Guild Wars 2

Hello can you post your full system specs and a recent crash log of the game please.

Also latest drivers doesn’t always mean they are the best.

Hello,

I see you’re on Windows XP 32bit, Enabling the 3GB Switch will most likely stop your game from crashing.

You can read the guide on how to do it here: http://www.actel.com/kb/article.aspx?id=SL5583

@ Sendai: If you’re looking for a 64bit ISO for your Windows version you can download them here (http://www.w7forums.com/threads/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads.12325/page-2#post-124821). Just download the ISO matching your Windows Edition and use the same Product Key you have on your current installation.

For anyone concerned, these are legal downloads direct from Digital River.

@ Dosvidaniya: I doubt it’s a virtual memory problem, I have my virtual memory set to a fixed size of 512mb and the game runs without any crashes. 64bit OS here with 8GB Ram.

Also for those running on a 32bit OS, enable the 3GB Switch. A friend with a 3GB DDR2 Ram and a 512MB 9500M GS laptop used to crash often, couldn’t even do big events, we enabled the switch and now the game runs perfectly fine.

I feel your pain when stuck using old drivers. Back when nvidia couldn’t fix the freeze/lockups/hiccups on Fermi based cards (400/500 series) I spent 8 months with 314.22 drivers.

If your problem still persists, try underclocking like abomally said. GW2 never been a trouble free game when it comes to technical problems.

The game is CPU bound, almost all MMOs are as a matter of fact.

I upgraded from a 560ti to a 760 just a few weeks ago, it certainly helped in other games but it didn’t do a minimal difference in GW2.

Looks like build codes to me.

I don’t hate rangers, it was my first character in GW2 and even though I play it a bit less these days I still love it a lot however, when I see other people play rangers I often end up kicking them because they lack one or more of the following:

1. They don’t know how to control the pet.

2. They use the wrong pets (not just the bears), There’s the Lynx pet gives a nice 5 Might stack and I hardly ever see someone use that.

3. Signet of the Hunt, this skill is almost completely useless in Dungeons yet 95% of all the rangers I met use it.

4. Melee, I won’t say ranged is bad especially since we’re talking ranger, but melee can do some nice damage too and is useful in some situations yet most of the rangers I met seem to have the bows glued to their hands.

5. Team support, Rangers can give some nice team support such as AoE condition removal, Might stacks, 150 precision from the trait.

These are my top 5 and have to say Signet of the Hunt Rangers are the ones I kick the most, waste of a utility slot, Wrong pets comes second.

With the right effort/tactics some dailies can be finished in 20mins or even less.

What I would add as part of everyday’ s daily:

1. 1 Champ
2. 5 Veterans
3. 60 Kills
4. 3 Events
5. Dodger

These are all dailies present in game but they are never together on the same day, they can be done all by playing naturally without feeling like a robot. The rest of the achievements can vary and exist for completionists and AP hunters.

Just my idea.

mrstealth.6701:

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

ANet isn’t the same company GW1 players remember, lots of new people joined the team. GW2 is a cash cow, nothing more nothing less. Why bother release a proper expansion when you’ve got people paying 15 euro for a few gems? Unfortunately it’s the way they seem to think it.

Earlier today someone said this game was better off having monthly fees, I guess for once I agree with that argument.

In my 10 years of playing MMOs (15 playing PC games, 25 playing console games) I’ve only paid a sub fee to play one game, EVE Online. I did pay for a Minecraft server for quite some time, but that’s a bit different. I just didn’t feel that any of the pay games were worth the extra cost. I did play more than few free ones over the years. Some had ridiculous cash shops, but others were quite reasonable.

It has been GW2 that finally made me fed up with the cash shop idea, and come to actually prefer just paying $15/mo and not having to deal with crap like every new armor being gemstore only. The only saving grace of it is the ability to trade gold for gems, but that is still a concept I never did like. (but that’s not something to discuss here)

I never played a game with a monthly fee mainly because I can’t afford to pay those fees for games I don’t play very often. I did hear many good things about EVE Online, I imagine it’s a good game.

If this game was free to play I wouldn’t say a thing about this stuff, mainly because I understand it’s the companies main method to generate revenue, but with GW2 this isn’t the case.

My quarrel with this game is only one, the fact that I paid full price for a game that is buy to play but acts like a free to play one. I knew there was going to be a cash shop and all, but nowhere I expected ANet to go this far.

For the way I see it, enough is enough. I may still play the game for what it is but no way in my sane mind I’m going to buy any expansions or will ever buy gems with real money. Too many bridges have been burned.

RNG seems to be the most profitable on ANet’s end, I just wish they cared more about their players instead of seeing them as coin machines.

They forgot that partially it was GW1 and it’s community that brought ANet this far. It is disrespectful indeed. But as we just saw, money is valued above everything else.

ANet isn’t the same company GW1 players remember, lots of new people joined the team. GW2 is a cash cow, nothing more nothing less. Why bother release a proper expansion when you’ve got people paying 15 euro for a few gems? Unfortunately it’s the way they seem to think it.

Earlier today someone said this game was better off having monthly fees, I guess for once I agree with that argument.

Majic.4801:

ArmoredVehicle.2849:

Vote with your wallets, as long as people buy gems with real money this greedy behaviour will continue. Stop buying gems and there might be a chance they’ll change their ways, otherwise your complaints will do nothing.

I didn’t pay a cent after buying the game, they don’t deserve it. Such greed shouldn’t be rewarded.

That argument cuts both ways: how is wanting an endless supply of new stuff for free not greedy? Is ArenaNet greedy because they don’t give you free stuff, or are you greedy because you don’t want to pay for it?

New skins cost time and money to make. Funding them through the gem store can reasonably be considered a way to pay for that. GW2 already offers a lot of new content for no additional cost, so should everything that is added from now until forever, including new cosmetic items, cost nothing as well?

It’s easy enough to call other people “greedy” (or my personal favorite: “selfish”), but as the great Stuart Smalley reminds us: “When you point one finger, there are three fingers pointing back at you.”

Just sayin’

First of all I never said I want an endless supply of new stuff for free and you’re quite wrong there. No need to put words in my mouth.

Secondly I would have gladly paid for an expansion if they had the decency to release it just like they did for GW1 and all it’s expansion packs. I will pay when what I’m getting back is worth it.

Third, I don’t expect/want them to give me free stuff nor do I care about it. Only thing I care about is playing a good game which they ruined by focusing everything on the gem store.

Bottom Line:

There’s a difference between doing a dungeon and getting the necessary items for a weapon (also known as: Working For It). – They won’t make money off that.

and

Opening Chests till you hit the jackpot or grind till you get the amount of gold. – They will make money off that.

All these “living” stories, exclusive items, new dungeons. With all these resources they could have made a nice expansion pack, I wouldn’t have cared how much it costs (within a reasonable amount), I would have bought it because what I was going to get is PERMANENT not some lame temporary time bombed content which barely makes any sense.

Vote with your wallets, as long as people buy gems with real money this greedy behaviour will continue. Stop buying gems and there might be a chance they’ll change their ways, otherwise your complaints will do nothing.

I didn’t pay a cent after buying the game, they don’t deserve it. Such greed shouldn’t be rewarded.

Most rangers are kicked because they don’t know how to properly do good dps during dungeons.

I feel you, my 1st character in GW2 is a ranger and 90% of the time I’m playing him, but at the same time I dislike other rangers and they’re not always welcome, especially when I see bear pets that are next to useless.

Rangers provide good team support when played correctly.

I hope you’re going to use game gold to buy it.

Yes I actually mean it.

I noticed this the first time when I was searching the Laurel Vendor in the Vigil Keep, of course the only one I can see is in the airship. Something tells me this was on purpose, to force people to buy the ticket.

Keep going at it ANet, you’re doing the very best you can to lose players.

gimek.8645:

As you can see physical memory was 47% on the first log, 53% on this log……it doesnt appear to be the MB ram.

The log shows you 47% and 53% but in truth the game can’t access it all, some of it is reserved for the system and that’s the best possible reason why it’s crashing.

To counter this you can turn on the 3GB Switch which will let you increase the amount of ram your applications can use and fix your crashes.

My friend has a laptop with 3GB Ram and a 512MB 9500M GS video card, the game used to crash on almost every major events, we turned on the 3GB Switch (we split memory to 2.5GB for applications and 512MB for the system) and the crashes stopped. I can’t guarantee this works for everyone but I’ve read that some other people have had success with it.

This is more or less the last straw for me, I’ve had enough of this trash updates.

Every update is the same with a different texture: zerg here zerg there > kill mindless mobs > rinse and repeat. Whether it’s “Scarlet’s Minions have invaded place xxxxxxxx” or the events in LA now, there isn’t any difference.

This game had great potential, now it’s a pile of trash.

Hopefully never, it’s already a disaster as it is with the ascended mega grind.

A few weeks ago someone right on this forum posted a video in bug section showing how the infamous AC path 1 under map bug is done, that thread magically disappeared.

Anyways, the bug is still present and it’s being highly exploited. The attached screenshot speaks by itself.

Another boring temporary content, Nothing new to see here.

I’ll check the game out when all 4 parts are out and buried.

My top 5 (although in truth I’d name close to 100 mistakes):

1. Gem Store – ANet has taken the store in the highest priority and only finds ways to make more money without giving anything back to their customers. Every update seems to be built around revenue from the cash shop with little influence to the actual game. For more than a year the only real worth addition to the game has been Fractals, everything else is just cash shop items.

2. Living Story (aka Temporary Content) – Temporary content is what keeps the game dull, the “story” is uninteresting and stretched way too far and after that’s done you’re still left with the same old vanilla content. The playground is always the same size, an expansion pack like GW1 would expand the playground but it needs to be permanent.

3. Timegating – What’s the point of limiting ascended crafting to 1 a day but you can still buy as much as your wallet can from TP? doesn’t make sense. Dungeon paths ain’t less, doing every path 1 time is rewarding and once you’re done there’s no reason to do that again until tomorrow, in GW1 I didn’t have to mind such things there was freedom.

4. Class Distinction – No matter which combination of classes your team is made of, it can still be done and it always boils down to the same thing: DPS amount, the exception of this is very very rare. I’ve been playing RPG’s for over a decade and I love the idea that character roles have unique abilities, GW2’s class system is almost all identical with a slight twist.

5. Game Mechanics – I remember back in GW1 some conditions couldn’t be applied to specific mobs for logical reasons such as fire can’t be burned or even worse poisoned. In GW2 no matter what enemy type it is you can put every kind of condition “It just works!”.

The downed mechanic is a renamed “Mommy hold my hand”, when the red bar is depleted you should be dead, done, deal, finito, game over until an ally resurrects you and that’s how it should be.

Another mechanic I dislike is how the skills are interrupted/used. The best one I can think of atm is the Warrior’s Hammer burst skill where your adrenaline doesn’t deplete if you don’t hit any enemy, no reason why the adrenaline should remain full.

There’s no depth to the game, from an MMO I expect content to keep me engaged like GW1 did for 7 years. GW2 is slightly better than those F2P games around and the content that came out past release feels half hearted. In GW2 I don’t see the same passion and love ANet gave to GW1.

This was made for weapons back in GW1 (link: http://www.guildwars.com/events/contests/designaweapon07/) but…..you probably know how it ends.

It ends with the fact that ANet is a different company than what it was back in the good days. I don’t see it happening…shame.

I feel that the game is trash, grindy and lacks things to do.

I have literally stopped playing the game and the only thing’s I do is a dungeon here and there, my daily and MAYBE a fractal at best and that’s it.

What the game lacks:

- Permanent content, this is the most obvious. “Living” Story becomes a Dead Story after 24hrs.

- Lack of PvP game types, only 1 game type, GW1 had at least 4 modes, E-Sport my eye, nice joke.

- Unique items: In GW1 almost every dungeon had a unique weapon tied to it, which gave me a reason to do those dungeons, in GW2 no matter which dungeon you do, drops are almost all the same, something such as a “treasure hunt” doesn’t exist.

- Challenge, I mean what the hell, in GW1 if you died in FoW or UW it’s game over, in dungeons HM if you are careless it would have taken some skill to finish. I want some challenge in the game.

- Variety, After over 1 year playing the game I’ve done pretty much everything there’s to do. What’s the point of doing events like a robot? Doing dungeon paths and once you’re done it’s worthless to repeat. Living stories aren’t engaging and they are pretty much same content as the previous one with a different skin.

The game is stagnated because there’s too much focus on what ANet wants: money and almost nothing of what players want: more significant content.

For tank – Guardian

Warrior is good but you can’t heal yourself constantly like a guard. I use cleric stats on my guard (Power, Tough, Heal Power), my damage sucks but tanking and providing big heals is good can’t imagine playing a guard differently.

1 Game mode and it’s capture point based, I got better games to play if I want to pvp.

In GW1 I loved Deathmatch 4vs4 which was my fav pvp mode.

EDIT: I wish the opposing teams can’t communicate like WvW is so the very few times I do sPvP I don’t have to read the childish comments.

12-16 Tries with level 80 rares here.

I was lucky I guess.

Back in my day games had heart and soul in them, game developers cared more about putting out a quality product instead of aiming for the highest possible profit. Those games surely had their problems but nothing serious compared to what we have now.

Now you get to play trash, a cash cow of a game where the developers don’t give a kitten about their customers / cattle.

When GW1 came out getting max stat armor wasn’t too hard if you’ve played for about a month or two and in less than 3 years time we had 3 expansions with that content that’s still there to this day.

Over 1 year passed since GW2 launched and we’re still with the same vanilla game we bought last year, only thing that’s permanent is fractals, we keep eating temporary content which is used mostly as an excuse to keep putting new items in the gem store.

They gave us Ascended armor but for what purpose? Fractals are capped at lvl50 and it’s doable without the armor. We can complain and argue about how grindy the game is, ANet isn’t going to change that. The time spent on getting Ascended armors out could have been used more wisely.

Get your facts straight people, ANet doesn’t care how grindy their games is and neither about your opinions.

Hello, can you post a screenshot of your graphics settings?

Press F11 and go to the graphics section in game and post a screenshot of that part please.

I wouldn’t say mine is interest. I only keep playing cause my friend does, whenever she’s not playing you can be sure I’ll be on any other game that isn’t GW2.

The game is a total grind and with the ascended armor update on the way I’m going to feel much less inclined to play. I mainly play 2 characters, my guard and warrior, grinding 60g to craft 1 ascended weapon is extremely boring and it’s a very long process.

Living Stories don’t excite me one bit, they are all the same just with a different skin and are plain boring. Especially since they’re temporary which make me care less and less.

The recent fractal update hardly justifies more permanent content. Sorry to say but ANet have blinded themselves with “Living Stories” aka temporary content and making money.

When GW1 was released in 2005 it didn’t offer much but that quickly changed cause in 1 year time we got the Grenth’s footprint update and Factions the first expansion pack, 6 Months after Factions, Nightfall came out.

I could go on forever why the lack of interest in GW2. The game isn’t any better than one of those F2P games.

Elder dragons are a thing of the past and the means to get GW1 players excited to buy GW2.

The true face of GW2:

Recycled Living Stories
Scarlet here, Scarlet there
Gem Store and more Gem Store

One would think (and probably expect) that after 1 year since game’s release, ANet would work on an expansion or some form of permanent content. Yet all this time we’re still stuck with the same old boring game. I haven’t forgotten Fractals and the recent update but it would never suffice to justify the game’s current state.

I doubt we’ll see any other Elder dragon anytime soon.

He also forgot to open his portal in middle of LA to fight him. This halloween was outright shallow.

Achievement points, Achievement points, I personally never liked these, AP’s are boring and dull (and also stupid in my book but I’ll leave that out).

A possible fix would be:

- Better rewards for harder dungeons
- Rework of some paths (I’m looking at you Arah path 2), running for 4mins through landmines is boring.
- Less running more killing, players don’t want to run for ages in dungeons, they just want to kill mobs, bosses and get to the end.

To sum it up every dungeon in GW2 is big and detailed but it’s also flawed, you are required to jog around the area till the next fight which is downright boring.

Stack and kill which is also known as (Tank & Spank) is a common thing in MMO’s, Unless ANet wants their mobs to shoot through walls this thing will continue, it’s how the AI reacts when it doesn’t have a target in line of sight.

I’ve just finished a lvl31 run with 3 pugs and dredge was included, No words can describe how frustrated it was.

All ANet cares about is making money and closing bugs. Balancing is inexistent.

Don’t give them ideas. This was already bad enough.

Wethospu.6437:

On topic, I still fail to see why we actually had to be reseted without any compensation.

1. Past lvl50 exploits – I think this is the main reason.

2. They don’t care about the days and time spent to get our characters to high levels. It’s our time that was wasted not theirs, right? RIGHT?

I’m disappointed just as you are but there’s nothing that can be done.

From all the Scarlet trash ANet throws at us, I didn’t expect such a move, I was expecting something more elaborate, something more serious but eventually it was a major let down, worse than one of Uwe Boll’s game to movie adaptations.

This update was my last straw. I loved GW1 (still do) for it’s fantasy setting, it’s amazing lore and all. GW2 was supposed to be the follow up with rise of orr, awakening of dragons, birth of sylvari and all and it could have been a nice story, but now for us Tyrians we’re trapped in Scarlet Land.

If ANet’s creativity and storytelling goes as far as including the same character over and over with reskinned living story, then I have my doubts how much longer I’ll continue playing.

What happened to the rest of the dragons? – I’m pretty sure the community that cares about lore want to know about this, not another episode of “What’s Scarlet cooking next”.

I’ve checked my pc with HWiNFO64 and as I thought it shows the speeds without the “Double Data Rate” effect, If you multiply by x2 you get the correct speeds. Both Afterburner and HWiNFO are correct they just show them differently.

Another thing you could try is removing 1 ram stick and working only on 2GB. With such low ram at best your game will crash to desktop but shouldn’t freeze your pc which would be an improvement. If this doesn’t work remove the installed ram stick and put in the other one to test the other 2GB.

I’ve had cases where I tested ram with memtest86 for 8 hours without an error and in the end it was still the culprit for crashes and freezes.

It’s not, not one bit. Currently crafting ONE ascended weapon costs roughly 60 gold unless you really enjoy picking hundreds of materials. I know some classes can use up to 9 weapons but let’s make it 8 for the example that’s 480 gold for just one character.

Depending on how much a person plays this game per day/week this can take a very long time.

I have 4 characters which only 2 are very active, the other 2 are still well geared but highly unlikely they’ll see an ascended weapon (or armor in the future).

Thinking it well enough, GW2 is a very grindy game and it is just as much as those free 2 play asian games floating around.

I’ll point to what worked and that is the original Guild Wars. They never improved the armors and weapons, even more when hard mode was released they still didn’t do this. Not once in 7 years.

So here we are in Guild Wars 2 and they’ve released Ascended Trinkets and Weapons, there’s no turning but I DO hope this will be the final tier ever. Getting 500 level of craft is not hard but requires some effort, crafting the weapons themselves requires time and money but it’s doable.

If ascended tier is what ANet originally meant for the exotics, then I think they hit the right spot but it would be totally wrong going any higher.

I say bring it on ANet, bring out your ascended armor sets, the sooner I’ll be done grinding for the best stats the more I’ll have fun in the game, cause I won’t have to mind about the stats any longer.

Albadaran.1283:

The problem is caused by 32 bit systems where the 2 gig memory switch (software switch) is turned off. Turning it on will give you max 3 gig which is mostly enough for gw2. See here how it works: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=9583842&linkID=9240617

The link points to "Page not found’ for me.

What Albadaran is pointing to is the so called 3GB Switch:

To enable the 3GB switch on a 32bit system:
1) Right-click Command Prompt in the Accessories program group of the Start menu
2) Click Run as Administrator
3) At the command prompt, enter:
bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072
4) Restart the computer

To disable the 3GB switch:
1) Right-click on the Command Prompt in the Accessories program group of the Start menu
2) Click Run as Administrator.
3) At the command prompt, enter:
bcdedit /deletevalue IncreaseUserVa
4) Restart the computer

PS: Thought I’d fix this post so it may help others.

Hello,

You might want to turn off V-Sync from that screenshot, it hurts your frame rate A LOT.

Also with V-Sync Enabled you’ll never go beyond 60 unless you have a 3D monitor :-)

Hello cmud.

If I had to suggest 1 upgrade It would be your GPU.

As for optimization:

1. Make sure to close any unneeded background applications, especially if there are any that use the processor.

2. You said you never go beyond 50fps, do you have V-Sync enabled? Either in GW2 or the Nvidia control panel. Also check if the frame limit in GW2 is off.

Hi Dreary,

Try Nvidia drivers 314.22, to keep it in short any driver version beyond 314.22 is known to cause instability on Fermi based architecture GPU (that would be Nvidia 400/500 series).

Also regarding overclocking I’d go for reference speeds by nvidia, a full list can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units

Before closing this thread….

Azmarlio do know there’s problems between 560ti cards and the latest nvidia drivers. The current most stable ones for those cards are version 314.22.

I’m a 560ti user and if I install any drivers beyond 314.22 the pc starts to crash, give bsod’s and freezes (including GW2). This is a driver problem unfortunately and Nvidia still hasn’t fixed it.

Veldoran.5297:

The screen goes black/white/red/sometimes teal

This line is worrying, can you monitor the video card temperature once in a while? When color changes appear it could be a video card problem ram/chip.

Also if your card comes factory overclocked, can you downclock it to reference speeds?

A list of reference speeds can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units

This update for me:

Pros: None

Cons: Recycled garbage, Indoor Zergs.

Excitement: None, I just keep doing what I do daily.

Xae Isareth.1364:

The only thing I’m kinda wondering out of this though, without saying any spoilers, won’t the Krait be after your butt for what you did?

They were already after your butt long before this update came out.

Currently the only workaround to this issue is to press F11 and tick “AoE Loot on Interact”. Haven’t had the problem since then.

I guess this happens cause the relics go into the wallet unlike the rest of the normal items.

This isn’t an exploit, it’s called a tactic. There’s nothing to fix here, It’s working as intended.

Dear Mr OP, go play in high level fractals before posting.