Guild Wars 2

Alesthes.4287:

Pri.3798:

I was able to fix my problem by downclocking my GTX 780’s – It would appear that when my GTX 780’s entered their “GPU Boost” mode (increases their clock speed from 1.0GHz to 1.1GHz) they became unstable in GW2 causing the game to freeze up while the NVIDIA driver stopped working and recovered.

I was able to replicate this after playing for a few seconds to a few minutes every single time while the Boost Clock was active. When I disabled it, I had no crashing at all and was able to play for hours without a single hiccup.

I know this may not (and probably wont) solve many of your problems but it solved mine. My GPU’s were stable in every other single game I played with Boost active but in GW2 it would appear that it is not in-fact stable.

I’m using EVGA cards which come pre-overclocked and it would appear their pre-overclocked settings are just not quite stable enough.

Hope this helps someone.

Your explanation makes sense and I REALLY hope your solution applies to many others who are affected by this.
Now, since I am in a similar situation and I have the same problem, my simple question is: how did you do it? I cannot find a clear option for that in nVidia control panel so I guess you used third party software to manage the video card settings…

I am sure this is a quite noobish question, but nonetheless I guess I am not the only one who would take benefit for a clearer explanation.

Many thanks in advance…

Hello Alesthes, sorry for the late reply I only just checked the forums just now.

I used a program called EVGA Precision X available from EVGA’s website: http://www.evga.com/precision/ The program is free but you’ll need to signup to their website for the download link to function.

When you first start the program you will see two sliders near the centre called “GPU CLOCK OFFSET” and “MEM CLOCK OFFSET” – Simply slide these all the way to the left. This will make them say something like -30 MHz or whichever amount your GPU Boost is.

Once you’ve done this, make sure you tick the “Start Up” label on the left which will make sure these settings are applied when Windows starts up and of course hit Apply in the bottom right to make the settings affective.

I just also wanted to note, I’ve played about 8 hours of Guild Wars since my post here three days ago and not had a single crash in that time so I think for me the GPU Boost was unstable on my GTX 780’s and disabling it has completely solved my problem.

I’ve never once experienced lag while playing since the day the game released. It is probably your own internet service provider at fault and not ANET.

I would recommend you to perform some speedtests at speedtest.net but don’t only test your speed locally see what your speed is like to other countries as your ISP may not have good peering to where ANET’s servers are situated.

I was able to fix my problem by downclocking my GTX 780’s – It would appear that when my GTX 780’s entered their “GPU Boost” mode (increases their clock speed from 1.0GHz to 1.1GHz) they became unstable in GW2 causing the game to freeze up while the NVIDIA driver stopped working and recovered.

I was able to replicate this after playing for a few seconds to a few minutes every single time while the Boost Clock was active. When I disabled it, I had no crashing at all and was able to play for hours without a single hiccup.

I know this may not (and probably wont) solve many of your problems but it solved mine. My GPU’s were stable in every other single game I played with Boost active but in GW2 it would appear that it is not in-fact stable.

I’m using EVGA cards which come pre-overclocked and it would appear their pre-overclocked settings are just not quite stable enough.

Hope this helps someone.

Sorry to reply in your thread but I am having the exact same problem since the recent patch. I’m using GTX 780’s in SLI on Windows 8.1 – Before the patch everything worked fine, now the game crashes after 5-10 minutes of game play. I get the NVIDIA Dll stopped working problem and the game crashes etc