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This comes out to 975, it includes a great processor, a great video card, a copy of windows, a solid state drive (you want this for loading the game textures).

Do this and then buy yourself a 2tb storage drive later on.

If you want more help, let me know.

I have this exact system except I have a 2nd SSD, and a 7970 (100 bucks more, for not a ton more performance)

This is what I’d do with my thousand dollars.

It’s definitely a driver problem.

Since 13.2, screenshots, Fraps, or any other “recording” functions cause hardlock and sometimes system reboots.

Roll back to 13.1 if you need to Screenshot/record video.

I reported it to AMD, but we’ll see if they fix it.

Beard,

if you provide a budget, I will assemble a parts list for you to maximize performance.

If you’re interested, I custom build PCs for friends, so if you don’t have someone who can do it, I would be happy to help you out (at your expense of course).

Let me know.

It works perfectly in the 13.1 WHQL drivers. So it’s definitely a 13.2 issue.

Where is the bug submission section? On AMD’s site?

Yeah I agree, the new drivers are awesome. I’ll probably try the 13.2 leaked betas i had on there a week or so ago (which had the GW2 improvements) and see how that goes, then try backwards from there. I don’t NEED to record right now, but I’d like to be able to point AMD in the right direction as far as when it was last functioning as intended.

Thanks for the heads up.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/79950-catalyst-132-beta-driver-and-bandicam-issues/

Apparently this is reported here as well for Bandicam. I’ll have to let the dxtory developer know as well, see if there’s a fix on his end.

Oh wow really? The rest of the games I tried record just fine. How far back did you need to go to record? 13.1’s? 12.12s?

Let me know, thanks.

13.2 Beta’s from AMD.

7970 Video Card.

Good morning all,

I am trying to use DXTory to record my adventures. It’s working great in every game except this one.

Whenever I press the record button (currently F12) it causes either my video driver to crash and fail, forcing me to kill the GW2 process, or it immediately reboots my computer. I’ve tried different versions of the software, different codecs, and different drives to record to, none of which solves the problem. I heard somewhere that something that hooks graphically into GW2 can cause problems, but I recorded before using MSI afterburner with no problems, so I’m wondering what’s changed.

If anyone is using DXTory successfully, can you post your settings and version to help me out? If anyone has any other ideas on why it would be crashing like this, I’m all ears.

Thanks in advance.

Hey guys, I just got dxtory and followed the guide for the x264 codec setup. I’m trying to record at 1080p and it works fine in every other game, but as soon as I press record in GW2, my video driver crashes, or my system reboots.

Any thoughts? I’ve tried using several versions of the software with no luck. Same issues.

Can you give give your versions and configs ?

Agreed, these made things much smoother. Using these drivers and a Ramdisk I was finally able to eliminate all stuttering in the game.

The lag when you turned the camera was driving me nuts, Ramdisk completely fixes that, so it was obviously a bottleneck getting the data from my SSD into video memory.

24gb ram FTW.

Sorry, I didn’t realize that this was focused entirely on the sPvP stuff. I haven’t done anywhere near enough to comment on it. I do love my build for WvW though.

That makes sense, but I already have 20 points in Dom.

I run 20, 20, 0, 25, 5.

I love it

You can try it as a variation on Tau’s build. I run with all berserker gear, and man do my izerkers CRUSH people

Hey Tau, great guide mate.

I run a similar build, but I found that having both +15% to illusion damage traits makes my berserker, duelist, and warden (when I can lock someone in place to eat the damage) just hit like monsters.

I too always open with berserker, and with my current gear, in wvw I take away at least 1/3 of the targets HP unless its a guardian with aegis up and lots of toughness.

I’ve not done any testing, but was told both the 15% traits work for phantasms. Can you confirm that they don’t stack?

Anyway, keep up the great work, and go do the jump puzzles on the opposing servers with the focus equipped. Pulling people down off the ledges in the jump puzzles is pure joy

Hey guys,

I was trying out a support build, and the trait that says that allies are granted regeneration by phantasms doesn’t SEEM to be working with any consistency for me. Can someone give me the skinny about how close the phantasm needs to be to an ally, whether it comes up one time per phantasm, whether it comes up on multiple allies, or just one?

Anyone know? It didn’t have the “woot, everyone gets regen when i summon a phantasm” effect i was expecting, so I was kinda disappointed. If I ever work that trait into my wvw spec, I’d like to know how it functions so i can be in the right place to gain the regen.

Thanks.