Guild Wars 2

nacario.9417:

nacario.9417:

During play sessions i get a few times huge fps spikes/lag/stutter that lasts for max 10 secs. If i am listening to anything in the background like utube it also stutters the sound while this lasts. This can happen at anytime, tho mostlikely in graphical intensive encounters, usually once per pvp match which results in me dying.

Is there a way to troubleshoot this? Gfx to alter in settings? It all happened after i started using the 64bit client, and ive always ran all gfx settings on max prior just fine.

Win 10, i7 3770k, SSD, gfx 680, msi 1155, 16 gb ram

If i were to go bk to 32bit client i would start crashing again, compared to the short unplayable stutter now.

Bump. Anyone else experiencing this, tips? They still going strong

Both me and my girlfriend are experiencing these ‘freezes’ as well. They usually only last a second or three tops.
My setup: W10 64 bit pro 4670K AMD 7950, SSD, 8GB ram
Her setup: W10 64 bit pro 3570K GTX 970, SSD, 8GB ram

Looking at other replies it seems it has something to do with the way Gw2 interacts with W10. At any rate it would be cool if it could be fixed

I agree, same goes for engineer though

GW1’s weapon sets were godlike compared to what we get now
Saving Builds or weapon sets should be a given nowadays…

Supreme.3164

By Comparison a condi user, invest in a single trait line and the condition dmg cannot be dodged, blocked or reduced

Don’t forget that you can cleanse conditions

skullmount.1758:

Haven’t had it do it for me. Will have to retry it tonight. Though pretty sure i did the volunteer thing not long after it and the profession wins were added and it didn’t give me the daily like I thought it should have.

It does award you the win if you volunteer in PVP both for the daily as for your win statistics. I do this almost every day.

You can even volunteer while spectating and it will still count as a win if you get swapped to the losing team

Same problem here, cannot unlock some of the ranger hints namely: Open pet panel and use pet controls.

Achi says i’m 82/83.

When will this godkitten bug finally be fixed?

Cold Hearted Person.6154:

I like your idea, even whitout thinking about its pros & cons its still better than the anet trait system. Tho its too bad but anet wont chgange it since its a core element of the allready made game, they wont risk such drastic change at this stage.

This is an mmo, changes will be made.

Look at WoW, they changed their talent system a lot (every expansion after TBC) to get where they are now.

They even introduced the glyphs system and overhauled that completely as well.

At any rate, I’d much prefer the ideas posted in this topic above the boring implementation Anet uses. The current traits remind me of the no-fun but required talents from WoW vanilla/TBC.

Traits should have a bigger impact on playstyles and should be more fun than just some lame CD reduction or straight +dmg.

And like the OP suggests, it is pretty lame that certain traits are

This issue has been here for way too long. Either it isn’t a high priority for them ( which it should be!) or they just don’t know how they want to fix it…

JumpyMonkey.1895:

For people still not getting the achievement, next time you try make sure you always stay low on baubles. Never collect any of the required baubles while maxed out on baubles. Try to stay below 500 baubles, spend them on extra lives or potions. I think there is still a bug related to this, let us know if that works!

I had only 50 baubles with me when I started my run ( ended somewhere around 200-300). So that shouldn’t be the case.

Karalaza.6021:

Broke down and had to use a guide for master of baubles – did twice, followed the guide, checklisted all my baubles – no achieve.
It’s still bugged for some it seems.

Did it with two friends, followed the Dulfy Guide step by step and collected every bauble. None of us got the achievement…

I have followed the guide on Dulfy.net together with two friends. We have gathered 63 baubles but did NOT get the achievement as well. Can we get confirmation on wether this is bugged or not? Seeing as dulfy got her achievement after 63 baubles.

I know of one other person who finished it ten hours ago and also did not get the achievement.

This achievement took up a lot of our time and i’m really disappointed that we didn’t get it even though we got every bauble for sure.

Hi, i’ve found this discussion on reddit and haven’t seen much discussion about it in the suggestions forums which is a shame.

Quote:
With all the new rewards from events/living story and now the announcement of even more stuff coming as rewards for achievements… we need some sort of wardrobe type system more than ever. We’re approaching a year now and no sign of any improvements for this. I know this keeps coming up, but maybe we need to start making some more noise about it so they finally listen?
SvennEthir

I really agree with this, Guildwars 2 has little to no power creep, and is based around the idea of skinning and transmuting your items to increase your looks.
It disturbs me that we haven’t heard anything about somekind of wardrobe system (e.g. pvp locker, rift, WoW transmogrification)
It wouldn’t even require the removal of transmutation stones.

Many of the suggestions in that discussion point towards receiving skins and/or turning items into skins. Those skins would then be stored in a locker/wardrobe.
You can access them on your account, withdraw them and take them with you like any other skins. But to apply them you would need a fine transmutation stone.

The skin itself could still be sitting in your locker ( like the HoM skins) seeing as they’re accountbound. Or maybe you get them back when you apply a new skin ( new skin + transmutation stone => old skin gets swapped out so you can deposit it)

Now you might say, but ‘but now every character could use that skin’ Well you can also do that now on live by transmuting your skin on a white item It’s just a big hassle compared to the possible wardrobe solution. Thus the rarity of an item isn’t being devalued at all.

At any rate there isn’t much of a downside to these suggestions, they would also boost the usage of fine transmutation stones, thus possibly increasing the income generated from the gemstore.

The original discussion can be found here: Wardrobe disussion

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Her sword thrust attack is a frontal cone, so if all your party members are clumped together in front of her then they will all die.

She also only teleports to the furthest party member, make sure to rotate who is furthest out so one person isn’t always getting hammered.

That cone seems to be what i’m talking about I guess, well i’ll be kitten ed, she didn’t use it that often before the hotfixes I guess :P

We use food all the time, and we have groupwide condition removal up almost the whole time so that isn’t killing us. It’s really her direct damage that oneshots 1-3 people all the time.

Second all that, we were going for the achievement tonight, but it really sucks that you only get one attempt.

Did they buff her or what? Our group had no real issues with her on release, but now she seems to oneshot 3 people every 10 seconds.

Also horrik his mortars seem to strike us sometimes even though we aren’t anywhere close to where his projectiles fly.

I like me some tough fights, but I do not like impossible ones. Is there something we might be overseeing?

Also, a better tell on the shadowstep might be welcome, it’s hard to see with all those spell effects flying around.

Seems like they really promote an all out guardian group for this

You do know you can jump on boxes to avoid the fast low lasers right?
The slow big one just has to be outrun

You’re not supposed to be dodging them at all.

Azure.2407:

All the new players of this game will see their forever uncompleted living story achievements. How they feel if they are hardcore players or just want to be an achiever?

I don’t understand why not encourage all the players to chase for all the achievements. Some perfectionists like me will give up all the remaining achievements if they miss just one living story achievement before. If you want to make the hardcore players feel “Pride”, just provide them more difficult achievements, that will be better than time-limited achievements. In my opinion, the orientation of GW2 is not to force players to be online all the time. Casual play style will make the game live longer, am I right?

Please, think about it.

I totally agree with this, why make achievements that aren’t possible to get for new players. It’s completely discouraging for those who like to hunt achievements like me.

I totally endorse this suggestion. It would give pve players another kind of end game ( skin collecting) and I for one would totally collect ’em all

I do hope this becomes a feature!

jetjordan.9403:

lunawisp.2378:

About time they changed the login error message though. That claim that it’s nearly always due to something at our end is wearing thin.

lol, I had the same initial gut response to this. They should just put up a “sorry” message instead, its always on their end. They typically get these ironed out pretty quick though.

Oh my god, I was thinking exactly the same, they should add something about the possible fact that their servers could be down ^^

can’t login either, error : 42:6:3:2158

Ram doesn’t do that much to performance. The real deal is as said before raw cpu power.

I have an AMD card, 7950

nerdymidgetkid.5710:

Thanks! I know nothing about hardware so I’m not sure I’ll even be able to find the Graphics card, but I’ll give it a go. If nothing else I’ll clean out everything else. As for Direct X-will I have to find and uninstall the one I have before getting a new one?

This could help
Here it’s the big red line thingy
Look for where your monitor cable connects to. In this picture it’s the vertical standing card

abomally.2694:

wauwi.9162:

the game runs flawless…during PvE but then you enter a large scaled DE or WvWvW and you’ll see a slideshow.

my complain is, such thing as massive battles, sieges, etc should never be in a game in the first place, if the technology isn’t ready, which obviously is not the case now.

You are wrong.

I used to play Wow on a single-core PC with 1 gig RAM and a Geforce 6800. I did 40 man raids. I got into many South Shore vs. Tarren Mill battles that often had 50+ players of each faction.

Yeah, MY framerate on THAT machine dropped to 30 FPS or so, but the game still ran smooth with no noticeable lag. I had friends with much more powerful PC’s that could maintain 60 FPS under ANY situation.

This game should be capable of the same — especially on the PC specs I’m seeing here.

I can attest to this that you could do alterac valley and more without lag unlike gw2.

DynamiteDan.7694:

The FPS has been terrible since day 1 I have not only had 3-5 fps in world vs world but also in large scale pve events. This game needs to be fixed asap more ppl want performance optimisations than gem store items FIX IT ANET.

Colly.4073:

As someone else posted earlier in the thread, I have noticed an drop in FPS drop since recent patches. Dragon/Boss events lag to a point where it’s only possible to use skill number 1 and even the bosses themselves act out of the ordinary where the normal attack pattern gets disrupted.

Same thing in WvW, I only ever avoided mass zerg fights or battles at SM where my FPS would drop to 10/15fps but that appears to be happening now when encountering enemy fights of just 10 to 15.

Anet REALLY needs to respond to this and tell us exactly where they are at because at this point it is seriously ruining the enjoyment of the game.

Please do differentiate that while having low fps, the reason you are locked to your #1 skill is probably due to skill lag and that problem is server side.

deltaconnected.4058:

Line 2 of your error report…:

—> Crash <—
Out of Memory

Close all your background processes or upgrade. 3GB is on the low side (keep in mind you need a 64bit OS to use >4GB).

It is still well above minimum requirements. Clearly there is somekind of memory leak

The lag at the world bosses is a server side problem as the server cannot handle all the players killing the boss.

We all have it :p (although I still manage to get gold most of the time)

I advice you to use minion skills or summoning skills right when a world boss lands, it’ll help you get a medal.

wauwi.9162:

supersampling on without FPS loss? let’s trade our graphic’s card please. :P
i’m loosing 5-15FPS when turning it on. (area depandant)
and i don’t want to OC my geforce just to say “i’m playing with supersample at 60FPS”.

it’s just a feature to brag about unless you play on a really big screen.
on my 24" 1960×1080 screen, the difference between native and supersample is slightly noticeable and neither looks better or worse. except that my graphic’s card sounds like a racing car when turned on.

but now you’ve made me curious on how it may looks like on the TV in my living room…

I’m losing max 5 fps with supersampling, and I too cannot really decide what looks better. I do turn it on though because I like it when my graphics card is racing towards the finish line BZUUUUUUUUU

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

Soul.6572:

Lexandro.1456:

@OP a lot of the lag is due to other players not the game. A fair number of poeple have really really crappy connections and insist on playing MMO games. It doesnt matter how good the games networking is when 30+ people with sub 1mb connections group up and start firing off effects. Everyone around them is going to suffer as the data gets choked on the sub standard connections.

Wait what? His lag is due to other players? You do know that this game is hosted on a server, and that it does not matter of another players has a kittenty connection, only that player will lag for himself (and we’ll probably see him flying / teleporting sometimes)

Reading your reply I can say with full conviction that you do not know how a server listens and handles requests.

The server just cannot handle the sheer ammount of requests when it comes to dragon fights. There’s the ‘choke’. The more players you have in one place, the more requests the server has to take. This leads to the phenomenom skill lag in this game.

On another note, the optimization of this game isn’t what it should be, the big amount of spell effects really lowers your fps and combined with the skill lag you get an unplayable situation.

the spell effects arnt the main cause of fps drop, that is due to the number of players on screen more then effects.

this game has an issue where the more people visible(or in the same area but not visable) the lower the fps, part is due to culling not working as advertized (was sposta be umbra culling on gpu, but it dosnt work, umbra blame gfx card makers all having shoddy drivers…..rather then fixing the problem on their end)

the server may be dealing with stress but, honestly, you cant say this is all server side, its not, the client is just kitten poor when it comes to optimization for desktop systems.

in bit zergs or de’s watch your gpu usage, if it dosnt drop due to cpu bottleneck then your cards not very strong….

I have seen 4850’s gpu usage drop below 50% in DE’s and WvWvW, not to mention 5770’s 7770’s and 6870’s and 7870’s….(mine will drop into the 20’s at times)

they need to fix the client side cpu usage/threading issues, because even removing casting classes or their spell effects wont fix these issues…..

The skill lag IS server side. Fps has nothing to do with the fact that your healing skill doesn’t do kitten (even when spamming it).

The rest in your post is spot on, culling is indeed not working as it should, but when i was talking about the spell effects I mean they should add an option to turn down other players’s spell effects (like in world of warcraft) or atleast make sure that culling works properly so I don’t see 1545646 meteor showers :p

@madzoran

I’ve also tried removing the dat file + reinstalling the game, for most of us it doesn’t work.

Don’t forget to send the crash reports, otherwise they won’t be able to help us

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

yes iruwen i know about the subsampling, alot of people here think the in game supersampling is a form of AA, when its just higher res textures, and sub sampling is lower res(game looks very retro in subsample mode…LOL)

i had some screenshots of it……same places game maxed vs min….talk about difference in looks with no boost in perf….

That truly is sad indeed that there is almost no performance difference with other settings.

I have also noticed that on sub sampling the game really looks ‘retro’ as you say :p It reminds me of an 800*600 version of gw1 :p

ZaxanRazor.6235:

I’ve just made a thread that people can post tracert info into, rather than just complaining and not actually attempting to help.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/ATTN-ANET-Tracerts-for-EU-issues

While it’s a very good thread, it only handles the DC’s while he also (and many others ) are having game crashes as well.

It would be nice to have somekind of feedback, and I surely hope all my reports are getting through

Lexandro.1456:

@OP a lot of the lag is due to other players not the game. A fair number of poeple have really really crappy connections and insist on playing MMO games. It doesnt matter how good the games networking is when 30+ people with sub 1mb connections group up and start firing off effects. Everyone around them is going to suffer as the data gets choked on the sub standard connections.

Wait what? His lag is due to other players? You do know that this game is hosted on a server, and that it does not matter of another players has a kittenty connection, only that player will lag for himself (and we’ll probably see him flying / teleporting sometimes)

Reading your reply I can say with full conviction that you do not know how a server listens and handles requests.

The server just cannot handle the sheer ammount of requests when it comes to dragon fights. There’s the ‘choke’. The more players you have in one place, the more requests the server has to take. This leads to the phenomenom skill lag in this game.

On another note, the optimization of this game isn’t what it should be, the big amount of spell effects really lowers your fps and combined with the skill lag you get an unplayable situation.

DJRiful.3749:

Connection Lag is unrelated to low FPS. ( We don’t call FPS lag but Shutter or drop FPS ). If you are lagging on skills, there is nothing we can do, blame your ISP, or someone is streaming on your network.

Have you been playing recently? I suggest you go check out the dragon fights, since the latest patch many old users have started playing again, and those fights are having so much server wide lag.

Most of the dragon fights during primetime you can’t even do anything except autoattack.

There is the issue of what we call low fps, but that’s more related to the amount of players on the screen and the cpu bound coding.

But all the skill lag during dragon fights is simply a problem on Anets end because their servers can’t handle that many players in one area.

You surely must have heard of the new dragons’ nicknames: Tequatl the lagger, claw of jorlag, the lagger etc.

Gw2 is pretty cpu bound, so upgrading your cpu would give you a lot more to work with.

What is your current graphical card though?

Psu wise i’m more of a fan of that silver certified one due to it being more efficient.

BigLamb.4768:

It’s really dimple deduction, if its game issue it would happen to everyone. If its not happening to every single person in game then it’s a hardware issue with the machine itself. This is really simple logic in my opinion, I have worked with electronics for over 20 years and specifically laptops and desktops and I have had my share of faulty memory, bad hard drives, etc. I run gw2 6 hours a day probably for the last three months, I have never had a crash during that time. Players say its not your machine, I say I can find a problem and prove it is.

So everyone in the world has the same hardware? It’s clearly an issue on their end as i’m not having it with any other program / game. (I memtested the whole night as well)

For someone who claims to have so much experience with electronics you surely must have thought of the variable hardware everyone has; combined with the different settings for the game.

Master please explain to me; for I am not wise enough to understand : Three other people in my guild alone are having the crashes, they all started after a certain build. Two of those three have almost 20 crashes a day. We all have the same error log, and ran memtest and everything else. This is not on the user’s end.

Get of your high horse and admit that it could be possible that it’s a game related issue.

Check the error logs, it’s definitely not my ram’s fault

Also one of the latest builds had notes which said the ‘crashing should be fixed’ but it isn’t.

Yes this game does not like overlays, you can go into your xfire settings => games => gw2 => disable xfire in-game

That fixed all those crashes related to xfire for me.

If that i5 is also with the integrated gpu? Then you’re probably not going to get decent fps with either of them. I still think the i5’s cpu performance is a lot better than what the a10 will give you though.

So in conclusion i’d save a little bit more money so you can buy something that is a little better. (for example a weaker i5 combined with a dedicated gpu)

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

i think the answer is “only if amd and intel come out with massively better cpu’d then they have now before the expansion”

Wait what? My graphics card is sitting there idly on a dragonfight when supersampling is turned off and only starts to work with that option on.

They could just shift some of the spell effects and other visuals to the graphics card instead of making this game completely cpu bound. I have higher fps in the witcher 2 and crysis 3 than I have in Gw2 and that’s just because of their bad cpu coding.
Mmo’s in general rely quite a lot on cpu power ( to reach a broader audience) but gw2 isn’t even trying that since everything below i5 series can’t even play the game on a decent framerate in certain situations on low graphics.

How hard can it be to code most of the lower settings into the cpu and shift all the rest to the gpu so we can finally put our money to work

Bump as well, had some crashes last night at dragon fights / behemoth.

Helltrager.8136:

Basically what you are saying, is that, the GW2Setup.exe is infallible, so if anyone is having problems with crashes, errors, etc., it must be there own fault.

Indeed some people need to get off their high horses, nothing has changed with my setup, only thing that happened was the patch. Since then I’ve been having crashes like there’s no tomorrow.

Lexandro.1456:

As I said, there are faults with the code but the OPS log indicates its his system and the data on it that are at fault. And as I said with my rig that BARELY scrapes by on minimum requirements it never crashes, and I play for several hours on end at a time.

And yes, lots and lots of people can suddenly have an issue out of the blue. Windows updates, system changes, hell even a bad shutdown can mess with a PCs software.

As you I also run the game fine on my laptop which cannot max out this game at all, but on my high end desktop I get a crash every day

Both computers have the exact same configuration except the hardware, and my crashes only started right after the patch.

I did a repair, and even formatted from windows 8 back to 7 and it did not help a bit

I’m quite tech-savvy and I for one am sure the issue is not on my end.

and as always there is no communication of the devs whatsoever about this problem.

Even if it’d be only something like: w’e’re looking into a solution’ – Then we’d atleast know they’re working on a fix for the frequent crashing.

Almost every fractal group I get has one guy experiencing those crashes.

This is really getting out of hand i’m in COF and two players in my party keep crashing every 20 sec. Arenanet I call you out on this issue to atleast communicate with the playerbase.

Is a Fix being deployed? Have you got any idea what is causing it? Can the players themselves do some tricks to aleviate the crashing?

It has been like this since January patch, but now it’s much worse, there has been no feedback at all about this issue by you guys.

I’m sure a lot of people have this issue?

is this fixed yet? because I still can’t see my bonusses, nor did my HP increase.

Question says it all, is this just an annoying bug that hasn’t been fixed yet or is their some reason why backpieces are not able to be salvaged?

I’d like some clarity on this because I have been stockpiling my backpieces for quite some time now

I’d also like some clarification on this, I haven’t finished my personal story for this very reason!