Guild Wars 2

Patrandec.7830:

Dear ANet,

I’ve been experiencing some serious crashing over the past few weeks. During play the screen will suddenly flicker and then be replaced by a blue/green/purple screen with vertical lines. There is nothing I can do to control the game when this happens. It would tend to stay like this for about 30 seconds and then it sometimes corrected itself. But 80% of the time it would change to a different colour and then crash – I can’t even CTRL-ALT-DEL most of the time this happens. The one time CTRL-ALT-DEL did work I saw a Guild Wars message saying that my graphics card had crashed.

Well, if nothing else, this just saved me a service call. Thought my video card was fried, but after all the normal investigation, it’s only in GW2, and happens exactly as described here. Just started two nights ago for me, not a problem before then.

So far it’s only when I’m around water or shimmering textures, as far as I can tell. I only started playing around a month ago, wondering if the timing has something to do with it, based on when these threads started for everyone else that started when the game first came out.