Guild Wars 2

De Dominator.9834:

Hmmm so I am guessing no one cares about the mentors then… thats a shame, Tybalt and Sieran in particular where some of the best characters in the game whose deaths where really emotional…

Or has this topic just been brought up before? I tried doing a search for it and couldnt find anything so just assumed it was an original one…

I was actually most Sad for Forgal, though its probably because that voice Actor has an amazing voice, mostly remember him as the grandpa from Ben10 lol

De Dominator.9834:

Hmmm so I am guessing no one cares about the mentors then… thats a shame, Tybalt and Sieran in particular where some of the best characters in the game whose deaths where really emotional…

Or has this topic just been brought up before? I tried doing a search for it and couldnt find anything so just assumed it was an original one…

I was actually most Sad for Forgal, though its probably because that voice Actor has an amazing voice, mostly remember him as the grandpa from Ben10 lol

What I did notice though, is on my condi necro build, I got the skill that makes chill do damage, and sometimes when I apply chill, then someone else applies chill, mine no longer does damage.

I love the custom playlist feature, and what I noticed in the recent patches post HoT is that now there is a playlist for Victory/Victorious (not sure which, I had made both in hopes it would work before but it never did) in which I put the Monster Hunter Tri victory theme in, which plays after finishing story quests and most boss battles.

The other thing I noticed, is that it seems like the BossBattle playlist is now random, when it used to be in the order that you had them in the playlist file. which is both good and bad, as before I had them organized that each world boss had an opening theme, and the rest get more and more dramatic as the battle goes on.

Anyone else notice these changes? and if its true, can someone update the wiki?

Gaile Gray.6029:

In the interests of keeping the conversation focused (and perhaps providing an answer to your question in advance of your having to ask it ) I wanted to let you know we have an FAQ for the 64-bit client. Please post your questions, comments, or feedback in that thread. Thanks!

Yea sorry about derailing about SweetFX, but so far the 64bit client has been working great for me, loading times are shorter, performance is a bit better, and I can see in my resource monitor that in an hour of play it reached 4gb RAM use once without a problem, so I think its working out great so far

CETheLucid.3964:

MrPersons.1560:

Thanks for the help, got GemFX now and checked the box for 64bit client, but how do I load my old preset from sweetFX? they are different file types and it does not give me an option to load a preset, when I click load config it just loads the default one. The one I have been using a long time was called Dragons Reborn [Rise] or something.

I don’t really know what all the options do and I don’t want to screw with anything I am unsure of lol

No problem. GemFX does have an option to load a preset, even the old one (though the new shaders and things you can play with in GemFX are nice, you should look up some GemFX presets sometime).

Open up the GemFX configurator and look at your tabs under GemFX. Go to the very last tab called “FileManagement”.

In this tab you’ll see three configurators. SweetFX File Manager, Texture File Manager, and Preset File Manager.

All you need to worry about is the first one.

I don’t know what version of SweetFX you were running before you upgraded, so from the list there tick the one you were using before you upgraded to GemFX and then click the “Import Configuration” button.

Pick the SweetFX config you were using and then after it imports, click the “Save Configuration” button before you close it. It should apply your SweetFX filter again.

Hope that get’s your sorted.

Yup thank you very much, I tried using the import before I posted, but I didn’t know you had to rename it to a certain name for it to detect it. Is there a toggle button like SweetFX had? It used to be Scroll lock to switch it off and on in game.

Its not perfect, it made the vibrance WAY too high but I fixed that for the most part, but it looks almost just like it used to with just sweetFX. thanks again for the help

CETheLucid.3964:

MrPersons.1560:

Does anyone know how to get SweetFX to work with the 64bit version? I heard you can just copy the SweetFX files from your regular bin to the bin64 folder, but that didn’t seem to work, and I tried completely reinstalling it but that didn’t seem to work either, but it works fine on the 32bit version.

I may have to keep using the 32bit version until I can get SweetFX to work on the 64bit version

I use RadeonPro with GemFX. RadeonPro worked instantly with the 64-bit client once I redirected everything and have it set to run on admin for the 64-bit helper thing.

For GemFX (and I assume for SweetFX since it’s like an earlier version/branch of GemFX) after your copy over everything to the bin64 folder, you wanna go into the actual GemFX configurator and tick the “64-bit Application” box.

After that, all settings from GemFX were also properly applied. Got my whole setup working with the new 64-bit client, which is nice.

I never had crashing issues, but on the 64-bit client I have gained like ~5FPS with my setup and maps seem to load faster for me. Which is really nice.

I’m guessing since it’s a 64-bit app and it can reach into more of the RAM that I have on the PC?

I’m very glad for the new client.

Thanks for the help, got GemFX now and checked the box for 64bit client, but how do I load my old preset from sweetFX? they are different file types and it does not give me an option to load a preset, when I click load config it just loads the default one. The one I have been using a long time was called Dragons Reborn [Rise] or something.

I don’t really know what all the options do and I don’t want to screw with anything I am unsure of lol

Does anyone know how to get SweetFX to work with the 64bit version? I heard you can just copy the SweetFX files from your regular bin to the bin64 folder, but that didn’t seem to work, and I tried completely reinstalling it but that didn’t seem to work either, but it works fine on the 32bit version.

I may have to keep using the 32bit version until I can get SweetFX to work on the 64bit version

Strange, no idea why people keep saying that the 2gb limit is the culprit, and that I have not experienced any crashes yet. Maybe I am just lucky.

Anyway, figured I would throw the idea out to see if it helped.

Exactly, that would help with the problem with crashes, people seem to point fingers at GW2 being 32bit and only using 2gb RAM that causes the crashes. The application I linked allows GW2 to use 4GB if you have a 64bit OS, it Doubles the amount of available RAM use, which should solve the problem. Probably why I have never crashed in it.

How so? Its a 32bit program, not 64bit

Anyone else gotten to try this yet? It could alleviate the crashing problem at least until Anet gets around to fixing it

I have this game called sins of a solar empire that is also 32bit and crashes when mods with too much content or too high res textures for each ship crashes the game when it gets to the 32bit RAM limit, however, there is a very simple .exe that comes with every mod nowadays that increases the RAM available by 1gb which basically solved the problem with sins. The forum the program originated from said that it can be applied to ANY 32bit program, which may be why I have never crashed in GW2 ever. I had applied it before I even started playing the game 2 years ago, and have had no crashes since, even after HoT.

If you want to try it or read more about it, the thread with the program is
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/

all you have to do is point it to the GW2 .exe file and check the LAA box on the program and boom, it gives it an extra 1GB of RAM usage (as far as I understand). if you want to remove it again, just open the program again, go back to the GW2.exe and uncheck the box, and hit apply again and it removes it.

I have been playing with it active for nearly 900 hours so there is no risk of the game thinking you are hacking or anything. Also there are no viruses on the page or in the program. As I said, basically every Sins mod uses it, so I doubt they want to give a virus to their players lol

If someone would try it and post it back here to see if it helps that would be great. As I said I personally have never had a crash in this, but my experience may not be the same as everyone’s.

I like to do large events like worldbosses and silverwastes but I hate my entire screen being taken up by all the names above people’s heads.

I know there is an option to turn it off, and I have, but it would be nice to be able to see guild members names only.

I usually leave the option to disable names on all the time, and I am in a pretty large widespread guild so there are people around that I don’t notice because I have names disabled.

Anyway, short version, it would be nice to have an option to disable all NON-Guild member names in the world. That way I know who are just randoms and who are guildies.

So, for some ill-minded reason, when I saw that I could buy the Xpack now through the game, I did. But then I realized that I have the boxed version of the base GW2 game on my shelf and I would like a HOT box (and probably all other xpacs) to go along with it.

Is there a way to refund the in-game purchase of HOT so I can buy a boxed one from my local store? If not, its cool, just thought I would ask.

I do Teq all the time, usually 4 times a week if not every day. I maybe got 3 exotics and his mini out of him after doing it for about 8-12 months. My friend just got to 80, I helped him do teq once, and he got an Ascended chest.

This is only a small request, but since i enjoy using the custom playlist feature very much, I would like to ask if when you are putting the finishing touches on the new Lion’s Arch for the next update, if you would make it use the city playlist. In my past experience, it only plays the ambient music. Lion’s Arch is a city, no?

Thanks for reading.

They cannot appease everyone with their schedule. It will leave out someone just like you no matter what time they schedule it for. Its better to just say “oh well” and leave it at that.

strange how when you hover your mouse on the item/dye in the TP it still says Dye/Skin unlocked on it if it can’t see your account info

Sarisa.4731:

When I was messing with sound settings to try to silence a toxic hybrid, I was sitting on turret 5 at Teq 5 minutes before spawn, and the mini was at north boats. That is a bloody long way away for that noise to carry.

A bit off topic, but does anyone know why the music gets really quiet when you get near Teq or the spot he stands in? Its kinda annoying to me

What would be a really nice filter would be an option to when you search for items to turn on a filter that hides all items you have the skin already for, or the dye already unlocked.

Every once and a while, I go through the TP looking for cheap dyes and weapons/armor that I don’t have the skin for, but I end up having to search through a LOT of pages to find the ones I don’t have already, especially with the skins because there are so many variants of the same armor skin with different stats.

It would just be helpful to have a “Hide Unlocked Skins/Dyes” options in the filter.

I can’t hardly play other MMOs now after I have played GW2 for so long. I never really got too into other MMOs, played a bit of SWTOR when it came out Played EVE for a few years (but that is not like most MMOs), played ESO when it was in beta, and I dabbled in some others (no I have never played WoW) but when I got Guild Wars 2, I sunk 500 hours in it within a year, which for me is a lot of time.

When Neverwinter came to consoles, my console player brother convinced me to try the PC version, and I found myself hating it because I played Guild Wars so much and loved it. The combat seemed slow (for a game that actually advertises fast paced combat) the story seemed meh, the quest givers were just giant paragraphs, the armor designs were eh, and I just didn’t like it.

Until a game that is exactly like Guild Wars 2 comes out and does everything it does better, I can’t see myself playing another MMO honestly. Especially because this has no sub fee

NTDK.4897:

SweetFX is still working. You can put the 3 files back into bin folder.

Only the UI got bugged. If you hover your mouse to where the Log In and Play buttons are, you can see the cursor change, you can click them to get in game like normal.

And if you set it as auto-play, you will get into game just fine.

I tried putting the bin folder back in after it got done updating and I had launched it once, and after I put it in, it got stuck again
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I tried it again, and it worked this time, thanks!

but they should still fix it so it does not appear broken

I also noticed that for me at least, the loading screens do not take up the entire screen like they used to

Got stuck on Initializing until I took out SweetFX, not happy
I have lost FPS, about 20, on the same settings in the same areas I am usually in
The Loading screens do not take up the entire screenspace anymore
However, I like how you took out the requirement for WvW to get map completion, thank you.

But please, can you get sweetFX to work again, and fix what made my FPS drop so much?

yes, all those would be awesome, I was just wondering why they didn’t have a victory one from the start if it clearly plays victory music when you beat a world boss and it also has the option to make a playlist for defeat lol

Hello, I am a big fan of the custom playlists that GW2 can use to play music you set it to depending on the circumstances in the game. What I like to do, is fill the Battle and BossBattle playlists with monster hunter music which makes the World Boss fights epic. The thing I find strange is that there is no playlist option on the wiki for victory. I know Guild Wars plays some sort of victory track when you kill a world boss, why can we not use a custom playlist to change it? We can for defeated, why not victory?

I have tried making playlists named Victory and Victorious and putting them in the correct folder, but those do not work, which I imagine is why they are not on the wiki.

Does anyone know a way around this? Is someone at Anet nice enough to offer an answer to why they decided to leave it out, or if they will patch it in eventually? (obviously its not a high priority though)

thanks

I tell it to register to my email address, but it says to check my email for the confirmation, but it never comes. Yes I checked my spam folder. Tried it several times with no success ;_;

it says on the page somewhere that they will announce more details later, maybe that means they may add new races closer to release? Wouldn’t get my hopes up, but I really wanted tengu or kodan to be playable race too

Oh well, everything else seems awesome

In the part where you are just walking around looking for books and stuff, it is playing the combat music constantly, but when you are actually killing the echoes, it was playing the idle tracks.

It is very annoying to have upbeat combat tracks during a quiet lore intensive part, but quiet peaceful music playing during combat, and I only notice it in the Priory LS segments.

everything points to it being an expansion though, the cinematic feels like it could be used as a trailer, it was a high point in the story, and its trademarked. why trademark just another season? why give it its own name?

It had much more lore and background stuff, but the first one had much more epic moments Imo, killing scarlet, the marionette battle, those were awesome.

I highly doubt it, as they have been calling these past few seasons specifically “season 1” and “Season 2” , why would they make season 3 “Heart of thorns”? And that ending cut-scene looked a lot like a promotional trailer.

Before Christmas when in the patch notes or ads for LS2 were going around, it aid that the ending of LS season 2 there would be a huge announcement. I posted in a few threads something to the gist of “Maybe at the end they will announce an expansion?” and most people disagreed. Looks like I was correct in the end! Hype Train on the rails!

if it includes new races to play as, I was hoping it would be kodan, but I highly doubt it will be in this one, as kodan would not fit in very well to the desert/modremoth areas. Maybe when we finally take out Jormag. Still hope they add new classes, or at least introduce new weapons, or let some classes use new weapon types.

Made my COF armor spew Blue flame and my AC greatsword be orange instead of blue. Looked awesome.

I hate squirrels, they dig up my potted plants on my raised deck (house is situated in the side of a hill in a way, so first floor front door is ground level, and the back deck on the first floor is about 10-15ft up near the trees) they dig them up ALL THE TIME and store their nuts in them for winter.

We used to put (suet I think its called) squares of fat with seed in them, like birdseed in squares, and now they wont leave the deck and keep killing all the plants >:(

the base playlist is still a little messed up too, the grove and Rata Sum both play the Ambient playlist, not the City playlist like Hoelbrak and such

Death.7941:

Mhm isnt it impossible? If you already have that skin unlocked, you should have salvaged it after the wardrobe update. I think its more like you got the skin from pvp locker :/ otherwise, you will never have it show up in your wardrobe. I salvaged plenty of exos contain BL skins before the update and they’re all long gone Q_Q

Oh, maybe it was from a PVP gear box or something. I thought I remember seeing the actual thing in my inventory at one point, and I started in September last year before the NPE, but I only remember getting like 3 PVP reward boxes. Why would they put a precursor skin in a PVP box?

The thing I can think about to fix the two Back items would be having one going from one shoulder to one leg, and then have the other 2H weapon go from the other shoulder to the other leg, opposite the other. Would look pretty BA imo.

Doubt they will do it though, we still can’t even see our weapons or backpieces in the character select.

I have a sad tale….I found “The Hunter” when I was very new and I wasn’t level 80 yet so…..I salvaged it. I remember seeing it, and I forgot I did it until the wardrobe update and it was in the rifle skins section and I then had a mini flashback of doing it. I hate my past self.

Its a good skin though…. ;_;

I have a desktop that is 1920×1080 resolution, and a laptop I use sometimes that is 1366×768 and when I use my laptop, I turn on the player names so I can tell how many people are around me, as I cannot handle having everyone on screen, and the minimap is scaled down to fit my resolution. However, when I switch to my Desktop, I usually turn off Names, as I can see everyone on screen, and I scale my minimap up to be bigger, as my resolution and monitor are much bigger. The problem is when I use my laptop, and then use my desktop later, the minimap is scaled to fit my laptop, and the show names is on, and I have to rescale the minimap, and uncheck the box. All the other settings are correct though.

I know major firstworld problem and its not that big of a deal, but I was just pointing it out.

So has this been fixed yet? Got a friend into the game that just got to fort trinity (probably past that now) and I had to explain to him about the greatest fear plotline and what happened and why it was cool. Did they add it back in yet? And is it high priority yet? Its what is keeping me from going back and doing past claw island on alts.

anyone else with custom playlists have this issue?

I did it on my first try with my warrior, only got downed once or twice, wasn’t really hard to figure out, just took a while.

When will people realize that they cant make everyone happy at the time they release a patch? The time that is convenient for you may not be for others, and complaints will still arise.

And it must be something on your end, I get 1mb/s on average too, and mine was done within 10-15 min

Didn’t know whether to put this in the living world section or the bug section, but whenever I went to the priory basement, it would play my battle playlist, which is full of monster hunter music. It didn’t fit the atmosphere at all. Now that I think about it, it played the combat playlist during the cutscene when Belinda infused herself into the sword. Again, didn’t fit the setting at all. and why would it even choose to play the battle music over even the ambient playlist? I didn’t even get to hear the new Crystal Oasis theme, or if I did I don’t remember it.

I hope this gets fixed in future LS installments, this one was very good.

I must be special, I got 5 of the level up tome things from it, used it to get my ranger from 75 to 80.

I dunno, when I watched it, her eyes looked rather huge to me, and when her eyebrows tilted to look worried, it just looked rather weird to me, but it could just be me.

Sublimatio.6981:

Rozbuska.5263:

That remastered “Crystal Oasis” song from gw1 was my most favorite music. I literaly start crying when I heard that there:-)

You’re not the only one ;_;

when did it play? Honestly I have never played GW1, but for some reason it kept playing the custom battle playlist I have over the new music, kinda didn’t fit browsing the library to monster hunter music.

Hope this will be fixed with new LS segments, other than that it was great.

ok, I will save them, got like 2k to sell, hope it will be a huge profit