Guild Wars 2

This happens to me to and has since release. Sure would like to know how to fix it. It doesn’t affect playability, just sort of annoying at times.

I’ve installed Driver Fusion a couple of times, no problems, and use it regularly.

You (OP) sound frustrated and I definitely understand that.

Like many free to download applications, it has the option of installing various third party software, but only if the radio buttons are checked to allow it (which they are by default). The installer/user must watch as they go through the steps during install, being aware to un-tick the boxes.

It is not the rep, the company, or Treexy’s fault if the user failed to notice those small, sneaky little radio buttons.

Sadness. I tried it with the FSB multiplier back at 20x, but got a crash and computer lock.

To clarify my original post: The single fix that made the game playable was to return my FSB to its default multiplier. This is a verifiable and repeatable fix on my system.

The other items listed were things that I found/did in my search for a fix that improved the performance on my box, so I kept them in place. (They work for me, your experience may be different!)

Unlike other recommendations, from this forum and other places, which I tried that I found made negative/little/no difference.
Some of the ones that made negative/little/no difference for me were:

• Underclocking my GPU.
• Going straight through my modem.
• Putting my game box in the DMZ.
• Removing the drivers and turning off my on board sound.
• Running in GW2 in window mode
• Disabling xfire
• Disabling desktop composition, and so on.

These were said to help others, but they did not work for me.

Like any info on the web, do some research, use your own discretion, keep what works and discard what doesn’t.

I listed that as it was one of the things I did because it was. Even if it was done as a just-in-case scenario. It certainly doesn’t/didn’t harm anything. Also see below @VirtualBS about AHCI.

My basic set up is this (for more info, see my DXdiag attachment).

OS: Win 7 64 pro
CPU: AMD 1090t, water cooled
GPU: MSI 6970 reference, xfire. Current Beta Driver 12.9. Very lightly overclocked. Core @ 900 (Up from 880) and memory @ 1400 (Up from 1375). Using MSI Afterburner.
RAM: Corsair Vengence, 16 gig @ 1600
Mobo: MSI 790fx-gd65
SSD (x2): Corsair GT (game drive), and Corsair force 3 (OS)
AV: Norton online

I tried many of the fixes that were posted early on. None really worked until I tried something that wasn’t posted. I would get the locked screen then the stuttering sound. Sometimes black/blue screens, system dumps, etc., and would have to completely reboot to play again.

The fixes:

• This first fix made the single biggest change in play-ability of all the following. I had my front side bus overclocked a wee bit. the multiplier increased from the default of 18x to 20×. I returned the multiplier to 18x and no more crashes, even with the AV running running in the background.

• I changed the pagefile system from my OS drive to my third ROM drive which is a regular 300g HD. Then doubled the size of the pagefile, I wanted to eliminate the possibility running out of VM.

• For the Xfire I turned off the EnableULPS and EnableULPS_NA, and turned on the EnableCrossFireAutoLink in the registry.

• I turned on the HPET in Win 7 and on the Mobo

• The file system is set to AHCI.

• The router has QOS set to optimize for throughput

• All drivers current and up-to-date

• Regular registry cleaning and optimization

Google these for clarification and how toos:

• HPET
• DisableULPS crossfire
• AHCI
• Changing pagefile location windows 7
• Optimizing ssd
• QOS

The game now runs for me until I turn it off, YES! I have decent frame rates (30-50 in Lions Arch) with all at high and ultra, but excellent frame rates (50-90 in Lions Arch)with shadows down to med, sampling @ native and reflection @ sky and terrain only.
As a side effect of all this awesome tweaking, my box is now running better than ever as well.

Hope this helps someone out there.
GL.

@ Silverghost. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have been trying unsuccessfully to log in to the forums since head start and am now able to post. As you can see it’s a success.