Guild Wars 2

Yea, OpenDNS doesn’t work. At least, not for everyone but the guy who said it did.

You don’t have to come back, just stay on the US server and play, if you can put up with the lag.

I can’t.

The workaround at the moment is to play on a US server.

It’s not very fun though, I just stopped because the lag is very bad.

It’s the same issue that we’re having in Switzerland.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/error-5-11-3-157-101-with-all-characters

Are you French or Swiss French? I’ve seen one person from France say they have the same issue, but it’s mostly people in Switzerland.

Thanks for the update Matt. Sorry for getting frustrated, it was my day off today and I’ve only been able to play with lag on US servers No excuse, mind.

Are you in the EU?

Switzerland by any chance? This was one of the two errors I’ve been getting all day. This one less frequently.

It’s nice that they can get moderators to delete posts about whether or not certain sites are working but no one can be bothered to give us a reply.

Dastragoth.8975:

I’m using my cell as a modem with 3G and it works… it’s definitely a swisscom issue. Thanks i just took infinity offer =)

Ugh, If I did that for 5 minutes my phone bill would be CHF 500.-

I’ll try to bear that in mind, sadly I’m only level 37 at the moment! It might be a while before I get near max level.

Eroth.1753:

I don’t understand where this hate for AMD is coming from. I have a X4 975 BE @ 4.0ghz and I’m hitting 70+ fps in PVE with best apperance and 40+ in W3 With a gtx 560ti.

Because you have the last decent generation of CPUs they made. Which in some games is outperformed by the i3s, as they are two generations newer.

Odin.8254:

ZaxanRazor.6235:

For those that want to, transferring to a US server still works and allows you to play. You have to cope with lag though and obviously not playing with friends for the moment.

Did they say in the forum what sites are not accessible since this morning? Literally the only thing I’ve had any problem with is GW2. All other sites and services are working as normal, from what I can see.

How long does it take for a transfer? And does transferring make you quit the guild? Say I want to come back tomorrow when the problem is resolved?

It doesn’t break Guilds, it takes about a minute for the transfer to take effect and you can transfer as often as you want while they’re still free. I trust Anet will give some notice as to when you’ll need to pay for them again – but I’m not 100% sure on that.

In the Nvidia Control Panel, make sure that triple buffering, VSync and Frame limiting is turned off.

Then, in the game settings, turn reflections and shadows off completely as well as vsync and anything to do with the frame limiter.

Also turning off High Detailed Characters makes a big difference.

For those that want to, transferring to a US server still works and allows you to play. You have to cope with lag though and obviously not playing with friends for the moment.

Did they say in the forum what sites are not accessible since this morning? Literally the only thing I’ve had any problem with is GW2. All other sites and services are working as normal, from what I can see.

System requirements are not an indicator of how taxing a game will be at certain settings.

What settings are you playing on?

Did you have to make a new thread?

I’ll put a different reply this time;

You’re playing on a laptop and the GPU is not so good. Do you have poor frames on lowest settings?

I don’t think that’s the same to be honest. The issue that the thread is discussing is quite old, and the official one that Swisscom are reporting is 4 days old, but them problem only started at about 1030 this morning.

GuyFawkes.2638:

Same problem here :>
Also from Switzerland and with Swisscom…-.-’

Why we dont talk in German? Is it not allowed here? because is think the problem exists 99% in Switzerland >:

I’m also English but living in Switzerland. My German doesn’t extend to technical computer discussion yet

And my Swiss German extends even less.

Luranni.9470:

Where’s the guy who said OpenDNS fixed it? And can he give us detailed instructions/report on how he got that to work?

I’d be interested in this too, I’ve tried both OpenDNS and GoogleDNS now and it makes no difference for me.

He might just get kicked out again when he tries to get into an instance or city.

I’m sure I remember having the same thing with GW1 and it was Anet that fixed it. I had pretty much the same exact tracert result too.

DynamiteDan.7694:

From what ive played and seen on the forums this game is deffinetly not GPU bound as my framerates are at the Highest 9 FPS in large WvWvW battles and large PVE events Whereas outside large events it goes from 80 FPS to 20 in a matter of seconds. If it was GPU bound this would not happen.

Err, not really no.

WvWvW applies more stress on the CPU than the rest of the game, this is true – but performance is dictated firstly by GPU and then by CPU. If I look at the games usage (when I can sign in from Switzerland again) my CPU is about 50% on two cores and the GPU up to 75%.

What you’re describing is a bottleneck.

C:\Windows\system32>tracert 206.127.146.73

Tracing route to 206-127-146-73.plaync.com [206.127.146.73]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms Centro_grande.home [192.168.1.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 22 ms 21 ms 23 ms 130-59.186-195.fws.bluewin.ch [195.186.59.130]
4 26 ms 23 ms 24 ms 14-219-3-213.bluewin.ch [213.3.219.14]
5 26 ms 27 ms 23 ms 13-219-3-213.bluewin.ch [213.3.219.13]
6 24 ms 24 ms 23 ms 13-218-3-213.bluewin.ch [213.3.218.13]
7 30 ms 34 ms 35 ms 6-220-3-213.bluewin.ch [213.3.220.6]
8 29 ms 25 ms 24 ms i79tix-025-ten1-1.bb.ip-plus.net [138.187.129.82
]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 33 ms 33 ms 32 ms 206-127-157-94.plaync.com [206.127.157.94]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\Windows\system32>

Yea, that will be slow as heck – and might fall fowl of ANet’s anti-botting and anti-cheating software. Those programs usually do.

Did you open a support ticket or post it on here?

As far as I’m aware they’re looking into it. One workaround that seems to work for some is opening a browser window, loading a youtube video and then playing GW2.

They do that so that the GPU is locked into 3D mode rather than idling.

I just bought a 670 myself this week.

When I first started playing, I had mid 30 FPS as I did on my previous card. Here’s how I fixed it;

Disabled frame limiter, vsync and triple buffering settings both in game and in Nvidia control panel.

My FPS is now averaging into the 70s.

I’ve not had a single crash yet. You need to give them team some system information. the DXdiag summary would be a good start.

Check that your drivers are up to date.
Check your system temperatures.

Ashael.9540:

I’m from France and I have the same problem.

I wonder if this is the same problem that GW1 was having a few months ago with regards to European traffic not being connect and play on EU servers.

If I remember, playing on a US server there also helped rectify the problem.

Spam the heck out of @GuildWars2 on twitter to get them to notice.

I’ve also got a support ticket open but they first sent me a reply back talking about HoM (???) and then asked me a bunch of generic questions that really won’t help much unless we exchange about 20 emails.

I do, thanks.

Any program that relies more heavily on the GPU is GPU bound. This is where GW2 is.

It wasn’t in the first two BWEs and I think that has made some people confused.

No, it doesn’t work.

Even after I remembered that I should flush the DNS cache, I still get the odd log in error and then the usual error 5x when I try to log in with my main.

Playing on the US server at this time isn’t fun because there’s almost a second’s ping, by the looks of it.

mata.9687:

wiscarol.3610:

ElPolloDiabloCH.2657:

Using open dns fixed it for me. Living in Switzerland

I’ve already had some issues with swisscom DNS. It’s just crap. I’ll give it a try.

How do you set up an open DNS?

Thank you, from Tessin

Do you have the white Centrino Grande router? You need to log into it (user and pass will be in documentation somewhere) at (in a browser) 192.168.1.1, go into Settings and on the first page there there’s an option to change Primary and Secondary DNS. I don’t know what OpenDNS address is, but google is 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

Put it in and click save, and then go to the diagnostics page and reboot it. Or you can power cycle it on the router itself.

Grüss from Brügg bei Biel.

I’ll try Google DNS and report back in a few minutes.

It is GPU bound. It uses far more GPU power (aside from some people having specific driver / game issues) than CPU power.

But it’s also an MMO. They will use CPU more than other games can get away with.

I did try creating a new character, that didn’t work. As soon as it tried to load the defence of shaemoore area it kicked me out and then that character hasn’t worked since.

I had a sylvari in the first zone that I could play with until I had to go into an instance, same with a low level human.

Like I said, transferring to a US server allows me to play with my main – so that points to it being something on ANet’s EU side rather than ours.

I’m begging Anet to look at this thread. If it’s the majority of swiss players then that’s a biggish issue.

So us people from Switzerland, what ISP?

Swisscom here.

You won’t beat an overclocked 2600K in gaming. You just won’t. Not unless you’ve managed to do something that no benchmark site has managed.

Luranni, I’m also playing from Switzerland, and transferring to a US server allows me to play.

If I go back to the EU one that I was on (Whiteside Ridge), my character becomes unavailable due to network errors.

No, but their price / performance ratio (except for the old Phenoms) is very poor.

If you guys transfer to a US server it makes any character that you can’t connect to playable.

Ping isn’t too bad for me either. Might as well do this while transfers are free.

Transferring to a US server fixes it. Might as well do that while transfers are free.

Back to error 5.11.3.157.101 after transferring back to Whiteside Ridge.

Just managed to log in with my blocked character by transferring to an American server.

I will now try to move back to Whiteside Ridge and see if my character becomes unavailable again.

They mentioned it on twitter and “fixed” it twice, but neither time I noticed any improvement in the situation. For the last hour they haven’t seemed to acknowledge it at all.

Yea, unless their idea of a “few” is 20 minutes, that doesn’t help.

You need 4Gb and a 64bit operating system to be comfortable with modern applications.

Same issue for me since this morning. Despite them saying it’s fixed on twitter, the odd time I can get in with one of my characters, as soon as I use a waypoint I get kicked out and can’t log back into the game with them.

To update, 2 of my characters work but 2 don’t. I’d really like to get this noticed by Anet – I’ve submitted a ticket to support but it sent me an automated reply about HoM??

Yep, it’s a shame that Intel were pretty much able to get away with what they did, but I couldn’t really bring myself to spend money on inferior products for something that I use every day.

I did think about it, believe me.

Getting this issue today. Can’t get in with any character at the moment. They’re looking into it according to twitter.

I also get a couple of different connection errors sometimes when trying to log in.

According to twitter they’re looking into it. I have a new error code now, 42:0:9001:3927