After exactly 15 days of gaming with no crashes,freezes,apphangs etc… today i randomly got one while writing on party chat while standing next to arach gate(was not even moving the camera etc). As always just the game freezes, i can hear the music, speak on ts etc. Ctr +alt + del and shuting the game works. I have info about gw.2 stoped working in my event menager. Whats strange is that my friend got exactly the same freezes while he was writing on party chat while we were fighting lupicus.
As in all gpu advices i say go for nvidia if you want to play gw2 without annyoing bugs. Ati 7xxx series have alot of problems with drivers and the cheaper performance is not worth thoes extra problems.
7xxx series problem. Same lines (+ blue artifacts flickering) on my 7850. Ati knows about problem with their drivers ( more like they are pure kitten not a problem.). Everyone i know with 7xxx series card have thoes lines
Today i lost 80% of my sounds when in fractal ( i could only hear some sounds like swinging my gs or moving). Game restart after fractal sloved this but its kinda of annyoing, Before when i was using my recon 3d card i lost shout sounds and few other minor one sand had to reinstal the driver. Now im using my integrated hd audio cuz i thought gw2 dont like my sound card but it seems its not the case. Gw2 never broke my “whole” sound, team speak is working ok even when sound in game brake same if i want to watch a movie while playing or so. Anyone had an issue with missing sounds ?
Just dont get hd 7850 as someone sugested. Its a good card but ati drivers are …. i wont even comment on this. Hella lot of ppl have problems with 7xxx series from flicerking artifacts(i myself have them), black lines on the floor, black screens etc…
Seems nobody checked this. I ruled out my hardware 100% now. Found 7 ppl with the same thing. We can reproduce this with 100% accuarcy so i doubt someone with 100% diffrent hardware is having a failing one as well. No overheating,psu problems as well ( all programs and games work stable even for 20+ h). One more thing i noticed is that even when i skip the menu and have lets say 40 fps in traiding post (30 if i dont skip) if i go for fractals,dungs or teleport and run alot my fps will still drop but not to the low 30 margin but lets say 36-38. Its not droping overtime as i can stand in tp for 1h and have the same high fps but even if i port once (checked it few times) my fps wil drop but it wont go as low as when i dont skip menu(it dosent drop more after frequent warps or dungs just thoes 3-5 fps and stays in the mid).
Ps. I think i found the cause of this : If i dont skip the menu it seems my game is “darker” as it had some kind of filtering on it. Its realy easy to see the diffrence in color vs the darker(lower fps) and the bright one when skiping menu (high fps) : http://imgur.com/SiBKj (low fps), http://imgur.com/SEpkW (high fps) as you can see the high fps one is much brighter but i dont change anything in options.
No idea with the first one but oneknife did you reinstal windows after switching cards? I know you can use driver sweeper etc to get rid of old ones but its not always an option. I had to reinstal whole windows when i upgraded to 12.11 from 12.10 ati otherwise the system was hella unstable even after i used driver sweeper and fusion in safe mode.
Well after reinstaling windows 7, bios etc i didnt have any crashes or apphangs for 5 days now. I also switched from my pci sb recon 3d card to onboard audio cuz recent creative drivers give me alot of problems with guild wars 2 sounds(it lags, somtimes i dont have some sounds like shout etc) just want to note it works fine outisde gw2 so its not the card problem :P. Im using 12.11 newest beta and my card is oced 1050 core 1200 memory(cuz i have bad cooling on it and i need to rma it so i rather not fry the memmory). Card is stable so far max temp was around 77c (only for moment on swamp fractal it have some kind of buged graphic somwhere there) and its on 52% coolers. Card usualy stays in 68-70 c range (and well thoes cards can easy work on 80c). I usualy had random freezes while porting or simply walking around now it seems its either gone or droped in rate almost to 0 (im doing daily fractals so at least 7 ports + around 10 to diff towns locations daily). On the other hand i still have problem with artifacts (flicerking blueish textures) but it seems its a problem with software and amd said they are working on it (still im getting 670 gtx after christmas).
I think it might be related to ati drivers ( their drivers suck in general). So far 3 of my friends noticed they have more fps after doing it. I dont have any way to check what is causing this but i can cut it down to driver problem or conflict (no way this is hardware with an easy “fix” like this). Well at least now i know why somtimes i had 30 and other time 40 fps in wvw zergs:P. Would be cool if anyone more ppl with ati cards could check it.
BUmp. My friend just checked it (he have diff system but ati card as well but not 7xxx model). AND YOU KNOW WHAT ??:P he gets around 10 fps more as well if he skips the menu. You should try it!. It seems the menu might leave some stuff in the memmory or so. Not only the game get around 10 fps more in all locations it also seems i get less kittenering while moving camera (fps drops are lower and get back to max much faster). Im pretty sure its not my hardware now so its either a driver conflict or in game bug. You should try it and you just might get more fps.
Ok so recently i noticed that somtimes when i log in lions arch (lets take trading post for example) i have 30 fps there and somtimes its over 40+. After hella lot of tests i found out a weird thing. IF i skip the menu with char select etc ( i press enter fast so the flag etc wont even load) i have higher fps of about 10 and if i let it load completly and then enter game i have lower fps …. I tested this around 50 times and its 100% accurate. I thought my hardware might be bad but it passes all test 100% ok and never had a prob with diff game. If i relog in game while fast clicking (no loading flag again) i can change overflow with the same high fps. But if i relog and let the flag load the fps drop and i need to restart the game if i want it to get higher again. Seems like an odd bug. I wonder if the menu loads anything or have memmory leaks or stuff?
I just tested one more thing. When entering char select menu when i enter options i can see it shows 50fps in the menu but if i press escape before the flag and all details load i get 60 fps shown in the menu (thoes 60 stays after that even if i close and reopen options). I think i had this thing since the begining but its hard to tell. Thoes 10 fps is around the ammount im missing in game when waiting for menu to load xD. It seems odd and i can only notice this in lions arch or other intense areas (like wvw 10 fps more ftw) cuz in normal situations like dungeons etc i have alot of fps so i wont rly notice a 10 fps drop. Could anyone test it? It seems like an odd bug or driver conflict but i have no idea what could a menu possibly do to cut my fps by 10
Not using overlay. Thoes damn freezes are so annyoing and i cant even isolate them cuz i get no error massage…. They are pretty random as well 7 days of game play 0 crashes. A small walk in the grove boom crash.
In my case i dont have any log in windows (just the one i pasted that says that gw2 stoped responding. My problem is hard to replicate cuz i didnt even have freez for 7 days in a row ( and i played alot) and then i got random freez while walking in the grove …. it was not even changing areas or loading.
Um did you have any error massages after thoes frezes crashes or 0 like me? And did it only crash the game (ctrl,alt,del helped) or it was full system crash?. My 7850 is oced to 1010 core atm and 1200 memmory. So far i only have apphang thing with guild wars 2 and i know that 7xxx series is crapy( i have flicerking textures as well) and i plan to switch it for 670gtx after christmas. I just hope its the video card fault that would be easy to fix not some kind of driver conflict with my mobo,sound or cpu….
After 7 days of non freezes i got another one today …. I was just simply running in the grove and poof !!! My screen is frozen i can hear the music. I can speak on ts and myt system is ok ctrl+alt+del fixes the problem. I didnt even get error and system view says that gw2 Application Hang and nothing else. I reinstaled windows 7, got newest drivers for mobo and card. My system seems stable (24 prime,memtest etc). If it was some kind of system failure ram for example i should get a perma freez for the whole system or a blue screen right? Anyone found a fix for this problem ?
After 7 days of non freezes i got another one today …. I was just simply running in the grove and poof !!! My screen is frozen i can hear the music. I can speak on ts and myt system is ok ctrl+alt+del fixes the problem. I didnt even get error and system view says that gw2 Application Hang and nothing else. I reinstaled windows 7, got newest drivers for mobo and card. My system seems stable (24 prime,memtest etc). If it was some kind of system failure ram for example i should get a perma freez for the whole system or a blue screen right? Anyone found a fix for this problem ?
Just tested icon on my netbook and the same key combo bugs in word for example and writes sssssssssss or wwwwwwwwwww :p. It seems this keyboard is just bad and i cant even take it appart to look inside….
Nope i dont have it bound to any key. It just works when you press s+w or w+2 at the asme time. If i press w to run and then 2 or smtn it wont bug. It seems to work only with w+2 and s+w combo . . .
Haha it seems my icon7 is not fit for gaming;p i pluged my old key(icon is usb only but aht should not matter) and i dont have this bug. It seems that icon blocks with the combo of thoes 4 keys. I need a gaming keyboard :P
When i press 2 + W at the same time my char starts autorunning forward (it stucks till you press w again) s+w gives backward run:P. It seems its the same bug as running and picking stuff up.
Everyone get that walking bug. Its a combo if you use to many actions(i can eays reproduce it with my warrior) and you need to press the key which direction you are walking to stop. It thouight it might be my keyboard or mouse switched both for test and it didnt help. Its not lag at all i dont even get small delays on skills. I got this from few patches now and it seems its messed coding again. If you do to many actions (usualy pick smtn up fight etc) the char will freez on moving.
Well i dont even know if thoes are drivers crashing or smtn. All i only got the apphangb1 error and other times after i shut down the game i get 0 errors. My card is currently oced to 1050/1200 1.145v. I tried underclocking, stock clocsk with higher voltage and even uping them only a bit. Freezes stay the same.
Im still having random freezes as well. I can ctr+alt+del and close the game. Last time i got “apphangb1” error after that. My hardware is fine and wont crash/freez in other games and benchamrks. Gw2 never froze my cpu pernament i can just exit and play again but its annyoing when it happens in a fractal for example….
Well i know its not but there is smtn wrong with drivers then or the game code itself. And im getting random freezes as well not sure if thoes things are realted.
And today my game just froze again. At 4th (bonus) fractal after the loading screen went complete my game froze before even all graphic would be loaded. I saw my character and some non completed textures around. As always i can ctr+alt+del and close the game. Windows dosent freez, my memmory usage wont spike neither do cpu usage. Ran memtest86+ for 17 h 3 days ago and 0 errrors, prime95 for 15 h shows no error as well and my max gpu temp while playing is around 70 and cpu 64c (they were lower on fractals). Anyone else having problems like this ? Im currentyl reinstaling 2 windows with latest drivers for mobo and gpu, made voltage for my cpu a bit higher and less hopy (disabled spread and made it stay at around 1.150 all the time). It cant rly be a hardware failure on my side cuz the cpu would crash after intense tests like prime or intelburnin test (if this was the cpu,ram,mobo or psu problem) and it would not be able to run furmark,vantage etc without a problem if that was my gpu. Oh and i got an
“apphangb1” for guildwars 2 after i closed it with task.
Tested drivers from 12.4 to newst 12.11 beta. Lines in ascalonian catacombs and less visiable lines in fractal of the mist epic dredge suit/anicnet elemental one. I have thoes only there so it cant be a hardware problem or it would occur in other locations,games etc. Anyone got any ideas?
Well i cant go higher then 4.2 only cuz mine i7-3770 is not the K version so i can only mess with the turbo rate and it goes as far as 42 for all cores. I could up the bus but that might mess up my rig so i dont see a point in this. And as for no noticable boost in performance i tested it from 3.9 to 4.2 ghz with lowest graphic so my card was not choking and the boost is marginal. Gw2 just sux in terms of optimalization and there is pretty much nothing we can do to change at this stage.And ye tera might not be the best example for mass pvp but planestide2 for example is and it works better then guild wars 2 as well.
560ti can run the game on almsot max same for equivalent 7850 from ati ( which i dont recomend cuz of kittenload of bugs with drivers,artifacts etc). 630 will give you low settings and not full hd for sure.
You should probably look more into this. 7xxx series have problems with graphic but never heard that 5850 had flickerking as well. I can pretty much set everything to lowest and still get some flashing and thoes lines are even more visible with no textures. I think ill try reinstaling windows but after new amd and mother board drivers go live. I just dont belive that it have anything to do with hardware cuz so many ppl have the same kitten problems. In my case it could only be motherboard or graphic card (but hell lines only in 2 places and flickering in like few games … that just cant be hardware).
Btw as well as flickers i got thoes black lines in ascalonian catacombs ( they are pernament there tried underclocking. changing drivers and gw2 repair and they are still there) and somtimes i have thoes in fotm drednought suit/ancien elemental fractal. I had thoes only there where ascalonian is always “corrupted”. I dont think its my hardware cuz all my textures should be like this and same goes for other games and its only thoes 2 locations.
Ye some drivers gives less flicker (12.3 almost none). Overclocking the card also makes them faster and harder to see so your hd 7950 should display them even faster then mine 7850 so you wont rly notice them at some drivers. I just hope they either fix it with 12.12 and if not im returning the card and getting nvidia. Worst thing is that thoes cards might be fauly for the most of series but amd wont say anythign about it cuz they would lose alot of profit. Eh my first and lats ati card.
Wow i didnt know it works like this . It just means that gw2 engine is well …. you know what i want to say.
Most normal users wont cross the 4.5 ghz margin for OC (and why would they for 1 game?). I just wonder that some ppl claim to get stable 40+ fps in wvw with oc around 4.5ghz. I can go to 4.2 max with mine i7-3770 (partialy locked) an as far as i can see there is little to none fps gain from going over 4ghz (i got lik 1-3 fps more at best and im not sure). I just dont belive thoes extra 300 mhz would give me boost of over 10 + fps ( yeah i dip to 25-28 somtimes so it should be over 10+ to get me stable 30-40 ). I even tried going 8gb 1866 ram with tight timings (mine board just wont work with 16 gb of 1866mhz ram on current bios and the newest one is buged so i wont use it yet) and that gave 0 fps boost. Well a better card would probly give around 5 fps even at wvw (faster card memmory and stuff). They failed hard with the engine where the graphic is not that great and it needs stronger cpu then TERA online for example where the graphic is much better . . .
Shees i would like to see a cpu clocked to 5ghz that have a bottleneck here….
Im running an i7-3770 turbo to 4.1 ghz and i never saw it go over 80% usage even at thoes kittenload huge karka events or wvw with around 200 ppl. My gpu on the other hand (7850 clocked) chokes at some points in pve (80-99% usage) as well as in thoes big wvw battles. I have around everything on max expect shadows on med or off in wv,w,reflections off ( this eats kittenload of gpu and it seems buged at max) and postprocesing off (i dont like that shiny stuff). My avarage fps in smaller wvw is around 40-50. The lowest i saw was in one of thoes huge keep fights that was around 22-28 but it was lt was like hell itself there (soooo many ppl and effects). Getting faster ram then 1600 mhz is a waste of cash (tested 1333 vs 1866 and got 0 fps diffrence). OH and dont get ati 7xxx series card. They have alot of issues like flashing terain, artifacts, flicerkign etc ( i have thoes as well same like kittenload of ppl in this and other games). Just dont get overpriced cpu as the game is still not optimalized ( i get around 5 fps more if i play on lowest settings vs max).
Well alot of ppl have probm with this series and they start to think that it might be series 7xxx hardware fault and that would suck kitten. Even for drivers only they should have fixed it long ago. You buy the “not the cheapest” card and get kittenload of problems with so many games . . .
Well no fairly new cpu around 3.4-3,8 ghz wont choke on gw2 ppl claiming that you need 4.5 ghz in wvw are fairly ignorant or their cpu is badly optimalized with drivers etc. But well if you have an i7 not overclocking it even a bit would be a sin.
All thoes ppl caliming that gw2 stays at 60 fps at max setings at full hd yeah sure . . . if you run area free of ppl not orr events and such. Alot of preformance comes from drivers. Somtimes older drivers gives 10+ fps somtimes its the newer ones. And no all that ppl caliming that gw2 eats your cpu alive . . . .i have core i7-3770 turbo to 4.1k never i had more usage then 80% even at thoes huge karka event or wvw fights. Its my hd7850 clocked to 1050 core, 1300 mem thats getting choked at wvw and some events (80-99 gpu usage). If you want to play at smooth rate around 4h on i5 or i7 series is just right you wont rly see improvment from getting it to 5k if your drivers are up to date. 670gtx or hd7950 sounds around right to max gw2 on full hd and still get decent frame rates in zergs. Note that reflections and shadows on ultra re buged right now and they will give you fps drops when you turn around(even some dev confirmed it on forum). And for anyone dont touch ati hd7xxx series. They give nice preformance but the drivers(or half of the cards) are kitten. Half of ppl using anything from hd7850 to 7970 gets flicering,blueish artifacts etc in guild wars and few other games. I myself rmd the card 3 times and all of em had the same flicering artifacts bugs and texture bugs that gets either lesss or worse with some drivers. And no its not my cpu problems cuz my friend gtx670 had no prob in my rig.
560 ti or a bit more expensive 660 on an auction. Just dont get hd7xxx series they have alot of problems with gw2 (either half of the cards are faulty or its the drivers). Alot of ppl (myself as well) have graphic bugs, flashing artifacts and flickering in some games and gw2 is one of them. There is tone of ppl that have problems with anything from 7850 to 7970 so your better off with nvidia.
Im getting random black lines as well on my 7850 with 12.11. I got them once in fractals (the one with epic dredge suit) and i have them pernamently in ascalonian catacombs. All the other terain is fine but when i enter ascalonian catas there are lines on the floor. I tried diff chars, restaring the cpu and game and even downlocking,overcloking my card.
Anyone elese get thoes kitten black lines on the floor ?
I was getting them around beta and in realase randomly but after a patch they were gone and now they are back again. So far i have them pernamently in ascalonian catacombs and they randomly spawns in soem dungeons. I dont get them in open world. I can exit AC and they are not there. Restarting the cpu,game didnt help at all.
i7-3770 -4ghz
16 gb ram
Hd 7850 oced to 1035 core ( its the same with oced, underclocked etc) 12.11 drivers.
I get flickering on this and thoes stupid blueish artifacts somtimes but its probly buged amd drivers since alone of ppl have problem with 7000 series.
Ssd120 gb vertex 3
be quiet 530w psu.
asus z77m -pro motherboard.
I cant reproduce the lines in other dungeons cuz they are rly random ( i got one in fractals after like 40 + runs ? or so in the dredge room).
The one in Ascalonian catacombs seems pernament. Game repair dosent fix it and its there everytime i enter even after cpu restart.
Btw if anyone find a fix for this pls share it. Its quite annyoing the card gives pretty good fps on high/med graphic but thoes flickers are realy kitten annyoing and non driver update helped so far. This kitten only happens in gw2 from all the games i played so far.
umbra occlusion works bad so far. Everyone have the same problm with slow loading mobs,players models. You cant rly do anything on your side and its not a bug its just set on low model limit.
Ps. Your pc cant handle 2 times the game you wont even get good stable fps if you go with everything high and full hd on events etc…
HD series seems to have bad drivers for gw2. I have hd7850 and i have flickering,white blueish artifacts as well. Some drivers make it worse or better but they are still there. There is tone of ppl on the internet that have the same problems from 7850 to 7970. All other games, benchmarks run fine.
I cant realy say if it fixed anything cuz i had strange freezes from the start of gw2. Game just freezes, sounds loops and i need to ctrl+alt+del and shut it down. No report etc and i can just run it again then. From patch to patch is either more freezes or they stop for a while (or at least i didnt had the luxury to get them on some patch version lol:P). My freezes are totaly random they might occur in loading screen when i port or just while i move a char(dont need to be a high graphic intense battle or so). I cant realy isolate the problem my cpu is fully stable everything tested over 24h for every component ( did 4 diff memmory tests:P) and non other game gives my any problems even after 12+h gaming sesions (no life lol :P). I did this thing with command line and well see i hope it at least lower the rate of freez
