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I’ve done all of that. Everything is up to date, including the BIOS, and it’s the exact same crash as a completely different motherboard
Well I got my new motherboard in, reformatted, updated everything, installed GW2. Played for 2 hours and then the exact same crash happened in the exact same way. Didn’t create a GW2 .log because it wasn’t GW2 that crashed, it was the whole system, with:
Component: AMD Northbridge
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: HyperTransport Watchdog Timeout Error
Processor ID: 0
In the event viewer. Same god kitten error. Now I’m out of ideas. It’s only GW2 that causes this. It can’t be the CPU because I can run Prime95 and OCCT all day without problems
Those artifacts make me think failing video card. I had a similar issue with a card some years ago. The games all ran perfectly well, but the artifacts were showing up, and getting worse.
My screenshots from when it happened to me:
http://i.imgur.com/JtYYlpG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JfoGNlJ.jpg
Though yours look a bit more random and not so uniform. You could try updating drivers for the video card, if that doesn’t work, swap out the video card to a backup if you have one (After uninstalling your current drivers. Then install the card, then drivers for that card) Or if you don’t have a backup, try (If you have it available) to see if you have the issue using your onboard GPU
I’m on an M4a78LT-M-Le with a Phenom II 955. Ordered as similar of a Motherboard as I could that definitely supports my processor. A M5A78L-M LX PLUS. Both ASUS. Can’t go wrong with ASUS
My only worry now is that it comes out of the box in an earlier BIOS version that won’t support my CPU to post
And it just arrived. Fun times about to be had
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“Just adding my two cents in. Since having my PC, closing in on 3 years now, I haven’t had a single issue out of it with exception to Tomb Raider, and now recently Guild Wars 2…”
In your case, you have some type of hardware failure.
I also have Tomb Raider – which I completed without a single crash, glitch or freeze and I played it for hours at a time.
The same goes for Guild Wars 2. I can play for hours (on rare occasions, 6 to 8+ hours) and GW2 doesn’t crash, freeze or glitch in any way at all for me. Sure, (rarely) I’ll see a bit of skill lag but it tends to occur only briefly, then things are back to normal.
I’m a bit skeptical that it’s a hardware issue since Battlefield 3, 4, Metro, STO, Arma 2 and 3, and many many other games. All of them infact. Run perfectly fine without issue. As of now it’s only GW2 giving me the issue. I do have a new motherboard out for delivery at the moment, though, just to be sure
It could certainly be a software/driver issue as well. What I mean by that, is that a piece of software that is running could be interfering with GW2 (and Tomb Raider). This is why I always recommend disabling every possible start up program when running games (MSI Afterburner, Nvidia updater, Adobe, Quicktime, Itunes, etc.).
I generally think that people would try that first, but I’m probably wrong about that.
Oh believe me. I’ve done everything I could software-wise. I’ve also taken out every part one by one, and tested them out to their limits using stuff like ATI Tool, OCCT, Prime95, Memtest, Furmark, and temperatures are all great. It’s weird that it’s only two games that have ever done it, but after finding out my CPU is a 125w, and my motherboard supports only up to 95w, I don’t know how I’ve gone this long (Almost 3 years), with an unsupported CPU in my motherboard, without a single issue other than with TR and GW2. Though it supports Phenom II’s, it doesn’t support mine
Then again, when GW2 first came out I didn’t have this issue. The event viewer and Bluescreenviewer give little hint. The only thing concrete I have to go on is that the event viewer says the error happened with the Northbridge and it was a Machine Hangtime Exception. So I figure it has to be Motherboard related.
Again, stressing all the parts is fine, it’s just two games ever. Very weird indeed. But Anet Support pointed out the 125wCPU/95WMobo to me with pretty exceptional personalized tech support that turned out not to have anything to do with GW2 at all, so hats off to them
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“Just adding my two cents in. Since having my PC, closing in on 3 years now, I haven’t had a single issue out of it with exception to Tomb Raider, and now recently Guild Wars 2…”
In your case, you have some type of hardware failure.
I also have Tomb Raider – which I completed without a single crash, glitch or freeze and I played it for hours at a time.
The same goes for Guild Wars 2. I can play for hours (on rare occasions, 6 to 8+ hours) and GW2 doesn’t crash, freeze or glitch in any way at all for me. Sure, (rarely) I’ll see a bit of skill lag but it tends to occur only briefly, then things are back to normal.
I’m a bit skeptical that it’s a hardware issue since Battlefield 3, 4, Metro, STO, Arma 2 and 3, and many many other games. All of them infact. Run perfectly fine without issue. As of now it’s only GW2 giving me the issue. I do have a new motherboard out for delivery at the moment, though, just to be sure
If you’re new I’d recommend doing heart quests and story quests. If you want to quickly level an Alt, it’s a bit quicker than a zerg running through and flipping outposts in WvWvW
That losers what buy legendary for real money really exists?
More money for Anet. Nothing bad about that
Are you sure you’re running the latest drivers? The latest Catalyst drivers for the HD 7xxx series is 13.9
Weird effects like that are generally video card/video drivers related, sometimes memory. There was a very similar error happening to a few people, with the same pattern of squares
One solution that was offered was opening your command prompt under admin and typing “bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA 3072” without the quotes, which specifies the amount of memory, in megabytes, for user-mode virtual address space. Works for Vista and up, and only up to 3072Mb. Restart after using this command. To Undo, type in the Cmd Prompt “bcdedit /deletevalue IncreaseUserVa” without quotes, and restart.
Since it’s a brand new PC you should try some other games, or benchmarking software to test it out and see if you get any weird errors in those as well, just to make sure it is GW not getting along with something, and not hardware itself
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I have a similar issue. I’m a bit skeptical on this being the solution for me as everything else works fine, but my processor is a 125w processor, and my motherboard supports up to 95w only. As I said everything else works fine, even Guild Wars 2 when it first came out, but it does no longer. I’ve ordered a new motherboard in the hopes of fixing it. The error in the event viewer is a Northbridge Error and that is the Motherboard
It’s not an overheating issue. The CPU under full load never breaks 55C which is well within the norm, and usually sits between 50-55, and the GPU very rarely breaks 70C
Just adding my two cents in. Since having my PC, closing in on 3 years now, I haven’t had a single issue out of it with exception to Tomb Raider, and now recently Guild Wars 2. Both these games freeze up with the sound sticking for a couple seconds, then the PC reboots. Except it fails to reboot until powering the PC completely off and back on again. I’ve run Memtest, Benchmarks, CPU tests, VRAM tests, updated drivers and rolled back drivers and there was just no issue I could find, and the proof is that NOTHING else causes this issue. I couldn’t replicate it except for in Tomb Raider, which I could do pretty easily
Guild Wars 2 is crashing in the exact same way, now (I haven’t played in a while). I know it used to run just fine, but now it crashes randomly. It crashed today after 3 hours of playing in WvWvW, and late yesterday after about 30 minutes. Nothing in the Event Manager, nothing in Bluescreenview, nada. Just a generic vague error about the PC shutting off unexpectedly
This is on an AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2ghz, 4Gb of RAM, and an HD7850 (With 13.8 and 13.10Beta drivers both tested)
I use Whocrashed and it doesn’t even create a log when it happens
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