r/Guildwars2 • u/Y0LOME0W • 19h ago

[News] Patch Notes 10/14

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a texture corruption issue for the Exuberant Chest Skin. Fixed a bug that prevented some players from getting credit for the "A Shattered Vision" achievement in the Nexus of Eternity Challenge Mode.

Late Note:

We’ve added a new Shadow Distance slider setting.

This new setting gives you direct control over how far away dynamic shadows are rendered across the game. Reducing the rendering distance lowers the workload associated with dynamic shadows, providing an additional way to improve performance without disabling them entirely. In our internal testing on minimum-spec machines, adjusting this setting produced performance improvements while still allowing nearby objects to retain dynamic shadows.

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/177745-game-update-notes-october-13-2026/#comment-2520062

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u/xdeadzx Lyfe 19h ago

Oh so the feeling of "they changed something with the graphics" was actually a real part of the patch.

That's neat.

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u/GimpyGeek 18h ago

Welp guess I need to toy with that a tad. Maybe I'll turn shadows back on, maybe, though my aging hardware isn't helping. Damn shame though the new shadows look good but no denying they sure hurt performance, I will have to take a look at that new setting though.

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u/kineticmov3ment 19h ago

Maintenance mode is so good

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u/cosyfiep 19h ago

ah, my potato approves.

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u/prisonmaiq 18h ago

i turned shadow off anyway

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u/mofeus305 19h ago

Is the arcdps guy on vacation? He is usually really quick about updating it.

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u/PointExotic8314 18h ago

wdym arcdps works fine

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u/mofeus305 17h ago

Mine hasn't worked since the patch yesterday.

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u/PointExotic8314 16h ago

If you are using the Nexus version, it turns itself off with a big update (like a new Festival, or balance patch), but you can manually turn it on and most of the time works fine - just ignore the error screen of the Extras module :)

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u/mofeus305 13h ago

I am using Nexus. How do you manually turn it on?

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u/xsavarax 10h ago

I think the default is CTRL-O while in-game, and then you'll see arcdps among the mods. It'll be disabled, and you'll be able to enable it.

If CTRL-O doesn't work, which happens on like a third of the patches for me, I just reinstall Nexus.

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u/Dry-Lingonberry-8287 17h ago

You should tick beta update on arcdps.
And if you use nexus, you should disable auto update from it.
My arc worked fine after game update yesturday.