Guild Wars 2

i believe you should talk about it over there :
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Feedback-Guild-Wars-2-Mac-64-Bit-Client

i would not like this, except as an optional feature because i use the same keybinds for all my toons and i would hate to have to reconfigure it for every single toon.

i wonder if wine can run on Android ? If not i’d try on a Windows phone. Or maybe the Mac client on an iphone ?

Smartphones are quite powerful nowadays. But when i think about phone games, i think about Tetris or alike puzzles games before GW2.

So…good luck

It’s just random guesses.
Maybe it’s not cpu overheating, but graphic card overheating.
i haven’t used msWindows since many years, but i’m sure that nowadays a buggy graphic driver doesn’t cause a computer reboot.
Maybe there’s something that gw2 does, and that conflicts with another software.
Or maybe that’s not any of these problems…good luck.

For me it’s working fine now.

i am glad to see that i’m not the only having problems with input.
It gives me hope that it will someday get fixed.
It seems i have different problems.
My fireball skill is set to autocast, but it frequently doesn’t autocast.
My loot pickup mouseclick seemed to not work, but i found out it just is the game ignoring it most of times (kinda like some sort of lag input).
All this misbehaviors are recent, so i suppose a patch has introduced this.

What is VenomAT’s computer type, laptop or not laptop ?
What game resolution is used (maybe more than one single monitor) ?
As far as i know, no mmorpg is optimized the same way as Doom, Diablo, Overwatch and Just cause (that just wouldn’t work).
My cpu is only a phenom II X4 970 overclocked to 3700 MHz and it works well almost everywhere (except big world boss battles) at 1680*1050 game resolution.
So an I7 at 4.6 hz…you surely mean at 4.6 GHz probably isn’t the problem here.

Memory leak is an entirely different problem (your client would crash when the memory gets full).
i always had that 100 % cpu usage “feature” with gw2 (not only since 1-2 patches) so i guess something in one of these patches requires more cpu usage than before.

As i could finally get the game to work again today, i also could test this more.
It definitely is a sort of input lag.
If i try it enough times (i bound it to mouse3), it works.
By the way, it also lags in the key bindings configuration window…

Today the game is working again.
i haven’t changed anything since my previous post, i didn’t restart the computer.
i don’t understand what’s going on.

i had that problem recently, it seems to happen when my fps go down.

As the title say, i’m a WINE user. Also, i do not have any msWindows OS…so i won’t be surprised if i don’t get many (or any) response.

It was working fine yesterday.
Today, the best result i can get is some debug messages in the commands window :
“fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation 0×10000 0 0×22fc50 4 stub
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation 0×340000 0 0×22fc30 4 stub
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation 0×340000 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (0×135e580 (nil)): stub
fixme:gameux:GameExplorerImpl_VerifyAccess (0xb52090, L”C:\\Program Files\\Guild Wars 2\\Gw2-64.exe", 0×22f0f0)
fixme:thread:SetThreadStackGuarantee (0×145e550): stub
fixme:msctf:ThreadMgrSource_AdviseSink (0xc4ed00) Unhandled Sink: {ea1ea136-19df-11d7-a6d2-00065b84435c}
fixme:imm:ImmDisableTextFrameService Stub
"
There seems to be something where the game launcher window usually was, since my mouse pointer vanishes at this place.
i tried to move the .dat file away, all i get is a 0 kb replacement with the same name.

My wild guess is the launcher itself fails to start.
Since i have changed nothing to my system since yesterday, maybe the Gw2-64.exe and/or Gw2.exe files somehow corrupted themselves with a failed attempt to update themselves ?

If someone has an idea, please help me as i need my dose of drug (playing gw2).

i can’t run the game today, no matter what i try.
it was working fine yesterday.
and i had just joined a guild…i am sad

Just noticed while rereading my post that important words were eaten.
Gw2 is indeed one of the best optimized mmo, but clearly not the best optimized mmo.

Nice, my first and second graphic card names somehow got melted into kitten. Why ?

On my machine, upgrading from GTX 560 kitten GTX 1060 only allowed me to improve graphic quality.
Performance is the same as before.
So GPU is not useless.
Still, reading that gw is the best optimized mmo out there made me laugh quite hard.
I litterally played a ton of mmo (over a hundred).
Gw2 is indeed one of the best, but clearly not the best.
I never (i mean it, NEVER) experienced lower fps in big fights in realms online (big fights being the only good thing in that other game).

I believe the system to use more resources for viewing vistas is good.

What i’d love to get is an equivalent of what they did in perfect world :
a big button to reduce visual quality on the fly in player crowded areas.

Not everyone can get OP computers at home.

That said, gw2 remains my favorite game right now (i’m even thinking about trying the first gw).

thank you
Is there any hope for the remaining orders to get cleaned ?

How, HOW ?
How is it possible to order at a price lower than what the game allows to sell ?
i really don’t understand, someone please explain this.

woow, guys what’s hard to understand in :
- launcher alone takes about 280-320mb of ram
- every last bit of ram it can take
It’s in bold letters for a reason.

You’re so off the first post it makes me wonder if you actually have read it.

Well i’m off this topic. There’s no point talking to deaf people (or typing with blind people in current case).

Since last patch, my fps have (almost) doubled.
It now is at 28-30 (i have the frame limiter set at 30).
i don’t know how you did it, but thank you

i agree with Rose Solane.
And obviously, making words bold is pointless for most people.

i just ran the laucher to check that out and on my machine it uses 47 % of my CPU and in between 130 000 k and 180 000 k of memory.
i guess what looks like a splash screen is the actual game client (otherwise it’s waaaay too much resource usage).

i also would love it if GW2 was switching the balance to use more GPU resources.

@danizmax

According to this topic
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Can-we-please-get-a-working-Mac-Client
i really don’t want to use the same client.

And by the way, Linux and Mac aren’t really similar.

On my machine, memory usage is the only noticeable difference.
Around 900 000 k for the 32 bits version and around 1 285 000 k for the 64 bits version (standing idle in metrica province).

i hate this forum’s search feature.
If i try to use it with all scripts enabled, i obtain the same behaviour as ahyokata.
If i allow only guilwars2.com script and for example search “Cheat!” then it gives me the results for a “,” search.
This forum’s search feature is broken beyond any search feature i ever used.

Sorry for the late answers, which probably won’t help anyone, yet :
A1 :
i am using a linux 64 bits OS, and i’m experiencing the opposite effects as windows users.
Before HoT, my game client was crashing either when i played too long or used too many asura gates in a short time.
Since Hot, my game client rarely crashes and has gotten incredibly stable (yet my fps rate is still horrible).
A2 :
The game being completely downloaded or not doesn’t seem to affect the game client stability on my machine (either in a positive or a negative way).

i just read that microsoft page.
It is about windows Vista 32 bits and a video card using onboard memory.
Basically, onboard memory means it uses the mainboard RAM as a replacement for video RAM (in my opinion such a card shouldn’t even be called a video card).

i don’t have a Mac (i don’t have windows either) but for the toon who forgets to stop running, i just press the forward key once more.
i don’t know if that trick would work for you, but it’s worth trying.

(sorry for the non explicit title, i had to cut it because it’s too long (there’s a 45 chars limit))
…‘Cheat!’ prefilled in the details box.

Problem is, i was AFK (away from keyboard) when the game crashed.
How can i cheat while being AFK ?

i really don’t understand this one.
If it’s a joke, it’s the most lame i ever got.

That screen reminds me of Counter strike Source, when my graphic card didn’t have enough video memory, some textures were missing and it was pink instead.

i also think that’s a large download size (and many files) just for bugfixes and rebalancing.
My download finished, but now it’s past playtime, i have to wait tomorrow.

i don’t use twitter, did they say how long i (or we) will have to wait for the servers to go back up ?

same here (France)

i am having the same issue as Lyssan right now.
My game client is having trouble updating itself (it’s going down to 0 or 1 kB/s or displaying the red error message about the connection).
Even accessing the forum is taking forever.
i am in France.

Today i updated my graphics drivers (nvidia), that didn’t change a thing(the game launcher still doesn’t work).

Saqr.6120:

The problem has been solved for me after i delete folder “Guild wars 2” from path “c:/Users/%Username%/Appdata/Roaming/Guild wars 2”.

Thanks to you i could pinpoint the problematic file on my computer.
The game launcher obviously has trouble with :
c:/Users/%Username%/Application Data/Guild wars 2/Local.dat

If i move that file away, the launcher stops crashing as soon as i try to run it.
But it redownloads a 9.7 MB Local.dat file and puts it in this directory, then crashes again.
What in hell is the game launcher trying (and failing) to do with this file ?

i tried the “Gw2.exe -repair” parameter, it doesn’t do anything.

i also have this problem since 3 september’s game update.

I saw a bot population increase with the Wintersday event.
I reported every one, some are teleporting so fast it’s insanely hard to click them in order to report them.

ConnorCMcKee.6542:

Just figured I’d add myself to the list of people waiting for this to be fixed. Woohoo.

adding myself too

i have this issue and it’s very rare for me (once per day max).
i work around it by hitting the escape key.

Drakh.3128:

Not sure if intended or a bug but it has been a this was since beta. Only way out of binding roots with ranged is with the help or to use a stun breaker. If you wield 2 ranged weapons and you have no stun breaker equipped, you a free kill. Pretty lame and very over powered racial ability in my opinion (if it was just the ranger elite I could somewhat understand.)

I actually wield 2 ranged weapons so it is annoying me like hell.

Luthan.5236:

I noticed with my new ranger that stow pet is not working correctly. I want to move through the cities without the pet. But while doing some jumping and getting the vistasy I took a bit falling damage and the pet appeared again. Also it seems it appears if you change maps.

It should remember if you stowed it. Or just remove the “Stow Pet” button completely if it is not working and if it is not planned to make it work correctly.

I can see a reason to have it like this: Probably it automatically spawns on damage and thats why it spawns on fall damage to make it easier to protect you if you get attacke by mobs. But why then the button in the first place? Could just leave it spawend all the time.

There should be at least a setting to switch that auto spawn on or off. Also I don’t see the reason why it is not remembered on map change.

I also feel the same.

That invulnerable thing happens to me a lot (sometimes it’s obstructed instead, but still nonsense as there’s nothing between me and my target) and it seems to be complete random.

Angela Ranna.5638:

Might try turning off any background streaming you have. I noticed a similar bug preventing me from getting into the Eternal Battlegrounds puzzle, and the solution was to turn off my streaming music. Once I loaded into the zone I could turn it back on.

One guildy also had problems when Mumble was turned on. Worth a shot, at least.

Why in hell would a video game force me to disable other (and unrelated) software to play ?
I can’t find any reason.

notebene.3190:

Please give us a switch to turn OFF the FoV changes you forced on us 11/15.

The first camera notch out from completely zoomed in is too far away from my character. I’d like it back the way it was, and apparently some people don’t want it, but there’s not reason it isn’t an ‘option’, just like it was an ‘option’ when you added the switch for people to test.

It’s just unenjoyable and unplayable for me now.

I would also want it as an option, in order to satisfy as many players as possible (including myself because i have to fully zoom out as otherwise the game is making me dizzy).

This also happens to me :
- i’m hit while outside a red circle (rare)
- i’m hit by various hazards (puzzle thing or rolling boulder in a dungeon)

It feels like some part of the game display lags on my computer, but randomly.

I don’t have such a problem myself, but i believe this would be a great feature.

Suriku.5472:

Servers:
The servers don’t seem to be able to handle a LARGE group of people in a small area. Everything lags out even with a REALLY GOOD internet connection.

Event should NOT take place in the CITIES this was a problem in GW1 and is now a problem in GW2… there are too many peaople trying to participate in too small of an area during these that normal task cannot be done. If it must be in a city keep the events away from major areas. Personally I hate the events as it makes many players waste time hanging in the city not really participating in normal gameplay.

Cross server grouping… this needs to be implemented and not just for dungeons. Forget about this whole switching servers. Make it so we can jump from server to server and join up with anyone at our leasure like in GW1… it seems with the release of GW2 all the bad parts of GW1 were kept and the good things were tossed aside. I should be able to play the game with anyone and everyone who bought it in every section of the game.

I agree completely with your servers suggestions.

Suriku.5472:

Maps:
The maps for Guild Wars 2 are very similar in design to GW1 in layout and design. They don’t have the flow a persistent world game is supposed to. This is basically a many map “instanced” persistant world. That is not what any of us were looking forward to. I would have loved to see the world transition much more like other games loading as I moved rather than cramming a ZONE into my video card while I am there.

Also the tabs for underground need to be worked on so you can see in caves you have been in.

It seems the game was designed this way, so i doubt there’s any point discussing it but i do agree with the underground tabs part.

Suriku.5472:

Glitches:
Learn how to test things before you add them to game. The amount of broken content getting released into game is rediculous. We should not be seeing things like this. If you can’t find where it’s broke and fix it REMOVE IT and quickly.

I played mmorpgs in which it was far worse than in GW2.
But i agree with you again, this is ridiculous.

Suriku.5472:

Dungeons:
Need group finder or shut off the spamming if the person has “LFG, LF2M…” in the text. Building a group outside of guilds can be a pain.

I agree with this too (and the disability to message many messages in a short laptime is worsening the situation).

Suriku.5472:

Guilds:
Add the ability to Guild Chat and choose the guild you want to talk to. If it’s done tell us how.

There already is guild chat.
I suppose that currently the only way to talk another guild is to represent it

Suriku.5472:

Oh and a Logout to Character Select would be nice too.

As said above, it’s already there.

Suriku.5472:

Also I agree switch the game back to using the in-game sign in…. loose the loader for everything but patching.

I like it the way it is.

Suriku.5472:

Closing
Many of the other feature implemantations others recommended would be nice too.

I am sure I’ll have more but if even some of this would be addressed I’d be much happier.

I think a harassment reporting feature would be nice.

Sirevanac.3178:

I think it’s pretty easy the answer. For those of you that want a meta answer of your “problem”, if you fight and have normal speed, you could dodge all enemies with ease. Your speed is slowed to make the fight even. Else, they’d have to increase all mobs speed, and im pretty sure you dont want that.

Sorry to disappoint you, but i actually do want that.

And those of you who just want to go through a pack of zombies and not have a single trouble: welcome to real world fellas.

You are just silly there. This topic is not about the real world, it’s about the video game ‘GuildWars2’.