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Shorty is also completely, horribly, totally wrong to say that. The reality is that you totally can: So, yeah, this is the same "reality" argument that shows up every time the reality of things conflicts with the imaginary past that some folks love to hold. I mean, you tell someone that nipple rings were a huge thing for both genders in Victorian England, and they out and out refuse to believe it, because it isn't "realistic" in the imaginary Victorian England they have in their head.

Why do you t hink the thigh-high boots with stiletto heels and the mini skirt with garters (and stockings) aren't practical?! ;) Context is everything, isn't it? That is definitely practical for many things, but ... I just imagine what my ankles would do if I tried those boots out in the swampy wilds of Tequatl-ville, or the sand of the desert, and it isn't pretty. Also, ticks, in the jungle and forest. shudder. ;) Seriously, though, I agree with the OP, because every time I look at boob-plate I remember just how effectively that would guide every attack right into your heart, making it strike so much more solidly and easily over it. Kinda spoils the effect for me. Choice is definitely a solid thing here. :) (and I recognize your comment as not, uh, fully serious.)

Well I have 8gb.. but I will see if I can log memory usage while playing.8GB isn't enough nowadays, unless you push down some of the options. Hit F11 in the game and go to the Graphics Options tab. Many of the entries tell you which settings to use to reduce memory usage. Citation needed, as the kids love to say? I've done the analysis myself. IRL I am a computer performance expert (among other things).Sure. Could you maybe give me some hints for replicating that? After playing for hours, and standing in a very busy PoF map, I can't push the memory of the 64-bit client above 4GB. How can I get it to consume more? Which graph? Do you mean the "memory composition" display? On an 8GB system that would be literally 2GB of memory used for caching or unoccupied, in order to hit your target. That is a ridiculously over the top estimate for what needs to be instantly usable. Heck, on busy systems 100MB of memory is usually considered more than enough to handle short term memory demands without significant issue, and a desktop system like you would run GW2 on? Dang, that ain't got nothing that is going to need 2GB instantly. ... this is ... heck. Lets do this the easy way: what are the "right tools" to clear this dead memory? What is any one of them? Y'see, I get the strong impression that you are a "computer performance expert" in the same way that I'm a Charr ... which is to say, not even remotely. You keep using these technical terms, just ... wrong. Like you heard them somewhere, or read about them a bit, but didn't grasp the underlying meaning. You appear to be measuring the wrong things, wildly over-estimating the required resources, making vastly overblown claims about what is required for a baseline system, and generally leading people down a very, very bad path, which will do nothing to help solve real problems. I'm open to the idea that maybe I'm missing something, though, so now you have two different ways you can demonstrate that there is some actual technical knowledge behind what you are saying. Please, it'd be a welcome experience to have to apologize to you for being wrong about you.

I'd recommend keeping native sampling, FWIW. It'd be interesting to know if any of the cores of your CPU are at, or close to, maximum load during your testing, I think?

Well gw2 is from 2012 though. But I will try playing on lower settings. If main memory is the issue, and see my comment above for my opinion on that, then changing graphics settings will not help: they will reduce GPU memory use, but not core memory use. You should, instead, see if you are actively paging during play, which will tell you for sure if this is caused by lack of main memory. (Which, given this is about freezing, it is almost certainly not.) The full documentation is at support.microsoft.com, but the relevant section is:

This sounds so trivial, but when I have that problem (on firefox though) its either a faulty cookie. So deleting the cookies helps me. Or for whatever reason I have to force reload the account page because it loads the cached version. Obviously, it could be something entirely else for you, and to boot you already opened the ticket.. but yeah :) Same deal for me: I got into a strange cycle between forums and arenanet login, and clearing cookies fixed it. Definitely worth trying. Easy google to find instructions for whatever browser you are using.

Well I have 8gb.. but I will see if I can log memory usage while playing.8GB isn't enough nowadays, unless you push down some of the options. Hit F11 in the game and go to the Graphics Options tab. Many of the entries tell you which settings to use to reduce memory usage.Citation needed, as the kids love to say?

...Charr don't really need a bra. Cat kitten don't come with an externally visible breast, really, they just kinda ... attach to the surface. More like a human dude, only a bit flatter. The female outfit comes with a bra regardless of whether or not there is externally visible breast. A Charr wearing a bra would look ridiculous. It'd look fine, It'd even look fine on males. Asura has flat chest and is wearing it and it's fine. People want options. We don't get options.In reality everyone could wear whatever the hell they wanted no-matter what. GW2 isn't realistic with clothing though unfortunately. Envoy armor, female Charr, first iterationFemale Charr don’t have human style breasts and putting a bra on them (which adds a visible breast) looks ridiculous. Yup. The original model designer also made their position clear, which was that if they got "lovely lady lumps", to steal from the popular song, they got eight of them, just like a real cat.

...Charr don't really need a bra. Cat nipples don't come with an externally visible breast, really, they just kinda ... attach to the surface. More like a human dude, only a bit flatter.

FWIW, @Ashantara.8731, GW2 uses the PCI-E bus way more heavily than many games. Inefficiently, basically, by sending textures to the card repeatedly then discarding them, rather than holding them in GPU memory, or possibly just by having enough different textures that caching them there has a low hit rate. Regardless, this is one of the reasons that GW2 and a few other games will show up a bad PCI-E connection (eg: 1x rather than 16x due to misseated card) as super-slow stuff during play, while other games do just fine except for slow loading. So, even if it is the only thing showing this, and other 3D games work fine, it can still reveal issues because it uses the GPU differently than other things do.

https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us

In case it isn't obvious, the disconnections are a bug, and completely unexpected. Most players do not encounter them, and while ANet are still trying to figure out why folks like you are hitting them, there is no obvious common pattern to triggering the issue. So, to concretely answer your questions: following the story line is not discouraged, and you do not have to repeat any part of the story more than once, ever, in the design.

Darn. That all sounds pretty good, which is annoying ... and by "annoying" I mean, I don't have anything else to suggest. I'm sorry. I hope you can get to the root cause of this, and I'll be watching the thread to see if you ever do post the resolution.

Not necessarily: that could be server-side processing delays or something. It could also be that the variability of delay on that Telia link is high, so while the ping test comes through pretty stable, the actual GW2 connection (which sends a lot more packets sometimes gets hit by the "unlucky" huge delay, causing latency to bounce around a lot.) The way to spot "significant" packet loss is to look for the place on the trace where the packet loss goes up to a specific level (eg: 2 percent), and stays at least that high for every subsequent hop. Some routers just ignore diagnostic packets that end at their hop, but pass them through just fine, which shows up as a spike in packet loss for one hop, followed by a return to "normal" (typically 0 percent) following. In your case we see two machines before we get to Amazon that show some packet loss, then a return to zero: public routers that are not responding with diagnostic packets sometimes, to save processing power for useful work. Inside the Amazon network everything jumps around hugely, but that is because the AWS routers mostly don't respond, either at all, or some of the time, rather than genuine packet loss.

Your issue isn't the packet loss -- which is mostly irrelevant, being just routers not returning diagnostic packets -- but rather, the fact that the latency takes a HUGE jump in the Telia network. Packet loss can cause increased user-perceived latency, but in this case Telia have a slow network that is introducing some real delays in communication.

Well, in fairness, people have had broken computers, and dodgy networks, since 2014 as well, so ... you may be describing the apparent response to these, but it would also describe the behaviour of a company that have correctly identified that they can't solve broken computers in software. Anyway, I'm very sorry you have this problem, and that you can't find a solution. I hope you can find another game that you enjoy equally. Do you read only this last post right? I bought new GPU, cabe, run onboard, tried all network fix, firewall, Format Pc... Is this kind of behavior that you have that make us angry. U and anet dont even try to read all history, try to understand, think i'm a Noob. This problem is so old in foruns and in my Pc, If im telling u is becouse I tried EVERYTHING before came here I did read your post, yes. We seem to be talking about different things: if ANet support seem to be treating this like it might be a hardware problem, that is most likely because their experience says it is a hardware problem. Anyway, if you tried literally everything already, I have nothing further to offer -- obviously -- so I wish you the very best of luck.

GPU-Z will give you whatever power stats are available via the driver. Watch for things like power level dipping under load, such as in big groups or cities. You can also do the basic "is it reasonable" math: work out the maximum power consumption of your CPU and GPU, then check your power supply is rated for 25 percent more than that. That gives room for storage devices, etc, without having to work too hard at it. If the power supply isn't rated that far above, consider talking to someone who can advise if there are potential issues there - a local tech savvy person, basically, if you can. I'd also suggest you just try unplugging and replugging the power leads to the GPU, if you feel comfortable with that. You don't have to, but it helps ensure they have not worked loose and started to have problems because of that. If it is an NVIDIA card, the "NVIDIA Control Panel" application should have a "debug" menu, which will let you disable that overclocking. For AMD, I'm not aware of any equally simple out of the box solution. You can also use more or less any "overclocking" tool to "underclock", which is to say, to reduce the speeds and stuff below the factory levels, and see if that helps. All the NVIDIA debug thing does is underclock from what the BIOS on the card says to the NVIDIA default levels, it just has a one-check-box solution, which I'm always fond of. GPU-Z also shows thermal stats, and "thermal throttling" on the card. If those seem to be trending higher in GW2 than other things, that might be the cause. Different games have potentially very different usage patterns, and that can mean some will show an issue that others shrug and never experience. Oh, which reminds me: Also, on the front page of GPU-Z, check that your PCI-E connection is 16x, not 1x. If it is 1x then your graphics card isn't seated in the PCI-E slot properly, which could also be what is going on. Should have thought of that earlier, sorry. Good luck. (If it says 8x or 4x, that is unusual but not the same sign of trouble that 1x is.) I wouldn't expect them, but it is cheap enough to check, so yeah, hopefully it turns up nothing.

My Asura Necromancer, Scary Cheeze, has been rocking the same look for some time now: gw2style.com -- that has details of the currently selected armor skins (mostly leyline, embroidered pants, shoes are whatever), and dyes (patina, tarnish, carnage orange, and lifesblood, mostly.) I'd love to find something in a bit of a different theme, but ideally still avoiding the skirt look, which doesn't really do it for me. The character is a reaper, and usually runs around with: Cobalt as the greatsword, Sunspear Warsicle plus Reclaimed Warhorn for power, orImprovised Scepter plus Soulbeast's Dagger for condi.I'm still unsure about the Soulbeast's Dagger, which replaced the previous dagger of choice, Moonshank. I'm highly unlikely to use the focus much, but if you feel like it, something that themes with the 1H weapons would be cool. Don't stress out, though, on that front. I'm looking for practical, not too overwhelming shoulders, and optimally not too many expensive skins and dyes outside of what I already own; I don't mind spending "money" on this, but gem store stuff would be a hard sell, and in-game purchases totaling more than, say, 20-30 gold would also be a hard sell. Feel free to suggest them as alternatives, or the only option, of course: I'll just be sad because I can't use them for far longer than I would like. :) I am pretty happy to put in in-game effort to obtaining new skins, via achievements or whatever, though. I have all the living story unlocked. So those are fine recommendations. API key for access to unlocks on my account: To head off the concerned: Yes, I really don't care if you can see all the stuff I unlocked. It's OK. I'm comfortable with the data this exposes being completely public, but than you for your consideration! You should keep looking out for people like that!

So, you have a hardware problem, or possibly a driver problem. GW2, like any regular application, literally cannot cause the system to freeze like this without one of those existing. (It may be triggering the problem, even if nothing else does, but that doesn't mean it is the cause, just the thing that happens to cause the bug to occur.) So, I'd suggest you look at the possibilities of issues coming from these things, in roughly this order: power supply to the GPU / CPU being inadequate under full loadoverclocking of GPU (including factory overclocking)overclocking of the CPUcooling issues for either GPU or CPU coincident with the loadmemory issues - http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-memory-diagnostics-tool-in-windows-7I'd bet on one of those being the cause, with power supply being the most likely cause because you describe a "things go really strange, then we power cycle, and sometimes other things are corrupted as well" sort of situation, which maps to not getting quite enough power ... which can cause all sorts of odd effects on components, corrupt data in flight because the drive loses too much power during the write, etc.

Well, in fairness, people have had broken computers, and dodgy networks, since 2014 as well, so ... you may be describing the apparent response to these, but it would also describe the behaviour of a company that have correctly identified that they can't solve broken computers in software. Anyway, I'm very sorry you have this problem, and that you can't find a solution. I hope you can find another game that you enjoy equally.

If you can, immediately after reset is one of the most active times on the US servers for that map; you are most likely to get a "fresh" map instance then. Clearly this is not a solution, but it is a work-around that got me my Subject S and, thus, backpack. Until ANet fix the underlying issue, hopefully this is sufficient.

I ran into her in the Elon Riverlands, killing Djinni for one of the hearts, a couple weeks ago. Looked just like the forum avatar. V. nice person.

It is possible, perhaps even likely, that whatever corruption occurred has also had negative effects on other system components. I'd strongly advise ensuring that your drivers are up to date, if relevant the dedicated GPU is being used, etc.

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/23095/game-alt-tabbing-or-flashing-desktop-merged

I use a 144FPS monitor, with vsync enabled, but no GSync/FreeSync. I do not experience this issue in any of the PoF story instances. Not even when I go very slowly through them, for whatever reason.