Constant crashing, need help.

[Matt.2367]

I have two issues, the more concerning one currently is after windows performs an update, the game refuses to run. It says "A serious error has occurred that prevents the program from continuing to run." This is my crash log:

! --> Crash <--! Exception: c0000005
! Memory at address ffffffffffffffff could not be read ! App: Gw2-64.exe ! Pid: 19264 ! BaseAddr: 00007FF7B2120000 ! ProgramId: 101 ! Build: 109065 ! Module: d3d9.dll ! When: 2020-12-05T02:01:50Z 2020-12-04T20:01:50-06:00 ! Uptime: 0 days 0:00:13 ! Flags: 0 ! DumpFile: Crash.dmp ! ! *--> System <--* ! Name: b2d60933 ! IpAddr: 10.0.0.195 ! Processors: 16 [AuthenticAMD:15:1:0] ! OSVersion: Windows 10.0 (64 bit) ! ! *--> System Memory <--* ! Physical: 7983MB/16304MB 48% ! Paged: 8642MB/21168MB 40% ! Virtual: 134211746MB/134217727MB 3% ! Load: 51% ! CommitTotal: 12525MB ! CommitLimit: 21168MB ! CommitPeak: 18737MB ! SystemCache: 7817MB ! HandleCount: 201976 ! ProcessCount: 240 ! ThreadCount: 3505 ! ! *--> Process Memory <--* ! Private: 1574MB ! WorkingSet: 1294MB ! PeakWorkingSet: 1294MB ! PageFaults: 947949 ! ! *--> Memory Category Usage (Inclusive) <--* ! [Category] [size(MB)] [Count] ! Root 843.86 305456 ! Programmer Data 559.08 163754 ! Game 257.70 131709 ! VRAM 254.94 13832 ! Uncategorized 243.51 140166 ! Content 232.95 30002 ! Engine 180.11 27033 ! Model-Programmer 163.13 9652 ! Model Granny 162.58 5967 ! VRAM - Gr Postproc 147.39 22 ! Collections 86.55 1140 ! Dictionary 86.36 700 ! Art Assets 34.83 781 ! VRAM - Composite Tex 32.98 41 ! Composite Models 30.74 469 ! Character Models 30.74 469 ! VRAM - DirectX Geo Buffers 30.56 1520 ! I/O 29.86 537 ! Archive 28.56 38 ! Composite Tex 26.51 63 ! Composite Tex Pool 26.51 63 ! VRAM - DDI Shader 17.88 12117 ! VRAM - Cinema Tex 14.33 53 ! Composite 12.91 1971 ! ! *--> Memory Category Usage (Exclusive) <--* ! [Category] [size(MB)] [Count] ! Uncategorized 243.51 140166 ! Content 232.95 30002 ! Model Granny 162.58 5967 ! VRAM - Gr Postproc 147.39 22 ! Dictionary 86.36 700 ! VRAM - Composite Tex 32.98 41 ! VRAM - DirectX Geo Buffers 30.56 1520 ! Archive 28.56 38 ! Composite Tex Pool 26.51 63 ! VRAM - DDI Shader 17.88 12117 ! VRAM - Cinema Tex 14.33 53 ! Composite 12.91 1971 ! Audio FMOD 8.23 789 ! Collide Havok 6.45 755 ! Text 5.45 398 ! Game 5.30 33780 ! Composite Packfile 4.19 93 ! Debugging 4.00 2 ! Gr Material 3.39 13031 ! VRAM - Gr Texture 3.22 14 ! Gr 3.02 88 ! Anim Import Packfile 2.78 3 ! VRAM - UI Textures 2.25 44 ! VRAM - Composite Geo 1.81 7 ! ! *--> DllList <--* ! 00007FF7B2120000 - C:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe ! 00007FFEFF450000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll ! 00007FFEFDED0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.DLL ! 00007FFEFCDF0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll ! 00007FFEFE6F0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\USER32.dll ! 00007FFEFD300000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\win32u.dll ! 00007FFEFF010000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\GDI32.dll ! 00007FFEFD190000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\gdi32full.dll ! 00007FFEFD0C0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msvcp_win.dll ! 00007FFEFCCF0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll ! 00007FFEFEB50000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\ADVAPI32.dll ! 00007FFEFE400000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msvcrt.dll ! 00007FFEFEF70000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\sechost.dll ! 00007FFEFF1F0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\RPCRT4.dll ! 00007FFEFD640000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\WS2_32.dll ! 00007FFEFD2A0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\WINTRUST.dll ! 00007FFEFE890000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\PSAPI.DLL ! 00007FFEF78C0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\VERSION.dll ! 00007FFEF8770000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WTSAPI32.dll ! 00007FFEFD4B0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\ole32.dll ! 00007FFEF2C20000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WINMM.dll ! 00007FFEFEC00000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\combase.dll ! 00007FFEFD6B0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\OLEAUT32.dll ! 00007FFEFD780000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\SHELL32.dll ! 00007FFED3620000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSACM32.dll ! 00007FFEFCB90000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\CRYPT32.dll ! 00007FFEDEA60000 - C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.windows.gdiplus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.1.19041.630_none_fae7a41d761b04f0\gdiplus.dll ! 00007FFEE2520000 - C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_5.82.19041.488_none_4238de57f6b64d28\COMCTL32.dll ! 00007FFEF2810000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\winmmbase.dll ! 00007FFEF8B70000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSIMG32.dll ! 00007FFEF5430000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Secur32.dll ! 00007FFEF8550000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\USP10.dll ! 00007FFEFC570000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CRYPTBASE.DLL ! 00007FFEFCA70000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SSPICLI.DLL ! 00007FFEFF3E0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\IMM32.DLL ! 00007FFEFC780000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSASN1.dll ! 00007FFEFD330000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\bcryptPrimitives.dll ! 00007FFEF7250000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dbghelp.dll ! 00007FFEFAD00000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\windows.storage.dll ! 00007FFEFC600000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Wldp.dll ! 00007FFEFF320000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\SHCORE.dll ! 00007FFEFE9B0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\shlwapi.dll ! 00007FFEFCAC0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\profapi.dll ! 00007FFEFAB00000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\kernel.appcore.dll ! 00007FFEFD160000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\bcrypt.dll ! 00007FFEFA640000 - C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll ! 00007FFEF7880000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\cryptnet.dll ! 00007FFEFE6D0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\imagehlp.dll ! 00007FFEFC550000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CRYPTSP.dll ! 00007FFEFBCA0000 - C:\WINDOWS\system32\rsaenh.dll ! 00007FFEEB720000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dxcore.dll ! 00007FFEFD460000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\cfgmgr32.dll ! 00007FFEFB4B0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\gpapi.dll ! 0000000180000000 - C:\Program Files (x86)\RivaTuner Statistics Server\RTSSHooks64.dll ! 00007FFEFE5C0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\clbcatq.dll ! 00007FFEFB8D0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntmarta.dll ! 00007FFEEB490000 - C:\WINDOWS\system32\napinsp.dll ! 00007FFEEB470000 - C:\WINDOWS\system32\pnrpnsp.dll ! 00007FFEEB450000 - C:\WINDOWS\system32\wshbth.dll ! 00007FFEF8330000 - C:\WINDOWS\system32\NLAapi.dll ! 00007FFEFC020000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\IPHLPAPI.DLL ! 00007FFEFC380000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\mswsock.dll ! 00007FFEFC070000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DNSAPI.dll ! 00007FFEFEF60000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\NSI.dll ! 00007FFEEB430000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\winrnr.dll ! 00007FFEF5250000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\fwpuclnt.dll ! 00007FFEF6BB0000 - C:\Windows\System32\rasadhlp.dll ! 00007FFEFE4A0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msctf.dll ! 00007FFEEEAF0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\textinputframework.dll ! 00007FFEF9BA0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\CoreUIComponents.dll ! 00007FFEFA2C0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\CoreMessaging.dll ! 00007FFEF9850000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\wintypes.dll ! 00007FFEEE440000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WindowsCodecs.dll ! 00007FFEE61E0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\TextShaping.dll ! 00007FFEE1680000 - C:\Guild Wars 2\bin64\CoherentUI64.dll ! 00007FFEF5F10000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d3d9.dll ! 00007FFEFA810000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dwmapi.dll ! 00007FFEF82A0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WINNSI.DLL ! 00007FFEF6550000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WINHTTP.dll ! 00007FFEF8280000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dhcpcsvc6.DLL ! 00007FFEF8250000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dhcpcsvc.DLL ! 00007FFEF5330000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\webio.dll ! 00007FFEFBCE0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DPAPI.dll ! 00007FFEEB9B0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_ba8c9c14f3d320cb\nvldumdx.dll ! 00007FFE8A350000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_ba8c9c14f3d320cb\nvd3dumx.dll ! 00007FFEE4030000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\nvapi64.dll ! 00007FFEFDF90000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\SETUPAPI.DLL ! 00007FFEFB4E0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dxgi.dll ! 00007FFEFB940000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WINSTA.dll ! 00007FFEFC190000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\powrprof.dll ! 00007FFEFC000000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\UMPDC.dll ! 00007FFEF7DE0000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\MMDevApi.dll ! 00007FFEFC940000 - C:\WINDOWS\System32\DEVOBJ.dll ! 00007FFED15B0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\wdmaud.drv ! 00007FFEEE1D0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ksuser.dll ! 00007FFEF2800000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AVRT.dll ! 00007FFEF7E70000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUDIOSES.DLL ! 00007FFEEB3D0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\msacm32.drv ! 00007FFEE6EA0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\midimap.dll ! 00007FFEFA720000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\resourcepolicyclient.dll ! 00007FFEEE200000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\mscms.dll ! 00007FFEEE1E0000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ColorAdapterClient.dll ! 00007FFEFCA40000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\USERENV.dll ! 00007FFEF1450000 - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\icm32.dll ! ! [DbgHelp.dll is C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dbghelp.dll] ! [DbgHelp.dll version 10.0.19041.488 (64/32-bit compatible)] ! ! *--> Thread 0x4eb0 <--* ! ! *--> Trace <--* ! 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Crashed at 02:01:50Z!! --> DirectX Device Info <--! VendorId = 0x10de! DeviceId = 0x13c0! Version = 27.21.0014.5206! Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980! Compat = 0x00100000! VidMem = 0 MBThis is an image of what I get:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/274679522887073792/784595854781710367/unknown.pngMy second issue is that whenever I'm playing the game, primarily in WvW, I get a very occasional black screen and it'll spazz out before coming back, although sometimes my secondary monitor on my set up won't come back on until the game eventually soft crashes again. Sometimes its very frequent, other times its spaced out. It's random and there's no clear cause to the problem. Occasionally it has even permanently lowered my system volume until I restarted my pc. My specs are as followed:AMD Ryzen 3700X (No overclock)GTX 980 (No overclock)16gb DDR4 Ram running at 3000mhz CL15Windows 10 Pro 64 BitAsus TUF WiFi X570 MotherboardMy temperatures don't spike, although my ram usage while running the game alone can spike to 60% usage or more. Yes, I am running on a wired connection. I have reinstalled the game many times, graphic drivers, everything short of a full windows reinstall. I'm running the game off of a NVME drive. Every other game works fine on this system with appropriate settings, this one does not seem to want to. Any and all help and or suggestions appreciated. I have dumped money into this game and I would hate to stop playing it because of these issues that seem to have no fix.

[Healix.5819]

@Matt.2367 said:0000000180000000 - C:\Program Files (x86)\RivaTuner Statistics Server\RTSSHooks64.dll

Disable this. RivaTuner commonly causes this problem due to being outdated / caching.

My second issue is that whenever I'm playing the game, primarily in WvW, I get a very occasional black screen and it'll spazz out before coming back, although sometimes my secondary monitor on my set up won't come back on until the game eventually soft crashes again.

This is your GPU / drivers crashing and recovering. First, confirm it's still a problem without RivaTuner. When installing your GPU drivers, you want to clean install them and try different versions. Also update your motherboard's BIOS and run through any other system updates. The GPU could be starting to fail, in which case you could try a slight underclock to make it more stable.

[Matt.2367]

@Healix.5819 said:

@Matt.2367 said:0000000180000000 - C:\Program Files (x86)\RivaTuner Statistics Server\RTSSHooks64.dll

Disable this. RivaTuner commonly causes this problem due to being outdated / caching.

My second issue is that whenever I'm playing the game, primarily in WvW, I get a very occasional black screen and it'll spazz out before coming back, although sometimes my secondary monitor on my set up won't come back on until the game eventually soft crashes again.

This is your GPU / drivers crashing and recovering. First, confirm it's still a problem without RivaTuner. When installing your GPU drivers, you want to clean install them and try different versions. Also update your motherboard's BIOS and run through any other system updates. The GPU could be starting to fail, in which case you could try a slight underclock to make it more stable.

Thank you, so far uninstalling Riva tuner at least lets me start the game! I will do an extended test in WvW tonight and let you know if it also solved that issue. If not, I will go for a clean reinstall and a gpu underclock to see if that helps with anything. Will update soon, thank you so much.

[Matt.2367]

@Healix.5819 said:

This is your GPU / drivers crashing and recovering. First, confirm it's still a problem without RivaTuner. When installing your GPU drivers, you want to clean install them and try different versions. Also update your motherboard's BIOS and run through any other system updates. The GPU could be starting to fail, in which case you could try a slight underclock to make it more stable.

Ok, can confirm now after trying both of these things, the second issue is still not resolved :/

[Ashantara.8731]

@Matt.2367 said:Ok, can confirm now after trying both of these things, the second issue is still not resolved :/

How is your RAM's high usage percentage a problem?

It is good that your OS assigns most of the data it's working with to your RAM rather than to your virtual memory (which uses your SSD/HDD and constantly reads and writes, resulting in heavy wear of the drive and a much slower processing).

[Matt.2367]

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@Matt.2367 said:Ok, can confirm now after trying both of these things, the second issue is still not resolved :/

How is your RAM's high usage percentage a problem?

It is

good

that your OS assigns most of the data it's working with to your RAM rather than to your virtual memory (which uses your SSD/HDD and constantly reads and writes, resulting in heavy wear of the drive and a much slower processing).

Never said my ram usage was a problem, just that it seems high given that it's guild wars, not exactly the most ram hungry game on the planet, or at least it shouldn't be. I doubt its a problem anyways because its not like my ram usage is excessive. It really does seem to boil down to a driver conflict with my gpu but I'm not sure what else to try. I'm on a pretty old card so driver updates aren't very frequent and I've tried numerous drivers after clean installs but still the issue persists. I'm not sure what else to try at this point.

[Ashantara.8731]

@Matt.2367 said:Never said my ram usage was a problem [...]

@Matt.2367 said:I have two issues, [...]My second issue is that whenever I'm playing the game, primarily in WvW, I get a very occasional black screen and it'll spazz out before coming back

Yes, my bad. I thought the RAM usage was your second issue. Sorry. :)

Since you seem certain that it is not an overheating issue, have you tried playing around with your overclocking and hyper-threading settings in BIOS? Perhaps something is askew.

Also, have you updated your Windows before the problem started to occur? Perhaps an update is causing the problem, so you could try to go back to a former build to test this, unless you have no backup to test it with (in which case I recommend creating one frequently in the future). You can google the KBs that you installed recently and see if one is known to be faulty, then uninstall that one.

[Matt.2367]

@Ashantara.8731 said:

Yes, my bad. I thought the RAM usage was your second issue. Sorry. :)

Since you seem certain that it is not an overheating issue, have you tried playing around with your overclocking and hyper-threading settings in BIOS? Perhaps something is askew.

Also, have you updated your Windows before the problem started to occur? Perhaps an update is causing the problem, so you could try to go back to a former build to test this, unless you have no backup to test it with (in which case I recommend creating one frequently in the future). You can google the KBs that you installed recently and see if one is known to be faulty, then uninstall that one.

I have run the entire system on stock to no avail sadly. My first issue regarding windows updates has been resolved by uninstalling an outdated version of Rivatuner, so it seems like the two issues weren't related to begin with. I'm pretty sure the intermittent black screen issue isn't at all related to windows updates given how this particular issue has been recurring for months and the instant it started to happen, reverting the latest windows update was one of the first things I tried. Sadly no results so I've been staying up to date on them seeing as how it seems to make no difference what version of windows I run.

[Ashantara.8731]

@Matt.2367 said:I'm pretty sure the intermittent black screen issue isn't at all related to windows updates given how this particular issue has been recurring for months and the instant it started to happen, reverting the latest windows update was one of the first things I tried. Sadly no results so I've been staying up to date on them seeing as how it seems to make no difference what version of windows I run.

I don't want to worry you, but it could be a broken motherboard. Have you tried a different PCIe slot for your graphics card?

[Matt.2367]

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@Matt.2367 said:I'm pretty sure the intermittent black screen issue isn't at all related to windows updates given how this particular issue has been recurring for months and the instant it started to happen, reverting the latest windows update was one of the first things I tried. Sadly no results so I've been staying up to date on them seeing as how it seems to make no difference what version of windows I run.

I don't want to worry you, but it could be a broken motherboard. Have you tried a different PCIe slot for your graphics card?

I haven't, no. It does seem very unlikely given that other games can run for extended periods of time with no issues but I guess that could be possible.

[Ashantara.8731]

@Matt.2367 said:I haven't, no. It does seem very unlikely given that other games can run for extended periods of time with no issues but I guess that could be possible.

I've posted other suggestions on one of the other threads tonight (there are so many by now, it's hard to keep track).