Nemecrosius.8634 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Since last night I can only play GW in full screen mode and when I switch to windowed mode (alt+enter or through the settings) it minimizes or rather becomes invisible. I can still hear the sound but there is no image. I can use alt+enter again to go into full screen and it works again. This would be fine if it wouldn't crash at an alarming rate. What I did so far: Submitted the crash log to Arenanet (forgot to copy it...) Updated my graphics driver Tried to repair GW (got stuck and didn't respond) Uninstalled and currently reinstalling the game As the progress hit playable I couldn't resist and started it. The problem is still present. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokomis.5076 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Try holding your Windows- and Shift-key, then use the Left/Right key to see, if it somehow switched onto another (invisible) display Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 > @"Nemecrosius.8634" said: > Since last night I can only play GW in full screen mode and when I switch to windowed mode (alt+enter or through the settings) it minimizes or rather becomes invisible. Are you using any tools that are adding an overlay to the game? Like Discord, for instance? Try deactivating those overlays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemecrosius.8634 Posted June 6, 2019 Author Share Posted June 6, 2019 > @"Nokomis.5076" said: > Try holding your Windows- and Shift-key, then use the Left/Right key to see, if it somehow switched onto another (invisible) display This kinda worked. Which is weird because I don't have another screen or even an HDMI attached to the GPU. At least the game poped up in the left corner of the screen. Only the upper window border was visible and I was able to enlargen it to the desired resolution. Still feels as if the performance is worse than before. > @"Ashantara.8731" said: > > @"Nemecrosius.8634" said: > > Since last night I can only play GW in full screen mode and when I switch to windowed mode (alt+enter or through the settings) it minimizes or rather becomes invisible. > > Are you using any tools that are adding an overlay to the game? Like Discord, for instance? Try deactivating those overlays. I am using Discord but as of the time of playing I was not running it. A recent update seemed to have activated the overlay function again so I turned it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 > @"Nemecrosius.8634" said: > > @"Ashantara.8731" said: > > Are you using any tools that are adding an overlay to the game? Like Discord, for instance? Try deactivating those overlays. > I am using Discord but as of the time of playing I was not running it. A recent update seemed to have activated the overlay function again so I turned it off. And that solved the issue, I take it? Edit: I don't have Discord, but I think you don't need to have the main program running for the overlay to be active. I believe Discord has it running as a separate task in the background? It must be _some_ overlay causing the issue or else you would not be able to run it in fullscreen mode (if the window _was_ on the wrong, non-existend second screen the game would run _there_ when you select fullscreen). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemecrosius.8634 Posted June 8, 2019 Author Share Posted June 8, 2019 > @"Ashantara.8731" said: > > @"Nemecrosius.8634" said: > > > @"Ashantara.8731" said: > > > Are you using any tools that are adding an overlay to the game? Like Discord, for instance? Try deactivating those overlays. > > I am using Discord but as of the time of playing I was not running it. A recent update seemed to have activated the overlay function again so I turned it off. > > And that solved the issue, I take it? > > Edit: I don't have Discord, but I think you don't need to have the main program running for the overlay to be active. I believe Discord has it running as a separate task in the background? It must be _some_ overlay causing the issue or else you would not be able to run it in fullscreen mode (if the window _was_ on the wrong, non-existend second screen the game would run _there_ when you select fullscreen). I tested it a couple of times now and it seems to be working fine. Even when Discord is running. The amount of crashes also reduced. I am not a Discord pro but due to the constant updates and automatic changes to the user settings, I wouldn't be surprised if it truely was the source of the issue. Thanks to both of you for your help! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 Glad it's been resolved. :) You're welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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