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I certainly have (had) the money to buy everything I needed. In fact, buying the manifesto would be pocket change to me. But, call me old fashioned. I like playing for my rewards rather than buying them. But I certainly understand your frustration fishball. I’m probably going to give Commissar maybe 1 more week before I give up and buy it.
I bought all the ones that were less than 10 gold on the TP. The rest were all drops. Sam dropped about a 6 weeks ago, and Rhendak’s Signet, Pendant of Arah, All Seeing, and Rotbeard’s treasure were all in the last 2 weeks. A couple of pieces I already had on alts, so they auto-added.
On a positive note, the Dredge Commissar event seems to not get bugged anymore. Thank you for >finally< fixing this, Anet. Now only if he would give up his treasure…
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Welp, All Seeing dropped from Lyssa for me this morning. I’m down to 1 drop to go (Commissar’s Manifesto). My point still stands though. I have several friends trying to complete this collection as well, and they are expressing the same frustrations as me. For now though, I’m off to do my /happydance
1) A way to select a different active instance (IP) of a map you are on, other than taxiing.
2) An item similar to Mawdrey II and Star of Gratitude that eats Dragonite Ore (needed to happen like yesterday)
3) The end of “Temple Defense” events (They should auto-fail)
4) A fix to Ogre Wars so that it stops getting bugged every kitten day
5) A way for gem store-bought utilities to be shared across the account without having to throw them in the bank. (e.g. unlimited picks, axes and sickles, salvage-o-matic, terrace pass, etc.)
Another thing: I’ve resorted to begging people to stop fighting and let the temple fall. Even explaining to them that the rewards are 100x better if they let it fall, they still defend it.
I’ve also heard rumors that TP sleuths have been buying up “All Seeing”s and have been purposely keeping Lyssa defended, so that people can’t fight Lyssa, which in turn drives up the cost of All Seeing
I am sure that neither of these scenarios were envisioned by the developers….
I get it. The “Treasure Hunter” collection is supposed to be hard to complete. But to what extent? Now of course I could buy all the exotic items needed to finish the collection, but that is beside the point I want to make.
To get “All Seeing”, one must kill Lyssa and hope the RNG gods smile greatly upon you (or, do it the lazy way, and shell out 100g on the TP). But getting to kill Lyssa has become a challenge in itself. Why? Temple Defense. Now in the days before Megaservers, this wasn’t an issue. I guest over to another server where it’s up, boom, done. But on Megaservers, I have to wait the 2 hours after Lyssa dies for the event to come up and retake it, and hope to GOD that some idiot doesn’t successfully defend the temple. And if someone does, I get to wait another hour (at least) for the kitten event to come up again, and I get to hope that the freaking temple isn’t successfully defended AGAIN! I get lucky sometimes and find someone on another IP, and I can taxi over to fight her, but barring that, it’s an endless waiting and hoping game.
I am certain the developers of the collection system did not envision it to go this way. I urge them to rethink how this works, and change it. Perhaps make temple defense give you access to the chest? Perhaps make the defense event happen more often? (30 minutes?) Perhaps make the defense event harder each time it spawns?
Again, I realize that the collection is supposed to be difficult to obtain, but get rid of the roadblocks to even ATTEMPT to loot the required items.
Thank you.
But is it still that same BSOD code after the driver clean/reset?
Yes. This was the original error I got. Same error after wiping the hard drive and reloading windows/GW2, same error after using DDU and reinstalling. I’ll guess I’ve had about 25 BSoDs since this started happening with the same error each time, and maybe 10-15 freezes that I can Ctrl-Alt-Del out of before it crashes.
As mentioned in my OP, it says “Video TDR Failure (nvlddmkm.sys)”
This one was a freeze, which I was able to Ctrl-Atl-Del out of, but it varies. Sometimes it freezes, sometimes it BSoDs.
Thank you for your reply, sirsquishy.
I tried DDU and a reinstall of the driver, and I crashed in about 5 seconds after character load.
Over the last month or so, I’ve been experiencing random crashes that are video related. Sometimes I get BSoD that gives me the error message: “Video TDR Failure (nvlddmkm.sys)”. Other times the game just freezes, and I am able to Cntl-Alt-Del out of it, tabbing to close GW2, which gives me a message in the notification window: “Application GW2.exe has been blocked from accessing the graphics hardware”. When the latter happens, I cannot launch GW2 again until I restart.
Sometimes I can play for an hour or more, other times I can only play about 3-5 minutes before I crash. Most crashes happen when a large graphics change happens on screen, such as bringing up the TP, or making a quick camera turn… but I have also crashed standing perfectly still. At first I thought the problem to be temperature related, but after some troubleshooting and monitoring, my GPU isn’t going above 70°C. I’ve done quite a bit of researching and troubleshooting, and in the interest of avoiding suggestions that I’ve already tried, here is a list of what I’ve done so far:
-Updated the graphics driver
-Rolled back graphics driver
-Updated windows
-Cleaned out the inside of my laptop case for dust.
-Reapplied thermal grease to the GPU, (which, incidentally, lowered GPU temp by 10°C)
-Completely wiped hard drive and reinstalled windows 8.1 (with all updates) and GW2
-Flashed BIOS
After all that, I’m still getting the same crashes.
Lappy Specs:
MSI GT70 0ND
VGA: Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M / 2 GB GDDR5
CPU: Intel Core i7-3630QM
RAM: DDRIII 12GB (4GB*3)
HD: 750GB 7200 RPM
OS: Windows 8.1
I’m pretty convinced that the GPU is going to need to be replaced, but I’m hoping to try some troubleshooting that maybe I haven’t researched yet before I drop a couple hundred dollars on a new one. Any help would be appreciated!
Fort Aspenwood open as of 11:53 EDT
Fort Aspenwood actively trying to open it. Could use a few more people.