Guild Wars 2

Had an odd graphics bug while playing the Prisoners of the Dragon mission. Upon engaging the midboss just after the section where you burn through the jungle tendrils, the colors turned all wrong. The UI remained normal, but the actual terrain and characters were all the wrong colors — it looked almost like a green filter overlaid on a photonegative. Furthermore, as I moved around and turned, occasionally a sharp edge would go across my screen and the colors would change, usually to a purple or back to green. The ground clutter also periodically changed, looking like clusters of sharp planes longer than the actual grass.

Initially I thought it might be some manner of psychedelic effect from the boss, but it clearly wasn’t the case after a minute or two. Following the fight, I tried to get a screenshot, but my game crashed out. (Not sure if that’s related or not — I’ve been getting crashes every hour or so, even with graphics settings minimized.) When I logged back in, the issue did not recur.

Using the Mac client, all graphics settings at their lowest except for detailed characters, which is at Low.

There’s another report on this back on page 4 or so, and there’s an explanation of the details over on the wiki. Apparently it’s been happening off and on since launch. I would presume it’s going to reset at some point, but it’s been days since I started checking on it and there’s still nothing.

Laucian: I had the same problems with crashing in town when I started playing a month or so ago. What fixed it for me was turning graphics settings down significantly — I don’t know which one specifically did it, but it worked. I keep on meaning to go back and tweak things until I can figure out what the maximum settings I can support are, but I’ve been too distracted by actually playing.

I do hope we get some more work done on the Mac client soon — I’ve been enjoying the game a lot, but it would be nicer to be able to tune my graphics up a bit and not have to worry.