Guild Wars 2

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge

Mine usually downloads new content anywhere from 2MB/s to 3MB/s which is on the high end of what my ISP provides me, so I’m not thinking it’s the launcher actually throttling anything.

nVidia typically has better vendors, eVGA comes to mind.

CPU: i7-2600K with very modified thermal electric watercooler.
RAM: 8GB DDR3-1600 Mushkin Blackline Enhanced
HDD: OCZ Vertex 3 120GB / Western Digital Black 1TB
GPU: Asus GTX 690
PSU: Corsair TX750 V2
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Display: 3x BenQ XL2420T @ 5760×1080
Razer Blackwidow, Razer Mamba

/wank?

It’s definitely a few generations behind. Only going to get more and more difficult to keep up without a pretty much wholesale upgrade.

Dukey.6085:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhqBuCT6Gc

This is PAX2011 footage of the hud working on 3 screens, Chat box and everything else in the right place, so what went wrong??… Interesting if I may say so :P Do we have any feedback from NCSoft or Arena net at all regarding this? From what I understand this appears to be lack of programming skills or people taking short cuts to make these things happen when clearly they were working in a earlier build, when Surround gaming has been around for 3 years now and Nvidia are plastering GW2 on their site promoting this, yet lack of support seems like poor form to be honest, don’t get me wrong I love the game, but these software companies need to realise that surround gaming is the future and is growing at a rapid rate, and lack of support just means less customers in the future..

Yeah it was the tech demo videos of triple display setups for gw2 that prompted me to go the route I did with a new GTX 690 and 3 new BenQ XL2420T monitors. Granted the game still looks great, just these little details, it’s like finding sand in your scallops!

If your video card is factory overclocked (especially if it’s a 5xx series, my old 570 would just die at random until I did it…total waste of money) use something like eVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner to downclock it to the speeds of a standard model. Just go to newegg or w/e to get the correct clockspeeds for a non overclocked card.

Nomaq.3521:

Mine is Event 6008 The previous system shutdown at 12:33:35 a.m. on ?7/?09/?2012 was unexpected.

Event Log:

Binary data:

In Words

0000: 000907DC 00070005 00210000 02780023
0008: 000907DC 00060004 0021000C 02780023
0010: 00000960 0000003C 00000001 00000960
0018: 00000000 000004B0 00000001 00000000

In Bytes

0000: DC 07 09 00 05 00 07 00 Ü…….
0008: 00 00 21 00 23 00 78 02 ..!.#.×.
0010: DC 07 09 00 04 00 06 00 Ü…….
0018: 0C 00 21 00 23 00 78 02 ..!.#.×.
0020: 60 09 00 00 3C 00 00 00 `…<…
0028: 01 00 00 00 60 09 00 00 ….`…
0030: 00 00 00 00 B0 04 00 00 ….°…
0038: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……..

Also some bug check ID 1001

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0×00000116 (0xfffffa800d59f010, 0xfffff880103b4004, 0xffffffffc000009a, 0×0000000000000004). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 090712-13213-01.

This is a BSOD recovery event log. The Stop 0×0116 as indicated at the bottom of your event in the bugcheck section is a video card failure. Update the driver if you haven’t already done so and if still having issues read this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/crash-lockup-debug-how/63320-stop-0x116-video_tdr_error-troubleshooting.html

People need to start their own threads rather than tagging on with a “I have this same problem!” Because you do not have this same problem at all.

Going back to the original poster, a BSOD will show in the event log, very very very rarely will it not. You are also prompted with a recovery notification when the OS starts up again. The complete absence of one is what still leads me to believe the computer is shutting itself off/rebooting itself as those will not show in the event log aside from event 41.

Mencae.5678:

Sorry, I had it confused with this (which may be worth trying for some 32bit users too) http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/11377-Force-Windows-32-bit-Support-More-Than-3-2-GB-RAM-Include-Windows-7-Vista-2003-XP

PAE will not change the virtual memory allocation though so you will still have out of memory issues. You could combine /PAE with /3GB if you wanted to. But I don’t recommend it as the 3GB switch puts a clamp on your kernel’s available virtual memory and could lead to instability.

Truly the best option is to upgrade to a 64bit OS. As I mentioned in another thread, Windows 7 32-bit users can upgrade freely to Windows 7 64-bit without needing to purchase a new copy. The CD-Key/License is fully transferable between versions, legally and at no cost. You need only obtain a copy of the install media, however you feel comfortable doing so (torrent etc.) and enter your 32-bit cd-key when prompted during a fresh installation.

The /3GB doesn’t allow more than 3GB usage, it allows Windows to address up to 3GB of virtual memory to an application and the remaining 1GB to the kernel. As opposed to the typical split of 2GB/2GB. Has nothing to do with RAM.

Ciao.

/holyshiggins15chars!

DreamWalkerD.6147:

Only reason Henge is doing so well is the two best WvWvW guilds “Ruin” and “Team Legacy” left that server the night before. So no accomplishment there.

Which night are you referring to? Because this has been going on for the better part of a week since they changed our pool from Sorrow and whatever else to this pairing.

Did they also cite “queue times!” as an issue? lol

Unless someone answers with a better one I believe exploits@arena.net is your best bet?

What constitutes “being in character?” Since even just chatting normally will avoid the inactivity boot indefinitely until you are doing absolutely nothing for like 15 minutes straight.

So unless “being in character” is being in a coma, pretty sure that’s how it’s meant to be.

Elementalist!

no really!

I am totally not making that up!

SkaroKhan.9187:

Henge of Denravi to my knowledge is the dominant one at the moment we generally own 2/3 nodes and at night we usually have all of them give or take a camp or 2.

Or today where it was 780-0-0 or something ridiculous.

Henge of Denravi has been having our way with Shiverpeaks and Blackgate for the last week. So that’s one…

I’m all for creative freedom and freedom of expression etc. but how is standing in a town dancing for 8 hours supporting the game? :p

I find it fun and exciting! Like accidentally walking into a strongly ethnic part of town!

shalldoom.8673:

Guys try this fix, ( got it from Guildwars2guru) http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=9583842&linkID=9240697

worked for me!!

Link is dead, maybe just link the gw2guru thread instead?

wow ok I made a joke about it and it did it twice to me now lol. Very upsetting when it happens.

Especially ones that cause solar flares.

AshleySegovia.3948:

Hey guys – I’m not entirely sure why connecting directly to the modem has resolved the issue for some players, but if you’re still getting the black screen issue I am curious if anyone could test this so I can see how many other players are able to resolve this issue in this fashion.

There’s 2 people now who’ve done it and fixed their issue lol. What is this?!

As I suggested in the other thread shinoba made regarding the router thing. Perhaps there’s something in GW2 that is streaming data to the client or a sync that occurs before or during a scene being rendered, that if it is interrupted the scene fails and the game crashes?

Only like 80% dubious now, wow.

I seem to recall a cacophony of irritating little hints and tips windows popping up for the first like 2 days of playing the game whenever a new element was introduced. So I’m not sure where you’re getting the “no tutorials” thing from?

There is also a relatively well maintained wiki link on the main website. Last but not least, there’s a player base who you can ask questions of.

Because AFK players are just consuming resources that could be put to better use serving other customers who are active? Double that for AFK players in the non-overflow servers?

About the only thing I can think of is that the game is waiting for some data to sync or if information is being streamed to the client prior to rendering the scene and the router is stopping that from happening.

But I literally just pulled that possible explanation out of my butt, it’s just as likely to be leprechauns or solar flares.

As I said, I am dubious lol.

edosborne.8376:

I am actually gutted for you!

If gutted means “laughing hysterically” I am too.

I’m dubious, that just seems coincidental to me…extremely coincidental of course, but yeah…that makes absolutely zero sense lol.

No clue, never had anything but the launcher window open up before even when I was repairing.

It’s called occlusion culling. Objects deemed to be non-visible/blocked by an object are not rendered, in a city objects are frequently in your field of view and objects behind are either not rendered or rendered at a low resolution. In an open field your view distance is much higher increasing the number of renderable assets and depending on your LOD Distance setting far away objects will be rendered at a higher resolution as they are not obscured by anything.

The FPS Drop would just be coincidental as in a city you’re relying more on cpu/memory performance than GPU as you are in a populated area, even more so in overflow.

Is it actually downloading the game or is it just doing a repair? Check your GW2 shortcut to see if the -repair flag is set. It will do it every time if it is.

bkpiazza.2018:

I do understand that. What I mean is, for instance when playing the secret world I could run it windowed at 1920×1080 leaving this side monitors open. Wondering if its possible to set the window size in GW2 basically.

Use Windowed mode and just resize the frame like a normal window by dragging the corners.

For surround you need a 4th Accessory display for your non-gaming related stuff. When surround is enabled, literally the 3 surround displays act as one very large display. Or run the game in Windowed mode as opposed to Windowed Fullscreen but you’ll have the window frame around the edges.

Corona Flare.5896:

Tradewind no it has a nvidia gforce 460m. I was just wanting to make sure you knew that it was nvidia and intel.

You’re right, sorry was reading the Asus product page for the G73J, looked the same so I clicked it. Still get the drivers from the Asus website for the G73S lol.

Ich würde nicht sicher sein dass!

draeath.8536:

Keeping in mind all the time and bandwidth you’ll waste doing that.

I can only think of maybe 3 or 4 places in this world where that may actually be a problem?

Corona Flare.5896:

Well the G73s is an I7 intel but ill check asus website for video drivers to see if they have anything current.

Yeah but it’s using an AMD/ATI video card

drguild.2045:

I haven’t had any screen darkening issues like above on nvsurround.

I had all the other issues though.

Also a gameplay bug with camera.

In nvsurround camera movement is severely limited compared to a normal screen resolution.

You will notice this when you go close up to walls and on jumping puzzles that you cannot move the camera properly while in nvsurround and switching to a windowed mode you will get the full rotation possible.

As everytime I do a jumping puzzle I have to flip to windowed mode to do it due to this.

I had that problem earlier, but I updated to the 306 drivers and that seemed to fix it for me. Though I also did a fresh installation of GW2 at roughly the same time so that may have done it too.

Corona Flare.5896:

Yea I have a rosewill aluminum laptop cooler. Not sure if you seen the model of laptop is asus G73s. I wasnt sure if you have heard any problems with them overheating.

After looking quickly there’s a few threads about overheating problems with the G37S and driver issues if you’re using them straight from AMD as opposed to the ones supplied on the ASUS website. I would start there. Also it wouldn’t hurt to try and dust out the fans with some compressed air, as some people are indicating that 140F/60C+ for the video card is a bit too high for that particular model.

Corona Flare.5896:

Still trying to figure out why I havent had this problem with any other mmo. I mean star wars online I was on probably 9 hrs straight with no problems. Its kinda strange.

Some games have different requirements and put more or less strain on some components or demand different support from product drivers.

If it’s a laptop that complicates things. It’s even more likely to be a heat related issue and the laptop is literally cutting power to save itself. As opposed to being underpowered or strained power supply, since I generally accept the idea that most laptop manufacturers aren’t that silly. Unlike desktop computers where people can upgrade things freely and run into PSU issues.

The heat may be generated in the other components within the laptop not just the gpu or cpu. Have you tried getting a laptop cooler?

Something like this?
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834992853

Also make sure it’s not sitting flat on a surface, elevate the rear of it to allow airflow under the chassis as well.

event id 6 is a BIOS firmware issue, that options that control your cpu are incompatible with the OS. Can try updating your BIOS from the manufacturer’s website. It “shouldn’t” be causing this problem though.

Just do what I did, rename the existing gw2.dat to something like gw2.dat.bak, run the launcher and let it redownload the game. Ends up about 2GB smaller than the original one from the beta. Can then just delete the old one.

Event id 41 is due to the computer losing power suddenly. I would look at trying a different power supply. My old sales partners would hate me for suggesting it but you could go buy a new one to test it out and return it later if it doesn’t solve the problem :P

The resolution of that TV is only 1680×1050, anything above that (ie. 1080p) is going to get kind of screwy.

Corona Flare.5896:

Brandi I looked in event viewer and found the time it went out. What should I look for in the event viewer to figure out why?

Look under Windows Logs > System and look for a big red X with the word Critical next to it around the time it shut down. If it’s not there, then likely there was no BSOD so it’s still overheating or power.

Ok the “Server IP” threw me off, it wants the IP of your computer to forward the port information to it.

You’ll need to get that IP address using ipconfig. Or check your router’s DHCP leases to find your computer’s IP address.

Leave it blank, and it will just assume it’s for all networks.

As a note for anyone reading, your Windows 7 32bit CD Key will work fine with a Windows 7 64bit installation, they are completely transferable and it is entirely legal and free if you have a legitimate copy of Windows 7 32bit. You need only obtain a copy of the 64bit OS from whatever source you feel is appropriate and perform a clean installation. In some cases the media that came with the computer or if you purchased it from a retail shop will have both the 32bit and 64bit versions available on the same DVD.

RealTemp or SpeedFan