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I’ve been having similar problems and have made a number of posts and even created a ticket to no avail. I’ve tried different graphic cards, and increased the memory to the maximum on my 32 bit system (3 Gbytes). I still get the same crashes all of which seem to have to do with memory errors.
Why not fix it so if it trys to allocate memory, and can’t, it does something other than crash (maybe just don’t track so much). Or maybe there is a memory leak. I think it is some kind of coding error and that Arenanet should work up a fix it plan and tell us what it is. Just telling folks to reinstall or repair is just sweeping it under the rug. It doesn’t explain why the crash occurred in the first place.
If Arenanet would just come out and explain what is going on and what they are going to do about it, I would be very patient in waiting for a solution. What we see instead is a focus on new content which is building a tower on a shaky foundation.
If Arenanet does not deal with this crashing problem, the word will get out and sales of the game and blue gems will plumet, and that will be the end of an otherwise fine game.
Crashes on zone changes have been become ever more frequent. The game is almost unplayable. Worse is trying to get in and out of Lion’s arch where it crashes every time.
I think it’s worse since the Fractals addition. A related problem is that Fractals reduces the interest in the rest of the dungeons so it leads to terrible crowding in Lion’s arch.
In any case, I think the developers should stop adding new content including the Winter days and focus on cleaning up and stabilizing what is already there. I would begin with the zone crash problem by putting in some code that will tell us more about the crash then what we currently get. Is it, for example, some kind of hand off issue as you switch servers when you go through a zone? It tends to happen more after I play for a while, could we have a memory leak somewhere? I personally would be glad to help by having a look at the code and will sign and NDA to do it. It is a great game, but sadly in need of urgent work.