Black screen for 2/3sec

Hey there
Today i installed Windows 7 and ofcourse Guild Wars :P
Now i loggged in and every time i zone to a other map i got 2/3sec black screen on the loading screen of the zone/map

is this a grafisch driver bug ? but i reinstalled a old driver and a new driver 2x
or is it a bugg of Arenanet ?

it seems to be a mixture of windows 7/vista and drivers. both my laptop and desktop (nvidia on the laptop, AMD/ATI on the desktop) shows the same behavior. it doesn't seem to break anything, except Fraps when you are recording. basically, you don't want to continue recording when you zone, or it will crash your computer.

Well before W7 i played GW on vista and then i didn't got that problem :S
and my laptop with W7 got same problem

it's probably a windows 7 issue then. unfortunately, there really isn't a fix for it. it's not game breaking, so it shouldn't matter much.

but its VERY Frustating .......

its becuase you have DX11 now

So i need to wait till Guild Wars makes a fix ? :S

well it bugged me at first. now i hardly notice it. only happens when your loading into a town right?

do you have the latest driver downloaded directly from your video card manufacturer's website?

y i got the newest drivers , but i got it too when i go to pvp and Explore maps

should only be happening while your on a loading screen not during a middle of the game. i believe the cause is when the game changes from low res to hi res.

its in loading screens from Zoning :P

Have taht too...first i noticed it..nowdays I hardly even see it's there . So just wait don't worry, you'll get used to it.

I had the same problem on Windows 7, but running Guild Wars in Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) compatibility mode solved it for me.

On Vista I had the problem of while zoning i got a black screen for like 2/3 of a second

when I downgraded to XP - no black screen

YOU ROCK !!!!
This problem is fixed by this guy !!!!!!

Same problems here in win7pro... r4890 in the desktop, core 2 duo macbook running boot camp 3 for laptop (with some nvidia).... unfortunately playing with the compatibility mode settings does nothing for me.

I also notice the desktop showing up sometimes on zone, it's not always a black screen.

Bumping because I seem to have found a fix. ^^

The compatibility mode changes are half of what you need. The other part is to update directx 9.0c components, vista and win7 do not ship with all the latest extensions. Some other games may have already installed the right components for you, but GW itself doesn't. You can get an updater to grab the components from microsoft.

So in short:

1) Run the above updater to update your dx 9.0c components.
2) Set your game shortcut to run compatibility mode vista sp 2.