Guild Wars 2

I downgraded my NVidia Graphics driver to 17.4.4 and now the problem seems to be solved. I have a AMD Radeon R7 200 Series Graphics Card.

I think I have the same problem that you described. Just started playing again after I didn’t play for a couple of months. Back then everything worked fine, now this.

This happens at least one time in 15 mins or so and makes the game “literally unplayable”. No, seriously, it’s no fun like that.

Does your Guild Wars run from a SSD? (Mine does)

You can also use a mesmer blink to get in the dome and continue the story.

Gasparik, can you explain in more detail what works and where exactly you get which behaviour.

Maybe you can try to run msconfig and disable ALL Startup programs; then restart and retry windowed mode.
Maybe you have something installed that has the same effect like Skype or FacebookUpdate.

Hey swagmeister, you edited your post. Well now we explained it both

Copy your shortcut to GW2 an name it GW2windowed or so. Then right click it, Click Property and in the Target field add -windowed. The target should look like this

“C:\GW2\Gw2.exe” -windowed

Depending on where your Gw2.exe is located.
Now start this shortcut. GW2 will go to windowed mode, after you logged in and started the game. Now you can change the window resolution in the options to Windowed Fullscreen. After that you should be able to start GW2 with your normal shortcut. It should go back to Windowed Fullscreen by default, now.

If one of the steps does not work, I’m really sorry and hope you find another solution that works for you.

Of course disabling startup programs that you don’t need is always a good idea.

First off, thanks for investigating.
Are you sure that was all you were doing? Because, I don’t have Skype installed nor is FacebookUpdate in my startup programs.

Can you reproduce the bug, if you re-enable these two programs?

I’m essentially using a fresh XP install. Only GW2, mumble and TS3 are installed on my machine, so I doubt that Skype and FacebookWhatever are the reason for this bug.

In the meantime, start GW2 in windowed mode, then change the resolution to Windowed Fullscreen. This is a workaround for now.

I found that I can start GW2 in windowed mode one time, then switch to windowed fullscreen. After that I can start everything normal, except I’m playing in windowed fullscreen, which does not bother me.

You can, though, change from windowed fullscreen to real fullscreen without getting stuck. But on the next map reload you’re stuck again.

Same here, also using WinXP 32bit. On the other hand some other thread suggested, that other OS have similar issues.

Windowed mode sucks; works though :/