Guild Wars 2

Thank you for pointing this out…I was kind of loosing it lol

I have to agree with kinetik. The game worked flawlessly for me all through the BWE’s and after launch, it wasn’t until the lost shores event that the client began “Acting up”. As mentioned previously there have been no major hardware changes since.

mafdet.8725:

About every other time I run GW2 since I began playing again after about a one- or two-month hiatus, I get an unusual black screen upon logging in and the launcher gives way to the client. The screen is totally black save a flickering title bar. Keypress response is very laggy at this point, and if I’m able to alt-tab or bring up the task manager then the black GW2 window immediately shoves itself on top of them and prevents me from killing the process. If left long enough, GW2 will apparently make it to the character select screen as I can hear the title music — however, at this point my video adapter stops sending a signal, or perhaps stops rendering entirely. It’s hard to say, really.

I double-checked the nVidia Control Panel and all of Guild Wars 2’s graphics settings were already set to application controlled, where applicable — and I don’t recall ever altering them in the first place. I only ever tweak these sorts of settings on a per-application basis.

EDIT: Trying Windows key+L to try and get to the login screen during the title bar flickering phase yields an error message box that says “Failed to parse line 903” that recurs a few times after hitting its OK button before I’m thankfully led to the login screen. After that, I can sign in and the misbehaving client window actually allows me to ctrl-alt-del and kill GW2.exe. I also updated my graphics drivers (latest non-beta) in between the original incarnation of this post and this edit and the issue still occurs — actually 100% of the time now instead of approximately half the time. I do NOT overclock.

My system specs are as follows:
Windows XP Home
1.6GHz Intel Core2 Duo E6300 (I know this is below-minimum specs, but it runs fine, even back in beta when the client was far more CPU-heavy)
3GB RAM
Asus GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB

Enclosed is a dxdiag log.

I’m having a very similar issue. It started sometime between the Halloween content and the Lost Shores Event. The first time I start GW2 it goes to a black screen, no music, no graphics, no flickering, just black with a mouse cursor. Eventually I have to ALT+TAB out and kill the process. When I log back in a second time it works.

I have been playing since BWE1 on the exact same machine and never had an issue. I’ve tried resetting all of my nVidia settings for GW2 to program controlled, updated drivers on everything! tried a -repair and -image and finally a full wipe and reinstall of the game and it still happens. Now I am still able to play which is better than some folks, however, it is extremely annoying!