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kilr15 · Mar 18, 2011, 07:46 PM // 19:46

So for the past few months I have been experiencing graphics issues mainly in Guild Wars. I play other games and do not experience the same issues. I tried updating my graphics driver and nothing helped. Posted below are two screenshots from when the issues occurred. I run guild wars mainly on a Samsung R580 laptop. Here are the specs. I run Guild Wars through Steam if that would matter at all. The problems mainly occur during fights (which makes it quite hard to heal) and if I'm just running around, sometimes my computer's screen will flicker on and off and display the graphics issues u see in the two links. I have tried deleting and re-installing the Guild Wars file (through using the -image command) and the issues still happen.

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Thanks for any and all the help. First post here but I read it all about daily.

Califorun · Mar 18, 2011, 09:57 PM // 21:57

Sometimes it can help to actually roll back your display (graphics) driver to a previous version, as perhaps their updated one has a bug with Guild Wars. I had an older nVidia GPU and the driver would sometimes crash (only with Guild Wars though, strangely), causing flickering and tearing of the screen. I got a newer nVidia card and it works amazingly well now though. ^^

kilr15 · Mar 19, 2011, 12:38 AM // 00:38

Thanks for the reply. Is there anyway I can just have guild wars run the older version? Or would there be any large negatives to using the older driver?

Krill · Mar 20, 2011, 03:53 PM // 15:53

That type of angular artifacting is indicative of a video card memory error. It tends to happen when there is a bad memory module (nothing you can do about it) or you overclock too much (I doubt you are). Since laptop video cards are not a standardized component there's nothing you can do unless you still have warranty coverage or it makes financial sense for manufacturer service.

kilr15 · Mar 21, 2011, 03:46 PM // 15:46

Rather than replacing the video card, is there anyway I could "dedicate" RAM from my laptop to be used only for the video card?

tijo · Mar 21, 2011, 06:51 PM // 18:51

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Originally Posted by kilr15

Rather than replacing the video card, is there anyway I could "dedicate" RAM from my laptop to be used only for the video card?

As far as i know, nope. Besides, you'd get a huge drop in performance if doing so.

Antares Ascending · Mar 23, 2011, 05:16 AM // 05:16

Sometimes deleting the old driver and re-loading it clean can do the trick.

GL