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Update - Thursday, September 05, 2024​

Added a new game client command line option "-stress <n>"

• <n> is the time to run a stress test in milliseconds.

• The test will run for <n> milliseconds each frame.

• The stress test runs during loading screens and NOT while the game is running.

• -stress without a numeric argument is the same as -stress 0, which does no stress testing.

• -stress 10 is not particularly noticeable in terms of visibly slowing down the loading screen.

• -stress 100 will make your loading screen update at 10 fps as it spends 100 ms each frame doing the test.

• -stress 1000 will make your loading screen update at 1 fps.

• -stress 10000 will make your loading screen update at 0.1 fps.

• If the test fails, it will display a dialog box with this text: "Guild Wars detected a possible hardware malfunction. This may be due to a faulty or overheating processor or memory chip. The application will now terminate." Your only choice is "OK". ​

This code was a part of the game until 2018. It was originally put in because a long time ago, some new vendors got into the x86 processor business, and some of their CPU chips and/or motherboards were not stable. We removed this code because it slowed the game down when loading or minimized for no apparent benefit. Chip stability was fine, we thought, until just recently when we've had reports of some chips having stability errors. This might help diagnose those problems.

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Update - Tuesday, August 13, 2024​

• The text on the account create dialog has been updated to match the user agreement.

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Update - Wednesday, August 07, 2024​

• Tolkano now reports the automated tournament status in these lobbies:

  • Codex Arena

  • Random Arenas

  • Heroes' Ascent

Note: A player reported to me that Tolkano was not showing the tournaments in some outposts. Upon investigation it seems he has not done so for a very long time. I always worry when the game doesn't do something obvious - there is usually an underlying reason. But I couldn't find anything in the code so as an experiment I've added the three lobbies mentioned above. If there are no issues found, I'll roll this change out to other PvP lobbies.

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Update - Wednesday, June 31, 2024​​

• Server maintenance build

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Update - Friday, June 28, 2024​

• The User Agreement presented in-game has been updated to match the ArenaNet agreement. The updated version will be displayed to you after you login and is based on your language setting in the game. You can change the language setting while the User Agreement is displayed by pressing F11 and changing your language selection. The User Agreement has been localized into French, German, and Spanish. The Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Taiwanese language versions are in English. There is a more pleasantly formatted version at https://www.arena.net/en/legal/user-agreement.

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Developer Notes - Monday, April 22, 2024

Happy 19th Anniversary!

 

As many of you know, I've been part-time game director, programmer, janitor, etc., for Guild Wars since 2018. I'm happy to report that starting two weeks ago my time allocated to Guild Wars changed from 10% to 80%. I'm very excited to focus much more of my time on Guild Wars. I'd like to thank the studio leadership for working with me to figure out how to allocate my previous duties and roles to other staff. I'd also like to give a shout-out to other long-tenured staff in the company who have helped me with their knowledge of how and why things work the way they do in Guild Wars.

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I'd like to set your expectations appropriately - there is still a lot of work to do on our back-end systems so not everything I do will be visible to players. But I'm happy to say I've recently spent more time in-game and fixed some long-standing problems. The game is still in "maintenance mode" and there are no plans for new content. That said, I hope to improve your overall experience with Guild Wars and I'll see you in game!

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Stephen Clarke-Willson Game Director, Guild Wars