Guild Wars 2

… I were able to start the game in windowed mode, which is at least a workaround.

Cannot go on fullscreen though, as that induces the almost-freeze and flickering taks-bar again – but at least the option “fullscreen in windowed mode” seems to run ok.

Not quite happy, but at least relieved, that there is a work around until someone does his job and fixes the issue…

… if you do some search, you will find out, that this issue seems to be known since 2 years!!! and got “re-introduced” with the camera-patch, as it seems.

I am a victim too, and it clearly is not a GPU related issue, as I have it on my nVidia-GPU, while others have it on an AMD-card.

It is somehow related to Win XP and the camera-patch, because on my Win 7-machine everything runs fine – like it did on my Win XP-machine before that unholy update :/

… another victim here

GW2 was running fine on my second machine (OS: Win XP) until game updated a few days ago.

I started the game, the screen flickers, the computer almost freezes (no task changing possible), mouse cursor is slowed down completely, only doing hard reset by pressing reset or power button lets me access my machine again.

Updated drivers, reinstalled GW2, did archive repair, deleted local.dat, did hard disk diagnosis and defragmentation, nothing works.

All other games are working fine, so it clearly is an issue related to GW2, or better, related to one of the last updates, because before everything was fine.

Did some research and it seems, that this issue is already 2!!! years old, which seems very strange, and sure as hell annoying.

Read about a solution in another thread about putting -windowed behind the exe-command-line in my GW2.short-cut.

I will check that out (after downloading GW2 again) and tell here, what happened.