Guild Wars 2

I joined Myth about a year back and was just looking for guild on my server to help with WvW. What I found was so much more. I found a family. Myth is easily the friendliest and most helpful guild I’ve been a part of in any of the many MMOs I’ve played over the years. Everyone is always extremely helpful and respectful towards one another and many of the members are experienced veterans of the game. If you’re looking for a guild to call home, there’s no better place to be.

I have nothing bad to say about ANet personally, I’ve been with them since before they were called Arena Net… Back when they were part of Battle.net… I’ve played every Guild Wars game so far, and have thoroughly enjoyed each and every one. I’m only saddened that this issue has come up, as I fear for what it may do to the fan-base for the game.

New build, and same problem… Also, after finally patching last time, I’m having stuttering issues again, which had been gone for a good long while until that patch…

Well… time to punch Comcast in its collective junk…

It’s happening again to me too after a good period without having issues. One thing I’ve noticed though is that it’s only happened when i was kicked out of the game for a new build. Last time there was a new build, I exited client completely and didn’t have issues, but this time I was in a living story instance and was kicked out for the new build only to experience the patch issues i had before. Not sure why manual vs automatic exiting of the client would make a difference, but it seems to have made one for me…

mojowalker.3798:

I guess what confuses me is why the problem is isolated to GW2. Everything else was running perfectly fine — cable, phone, and every other website I went to, no issues.

For the most part that’s true, though in my case, I also have been having issues with my Xbox Live connection lately, even after the whole DDOS hacks were done… Dunno whether it’s the same problem or coincidence but yeah…

Finally patched after about an hour of waiting…

Naracion.6597:

I might be wrong but I think comcast is routing us really badly to anet. I guess i am going to wait and see if this get resolved(and secretly hope anet sees this and complains to comcast) because dealing with comcast customer service blows.

I agree, I don’t blame ANet for this, it’s all on Comcast imo…

TheBlackLeech.9360:

LOL

If by hang out….. you mean start gathering the pitchforks and head toward the nearest comcast center…. sure.

Yeah… so fed up with Comcast right now…

lordquibble.1672:

Yea… I still can’t update with the exact same issue of the updater update timing out. It says it is going to retry the connection but it never does. In fact i can’t even quit the launcher cleanly, i have to end the task.

Yeah same here… I guess it’s not just me then… I too am using Comcast in the Chicago-land area… I’ve been stuck the screen in the attached pic for at least 20m now since the game booted me for the new build… Just when my friends/guild mates are starting to get home too…

Chad Taylor.3487:

Fixes have gone live. Please report back if it affects any of the issues you guys are experiencing.

So far so good for me. I’ll re post if anything changes.

Bump***

Also thanks Chad for the response and heads up. Being the brother of a designer myself, I understand that you must be as frustrated as the players to see your game having issues. I appreciate your honesty and work to fix this issue and hope to be able to return to the game with this coming patch.

caveman.5840:

it is not like this on NA servers is it ? it is just the EU?

Unfortunately it’s the same for NA servers… I’m on Stormbluff Isle and it’s the same for me there…

MFoy.3284:

Doesn’t matter if there are players on screen or not.

We may want to consider that we could be chasing different problems here since “Odd Stuttering” is a bit vague

I agree. As I stated earlier, my FPS counter shows an incorrect FPS compared to what I feel I’m actually experiencing. Also, the drops I’ve seen have likewise been happening regardless of other characters. I’ve attempted doing some story instances to test this and as I had noticed before, even when I’m the only character, NPC or otherwise, that’s being rendered, I still get abrupt drops down to what seems like a near freeze frame, even though the FPS counter is saying a much less significant drop is taking place (average drop of about 15 FPS rather than easily 30 FPS or more). Because this is different from what others have experienced, I second the belief that there are multiple issues happening at a time depending on the person. By reading this thread, for example, I’ve noticed at least 3 different issues. The first is a consistent drop in performance, the next, only when around Player Characters, and the third one being like my own, an abrupt drop that takes place at seemingly random intervals.

Location: USA – Chicago IL
Time and Date of Incident: Since Feat. Pack Release, Problems Worsened after Most Recent Patch
Game World: Stormbluff Isle
Map: Any
Brief description of what you’re seeing : Noticeable FPS drops, often to the point of a near freeze frame. The FPS counter itself jumps all over the place from 30 FPS to 100+ FPS and back down within seconds, even when nothing is happening. In reality, I feel I’m more likely getting a usual FPS of maybe ~40 FPS that often drops abruptly to maybe 2 FPS or worse.
OS, CPU, GPU, RAM:
Windows 7 Home Premium, Intel Core i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz, Geforce GTX 570, 8 GB RAM (7.98 GB usable)
Original FPS: ~76 FPS
Strongest Drops Most Commonly While Casting, Though happen even while simply walking, just not as often.