Incompetence.4091

Saturday update: now it stops responding even when using fast travel within a single zone internally. The game sits at loading screen, the wheel spins, nothing ever loads.

Another week, another day of being unable to play in any meaningful fashion. Every attempt to zone in any fashion, whether it's via fast travel or using the zone borders results in a disconnect. ANet, you're the only service I cannot reliably use for almost a month now.

Don't know how it's possible, but it got worse. Ping starts out OK for about 20-25min, then spikes into 1k+ territory, almost always resulting in a claymation scene, followed by an inevitable crash to desktop. Can't do anything with this utterly terrible connection status. EDIT: before you ask, yes, the problem is unique to GW2. I stream and play other online games just fine with no service interruptions.

Same thing in NA, East Coast. Sudden ping spikes into 700s, disconnects, and now "Unable to gain access to login server at this time" Error Code: 42:0:9001:4457. The game ran fine before February. EDIT: mostly getting in OK now, but still random disconnects and full-on failures to load zones when fast traveling pretty much non-stop. This renders the game unplayable.

Apparently the 7th restart was the charm. Still keeping rolled back drivers just in case.

Zero issues in other games and applications.

Rolling back drivers also seems to have no effect. No other software changes aside from installing the new nvidia driver occurred in the meantime.

Deleting local.dat and doing a data repair does nothing. The game still attempts to start in windowed mode with the same white screen. Disabling hardware accelerated GPU scheduling also has no effect.

Game ran just fine prior, now launches to a fully blank windowed white screen, then freezes and crashes