Guild Wars 2

Ok, so it’s been like this for a while now. Encountered this problem today. Good to know there’s a workaround as I don’t have enough space on the hard drive it wants to install itself to.

Saying this very tentatively, but disabling CCC might be a fix. After 5+ hours of gaming I haven’t gotten any tearing artifacts. But wouldn’t be a first time I’ve said too soon…

I’ll keep you posted.

Well, after being given a brand new R9 280X off the shelf, this is the result (screenshot below).

Any other suggestions? sigh

Adjusting Flip Queue Size didn’t work.

I’ve played over a dozen games on this rig (it’s new, purchased it in Dec 2013), most of them very gfx intensive and GW2 is the only one I have problems with.

Well, since nothing suggested here is helping and GW2 is the game I really want to play every day, such is my addiction to WvW, I’m taking my card back to the store and beg them to take it back ’cause of a manufacturing flaw. And possibly take Nvidia in exghance. :/

Thanks for you help, abomally, I really appreciate it.

I’m getting tearing artifacts more and more frequently now, and more quickly after starting the client. Do you think this would support the theory that it is a manufacturing flaw?

Here’s one I got after ~30 seconds of playing.

My temporary fix is to keep switching between Windowed Fullscreen and Fullscreen 1920×1080, but sometimes I have to do that every two minutes which is far from ideal… x_x

Now I am experimenting on different settings but that takes time, ’cause as it was mentioned earlier, sometimes I can play 2 days straight without any problems, then suddenly it goes bohica on me for a whole evening. :/

My heart is crying blood though, the game looks so pretty on high graphic settings, and downgrading them is kick in the quad — ‘specially since I know my lovely new rig absolutely can handle the ultimate settings very well if it weren’t for those pesky tearing artifacts.

goes to sulk in a quiet dark corner

Ok, I got tearing artifacts again, even with underclocking.

I’m not sure there’s anything wrong with so many cards of the same make and model ‘specially since loads of them, me included, report problems only with Guild Wars 2. I’m not taking my card back to the store just yet, not until I see glitches in other games too.

This is getting very annoying, I’m ready to try anything. :P

This is my power supply.

These settings work at least for me; so far so good. Not seeing any effect on my FPS.

• GPU clock settings: 950 MHz (originally 1070 MHz)
• High Performance memory clock settings: 1450 MHz (originally 1600 Mhz)

I’ll post it here if I start getting massive tearing artifacts again.

I take that back, now experimenting on clocking lowered by 250 MHz and haven’t had a problem since yesterday. I’ll keep playing and see if this actually works!

Correct, as far as I know (?). They would not show in screenshots.

And I can confirm that underclocking does not work, just tried it tonight with 100-200 MHz. Reducing another 50 MHz right now but if that doesn’t work I’m going back to the default clocking.

I have the very same problem with my R9 280X. I tried 13.12 with a clean install and no success, still getting the same tearing artifacts. VSync on/off doesn’t make any difference either.

This screenshot from tonight:

I honestly think they should have been more clear about this in the BLTC. “Increase the stack size of all collections” is misleading. I honestly thought it would increase the size of all stacks.