Guild Wars 2

I have a very interesting graphics/skin bug using the Gavebeorn Breather of the Afflicted in combination with a Shadow Armor Set (actually it’s a Carrion Exalted Set transmuted to a Shadow Set, don’t know if this is also important to reproduce the bug).

When going into the water whilst wearing the breather, it destroys the skin of the gloves and the shoes, by overwriting it with the skin of the breather (or at least that’s what I guess is happening). Please find attached a screen shot of this phenomenon.

The skin can only be brought back to normal by un- and reequipping the armor.

When not wearing the breather, the skin remains intact when going into the whater.

Gempulse.9463: I think, that in your case it could also be caused by the aquatic helm. What kind of breather are youe wearing?

Same with me, but at least I could play with the configuration mentioned above… Before activating these settings I couldn’t even log in

I will try to play around a bit with my bios, nvidia and chipset drivers though… Maybe some of my recent driver updates are fighting eachother…

I will also try to make a fresh installation of the whole operating system and drivers if that doesn’t help.

I just hope it’s not my hardware… The computer is new, and I would hate calling the support and telling them they have to bring me a new RAM

I already postet this in the Asura section. But still, here is my Elementalist

@Matt H: I have exactly the same screen of my Ele. I just couldn’t help but mashing the print key the moment I saw this. Looks quite funny with the tiny Asura in their midst xD

Here is my little Elementalist:

I would like to share a post with you, that could help to solve at least the crashes on client startup and the black screen issue:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/crashes-stopped-finally/first

I will also test this when I’m at home, but I doubt it will fix the corrupted file/archive errors for me. Still it’s more than worth a try

Hello,

thanks for sharing these links. The compatibility option “disable desktop composition” sounds very promising for me, given I mainly have these crashes on client startup recently.

I will try this when I’m back at home and share my experience with this solution.

Xinlinger.9615:

This is not a software related issue guys, it is a hardware issue..

Remove the cpu/gpu fan and clean it, until you see no more dusk in it..

Goodluck..

I’m sorry, but that’s not helpful at all… Not all people around here are stupid and don’t know how to clean their fan… If you read anything in that thread, you might have noticed that, but I will force myself to believe that you just wanted to help…

However… I have now cleaned up the drivers mentioned above and restored their original state (how it was before I tried to fix the client crashes). I could now start the game client, but after some time (about 7 minutes) it crashed again giving me the following log entry:

—> Crash <—
Assertion: A file was corrupted in the archive. Please run once with ‘-repair’!
File: ..\..\..\Game\Main\MainCli.cpp(584)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 2948
Cmdline: -isRelaunch
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 15754
When: 2012-10-16T16:08:01Z 2012-10-16T18:08:01+02:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:07:43
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: ELENAS-PC
IpAddr: 172.20.10.3
Processors: 4 [GenuineIntel:6:10:7]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 5186MB/ 8174MB 63%
Paged: 12556MB/16347MB 76%
Virtual: 2157MB/ 4095MB 52%
Load: 36%
CommitTotal: 3790MB
CommitLimit: 16347MB
CommitPeak: 3849MB
SystemCache: 5143MB
HandleCount: 28081
ProcessCount: 74
ThreadCount: 1054

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1570MB
WorkingSet: 1336MB
PeakWorkingSet: 1381MB
PageFaults: 4295622

For the full trace attached you will find the whole log entry for this crash.

I know that an error free memtest doesn’t necessarily imply a healthy hardware or softwar configuration and I won’t claim that my system is perfect because I can’t prove it. The bluescreens can even be caused by driver issues (I updated many drivers after the GW2 client started crashing to fix the client crashing, maybe I caused my system crashes with those updates, I will rollback today and see if it helps).

But even if those bluescreens have nothing to do with GW2 itself, there are still the “normal” game crashes 64bit system users are suffering from, since ANet patched the crashes for 32bit users.

My game started crashing on the 13th of October (first time I played after the patch). The crashes were limited to map switching, but the number of crashes increased with every try to repair my client until I couldn’t even start it any more.

My Logfile is talking a lot about currupted files, 30 to be precise, and every time after repairing the client it’s the same all over again… I never come past repairing and afterwards trying to log-in. Then the client crashes, I get offered to send a crash report and repair my client and the fun starts all over again. repairing → client crash → …

And that’s an issue many other users have since the last patch and this shouldn’t have anything to do with the hardware itself (or at least I hope that, because otherwise there would be many users out there with faulty hardware…)

Jhon.2064:

To support a previous post, according to my logs, the first time this issue occurred on my system was on Oct 11th. I’m an early start player who’s played pretty much every day since I activated my account.

Hope that helps. (Hope someone’s listening…)

Same here. My ArenaNet.log includes some minor crashes before the 11th of October, but those were mainly network based and some random crashes that happened only once.

Since the 11th of October (in the Logs the 13th because I didn’t really play on the 11th and 12th) the crashes with “corrupted file” /“corrupted archive” and some confusing other errors started occuring, increasing in number until my client didn’t start at all any more and was just showing crashes on client startup (what it still does).

Yesterday I tried again to repair my client resulting in a bluescreen (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL). Knowing that this error can have different sources, I didn’t think of GW2 causing that error first, so I started checking my system for hardware and/or software/driver issues, but didn’t find any.

After that, I tried again to clean my registry of GW2 related entries and started a fresh download of the client again (over night). This resulted again in a bluescreen (MEMORY_MANAGEMENT).

I started a memtest but didn’t find any hardware related errors until now. I will run a memtest again over night to be completely sure though. Still I have to mention, that the whole system is new (bought it about two months ago) and the system NEVER showed any kind of that behaviour before, running different kinds of “high end” games. It only shows it since the 11th of October and only with GW2.

What I noticed when reading my Logfiles (please see some posts above) was, that all crashes since the 11th of October show a Memory usage of about 60-80% (of 8GB RAM). Another thing I noticed is, that some crashes are caused by the game not being able to write to certain memory addresses.

I hope that helps a bit in finding the problem and fixing it.

Dear ANet Team!

Now, after having played flawlessly until the 11th of October (apart from some minor bugs when it comes to skill points), it isn’t even possible for me to start my game client any more.

Starting with the last update/patch, the game started crashing on a regular basis, especially when switching maps from Lion’s Arch to elsewhere. Also when changing to PvP maps (mists as well as WvWvW) the came crashes to desktop with the option to send a crash report to ANet. Apart from the crashing, also black screens are part of the daily business.

Repeatedly trying to repair my client didn’t do the trick (I even have the feeling it made it worse, judging from first just having some crashes and now not even being able to start the game).

Also cleaning up my registry of all kind of GW2 related entries and a fresh download of the game didn’t help either.

Attached you will find all relevant log-Files with the request to PLEASE fix this issue.

Thanks a lot and kind regards!

I already posted this in another thread because I didn’t see that there already is an existing thread for these issues. Sorry for that…

My problem is as follows:
I crafted a Carrion Exalted Set some days ago. When I put it on I noticed, that the masque (Carrion Exalted Masque) is invisible and I’m not able to change that, no matter how often I check/uncheck the box assigned to that armor piece.

Also restarting and repairing the game client didn’t help, so I guess this bug is persistent. I also found another user in this forum having the same problem, so I’m not alone with it.

Additional Information:
Server: Elona Reach [DE]
Character: Asura Elementalist
Sceen: -> If you need one I will attach one later, because I’m not at home right now

You just have to take care with that parrot. He is very very aggressive. He doesn’t just attack enemies in a certain range like e.g. the elementals do. He seems to even travel half of the map (OK, a bit overdone but still near to reality), just to draw your enemies attention to you.

This can be quite annoying when traveling. But still i like the parrot. He is so colourful and not bad when it comes to dmg.

Same here with my Asura. I guess they just didn’t add any sounds for that yet, thats why they use some sounds that are already existent…?

Hi. I have the same problem here. Just crafted a Carrion Exalted Set and also in my case, the masque is invisible and I’m not able to change that, no matter how often I check/uncheck the box assigned to that armor piece.

Also restarting and repairing the client didn’t help, so I guess that must be a “real” bug.

Additional information: I play an Asura, but (seeing the screen above) I don’t think that’s a race-related problem.