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Old Dec 29, 2010, 03:50 AM // 03:50   #1
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Hello and thanks for looking into this. I just recently (today) began to start playing Guild Wars after a 2 1/2 year hiatus. Playing again has been fun, but the game, it seems, is freezing my computer every 1-10 min I play. Now Guild Wars is the only game that does this - WoW has absolutely no problems running almost ultra settings and a variety of Steam games have been working as well. Also, the game only freezes when I am playing. If I leave the computer for 30 min or so and come back, it is fine, but as soon as I begin fighting baddies or even running around town, it craps out. When the game freezes, everything is frozen, cursor, picture, and the music is turned into a god awful buzz. I cannot alt+tab or ctrl+alt+del out and am forced to hard start my computer which I would prefer not to have to do. Any help provided would be very much appreciated and followed. The specs of my computer are below:

Alienware m11x laptop
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i-7 520-UM overclockable processor
320g harddrive
Windows 7
1024 NVIDIA GT335M GeForce

Thank you again and have a nice day.
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Old Dec 31, 2010, 09:00 AM // 09:00   #2
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Old Dec 31, 2010, 01:59 PM // 13:59   #3
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try to reinstall it to get fresh files
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Old Dec 31, 2010, 06:23 PM // 18:23   #4
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Try reducing the graphics settings in GW
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Old Dec 31, 2010, 06:50 PM // 18:50   #5
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Try uninstalling and reinstalling the graphics drivers. Failing that, try to reinstall Windows if it isn't too inconvenient.
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Old Oct 06, 2011, 10:33 PM // 22:33   #6
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Could this be an overheating issue? Try downloading Speedfan or CPUID HWMoniter and see what your temps are.
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Old Oct 07, 2011, 07:13 AM // 07:13   #7
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Old Oct 16, 2011, 09:43 PM // 21:43   #8
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How do I download guild wars on to my m11x Alienware does anyone have a link I can use?
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Old Oct 17, 2011, 02:58 PM // 14:58   #9
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You can either copy it from another computer* (or the CD/DVD) using a flash drive or USB external hard drive, or download it from the GW website.
http://www.guildwars.com/support/downloadclient/

*if you have a desktop computer with GW installed, you can just copy the entire GW folder to the m11x and run gw.exe

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