GW:EN-Related Problem: Display Driver Stopped Responding

The display went black with the screeching yet sometimes hearing GW music too and the pc graphics were shot to hell and had to reboot whenever trying to talk to Skjaldur Lightfingers. I'll try that -noshaders thing and hope for the best, I guess.

My pc has Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family
Video BIOS Version 3402

Not sure what else needed since I'm a non-techie but it would be nice to eventually play or -see- the preview on my own pc. :/

Same here on my laptop. I noticed that the crashes were more often if I ALT click to see the nearby NPC's/Allies, specifically once I moved the curser near a displayed name. I ended up using the "Auto-detect" feature under graphics options, this reduced the number of crashes, but didn't eliminate them.

I just used the -noshaders and now the display driver messes up again and I have to reboot the pc. This time I didn't even make it logging in all the way, I was loading into the town..

And on my last post I didn't even get to target as my guildie is the one that talked to her to test things out and then I my display driver locked up and crashed. :/

Well i found out its best to lower all your graphical qualities.

I know it suuuucks, but at least im able to play crash free

This worked for me so far. Though it'll probably happen again now that I'd said that :P

the F11 and low shaders in the options seems to be doing the trick so far, been mucking about for around an hour now with no lockups.

I'm not playing with low quailty FUZZY graphics when my card ran Prophecies, Factions and Nightfall just fine before GW:EN
I am currently running a onboard intel video

Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family

Driver Version: 6.14.10.4543
Operating System: Windows XP* Professional, Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 9.0

Just another dissappointment from GW and Anet.

Yeah, lowering all the graphics to low or off is what finally worked for me to be able to play it. I just can't take any nice screenshots of my game play, which I like doing.

Unfortunately lowering the graphics quality doesn't do the trick for me I'm hoping for an Arena Net fix.

910GL Intel card here. (if that's the correct terminology)

I've been getting the exact same problem since the gwen update my computer crashed about 12 times in one hour I've pretty much been getting all the same things you people have.

Anyone brave enough to try it now?When i loaded up i downloaded a few files. I cant stand the low graphics. So post here if it gets fixed or not.

i've been having all these problems that you have already described, also using Intel 82915G chipset.... i really hope they fix this soon or this sneak pek will be a total waste of time for me

it is still a problem as we speak, i've been trying all day. drivers are all up to date same as everyone else. i have an Intel 945gm Express Chipset Family. never any problems in the past. Absolutely tonnes of memory etc as laptop is quite new. I really hope this is a fixable problem as my partner is playing on their laptop beside me with their ATI Radeon vid card and i am just itching to run around Northern Tyria!! I don't know if i can play other campaigns still will check it out.

I reset my graphical settings and haven't experienced any more crashes so far. I used AutoDetect and then put Shadow and Shader to Low.



Pentium 4 CPU 2.8 GHz
Windows XP
DirectX 9
Intel 82915G/GV/910GL

thanks for the tip, i have done this (although my res is 1280 x 800) and so far no more crashes... i am grateful to be able to play the preview weekend (finally!!) although long term i hope i don't have to sacrifice quality of gameplay just to play. that would be dissapointing (even though so far i haven't noticed a massive decrease in graphical quality by doing the above). Thanks again for the advice and i hope i don't have anymore crashes. *fingers crossed tightly*

Yu are right. When I made it playable yesterday, it was with both -dx8 and - noshaders. That was before I discovered the noshaders idea on the forums.

Today, I tried skipping -dx8 switch using only -noshaders. I crashed immediately after loading to Sifhalla, without even moving a step.

Tried again with both switches and it works.

Well, the issue is still not resolved!! got to movie sequence "the first vision" in hall of monuments and "bam" screen froze, everything went black, large resolution ialmrnt5 display driver message overlaying black background with movie sound still going on, and had to re-boot! got about an hour of play.... *sigh*

Same issue is happening to me...got home yesterday morning looking forward to the preview weekend then BOOM -_____- Happened several times, all in GWEN areas. Glad to know I'm not the only one this is happening to. It happened to me this morning as well when I was loading into the guild hall. I was really looking forward to this preview weekend...I'll have to try the tips you guys gave and hopefully I'll be able to at least catch part of it.

woudn't it jut be a worldwide crash ? so many people here have the same problem , i didn't buy the sneak peak weekend becouse i wasn't home , so i don't now anything about the crash , but mayebe Anet will fix it when he game goes online

Yea, does anyone know how far you have to tone it down?I have it turned all the way.