Constant Freezes/CTDs after 2023-11-08 patch

[Raizel.8175]

Hello friends,

I keep having Freezes - ending in CTDs - after only a few minutes of playing the game after the 2023-11-08 patch. The game is currently basically unplayable.

Did you break something with this patch?

Edited November 8, 2023 by Raizel.8175

[CoffeeBreak.8609]

Yes I also experienced it a lot. I had like 10 CTD and Game Freezes per 14 hours

[Bizzel.3824]

same

 

[Forgotten Legend.9281]

I've had several game freezes on Tuesday. Where it almost froze my whole PC, making it so slow that it took over a minute for Cntrl Alt Del to open task manager. (Logging out and that back in (a 5 minute process) reset everything to normal.

Once, it looked like Logitech gaming software (mouse drivers) downloaded something at the same time.... but the other 3 times looked like Chromium incompatibilities (I opened my Chrome based browser with /wiki in-game command) when the PC grinded to an almost halt. Oh, just remembered that one time it happened during the Skywatch Archipelago meta final event, as I approached the platform on my skyscale.

[Raizel.8175]

I'm still getting freezes - especially constantly in Crystal Oasis waiting for Pinata.

I don't know what the problem is, but at some point of time, CPU-usage for GW2 just drops to almost 0. Kinda weird.

[Forgotten Legend.9281]

a quick update:

I am finding that with 100% certainty... my rig grinds to an almost freeze (really slow response times to simply mousing over icons in the taskbar / on the desktop), every time i CLOSE GW2 (i almost always close the game by hitting escape until the menu comes up, then i click the "X" in the upper right hand corner. and then the game closes and the PC acts like it ran out of RAM. (Task Manager shows plenty of resources available, almost never go over 17GB RAM usage)

EDIT: i doesn't matter if i use the Original Client or the Steam Client... happens when i close either of them.

Ryzen 9 5900x, Asus Crosshair Extreme Motherboard, 32GB of G.Skill RAM (3600), Samsun 980 1T NVMe, EVGA RTX 2070 Super (x2) with NVLink. 

there may be a slight incompatibility with ICUE software (driver for Corsair Keyboard) as ICUE software sometimes crashes when closing GW2 OR after running GW2 for a long time (several hours), but it's rare (like once a month)

Edited November 11, 2023 by Forgotten Legend.9281

[CoffeePlease.3082]

I've also been experiencing a high number of game crashes since the patch. Once in convergences, and 3 times just now while in open world. 1 of those crashes happened when I dismounted, and 2 happened right as I started trying to mine/fish, and once just standing there looking at the map. 

[Beggar.4360]

Since the last patch I have also experienced some crashes. One during a fight in fractals and 3 or 4 in the open world during mounting/dismounting. The game then freezes and I have to close it. This is the first time in almost 3.5 years that I've had such problems with the game.

[Wouter.6351]

I have been crashing a lot since the recent patch and it seems to trigger when I press 'enter' to start typing in chat. It freezes most of the time, I basically cannot use chat otherwise I cannot play lmfao.

[Daysleeper.5769]

Same. After the last patch I experience freezes that lead to having to close the game after a few seconds. Freezes happen anywhere and at anytime. Fighting, flying, or just sitting around doing nothing. Never had this problem before. Please fix this.

[Forgotten Legend.9281]

update: for me, with my rig... i've found that NVIDIA Driver 546.01 was the issue. (issued 11/01/2023)

reverted to driver 545.92. (issued 10/27/2023) seems to have fixed the "close program hang" that hung my PC.

(dates are approximate, based on notifications received from Nvidia after starting the rig)

[TheHeretic.3529]

Same for me. I have to force close the game so crash logs aren't being updated.

[Chaba.5410]

2 hours ago, Forgotten Legend.9281 said:

update: for me, with my rig... i've found that NVIDIA Driver 546.01 was the issue. (issued 11/01/2023)

reverted to driver 545.92. (issued 10/27/2023) seems to have fixed the "close program hang" that hung my PC.

(dates are approximate, based on notifications received from Nvidia after starting the rig)

So your game was only crashing when trying to close the program?  Or were you crashing also randomly?

[LuRkEr.9462]

Yea, just crashed loading into dragonstorm. Had like 10 crashes since the patch, before it like once a year.

[Forgotten Legend.9281]

14 hours ago, Chaba.5410 said:

So your game was only crashing when trying to close the program?  Or were you crashing also randomly?

Closing the game would 100% cause the hang. (The driver swap fixed THIS issue)

But also randomly. (during Lyhr Meta in Skywatch Arcapeligo, WvW zerg fights, a few random PvE locations that i assumed were Chromium conflicts due to using the /wiki chat command to open my browser onto the wiki to look something up) (i haven't logged in for more than a few minutes since the driver swap, so i don't know if the random crashes/ hangs, like these, still occur. I work a lot on the weekend, so wasn't really able to play much, yet)

so both.

[Mrs Lana.2506]

I inconsistently crash to the desktop when using the /wiki command. Just now I used it in the Wizard's Tower and had a crash to desktop, no "report to anet" popup.

[Forgotten Legend.9281]

new info:

Nvidia drivers 546.17 WHQL on  Windows 11 23h2 also cause the whole PC to hang (very slow response time, like resources are maxxed) when closing GW2. so went back to driver 545.92. i don't know if that driver version is responsible for crashes during Lyhr Meta, as that's harder to time when trying to do other specific events, especially when having limited play time.