Guild Wars 2

Avelos.6798:

And as Abomally said, it’s a hardware issue. Try doing what he said.

But here’s the thing: since the last Living Story update, there has been an unusually large number of people who went from a perfectly playable game to these constant freezes and restarts. Taken individually, yeah, they feel like hardware problems, but taken as a whole, it definitely seems like SOMETHING went wrong with the last patch.

On whim last night, I reinstalled Windows 7; downloaded the latest MoBo drivers, installed the ATI beta driver, etc. Today, instead of the system freezing completely, the whole system shut down, then restarted. I ran the next session with Core Temp and GPU-V going; GPU temp never went above 70C, and the processor cores would max out around 65C, but after a couple events (which is longer thkittenual), the whole system shut down again.

Honestly, this FEELS like a hardware issue (PSU going out?)…but the timing of the issues starting immediately after the Entanglement patch is strange.

sweegy.9465:

My game is freezing as well. It did it yesterday and today. It ran perfectly fine before and I have not changed anything with my computer.

Can you add your system specs here as well? If nothing else, maybe a pattern will show up.

I’ve had the same problem since the Entanglement patch dropped: not a single problem before, unplayable after. I’ve tried updating drivers, hard drive scan, repair mode, deleting local.dat, a full re-install, dropping the graphics settings…nothing has helped. The screen will freeze and the system will become completely unresponsive, requiring a hard reset.

Window 7 64-bit
ATI Radeon HD 6850
8GB RAM
Intel Core i5-3570 3.4 GHz

After patching for Entanglement on 7/15, my system has hung after five to ten minutes of playing, requiring a hard reboot of the machine. This has happened every time, and the following have not help at all:

Updating GPU drivers
Deleting local.dat
Running Gw2.exe -repair

Additionally, I have done stress tests on my CPU and GPU; no problems have been identified.

Is anyone else having this problem? Aside from updating GW2, nothing changed on my system between everything working fine, and the game not working.