Guild Wars 2

I already gave one explanation why this game is more affected by single bit errors. But sure, can’t be you or your computer, because it’s build/configured/used by a genius … but as far as I can tell, there are more people who found their hardware error, than those who refuse to look harder …

This is a ridiculous statement that falls back to insults to try to make a sturdier point because the poster knows his facts is flimsy. And, I don’t know what thread you’re looking at, but there’s been less than 5 actual hardware faults in this thread of … how many posts? And all of them said other games worked fine before regardless.

What you’re calling problems being experienced by the majority – I am assuming you’re referring to the XMP and RAM settings – those aren’t hardware faults. They’re settings. If you were familiar enough with computers to speak out on this issue, you’d know that, so I advise others to disregard your comments.

Regarding modified settings, overclocking, custom profiles, etc – Any game should be able to handle them. Indeed, everyone with those problems either stated they had games that ran fine with the custom profiles. Or they said nothing of it. But they didn’t say “all my games are crashing.” 2+2=4

The players have found a temporary fix that seems to work most of time, and that fix is to get around a problem ArenaNet created. It is not our problem to fix and we shouldn’t have to.

On a related note, it’s hard to be exact when calculating the success of the XMP/RAM fix, considering a lot of the posts in this thread are not the same “Corrupt File” issue we’re talking about. That may explain why removing custom hardware profiles isn’t working for everyone.

Mainboard: MSI MS-7758 (H77)
CPU: Intel i5-2500 3.3ghz (4 cores)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 x2 (16GB total)
OS: Win 7 64-bit
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2048mb
Display Driver: 9.18.13.479
Main Drive (GW2 Installed): A-Data USA 120GB SATAIII Sandforce 6.0gb SSD
Secondary Drive: Western Digital Caviar Green 2 TB
*Virtual Memory Disabled
*RAM settings all AUTO/Default
*All Temp directories set to secondary drive
*Installed to non-default directory (some games are weird about that)

This started happening to me yesterday. I know my computer inside and out. Literally. I built it a few months ago. I am not going to start messing with drivers and settings that might jeopardize other ‘picky’ games I play.

Somewhere on the path to this version, ArenaNet changed something that is now causing this. While a small percentage of us may have hardware faults, that doesn’t mean ArenaNet hasn’t goofed. All evidence points straight to a change they made.

Regardless, the people with the “Corrupted File” issue (like myself) probably make up less than 2% of the player base so I doubt we’re high on their priority list. We’ll have to use workarounds until they rollback whatever they changed. Fortunately, it sounds like most of us are on high end systems which means we are probably familiar with how to make those changes.