ride the lightening and other things. mesmers are able to stealth and teleport. We have Death Shroud, which doesn’t give us any ability to create some distance to heal up (which our best heal has a longer cast time than other classes too..). While not being able to create some distance, we can get rooted and stunned while conditions build up.

So to say condition necros are OP is just people saying so because they don’t play one. I’d like to say guardians are OP, but I havn’t played one, so I only know their strengths. Not right for me to judge an OP class because I havn’t played it.

Rant over =P I hope to see Diamond Skin reworked, to make it balanced.

Having the exact same problem too. I’m part of three guilds that have a large number of players in it. All of them are showing just me.

I have a thief and it is my most used class. I’ve always been a fan of stealthy classes, but the cloak and dagger backstab (then heartseeker spam) is just boring to play. So I changed from that and switched to a bleeder and I’m having much more fun with it. The fights can go either way for the most part (although these glass cannon thieves dont have a chance =P).

If you want to beat a thief all you need to do is try survive the initial burst, some classes have ways to deal with this. A glass cannon thief will usualy open up with basilisk venom to freeze you in place, use a stun breaker and dodge roll away so he/she cant get the cloak and dagger off again (making them waste 6 initiative as you dodge the attack).

Their main weakness is conditions! Some may take the trait to slowly remove conditions while in stealth, but these tend to have to sacrifice damage for that, so you should survive better anyway.

Another good tip is to prevent their shadow refuge, sure its nice to AoE their stealth field but it doenst always help. Use AoE knock backs, those mesmer walls are annoying as hell to me, or guardian bubble shields. Even use something like fear to make the thief run out of the field. Some ranger pets have this, warriors and necros have something like this too.

There is some an exploit you can use against stealthers too, its a pain in the kitten when it happens to me =P Channeled abilities still hit a thief if you start it as they stealth. An example of this is the rangers rapid shot, each arrow still goes to the stealthed thief, just turn your character to follow where the shot goes to keep them on track.

Thieves do need a nerf though, these tips many do already and are nothing new. But since I play a thief I have faught against countless people who don’t do these and die only to come here and moan. I think the stealth debuff shoud last for 5 seconds and increase the initiative useage of heartseeker from 3 to 5 or something.

Playing a few hours ago then got booted from game, unable to log in since.

Server: US – Tarnished Coast (EU player though)
Build: 16732
Error code: 42:1020:9001:4103

Can’t login either, sometimes lets me onto character select then it comes up with login errors when I try play.

I’m an EU player on a US server.
Build: 16732
Error Code: 42:1020:9001:4103
Server: US – Tarnished Coast

Hello,
Just wondering if any other Pikens or Gans have had a problem with an AR Necromancer from [Ldf] (silvari race i think) that does between 1k-1300 bleed damage per tick (so 10 bleed stacks = over 10k per second)? A few times today I’ve been killed by this necro in the blink of an eye from all these bleeds (have 18,000 health and condition removal upon stealth). My thief has 1800 condition damage (full condition based gear, exotics) and when might and other variables are going my bleeds tick at max for 150 per stack. So I’m curious if this is either some hak, exploit or if necros can make their bleeds this powerful.