Guild Wars 2

Hey, found another potential fix on a different forum (sorry can’t find link now). I personally just have one GTX 285, I don’t know how changing this setting will effect people using multiple GPU’s.

Nvidia control panel – Manage 3d settings – Global settings – Multi-display / mixed-gpu acceleration – Set to “Single display performance mode”

I haven’t had a chance to test it comprehensively but it seems good so far. Atleast 1 hour of play with no black screen or crash.

I noticed that the crashing still appears if I’m playing on maximum resolution (1920×1080). But if I settle for 1600×900 the crashing has either drastically reduced or been fixed.

I am playing with graphics settings “Auto detect”. GPU at default clock values.

Give it a go, be interesting to see how this works for others.

Yep exactly the same as Grotezq. A temporary solution appears to be game settings on lowest and GPU underclocked 10-20%. (Reduces, but doesn’t resolve the black screen issue)

This is not really acceptable, and at the moment it’s actually put me off wanting to play. Can we please get a solution for this? It’s affecting alot of people..

I am also getting frequent display driver crashes causing the screen to go black. Sometimes the game will resume automatically after a couple of seconds, other times I need to go to task manager and then reopen GW2 and it works. Other times GW2 will crash completely and produce an error.

I have tried lots of different suggested fixes. None seem to fix the problem completely.

As others suggested, downclocking seemed to help. I reduced my core clock and memory clock on my GPU by 20% and set graphics to low. Crash frequency has reduced significantly but not resolved completely.

Nvidia GTX 285

Windows event viewer shows frequent error 4101 Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.