Guild Wars 2

Occasionally when adding supply to a siege weapon and it finishes, my player will stand up and the building bar showing the progress goes away, but I still cannot move around. In order to walk around again it seems I can either teleport to a waypoint, be knocked away by an enemy or use one of my abilities that moves me a bit. Since I play a Guardian my abilities which allow me to move around again are the great-sword lunge or the hammer lunge.

The glitch seems to most often (if not exclusively) occur when another player is also adding supply to the siege weapon at the same time I am adding supply to it. Furthermore, it seems to occur very frequently when I am about to finish it and another player finishes the siege just before my character does.

The siege weapon finishes, my character stands up, yet I cannot move around. If my memory serves me correctly I can neither turn my character in place. It’s as though my client still thinks I’m stuck in place building the siege weapon.

This might help:

Make sure that Guild Wars 2 is entirely closed, not running.
Start → Search
Type in “Local.dat”
Right click file and select “open file location”
[ The file should be located in “Guild Wars 2” folder likely in My Documents ]
Move the Local.dat file to some where you will remember like your desktop
… OR simply rename the Local.dat file to any thing you want.

Before upgrading your CPU check your FPS now. After the Lost Shores update my FPS plummeted to a range of 6 to 12 FPS regardless of the graphical settings.

My CPU (i7 950 – 4 cores, 8 threads @ 3.07 GHz) was only at an average load of 17% during game play. My RAM (12 GB DDR3) was hardly touched at a little over 4 GB in use. The GPU (GTX 560 Ti – not OC’d) was also hardly worked.

After that patch a few minutes ago, however, I logged back on to find that my FPS on minimum settings was at 114. Changing every thing back to maximum settings with all of the fancy goodness brought my FPS to my normal range of 40 to 45 frames per second.

So before you upgrade your PC, you might check your in-game performance one more time. Your CPU should be more than adequate with an average PassMark score of 4,000. If you’re still experiencing the peculiarly unalterable lag, then open Windows Task Manger and click on the Performance tab. While in-game see if your CPU is being heavily loaded or not.