Curse

RandomRanger · Apr 13, 2008, 01:31 PM // 13:31

While I have no idea of the cause, I have been having the same issues as the OP. I tried many things but in the end the only thing that worked was using a cpu limiter.

http://deztec.jp/x/05/faireal/BES-index.html

I'm sure there are probably others to use much better then that, but it works fine for me. I have no problems now after I tell it to limit GW back 20%.

Hopefully this helps at least temporarily.

PS. No idea if it works on vista.

fusa · Apr 13, 2008, 02:37 PM // 14:37

If you heard your computer beep, then you might be having hardware issues. If you have the motherboard manual check to see if theres a section listing what different sequences of beeps mean. Check if all vents in your computer are free from dust etc, and fans are moving while on and free of dust. Try doing a windows system roll back to before the problems start. You can also try disabling programs that startup with windows in MSConfig, then reinable one at a time to determien which is causing the problem (if any are).

Brianna · Apr 13, 2008, 02:45 PM // 14:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miss Eisei

its not about fullscreen or window
its all about minimized or not she was pointing out
when minimizing it u render no actuall frames to the gfxcard, so it doesnt get bottlenecked, and the fps raises up, and so does the cpuload

Anyway, about the topic
i have noticed lately that GW has become sluggish as well as loading towns slower , and i know its nothing wrong with my drivers etc
something has been changed in how the game handles everything

I wouldn't doubt that something was changed.

Because sometime last year, I was able to run two clients on my crappy old computer with 1 gig of ram, 6600LE, athlon 3200+ with 30 FPS on both games.

Then after an update, I couldn't do it anymore, I had so much lag and the game was choppy and all kinds of things, reinstalling/downloading files didn't help, it was simply the game, my computer couldn't handle it anymore (And no it wasn't the DirectX update) it was just something A-Net did.

I just don't think in any case that it would be the problem for 100% load, because it happened to me erratically once too, and from what I remember that wasn't related to an update.

Pasha the Mighty · Apr 13, 2008, 03:07 PM // 15:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

I wouldn't doubt that something was changed.

Because sometime last year, I was able to run two clients on my crappy old computer with 1 gig of ram, 6600LE, athlon 3200+ with 30 FPS on both games.

Then after an update, I couldn't do it anymore, I had so much lag and the game was choppy and all kinds of things, reinstalling/downloading files didn't help, it was simply the game, my computer couldn't handle it anymore (And no it wasn't the DirectX update) it was just something A-Net did.

I just don't think in any case that it would be the problem for 100% load, because it happened to me erratically once too, and from what I remember that wasn't related to an update.

Yep me too, I didn't think I need a new graphic's card, because my 7300le was doing fine at 40 fps. Then I stopped playing for 4 months , I think that was a year ago. I started again during the summer holidays, and since then I've had about 20 fps.

Blackhearted · Apr 13, 2008, 06:52 PM // 18:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Admael

It matters little if it's windowed or fullscreen, as soon as you switch the taskmanager as the active window, Guild Wars looses priority.

I've highlighted the screenshot for concept. (graph shows higher load for when Guild Wars was active)

In the case of the window. As long as it's up on the screen and not hidden it uses the same amount of cpu as before. Only when it's minimized or behind another app, like a maximized browser, does it go up to 50

Here's another shot, with gw in focus to please the court..

again hovering around 37-44%

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pasha the Mighty

Yep me too, I didn't think I need a new graphic's card, because my 7300le was doing fine at 40 fps. Then I stopped playing for 4 months , I think that was a year ago. I started again during the summer holidays, and since then I've had about 20 fps.

Perhaps they changed some shaders or some other part of the renderer and it became a bit more complex and thus harder to render on a low end card without an fps hit. That's about all i can think of if you didn't change anything on your end.

Lord Sojar · Apr 22, 2008, 03:44 PM // 15:44

Well... umm.. just FYI, this is mine windowed (resolution even in this form is still at least 1400x900. That is with firefox open and all underlying tasks, and task manager and WMP playing.

Tamuril elansar · Apr 22, 2008, 04:08 PM // 16:08

my CPU also uses 100% to guild wars, i got a stupid single core 3.0GHz cpu.

doesn't matter for me as i run on everything high AA 4X and still get around 80fps.

Admael · Apr 23, 2008, 12:10 AM // 00:10

It's expected to be at 90-100% if you run single core.

NyteMyre · Apr 23, 2008, 12:08 PM // 12:08

Lately i've played without many hickups, but just now i had a 1on1 with a warrior for the 10th win in RA, and suddenly it came back big time.
I could move, but my mouse wouldn't move and skills that i activate just kept blinking, but they didn't move. Looks like my system just hates me.

I noticed though, that in Taskmanager, GW.exe has a LOW priority. Even if i set it to Normal or High, the second i move back ingame it returns to LOW.
-edit- Never mind, seems to be normal.

Anyway, it could be a hardware thing, but i also play CoD4 and BF2, 2 games which are far more demanding when it comes to system requirements.
But GW (and Men of Honor too, installed that game yesterday and seem to have the same "control freeze" problem) is the only game where i encounter these kind of freezes

Dark Kal · Apr 24, 2008, 11:02 AM // 11:02

Check your GPU's temperature when it freezes if you can, otherwise just check your GPU's temperature.

This has nothing to do with your CPU and you seem to have enough RAM assuming it's running properly.