Guild Wars 2

If the game was at fault, this issue would be rampent, but most people aren’t getting hard resets or blue screens.

These style issues are generally either driver problems or hardware faults. Software can never directly make your computer hard reset and if it did, everybody would suffer.

Driver Detective is a very bad piece of software, it doesn’t even detect the correct drivers for many machines.

I would advise that you go to the site of the manufacturer of the hardware in question. if you have an Nvidia GPU, go to http://www.nvidia.com and get the driver from there. if you have an ATi/AMD card, go to http://ati.amd.com

If you are running any intel stuff (chipset/network card etc) i sugget using their handy driver update utility which you can use here http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect

As for sound it can vary depending on who the provider is. a majority of onboard sound cards use Realtek chips, if this is the case for you, you can get them from here http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/ be sure to choose the correct one, if your pc says “Realtek HD Audio” you want the high defenition codecs, if it just says Realtek AC’97, get the AC97 drivers.

Hope that helps.

Have you tried making sure all your drivers are up to date? Chipset and Sound etc too?

Also when it crashes does the game just cause a “program has crashed” style windows message or does it really freak out?

Secondly are you running a 32bit or 64bit operating system? If so, which one?

Apologies, i did overreact slightly there, I have been seeing a lot of people getting angry about it and got a bit carried away, im glad to see someone such as yourself is providing as much information as possible

However i do realise there are a lot of FPS issues at the moment, the game is very cpu and gpu intensive, understandably to a point as it is a very very pretty MMO. Im sure they will optimize things over time (also hardware will catch up too) and things will improve.

One saving grace may be if they choose to implement DirectX 11. As there is such a huge amount of high quality textures, the texture management in DX11 is much better than DX9 so this will provide a nice little boost in performance. So, fingers crossed on that one!

try right clicking on gw2setup and choosing Run as Administrator" its possible that the User Account Control is interfering with it.

Just did a bit of googling for you and came across this guide

http://hexus.net/tech/tech-explained/cpu/9808-intel-core-2-duo-basic-overclocking-guide-beginners/

it is specific to your type of processor so it should be all the information you need. Read it thoroughly, follow it’s advice, try not to push things too far and most of all, good luck

On a personal note, ive found Core 2 processors generally go between 3Ghz and 3.4Ghz quite happily without getting too hot, try not to go beyond this!

It’s not futile at all. I realise you have some issues with the game and you are evidently raging about it, but many of us are still thoroughly enjoying the game and see such a purchase as worth the money.

I realise they have issues at the moment, but the MMO is brand new, there will be issues, you just have to give them time to sort it out and provide them with any information they need. If they don’t respond to your thread, it doesn’t mean they arent looking at it. I made a post in one of the low fps style threads and one of the moderators moved it in to another thread which was more appropriate for it, so it shows that they are actively looking at posts and trying to organise them as such to make it easier for them to solve the problems.

so please, stop ranting and throwing your toys out of the pram because things aren’t how you’d want them and co-operate, it will get you further.

The FX chips are terrible in comparison to the sandybridge processors. Performance for the price you get less than you actually pay for with them. While the 2500k might be more expensive, the price/performance ratio is better, also the CPU is unlocked making overclocking to very high speeds very easy.

As Amarinth says, the i7 upgrade is a little too extreme for gaming machines, hyperthreadings advantage is minimal to none, but the modern i5 processors are very good quad cores

Collectors edition.

you don’t have to farm your level area unless you are after claws and blood etc. If you just want armor or cloth etc, you can farm lower level mobs too as they will drop level appropriate gear, which you can then salvage for materials if you wish.

Does Alt-Tabbing out of the game then back again fix it for you? If so you need to alter your power management settings in the control panel to maximum performance. (presuming you have an nvidia card here)

The only other thing which would cause the game to slow down so drasticly is overheating. My card runs at 80 degrees C when playing GW2 with a clean fan :P

if the arrow is pointing down it means that thing is below you, if its pointing up its above you, if it doesnt have an arrow (when you’re stood next to it) that means its roughly on the same level as you

Some caves are very long, also some are under water so don’t forget to check there!

Hope that helps!

Both POI are in caves, this is not a bug, have completed that map. Some are tricky to find, the one in lions arch North West of the Traders Forum had me confused for a bit, but got it in the end.

Arenanet have made this at least a little bit challenging so people actually have to think about stuff and not just mindlessly run around getting stuff. Lets leave world of warcraft to do that :P

Sudden shutdowns are usually a result of a short on the circuitry or overvolting of certain components, which may only present itself when the temperature rises (bad solder joints etc can be like this). The behaviour is a result of the PSU triggering a protection mechanism designed to stop your PC frying.

I would try stress testing your CPU for a long period of time (Prime95 is good for this), see if that does the same thing, if not, do the same with your GPU (Furmark creates some serious heat :P) and see if it happens then.

If either one crashes however, you are likely going to have to replace the whole board if it is a laptop unless you can get it repaired in a service centre for Asus.

Ive had an issue with mine caused by the power management setting in the nvidia CP. If it is set to “adaptive” it can randomly (usually coming out of loading screens) drop in to 2d clock speeds and stay there, causing horribly choppy gameplay. Set this option to “maximum performance”, reboot and try again. Its an annoying thing as it keeps the card at full speed most of the time raising heat and power usage, but its the only solution i’ve found. Nvidia couldnt help, got me to submit a bug report, also reported it on here.

Only other temporary solution is as Paul.4081 says, by alt-tabbing out and back in again.
hope this helps,

What’s your cpu usage at the time of the GPU usage drop? It’s possible you are becoming CPU limited at that point so the GPU is waiting for your cpu to catch up

Server: Ruins of Surmia
Guild Name: Exotic Dancer [ED]

as with Rpgtabbycat.5869 above, started the Guild Workshop upgrade yesterday, today it has dissapeared as have the points i spent to make it. The guild log still shows the fact i started it, but nothing is in the build queue. I couldn’t say for sure if this is a graphical issue with the build queue or if it has really stopped building it.

It seems tonight (08/09/2012) i have lost everything that i was selling prior to the maintenance the trading post underwent earlier. No matter how I sort my auctions, they just aren’t there. That’s about 1g worth of stuff just gone and as im still quite new to the game, that’s half of my money gone.

Not sure if this is classed as “quite” the same issue, but it seems to be related to the NVidia drivers and how DirectX reacts between loading screens and areas.

Usual FPS varies between 30-60fps constantly throughout the game depending on area and number of people, however sometimes when exiting from loading screens, the nvidia driver appears to get “stuck” in the 2d low power clock speeds, resulting in the FPS dropping to ~10fps.

This can be resolved temporarily by alt-tabbing out of the game, then alt-tabbing back again which restores the 3D Performance mode profile, or the other option is setting the power management profile in the nvidia control panel to Maximum Performance.

Guild Wars 2 and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are the only 2 games i have ever experienced this on, same symptoms (post loading screen) and it has never been resolved to date.

I have issued a bug submission to nvidia after their customer care failed to help with the issue, i hope the information im providing gives enough detail to get past this issue, or at least enough so you guys can work together on resolving it.

Full System Specs:
Point of View Geforce GTX 570 1280Mb (non charged edition) Using 306.02 drivers.
Intel i7 920 @ 3.6Ghz
Asus P6B Deluxe V2 Motherboard
6GB OCZ DDR3 1800mhz memory (running at 1798Mhz)
Creative X-Fi Elite Pro sound card
Windows 7 64bit Home Premium Operating system
DirectX up to date as of August via the microsoft DirectX Websetup tool.

Edit: Now i’m at home i can post it my dxdiag.