Guild Wars 2

Sorry, misread your post and somehow thought you were talking about the BIOS setting. Just reread it and you did say “driver”, so my reply to you was incorrect.

Edited for typo.

“If you unlock the AHCI controller in windows device manager, you can move that install (or image it really) to any other system(AMD OR INTEL!). "

So…is this the same as pulling out an HDD and simply swapping it to another machine?

No; it is not what I stated. What I stated is true.

Now, changing the SATA drivers will work as you stated (I thought you were talking about BIOS setting, not changing the driver) and I’ve done this as well (I also use Clonezilla). I use a different program to resize partitions – it’s called Parted Magic. It was free but I don’t know if it still is.

Personally, if I’m changing a motherboard to a completely different one – I prefer to just format the drive, which is good to clean up old junk (fresh registry, etc.).

Edited for clarity.

sirsquishy.8531:

abomally.2694:

“You can try your hard drive into another computer, or put any other one with existing OS (no need for fresh install). "

This won’t work unless the chipsets are the same. Usually, Windows won’t even boot and if you are lucky enough that it does boot, Windows will deactivate itself because of the different motherboard.

Change your SATA controller driver to compatible AHCI 1.0, and as long as your SATA is set to AHCI in the bios you can move your HDD to any other PC.

Windows will deactivate and go on the 3day trial, but when you put it back in the original PC it will reactivate.

This isn’t true and usually doesn’t work. I know, I repair PC’s and have attempted this on numerous occasions. Like I said, if the chipset is the same, it might work, usually it doesn’t – you often get a bluescreen even in safemode.

Try it with a variety of PC’s – I have.

Edited to add:

“I put both ssd and hdd from my laptop (i5 2410m gt 525m) to my desktop (i5 4690k r9 285)”.

They are probably using the same Intel chipset. Try going from an AMD machine to an Intel one – I guarantee it won’t work.

“You can try your hard drive into another computer, or put any other one with existing OS (no need for fresh install). "

This won’t work unless the chipsets are the same. Usually, Windows won’t even boot and if you are lucky enough that it does boot, Windows will deactivate itself because of the different motherboard.

Try the game without the overclock.

Sometimes overclocking (if too much) will cause worse performance.

I had this error recently, but I run an overclocked video card.

I turned the overclock down a little (but still overclocked) and haven’t seen the issue since.

Try the game without the overclock.

Don’t go by Memtest; it doesn’t really stress your RAM. Try removing one of the modules and/or swapping them around.

Ellen.1820:

It doesn’t help if all the Authentication Servers for North America are DOWN, see http://gw2status.de/

Two evenings I haven’t been able to play. you’d think they’d realize it’s prime time here, not the middle of the night.

There is probably an internet node down somewhere, because that site is wrong – the North American servers are up. I’m in the US and have no trouble logging in and playing.

I would leave it at ‘auto’.

This is normal and nothing to worry about. The game uses the CPU as much as it needs to in order to do the processing the game requires.

Edited to add: I believe latency reduction services are allowed as they do not modify the game code.

I’ve never had this crashing issue you speak of, and that’s with two completely different mobos, CPUs, memory and RAM.

Your graphics card should be in the black slot. If that’s where it is already, try removing it and re-seating it.

“One solution I found is to lower the memory clocking of my graphics card which just makes me mad.”

If lowering the clock speed solves the problem; it means that your graphics card (or possibly power supply) is failing. If your GPU is factory overclocked – they sometimes fail because of the overclock.

GW2 doesn’t crash for me at all and that’s through 2 different mobos, CPUs and GPUs.

The source of your crash is related to Lavasoft software:

—> Crash <—
Exception: c0000417
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 4772
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 01080000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 46704
Module: LavasoftProxy.dll <— crashing module
When: 2015-03-26T00:35:43Z 2015-03-25T20:35:43-04:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:40
Flags: 0

I recommend that you remove or disable that software when running the game.

Inoki.6048:

abomally.2694:

I would say, no. It would require a complete re-write of the game engine. I don’t see that happening.

“…disgusted by Microsoft’s atrocious abortion of coding called Windows…”

That really isn’t true anymore. Windows has greatly improved since the days of Windows 95/98. My Windows 7 works perfectly and it’s completely stable.

BTW, I have a dual-boot setup with Windows 7 and Linux Mint.

A large portion of features you see in Windows since Vista/7, like dimming the screen prompting for admin privs (utterly useless, but there anyway) has been copied from Linux. As a (even if partially) Linux user you should know this.

Beginning with Windows 10 they shamelessly ripped of about every Linux desktop environment and architecture there is.

You’re talking about Windows improving? That has never happened. What they do is called a rip off, or stealing, or copy/pasting.

But then again, as the late Jobs said about Gates and his Micro$hit:

“Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.” – which is what Microsoft, no matter what CEO they have, is doing to this day.

Uhhh…you do know that you can change the Power options in Windows (Linux and OSX too), right? I don’t have screen dimming enabled, but it is a good feature for improving battery life on ANY laptop – when running on batteries.

BTW, the GUI was invented by Xerox (go look it up). I don’t really know why you are choosing to slam me on this. ALL of these are good operating systems. As I said, Windows has improved quite a lot over the years – especially since the inception of NTFS.

I’ve been using Linux for a long time and know it quite well. While I don’t use it often, it has some very nice and free software. It does (still) have some irritating bugs regarding network file permissions (a pain to set up right), but it works fine for the most part.

Good day to you.

Sorry man, 1.4Ghz is going to be simply terrible for this game (and most games). It doesn’t help that your GPU is bad as well.

Some programs can steal “focus” from the game window causing it to minimize.

Normally, this should not happen. It’s one reason I recommend using MSconfig (or Ccleaner) to minimize the number of start-up programs that are running in the background.

Tribio.8531:

abomally.2694:

We have a new record for background applications:

ProcessCount: 138 <—- Seriously? Wow…

Dude, you’re spamming with generic information that you picked up from Internet, I recon? Nothing out of the ordinary with 138 processes running.. :p
You are confusing processes with background applications..

When you wanna give technical support, make sure you understand it yourself..

Nope. I’ve been a repair tech (electronics/computers) for over 30 years. If I were to place shortcuts to every program installed on my PC in the startup folder, I wouldn’t come anywhere close to 138 processes. I’ve been doing this since before Windows even existed.

BTW, background programs (that start with Windows) show up as processes. In addition, each instance of Svchost contains several processes (mostly Microsoft).

Sometimes software conflicts occur and the point of my post was to eliminate that possibility. My Windows 7 machine has about 38 processes running, including Avira (3 or 4 processes) and the programs needed to make my G15 keyboard run properly.

So yeah, the OP should eliminate the possibility of software conflicts interfering with GW2. In fact, that is one of the things that the GW2 techs also recommend.

Edited to add:

“Nothing out of the ordinary with 138 processes running”

In what universe? I’ve been building and setting up PC’s for over 20 years and it certainly is not common to have that much stuff running in the background. It definitely does not occur with a fresh OS install. Some of those are probably even malware.

Most of these DC problems are due to failing network nodes on the internet. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do directly to affect this.

However, you can do a Tracert (Trace Route) to determine where the packet loss is (which node) and send the node admin the information to (hopefully) resolve the issue.

You could also try a proxy type connection such Wtfast, which will change the route the packets take.

WizardLizard.9348:

I am the boyfriend in question and to clear things up :

1) I contacted the support before gifting that amount to be sure I wasn’t going against the ToS. I was told there were no problem at all.

2) I’ve played about 150h within the past 5 weeks (have a lot of free time recently) so I had plenty of time to understand how to “farm” gold in GW2.

3) @Abomally : about 10 days to reach 80 (quite easy with events/exploration/tome of knowledge from reward). Then daily all the world boss from the map explored and I got 1 lucky drop (skin sold for ~60g from black lion ticket). Killing all the world boss give up to 10 gold daily so it’s quite easy to farm more than 100g within a month

OK, I was just curious. I thought maybe gold buying was involved, but clearly it isn’t. My apologies to you.

Glad you got it working! You are most welcome.

“My boyfriend started playing GW2 about a month ago, and since he made a lot of gold really fast…”

That alone sounds suspicious, but you shouldn’t have a problem if he sends you 100 gold. I’d be curious as to how he “made a lot of gold really fast.”

Do you have mouse pointer trails enabled? If so, disable them.

It is against the TOS to sell game accounts. Your friend needs to buy the game new.

We have a new record for background applications:

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 4465MB/ 8091MB 55%
Paged: 12636MB/16180MB 78%
Virtual: 3864MB/ 4095MB 94%
Load: 44%
CommitTotal: 3544MB
CommitLimit: 16180MB
CommitPeak: 4299MB
SystemCache: 2172MB
HandleCount: 47659
ProcessCount: 138 <—- Seriously? Wow…
ThreadCount: 2246

Try disabling all unneeded startup programs to eliminate the possibility of a software conflict. More info here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/74523/how-to-disable-startup-programs-in-windows/

Uninstall the Nvidia 3D drivers and make sure the game isn’t set for 3D.

This is your friend’s problem:

- GeForce 640m graphics card -

It’s really not good for gaming.

“I’m not able to install anything DX9 since my computer already has DX11 on it.”

I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying here. Even if you have DX11, you must install DX9 for DX9 games to work.

Is your GPU located in the slot closest to your CPU (PCIe-16)?

Hotspot shield is causing some crashes and may be interfering with the game. Try uninstalling it.

Also, you may have some software conflicts, try running the game after disabling unneeded start-up programs. Info here:

http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-8-tip-manage-startup-applications

Give Malwarebytes’ Antimalware a try (free version). It’s available here:

https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/

I would say, no. It would require a complete re-write of the game engine. I don’t see that happening.

“…disgusted by Microsoft’s atrocious abortion of coding called Windows…”

That really isn’t true anymore. Windows has greatly improved since the days of Windows 95/98. My Windows 7 works perfectly and it’s completely stable.

BTW, I have a dual-boot setup with Windows 7 and Linux Mint.

Sounds like your video card is defective.

It’s gonna’ take you a while because your download speed is about 125KB a second. So yeah, what you’re seeing is normal.

Try installing DirectX 9, available here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

If your system is completely shutting down, it’s either overheating, bad power supply or bad motherboard.

I would substitute a known good working power supply as a test.

Lahsihl.8412 -

It’s hard to tell what’s happening on your system (malware?). You’re also crashing at various memory addresses, but some of the crashes are access violations (c0000005), which may mean a software conflict.

Start by disabling unneeded start-up programs and make sure to do malware scans as well:

http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/msconfig_win7.html

Nulgara.5814 -

It looks like a RAM problem because you’re crashing at various memory addresses. It may also be some type of infection, so it’s a good idea to run full malware and virus scans.

Ccleaner won’t remove browser hijacks. Adwcleaner is specialized to do that. I’ve used it many times on customer PCs and it’s a great little program.

In addition OP, you may want to make sure your browser is completely clear of hijacks.

I recommend that you run Adwcleaner, found here:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

You have a 32 bit OS. Increasing your RAM won’t help you because the OS version you have can only use about 3.25 gig of RAM.

Please follow Healix’s advice or install a 64 bit OS.

It looks like your power supply is the problem. It’s probably a cheap, no-name brand – so although it claims to be 360 watts, chances are good that the real maximum power is much lower than that.

OP, you have 102 processes running – that may be causing a software conflict with GW2.

I recommend that you disable ALL unneeded processes and programs from starting up:

http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-8-tip-manage-startup-applications

Just as an example, on my Windows 7 desktop (with Firefox open) I have 42 processes showing in task manager. Four of those are my antivirus and three are for my G15 keyboard.

If you have a game controller plugged in, try unplugging it.

You can transfer without paying anything or deleting your characters if you buy gems with game gold.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/How-a-CPU-Works/209

“Ok? Instead of replying with such attitude, why don’t you reply like the guy under you? If you can’t contribute to the conversation then why are you even here? Unbelievable.”

You’re right. However, I do get a bit frustrated when it was explained to you twice already before my last reply – yet you still stated that “CPU usage is important.” It isn’t and should be ignored (with the exception of what I mentioned above).

Can you guess why most of us (actual) computer techs don’t bother replying in the “lag” or “disconnect” threads anymore?

“But it is a good indicator of how the software is operating. If it’s not utilizing maximum amount of resources and your fps is suffering, then CPU usage is important.”

Not true and it’s not how a CPU works. Of course, the choice is yours to believe as you wish.

Your GPU is:

A) Overheating

B) Failing