Morfedel.4165

it was off reddit. here's the link:

I was just reading somewhere about using mind wrack and cry of frustration together at the same time.

im confused. I thought clones could only be shattered once, unless such statement meant get one shatter off of just you?

sorry double post

That is very disappointing if they arent taking reports of players doing this seriously

So I can handle some general asshateryness, but this one guy.... he shouts out, "oh, we arent losing, guess i'm done playing then," and proceeds to sit in our deployment zone not playing. Seen that before. But then he announces he was going to report our entire team for everything possible, then proceeds to spam "hope you enjoy your permaban" over and over.

So with that in mind, I talk to the other team, and lo and behold, one of the other team said (s)he had the exact thing happen just last match with the exact same person!

So I'm assuming that when someone is reported, the ANet team gets a copy of the chat logs so they see what actually happened? and I'm also assuming they actually DO something about people like this?

> @"Egorum.9506" said:

> > @"Ski Feasa.6312" said:

> > > @"Ski Feasa.6312" said:

> > > Still unable to access the instance. Keep getting "InstanceCreate failed. Error=1042; Product=9; Module=18; Line=687" - and if I log out and attempt to log back in I get "Network Error. Please check your internet connection and try again." etc.

> >

> > However, despite this I do want to thank the devs for working on this and for all the hard work they have been putting in trying to get all the bugs that have popped up taken care. I know its a lot. So much appreciated. Here's to hoping everything will be smoothed over soon and we can all get back to enjoying the new episode. =)

>

> Dude, don't thank them. They pushed back launch for a month, then still kitten up even entering the zone or making sure there is more than one instance so players can get in. Do you thank any other business, partner, or friend if they kitten up this badly?

You know, software gets released that has discovered bugs after release all the time. Find me a single game that don't have problems. They don't exist.

So stop acting like this is some kind of incompetence. Unless you can find me a single piece of software ever that has never had bugs.

yup. last chapter worked really well, wonder what they screwed up here?

I'm not sure I can name an MMO that didnt add something new for character abilities, or new classes, or something, each expansion. Of course, I haven't played every MMO. But still, added character options OR classes OR something is the name of the game in most MMOs, so yeah, they kinda DO need them, unless they can find another way to expand character options.

> @"Ashantara.8731" said:

> > @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> > > @"Ashantara.8731" said:

> > > > @"Ayrilana.1396" said:

> > > > It’s only long and tedious because players are lazy and just auto attack in one location during each phase.

> > >

> > > You are kind of forced to do so, because if you dash forward to do some real damage, you die quickly due to a lack of healing. If everyone would play this event as intended, it would indeed be more fun.

> >

> > The intended way would be keeping the golems alive so you get to the burn phase faster. That does not require any dashing forward.

>

> Not every class is ranged, so yeah, standing at that spot isn't ideal for everyone. ;)

Well, actually, yeah, every class does have a ranged option. some are less ideal than others, but yes, every class has ranged options.

ok, I took a lengthy break, just now coming back. how is jackal speeding up killing jormag?

> @"Jace al Thor.6745" said:

> > @"Morfedel.4165" said:

> > > @"atlashugged.7642" said:

> > > Something I like that I'm not sure has any practical purpose:

> > >

> > > Veil+Escape Artist lets you repeatedly create clones by reapplying the stealth. Could be nice.

> >

> > ok, I just tried using escape artist in wvw, and neither veil nor decoy created the expected clone (aside from decoy's original clone that is). Is there a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

> >

>

> You were for sure in combat?

>

well, it was turning towards me to attack, I had not attacked it, but I was pretty close to it. Does one of us actually have to have hit the other first then for it to work?

> @"atlashugged.7642" said:

> Something I like that I'm not sure has any practical purpose:

>

> Veil+Escape Artist lets you repeatedly create clones by reapplying the stealth. Could be nice.

ok, I just tried using escape artist in wvw, and neither veil nor decoy created the expected clone (aside from decoy's original clone that is). Is there a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

so, as a side note, I turned down my graphics settings for the game within the game's graphics options all the way; well, I selected "best performance" out of the drop down box. And for the few minutes before I had to shut down to get ready for work, the game ran just fine.

Oddly enough, since this problem started, it ran just fine for two days before the problem started back up again; so because of that I'm not sure if this is a temporary fix, if the game will shut my computer down after some play, or if this is a more permament fix. Since I have to get to work I wont be able to play it until tonight, so tonight sometime I'll give it a run and see how it does.

But at least it didn't shut down immediately, so that gives me a little hope here.

> @DeWolfe.2174 said:

> > @Morfedel.4165 said:

> > ok, so i dont even known if my graphics card CAME overclocked

>

> This can help get us started. Download and run it.

> https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

so, the GPU Core Clock is running at 300.0 MHz, and the GPU Memory Clock is running at 150.0 MHz. anything else I need to check?

ok, so i dont even known if my graphics card CAME overclocked, is there any recommended software I can use to test this?

Also, I can get as far as log in safely, so I'll try turning down my graphics in that window before logging in and see if that helps. But you see, thats the issue: this happened once before, if I recall correctly it was early this year with a living story, and a subsequent patch saw the issue go away.

Now its happening again, but only after a bug patch a week or so AFTER the expac came out, so again, as mentioned above, the only thing that changed was GW2, so I cant see that my hardware is going bad. I even had geek squad run stress tests and try and crash it mulitple ways, and they were unable to replicate the issue any way whatsoever except running GW2.

Regardless, havent run it in a bit.... now I'm patching, and it seems like quite a bit, so will try it raw with the patch and, if it crashes again, then I'll try it after downgrading the graphics, and if THAT fails will try and test the overclock state of my graphics card, if any, if someone can direct me to a reliable piece of software I can use for checking and, if necessary, downshifting the overclock....

its happening to my desktop too, I have a thread here about it, I've tried multiple things that havent worked, havent been able to play the game on my desktop for over two weeks now, no response to my ticket I submitted 16 days ago, getting very frustrated

> @DeWolfe.2174 said:

> I was able to push the game and get it to pop still. Though it runs pretty stable on lower settings. Hopefully the Dev's will put some effort into streamlining and increasing efficiency. Until then, you'll have to come up with something to get your rig to run it. Wondering if your video card is factory over clocked? Might try EVGA Precision, MSI Afterburner, or other tuning programs and tone down the speed a bit. Say lowering it by 50mhz or so and see if it runs stable? Can even increase voltage ever so slightly too.

>

> For the game itself, it pretty much runs as a portable app. You can simply download a fresh exe from https://account.arena.net/welcome , plunk it in any folder, run it, and it'll download a fresh copy of the game. The cache and the local.dat are the two items ever really needing to be cleaned/deleted. When you start the game it recreates these folders and files automatically. So it's just delete, delete, and run the game.

I ran advanced uninstaller pro; it got everything. Then I reinstalled. Didn't help.

I'm going to try the DDU thing suggested above next, but I'm running out of options. I'm very distraught over this. Been playing the game since beta, and now, suddenly, the game is unplayable.

What's weird was there was a two day gap in all this that it DID, suddenly, work again. Then after two days went right back to doing this all over again.

> @DeWolfe.2174 said:

> Not to jinx the game running but, GW2 hasn't crashed for me since the Friday update. WOOT! Only change on my end since my earlier post was deleting the audio drivers and using the windows drivers. Since I recalled there being a conflict with Nvidia and Realtek in the past. Then uninstalling/reinstalling the Razer Synapse too. One of them has fixed the issue that I've been having for 6 months!

>

> Morfedel, have you tried uninstalling the video drivers in safe mode with DDU? Download the new drivers and have them ready, then use DDU to uninstall Nvidia Drivers. You can google how to use DDU and where to download it.

> After the video drivers are done, delete the audio drivers. Try out the windows drivers to run the audio.

> Then clear the GW2 cache by deleting the GW2cache folder in (C:>Users>your windows account name>AppData>Local>Temp>gw2cache)

> Next is the local.dat file by going to (C:>Users>your windows account name>AppData>Roaming>Guild Wars 2>local.dat)

> Note: You will have to type in your user name and password in the GW2 launcher again. Also, reset some user preferences in GW2. Most are saved in the cloud.

>

> Keeping fingers crossed this fixes your issues!

some lengthy steps there, but I'll try it if this uninstall and reinstall doesnt work. had to download advanced uninstaller pro to uninstall the damned thing. about to retry gw2 now.

I thought I'd uninstall and reinstall the software. That did fix the issue once before. And Trying it to uninstall Generating an error message saying it couldn't download something. I was going to insert the image I snapped a picture of but for some reason it won't let me do so.

I'm not sure why it has to download anything it to uninstall it, but whatever it is it's not letting me do it and therefore won't let me uninstall it. This is incredibly frustrating.

> @"Ben K.6238" said:

> > @Morfedel.4165 said:

> > wasnt intended to be rude, but really, its the ONLY thing causing the problem, and geek squad ran all kinds of stress tests that failed to cause it to crash.

>

> It may be the only application you run that has a chance of triggering the problem. If it was an issue with GW2's code, Windows would deal with the exception and kill the process. You'd get an error message, not a restart.

fair enough

> Provided that you have already tried different drivers, removed game injection software (SweetFX, etc.) and checked for incompatible software running in the background - the ONLY way you are going to find the answer is by substituting components. You can do every software test under the sun and I will still tell you that you need to test with different hardware to find the answer.

I started to say I never use that stuff, then I remembered watching video from woodenpotatoes talking about some piece of software that makes the level of graphics much sweeter.... and I cant recall what that was or if I installed it. I could either try to hunt down the video that he talks about it and then reinstall it, or reinstall the game itself maybe?

> @abomally.2694 said:

> > @Morfedel.4165 said:

> > > @abomally.2694 said:

> > > > @Morfedel.4165 said:

> > > > yup, and thats what I mean, people keep saying this is a hardware issue, and I keep saying I'm not convinced. Not when gw2 is the only piece of software thats doing this, and the last time it did, a patch ended up fixing the problem.

> > >

> > > I've been doing electronics and computer repair for 35 years. Trust me - it's a hardware issue.

> >

> > And yet it only happens in one map, in one game. That seems oddly specific for it to be a hardware issue.

> >

> > Regardless, it's apparently stopped again after the latest patch, so....

>

> You are, of course, free to believe whatever you want.

wasnt intended to be rude, but really, its the ONLY thing causing the problem, and geek squad ran all kinds of stress tests that failed to cause it to crash.

argh!

So, it worked for a couple days, then it started doing it again.So frustrating. I took it to geek squad for them to analyze but they couldnt find anything wrong; they apologized and said they cant fix it.

And my support ticket i submitted a week ago has only had an automated reply and nothing else. That is equally frustrating.

> @abomally.2694 said:

> > @Morfedel.4165 said:

> > yup, and thats what I mean, people keep saying this is a hardware issue, and I keep saying I'm not convinced. Not when gw2 is the only piece of software thats doing this, and the last time it did, a patch ended up fixing the problem.

>

> I've been doing electronics and computer repair for 35 years. Trust me - it's a hardware issue.

And yet it only happens in one map, in one game. That seems oddly specific for it to be a hardware issue.

Regardless, it's apparently stopped again after the latest patch, so....

> @xephrey.4987 said:

> Similar issue. Doesn't happen in any other game. Temps are fine. I caught it on video.

>

>

Are there any particular maps that you are shutting down in?