I've been away from GW2 for about a year and a half now and have been trying to return however I've been unable to play without running into issues forcing me to terminate the game due to the game freezing and sometimes getting these weird blocks of pixels on my screen. For an example of the blocks of pixels here's a screencap I took when I was doing earlier Living World content this morning:
https://imgur.com/a/QSg1kOx
I've verified my drivers are up to date on my GPU (GTX 1070), optimized the game via GeForce, tried the -repair command and toggled between Fullscreen and Fullscreen Windowed which didn't help. I've also tried a full reinstall which did kind of help as long as I only installed the necessary files. If I launched the game without installing the optional stuff it seemed to work.
Has anyone else had similar issues