Guild Wars 2

Bubbagump.4158:

if you havent made the purchase yet and if in the U.S http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487263&cm_re=GTX_1060-_-14-487-263-_-Product theres a 1060 for under 200 ,
I’ve shopped newegg for parts for a long time in case you concerned about not knowing the site , Most people who buy PC parts usually shop there at one time or another if not religiously

Thanks for all the help guys. I went ahead and ordered this card so we’ll see how it goes. I realize my computer isn’t top of the line anymore, but geez. I have a mortgage you know.

Ok, I think I’ve narrowed it down to either that last card I linked (which does seem like crazy overkill) or this card

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013WQC9Z2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=182N65KKCON10&coliid=I240160WHYQ5TV&psc=1

which is a gtx 950. Lots of good reviews. It is like $60 cheaper. my cpu is an amd phenom II X6 1045T 2.7 Ghz and the ps I got was an evga. Not sure that matters. What do you guys think? I’m pretty much going to buy whichever you say lol. And soon, cause I can’t even pvp without freezing and restarting. Although today when I came back my team was at a 200 point deficit and we came back and won, so yay us.

So you would recommend something like this

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GAMING-GeForce-GTX-1060/dp/B01KIJ7XQG/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1472186776&sr=1-8&keywords=gtx+1060+nvidia

For reference, the problem is that only during guild wars, my computer will freeze and restart completely. Usually the screen will either go black or will go to alternating lines (light blue/dark blue, or yellow/dark yellow) Sometimes it will flicker to this screen then back to gw, and if I’m quick I can tab out of gw and it won’t restart, but as soon as I tab back in it likely will restart. I replaced the power supply, thinking that was maybe it but it still seems to be doing it. And it’s totally random when it happens, although it seems to happen in pvp a lot more than pve. Sometimes once a day, sometimes 5-8 times a day. Very annoying.

So would you recommend something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/XFX-1226MHz-Detachable-Graphics-RX-470P4LFB6/dp/B01JHQXGEE/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1472100765&sr=1-3&keywords=rx+470

If that link doesn’t work, its an xfx radeon rx470. Only 2 reviews there but both gave it 5 stars.

So I’ve currently got an AMD Radeon HD 6700. I’ve had this crashing problem forever and been back and forth with gw support with no resolution. It only happens in guild wars 2, nothing else. Anyway, I installed a new power supply (700w) thinking maybe my 450w wasn’t big enough. I just froze and crashed again. I guess I need a new video card. I can’t think of what else might be doing it. Any recommendations? I literally only use my computer for gw2 and checking my email. I’m willing to spend up to $200 and like I said, I only run gw2 on basically the lowest settings. I just want something that will stop crashing so I can really play.

I currently have an AMD Radeon HD 6700. It’s about 3 years old now. I’ve always had an occasional problem, ONLY in guild wars, where my screen will either go black or flicker to a screen that’s all lines (such as alternating dark blue and light blue, or dark yellow and light yellow) then my computer freezes, and after a few seconds shuts off and restarts. If I can manage to quickly tab out of guild wars fast enough it won’t freeze and restart, but as soon as I click the gw window open again it probably will. Lately this problem has gotten so bad that I can barely play. The last week or so it’s happened every 4-20 minutes. Yeah. Can’t do anything. No pvp/wvw, no long meta maps, no anything. And I’ve been playing gw on it’s lowest graphics settings with effects turned off.

Should I get a new video card or could this be something else? And what card should I look at? I’d rather not spend more than $200.

And to head off the easiest suggestions, I’ve cleaned the dust out recently, my computer has good airflow, it doesn’t appear to be an overheating problem. My power supply is 450w, that should be enough I think? My cpu is an AMD Phenom II x6 6.7 ghz running windows 7 professional 64 bit. Thanks in advance

mrauls.6519:

Will we ever get a chaos armor body suit?

Yeah, thats what we want to see. An entire wvw zerg of blindingly white players.

I CAN’T EVEN SEE WHAT I’M HITTING!
OMG WHERE AM I??

And then everyone’s gpu explodes

Seriously, the merciless weapon skins have been out less than 2 weeks and have been moved to 2 tickets already, while the plasma weapons have been out like a month and are still 1 ticket. Please fix this anet, you jacked up the price on the wrong skin!

I thought about that. But cursed shore has been basically empty since hot opened up so I’m not running into many players. My graphics are set to the lowest settings. It just seems that my normal daily routine is using almost twice as much internet and I didn’t know if there was a reason for it or anything I could do about it.

I live out in the country and my internet is limited to 6gb a month. Please don’t tell me to move or get better internet. The cable company will not run service here and if everyone moved out of the country nobody would be growing food. Its never really been a problem because even when I play a ton I usually don’t even hit 5gb in a month.

Suddenly last month I basically hit my cap a couple days early. But there were a bunch of updates so I figured whatever. I dragged my computer an hour away to download hot. I know there are updates nearly every day but I’m nearly at my 6gb cap and its only just barely halfway through my billing cycle. I monitored my daily usage for the day (about 2.5 hours) not even playing the new content basically just a daily pvp match and running all my alts through cursed shore farming nodes. This used to take less than 200mb a day. Now it uses almost 400mb. I checked with my resource manager and it is basically gw2.exe and a couple files that seem to only run while gw is running.

So my question is has anyone else noticed this double use of bandwidth? Is there a better program I can use to monitor this or am I now basically stuck playing only half a month?

OK, I don’t know what else to do here. To make a long story short, I logged off friday morning about 2am eastern time. I tried logging in friday evening about 10pm, but it wouldn’t take my password. I went through the recover account process but it took a long time to get the email. In the meantime, I opened a ticket with support. Well, a short time later I got the email, changed my password, logged in and saw I’d been hacked. Obviously I’d interrupted the hacker because they’d only had a chance to convert the 1000 gems on my account to gold, move some characters to places I never go and start stripping them. So I updated my ticket that I’d been able to change my password but my account was hacked and I wanted a rollback.

So I get the automated response from anet, where I have to answer a list of questions to prove I own the account. I do so, and reiterate that I was hacked between this time and this time and I would like a rollback.

So I get another automated response that they’ve reset my password and I can login and set it to what I want. However,when I login I get a black screen that my account was hacked and is locked for investigation. So I respond that I changed the password yet again, but I would like a rollback because my account was hacked and is still locked.

So I get another email that they’ve manually changed my password (for the 3rd time now) and I can login, Well, I login and lo and behold my account is STILL not rolled back. Do they even bother to read what we write? Because my freaking password does not need to change again. Seriously. I think my ticket number is 386862, is there any way to get a better response on this?

I’m going to add to this (now that I finally managed to log in to the forums…) I’ve been having this same problem since last thursday. I opened a ticket with support but several hours later the problem seemed to resolve itself (that is, the authentication email had been taking several hours to show up but suddenly reverted back to normal) So I emailed them that it was resolved. However, it happened again today for several hours.

On top of that, since last night I seem to be having a problem staying connected. I get disconnected back to the character selection screen every 3-20 or so minutes with a message about not being able to connect to the servers. This makes it impossible to do sab, or dungeons, or world events, or.. anything really. It’s just about making me quit gw since I can’t do anything, and I realize I’m only one customer but I’ve been a loyal customer since gw1 and I spend at least $30 a month on gems. If this is a problem on your end, please fix it because I don’t want to be forced to stop playing.

When do you guys run this? I’ve been in since you posted and must be missing you guys. So tired of pugging and failing at frizz because people not so accidently dc or don’t understand the mechanics.

I have tried to pug this dungeon several times now and never gotten past the frizz fight.. seriously you should charge people to go with you when you solo so they can get achievements. I know I would pay at this point. Message me if you are interested. Banshee hanover

I’m interested in this. I’ve pugged and never gotten past the frizz fight never mind any of the dungeon achievements. I have all the non-dungeon ones already.

Banshee Hanover