Guild Wars 2

I recently built a new PC, and I’ve installed the bare minimum of programs such as google chrome, messenger etc, plus Guild Wars 2.

Everything was running fine until a few days ago. Whilst running around in blazeridge steppes in a pretty calm area, I got an incredibly brief 1 second or so freeze on screen. What’s strange is that the num pad light on my keyboard turned off, I was unable to input any keystrokes, and my mouse cursor was also unresponsive. After this one second period, whatever key I happen to be pressing “Sticks” in the game. For example, say I’m running forward with the W key, I get the freeze, the key then sticks resulting in automatic running which I have to stop by holding W and S.

This has since happened probably every day at seemingly completely random times
It’s only a minor issue, but sometimes happens several times quite close together, and I don’t want it to happen half way up a jumping puzzle or in WvW or something. I should stress that I have not seen this happen in any other game, and indeed GW2 was also running fine until about 3 days ago when this started happening. The general performance has remained the same at a comfortable 59-61fps.

I thought maybe the halloween update may have corrupted my install and so yesterday did a complete reinstallation which does not seem to have solved the issue (though it has only happened once today, while talking to a merchant)

Any input would be greatly appreciated – Sorry if my question seems long winded and strung out, but it’s a hard thing to explain, and I wanted to give an accurate representation. I’m at a loss.

My PC specs are:

Intel i5 3570k
Sapphire HD6850
8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Motherboard
Corsair 600W PSU
Thermaltake Frio Cooler
Seagate 500GB Barracuda 7200RPM
4 Case fans

Temperatures for the CPU are typically 40-50c while in game, and the GPU probably around 60c, everything is completely stable other than my stated issue.

Thanks! let me know if I’ve forgotten anything.

Yep.

Just used the 1000 influence letter for finishing the personal story, and got nothing.
It doesn’t even show up in the Guild’s history. Annoying.