Guild Wars 2

Milkduds.7250:

The system was completely stable before.

Milkduds.7250:

Then used Evga Precision to underclock gpu by 100 mhz and memory by 10.

Milkduds.7250:

Since then, not one crash, and in general the whole game is more snappy and runs much more smoothly. Finally got to finish a dungeon instead of crashing 5-10 minutes in (please note i had no problems with pvp or world events before this, my crashes were concentrated to dungeons and when I’d walk around by myself in the world, once in a story quest, and once in Lions Arch). I also never have the random fps drops anymore that would occasionally happen (Not just in heavily populated areas but even more often in the world walking around by myself).

Milkduds.7250:

Underclocking the card has seemed to help it, which is a “fix” (lol?) that I’ve seen proposed on various websites in regards to THIS GAME and THIS GAME alone when it comes to this issue.

So stable that underclocking made it better? You’ve just listed every situation during which this game would have the highest framerate and highest load on the GPU, then claimed that running your hardware below spec stopped the crashes.
Well that can’t be right since I’m supposed to be an elitist nerdling that doesn’t run my systems every day and hasn’t seen signs of failing hardware. No, you’re system is most definitely fine.
(Hint: the slowdowns were/are the GPU driver automatically underclocking the card to the next lowest perf level (likely ~400MHz) when it detects some instability)

Milkduds.7250:

Clearly, there is some issue out there that far too many people here experience to just first write them off as having dying systems. To be honest, that attitude comes off as incredibly elitist and dismissive, and pretty ignorant because no matter what you may think, this game doesn’t require a nasa supercomputer to run. If it did, the crashes would be related to relative stress at the time of crash, not all over the place as people report.

Because every grey and black screen issue are 100% related. Those grey screens that plagued lots of HD 6xxx owners are most definitely nVidia’s problem too. Great logic there buddy.
At least you’re correct about not requiring a NASA supercomputer; people with much, much older hardware than yours are able to play right now just fine.

Milkduds.7250:

TOften when you look at event viewer it is just a generic “the computer unexpectedly restarted” error. There isn’t anything like 0×8 or 0×7f. It’s just very general.

That message comes up every time Windows detects an unclean shutdown.

How did you assert that the system really is stable if you don’t wanna run some basic stability checks like memtest, prime95, or Heaven? “Take my word for it” isn’t a valid answer here given any electrical component can degrade over time. From what I remember, WoW, D3, and DotA2 don’t even come close to stressing a system like GW2 does.

Milkduds.7109:

He isn’t getting stop errors in the sense of his sytem turning blue with a vague code, most of the time the system doesn’t even generate a legitimate bugcheck or stop code. Just lines of zeros. It’s clearly a video issue.

Legitimate bugcheck? Lines of zeros? Do explain.

IMO, this sounds like a dying 660. Pull the card and try it in your own system. Given the frequency of the crashes, it shouldn’t take long to rule this out.