Curse

Sora267 · Nov 01, 2009, 02:27 AM // 02:27

Recently (as of earlier today,) my computer has been very sluggish after opening Guild Wars. I checked the task manager, and GW has been using excessive amounts of memory. It starts off at normal levels (Around 40,000K in the task manager like it used to,) but then as I go through the login process, it begins climbing until it settles around 390,000-500,000K. This flares up my fans, slows my computer to a crawl and eventually makes it freeze, requiring a hard shut down. I've been using the Windows 7 RC (build 7100) for the past few months with no problems whatsoever. I didn't install anything before it began happening, but I did install Microsoft Security Essentials afterwards. Do any of you have any idea of what may be causing this?

Linked is a screenshot of the task manager immediately after I zoned: http://yfrog.com/ekgwmemoryp

End · Nov 01, 2009, 02:38 AM // 02:38

mine using the same OS is currently running at around 600,000k in LA...only thing I can think of is the masive number of people in LA and Kamadan for the event O.o

Edit: Seems to drop to about half that in henge of denravi....the worlds emptiest outpost.

Edit to my edit:Ok at least for me it does if you give it a few seconds to drop

Sora267 · Nov 01, 2009, 02:40 AM // 02:40

That could be it, but it doesn't drop when I go into another outpost or an explorable.

Killamus · Nov 01, 2009, 04:00 AM // 04:00

Guild wars has a few horrid memory leaks in it, just restart it every once in a while.

Necromankas · Nov 01, 2009, 04:09 AM // 04:09

I got the same problem and i'm on Win 7... It might just be Win 7 causing it.

End · Nov 01, 2009, 04:40 AM // 04:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Killamus

Guild wars has a few horrid memory leaks in it, just restart it every once in a while.

it does indeed...just pointing that it's usually not this bad...

Wrath Of Dragons · Nov 01, 2009, 05:12 AM // 05:12

How much ram do you have?

Rushin Roulette · Nov 01, 2009, 09:05 AM // 09:05

Im having the same problem.

I used to be able to open up 3 or 4 copies of the game during a big event. For example, I was staffing the Royal Ascalonian ball with 4 accounts each running tonic forms and every one in full districts.

Now my computer is laging badly if I open 2 copies with both chars in an otherwise empty Guild Hall. It completely freezes if I try to open a 3rd copy (Also in the same GH).

The Hardware hasn't changed since then and my HDDs are all de-fragmented and as far as I can tell Virus and Spyware free (up to date scans don't show flags at least).

Win XP
AMD Phenom 8750 Tripple core CPU
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ GPU
2 Times 1GB RAM

Benderama · Nov 01, 2009, 10:14 AM // 10:14

sorry if someone's said this before but did windows 7 install a new update? i had vista and after 6+ months it started to take up to 10 mintues to start up without any reason, updates or extra programs. likewise when i played age of mythology, it decided that a game requiring 450 MHz of processor power was easily outoding 2.1GHz. it could be all the people, that slows games down wiht more AI/human players.
sorry i'm not very helpful i just get a lot of times when vista makes programs run slow because it feels like it.

raddish · Nov 01, 2009, 01:55 PM // 13:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Necromankas

I got the same problem and i'm on Win 7... It might just be Win 7 causing it.

Cant be this, i run vista and ive just seen a memory hike from my GW. usually runs at around 50k but atm its running at 517k :s. Dont really know what it is, provs the event as mentioned

KZaske · Nov 01, 2009, 02:59 PM // 14:59

I experenced a simular memory leak when I was using a 32bit system several years ago. When I upgraded to xp64 the memory leak went away. How many of you are using a legecy 32bit OS?

Quaker · Nov 01, 2009, 04:05 PM // 16:05

40,000k = 40Meg! - how much friggin' RAM do you have!?

On a more serious note, hopefully it's a memory leak issue which will be fixed in an update.

Sora267 · Nov 01, 2009, 05:09 PM // 17:09

I have 2 GB of RAM lol. I think the CPU usage climbs up too, and that may be what's causing the freezes.

fretmelta · Nov 02, 2009, 08:44 AM // 08:44

vista was always memory hungry and needed more than any other os to run anything.
this was meant to be one of the problems fixed with windows 7.try to cut down on the background programes if you can and it maybe able to run faster