Guild Wars 2

Kibi.3795:

Turning SPI off under the Firewall of my D-Link DIR 601 router completely resolved the black screen issue for me. It also solved my disconnects with error 21/41. This is very strange behavior. But I can play at full settings with the 306.2 drivers, and I have a lot of thanks for the people who discovered this fix!

SPI is Stateful Packet Inspection, a necessary firewall function. Disabling SPI may have fixed your GW issue, but you have now seriously compromised the security of you computer.

The patches may be an issue / significant amount of data, but I would expect that normal play would have very low data usage; far less than video streaming.

Cannot really blame you. There are far too many good games out there to waste your time being a test subject. GW2 has done a great job of eliminating many of the things that frustrate me about MMOs, but with MOP nearing release and SWTOR going F2P I think I am going to put GW2 on the shelf and maybe think about it again in 6 months. Maybe they will get the bugs fixed by then or maybe I just won’t care about GW by then.

One on my computers is experiencing the same thing and I have not been able to determine the cause. I was hoping that someone from support could figure it out since I have the unique situation of having two computers with identical hardware – one with the black screen issue and the other without.

My previous post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/GTX-460-Big-Problem/22176

I am also having black screens and crashing to the point that the game is not playable.

I have two computers with identical hardware, one exception is a Logitech gaming headset on the working computer, and I believe identical drivers. One computer works with zero problems and the other experiences black screens and crashes.

I have attached copies of the 64 and 32-bit DxDiag from both computers. I have run a compare on the files and they are close but not identical. Unfortunately, I cannot determine if any of the differences are significant.

Please help.