FuzzyBunny.1327

I'm attempting this to see if it resolves the issue. But some funny things happened on the way to the repair shop. First up, I have the client on my D:\ and created the repair shortcut on my D:\, however the repair then created files directly to my desktop, which is C:\. This is annoying, but not terribly problematic because I can just grab all of the files and put them in D:\ again. Second up, it looked like I only needed to repair 382MB and shortly thereafter it showed 784MB. At this point I realised I needed more coffee and was reading it wrong: I was being shown what I'd already downloaded, not what I needed to download. As I write this I'm at 1.044GB and counting, so it looks like I'm going to be downloading the entire client again because of the what the file architecture is built. It reminds me of back in the day when I had a bug in GW where Ice Imps were casting blizzard on me at a resurrection shrine after I'd wiped from half the map away. Not only was the cast following me, but it was following me past LOS and beyond castable distance. Tech support said that I had to uninstall and reinstall the client, that it was the only way to fix that small bug because of the way the file architecture is build. So...that looks like what will have to be done here because I installed the client to D:\ and the code prefers C:\. All things being equal, I can deal with the crashing and disconnects. #themoreyouknow 🙃

Relevant points: -happens with both AMD and Nvidia GPUs; -is not tied to OS version; -anecdotally, it seems to happen more when players are on the losing end of the match; -the game will alternatively crash prompting an error report or disconnect the player from the game and send them back to character select; -altering GPU settings seems to have an affect on this, in at least some way; -map agnostic It's kind of amazing that this game shares the same engine as Guild Wars and I don't recall this happening in my 1,000+ hours playing Guild Wars. The only thing that I can imagine is that there's a bad path to something, but that would only explain crashes and no disconnects. This means it looks like there is something specific going on that has nothing to really do with our hardware or software, but rather the game client itself. I know there are no guild wars in Guild Wars 2 a full decade past release and I know that PvP, in any format, really isn't something that ANet seems interested in developing/maintaining with this game a full decade past release, but this is a really interesting level of casual disrespect to PvP. Try as I might to win games, it's a good thing I only play PvP for the reward tracks -if I took it seriously to any real degree, I'd have to be just as unbalanced as the game itself. 🙃

I use Firefox with AdGuard and In Private browsing, so it looks like the desire to not have my system slowed down by a bloated page or broken page results in the page not working. That it makes sense says so much about tech. 🙃 I use CCleaner to get rid of cookies when I'm done using my computer and, just in case I forgot to do that, after starting up my computer. This has been an oddly intermittent issue and I'm not sure that this would be the fix so much as a fix, something that works for some people rather than all people. Still, it's a solid idea and part of why I use CCleaner to begin with. Thanks for the tip. 👍

Item 1 The Sign In Button on the Support page, Submit a Ticket link under the Trouble Logging In page, and the Submit a Ticket button on the Trouble Logging In page all redirect to themselves (i.e. https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new ). This prevents me from putting in a ticket. Unfortunately, being logged into the client and/or the Account page seem to be treated as separate access points and don't recognise that I'm actually logged in. This has occurred at various points in the past and seems to fix itself, so...yeah, that is what it is. 😑 Item 2 If I could put in a ticket, I'd note that in Ranked SPvP I've experienced disconnects after losing the majority of the matches I lose. This doesn't seem to happen whenever I win, so I'm thinking that it's directed by a disgruntled player on the team -and given I've watched ping spam, verbal abuse, and players AFKing by autorunning against a wall that seems like it may hold up. I'm not sure what, if anything, can be done about this, so...yeah, that is what it is, too. 😑 Thankfully, the DC doesn't last more than 10 seconds and I'm sent back to the character select screen to log back in. All things being equal, it's more sardonically amusing than frustrating.