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Wow allot of anger directed towards those who create expanding on their views and perspectives of the real world. Welcome to the world of art, tv, music, oh and now videos games. You don't like it move on. Do I think everything that is released is golden? No remember "Inside out the video game" episode where you supposedly were so distraught over your choices that your had crippling anxiety? That said i did not take to the forms to complain, the creators are not here to attack you or anyone else. Art reflects life, the world is changing and as younger artist move in to fill the rolls and be the creators the world of Tyria is going to change with them as they are going to build what they see is better. No need to get angry either you enjoy the game or you don't. I have been playing since beta weekends consistently and do I notice a change in things yes there has been a increase in "WOKE" but truly they have unique opportunity to utilize the views of the different races to help everyone who plays navigate the social mine field of the digital age. I could turn this into a crazy long speech on how we are loosing basic communication skills IRL and that bleeds over into posts like this one but I won't I will simply say, Maybe take some time to breath and figure out what it exactly you want out of your games and maybe this RPG is not it and if it is learn how to be reasonable and open to the ideas and views of others. You never know what you might learn about yourself.

I can't say why yet but I can say you are not alone. I am leaning towards a windows update. My system started doing this for me with other games as well. It might be a service delaying start up? In my case I often start up and then jump into gw or whatever I am going to play this happens I go back in and that is the end of it.

indeed it is called Light Adaptation, found under the graphic options. I turn it off when playing late at night. It doesn't get rid of it completely but it stops the reflections from the textures around you. :)

Thanks! well I guess I get to do some crafting to upgrade those lucent motes :(

I have been using the silver fed salvagematic for a long time best quality of life item yet. The Runecrafters was on sale in the gem store so I converted some gold and bought one thinking hey 100% i could make some funds back selling runes and sigils again like in the olds days. From the Wiki page https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Runecrafter%27s_Salvage-o-Matic under NOTES100% chance to salvage runes and sigils slotted in equipment. I have yet to get a sigil from anything over 250 items. I opened the bags, I used the bulk salvage on some I did it one at a time for others I moved the salvage kit out of the shared inventory slot and yes they had runes in them and all I got were lucent motes. Did I miss something about this salvage kit is it working the way it is suppose to?Anyone know if this is a bug?Is 100% chance of salvage similar to 100% magic find where its 100% to get the basic stuff?

maybe your C drive is getting close to full and you might have been relaying heavily on Page files ? It shouldn't with 16 GB of RAM but again seen the OS do some strange things. If so just turn of the page file press windows key plus run enter sysdm.cpl >advanced tab> performance settings>advanced> change.To test this open up GW2 and then check the task manager and see how much memory is being paged on the memory tab. Ideally if you would want 0 and let the RAM do its job. But this all depends on what else is running in the background. Right now my desktop has 16GB and is still paging 1 GB One more thing Does your MOBO also have a onboard graphics card? if so you might be seeing the issue where based on power settings it is using that GPU and now actually the good one. That can be fixed by >> setting the classic app rule and locking gw2.exe to the external GPU if you cant see how to do it let me know and I will post instructions. One more thing ! Power settings as odd as it sounds make sure your power settings are set to high performance and double check that the CPU is not limited to X% under advanced settings One more thing! Check your disk performance while using gw2 and not something could be reading/writing taking away from your performanceOne more thing! Set your AV windows defender or other not to scan the GW2 install folder. One more thing! You could also try process lasso found here https://bitsum.com/ it will give you good insight into what is using your CPU if it is not GW and it will also allow to set the priority of GW so get more performance out it> i used it on my old systems to give them that little extra push usually 10-15 FPS extraOne more thing! I hope one of these gets you back to where you were :)

One more thing I came across that may or may not affect this was the windows defender sample submission, it is possible that your system is sending the GW2 application files to the cloud for "AV scanning" basically it copies the files to Microsoft servers before opening them, this can really slow down any applications and if for whatever reason it is sending those files maybe that is why you are seeing such a drop in performance

You could try adjusting security settings to allow for older applications code practices. Open security and updates >app and Browser control>exploit protection settings>program settings >+ add a program(gw2) and turn everything off. GW2 was made before windows 10 was released so it just seems to run better. You can also disable focus assist it has had issues for GW2 in the past as well.

Check that Vsync is not turned on,Check you resolution i wouldn't be trying to run any higher than 1080 on that cardWhat are your graphics settings? my personal XP with AMD cards and GW2 has been don't even try to run with shaders.adjust your graphic settingsStart at best performance and increase items one at a time until you get the balance of performance/visual you can live with.Key ones - shaders, LOD, shadows, Motion blur (Higher =more FPS programming trick) , Use high res textures -This one take up allot more resources than one might think, charter model limit/quality I found in the past the difference between and medium and high wasn't enough to justify the performance hitI manged to recreate your issue here on my 8750A i7 4770s simply using the auto detect graphics options. So like i said start with best performance and then add Couple other things to note:How much Ram does your system have ? not the GPU but the entire system?What speed of Hard drive are you running ? if you have a spinning hard drive throw it out and install a ssd

When you open GW go to windowed mode and then open up task manger and click on the performance tab (you may have to click more details first)from there you should see GPU load percentage that will tell you if you are using the ATI card or not

Windows will auto use the onboard graphics if you are on battery or in power save mode regardless of setting your preferred GPU, You will need to set a "classic app" rule in those settings to always use ati card. I had the same issue on my all in one optiplex at work even though it was never on battery as it has no battery... hope this works for you!

OH those changes in windows 10 > open security and updates >app and Browser control>exploit protection settings>program settings >+ add a program(gw2) and turn everything off. GW2 was made before windows 10 was released so it just seems to run better. ( I got 10 FPS more on my old RIG) my new rig it didn't matter but still did it so I could get the most out of the game.

Wow Loaded question, I am sure I will be blasted by others who might be more in-tune with the latest and greatest gear but,You are going to want a Intel Processor and you are going to want one that performs better with Single core if your primary goal is get the most out GW2 and everything else is an after thought. AS far as speaking to price, Set your budget and then see what you can afford and then narrow it down a handful in your price range then check https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ and reviews and http://cpuboss.com/compare-cpus RAM, Minimum 12 GB at the fastest speed you can afford to cover OS overhead and anything else you would like to run at the same time, I got away with 8 for years but would occasionally hit a performance wall (Paging) Video and this where I will get blasted steer clear of ATI if you want the most out of GW2, They make solid cards however GW2 simply runs better even on the lower end Nvida cards. GTX 1060 will serve you well for your minimum requirements, I run 1080x5640 at 45 fps in the new meta with a gtx 1070 everything maxed out. Get yourself a M2 rev 4 (or whatever the latest is now) or at the very least a Solid state drive and install/ run GW2 from it.Mother board> Don's buy into the hype you don't need a 300$ motherboard the 99$-150$ perform at the same level. You loose out on cool things like RGB lighting controls and some options but you will be just fine without a "high-end" board. OS > I would never run windows 8 again in my life but that my preference M$ has done some really cool stuff with Windows 10, and yes there are tweaks to the security settings that need to be made in order for GW2 to run the best it can but opening up a single application is a far better solution then opening up security risk for an entire OS. That all said I recycle systems that meet your minimum requirements almost weekly so finding one that will meet you needs should be fairly easy and cheap as long as you stick to an Intel processor with good single core performance and Nvida graphics card.

Bad stick of RAM? Maybe GW2 is pushing your system into a bad sector that other programs don't get to as they require less memory resources.

Based on what you described. A couple things come to mind, Weak PSU, Bad RAM, or overheating maybe even a bad motherboard/cpu I suspect PSU not only because of your error message about the short but because there is always a spike in the processor usage just as you enter a map and if it is pulling a "boost" the PSU might have a bad rail and can't accommodate the extra pull even as small as it is. You could go to advanced power settings and place your performance to high and CPU to 100%. This will stop any spikes and draws on that rail.Here is how to do that : https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/use-maximum-cpu-power-windows-10Best test however would be to test your PSU with a PSU tester.It could also be a weak rail on the Graphics cards shorting things out as well. As mentioned above it could also be a bad stick of ram. GW is a pig when it comes to RAM so when running other applications you may never reach that bad sector but GW2 does. To test this you can use a tool like this https://www.memtest86.com/ again get it replaced if it detects bad ram. Again mentioned above overheating could be an issue, open up your bios right after the crash and check your temperature and see if any auto shut down options are set. If the safety threshold is set too low that could be why it shuts down. Finally it could also be a bad motherboard or CPU chances are it would be the MOBO you can test using this http://www.sisoftware.eu/download-lite/ just watch where you click as they started freemium model but it is free without signing up for anything for the "Lite" version once installed run a burn in test and make sure you select save the log file so if it crashed while you are sleeping you can go back and see what caused the problem. This will actually test your temperature and RAM as well. I would start with PSU based on your error message, if it is as new as it sounds like the shop should replace it. Now all that said.... It could something as silly as a loose power connection inside the case. (You used your bike to bring it home all that shaking might have bumped something loose) I take it all back check the connections first :)