Guild Wars 2

Ok I had the same problem after coming back to GW after a long absence. I tired everything on this page apart from rolling back my graphics driver. I run Win8 on a Toshiba laptop with 8g RAM, i7 2.4ghz and a NVidia GeForce 740M card with the latest drivers. Nothing worked.

I eventually right clicked on the shortcut on my desktop, selected “Run with graphics processor” and then selected “Change default graphics processor”

This then opened up the NVidia Control Panel at the “Mamage 3D Settings page” with the “Program Settings” tab selected.

In the “Select program to customize” drop down box I selected “Guild Wars 2 (gw2.exe)”.

In the “Select the preferred graphics processor for this program” drop down box I originally selected the “Integrated graphics” option. I then clicked on apply.
I was able then to log into the game and run around. I didn’t try anything else but logged out. I then did the same thing all over again but selected “High-performance NVidia processor” applied the change and once again I was able to log in and run around.

The original setting for the processor was "Use global setting (Auto select NVidia GPU) with a little GeoForce experience icon at the front. I tried this setting again and the problem reappeared and for now I can only run with the Integrated processor. I guess I should have left well enough alone but I will try some of the options above again and then reselect my NVidia card and see how I go. Still the integrated card seems fine for the little I have done since being able to get in.

I am no expert so if you can’t do what I did or have a different video card I am extremely unlikely to be able to help. I assume that most cards have the option to select the graphics processor but if yours doesn’t I feel your pain but will be of no help to you – sorry.

I hope this helps some of you out there. Oh I should say that on the right click menu for the GW2 shortcut I also selected “Run as administrator” so now the icon has a little shield type thing on it.