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Morgot · Apr 07, 2007, 04:40 AM // 04:40

Hello.

Ive searched here, googled, and done everything else but with no luck.
I despise iTunes and all its background processes, so I use WinAmp. It works great with other games, and can copy to and from any devices. Clearly a great program. But if I try to use WinAmp with Guild Wars, I get this INSANE lag at loading screens if it has to decompress any files. I usually end up minimizing Guild Wars, (Which also takes a long time when this happens.) and closing WinAmp. Then, it decompresses fine. When WinAmp isn't running, this never happens.

Any help?

DutchGun · Apr 07, 2007, 04:47 AM // 04:47

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Originally Posted by Morgot

Hello.

Ive searched here, googled, and done everything else but with no luck.
I despise iTunes and all its background processes, so I use WinAmp. It works great with other games, and can copy to and from any devices. Clearly a great program. But if I try to use WinAmp with Guild Wars, I get this INSANE lag at loading screens if it has to decompress any files. I usually end up minimizing Guild Wars, (Which also takes a long time when this happens.) and closing WinAmp. Then, it decompresses fine. When WinAmp isn't running, this never happens.

Any help?

I'd recommend making sure they're not competing for the same DirectSound driver resources. Try disabling DirectSound output in WinAmp, if you haven't already done so.

The fact of the matter is that Guild Wars seems to already strain resources when decompressing for some reason. It could be that running another mildly intensive processes such as WinAmp just puts your system over the edge. Hopefully, anet will try to fix the decompression problem, but I wouldn't hold your breath. It's apparently been around for some time.

Morgot · Apr 07, 2007, 04:54 AM // 04:54

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Originally Posted by DutchGun

I'd recommend making sure they're not competing for the same DirectSound driver resources. Try disabling DirectSound output in WinAmp, if you haven't already done so.

Thank you for a speedy reply!

That seemed to help, although I am starting to think that you are right about it just maxing out my system (Which seems strange since my system is DEFINITELY not average.). Thanks.

Lonesamurai · Apr 07, 2007, 10:45 AM // 10:45

What is your system specs?

Morgot · Apr 07, 2007, 03:05 PM // 15:05

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Originally Posted by Lonesamurai

What is your system specs?

Here is all I could find.

Pentium 4 2.6ghz
1.00gb RAM
ATI Radeon x1650
SoundBlaster [A800]

Guess it's more average than I thought, but it's also not your standard off the line dell box.

sykoone · Apr 07, 2007, 05:07 PM // 17:07

If it happens when gw is decompressing, just use the -image switch to decompress everything first. Then the problem should be solved.

Morgot · Apr 07, 2007, 10:57 PM // 22:57

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Originally Posted by sykoone

If it happens when gw is decompressing, just use the -image switch to decompress everything first. Then the problem should be solved.

Wow! 36800 files to decompress! This might take a while...

Etta · Apr 08, 2007, 11:52 AM // 11:52

Or you can just shut down win amp when GW is decompressing, don't really need -image really imo. Running other program in the background will always slow down GW unless you're using dual core or high grade amd cpu and have a lot of rams to spare. Alternatively use a stereo, it can play music pretty well and doesn't slow down and drop your fps in GW.

Pariah · Apr 10, 2007, 05:22 PM // 17:22

It is most likely as Dutch said, just too much for your comp. I run Winamp and GW at the same time constantly and have no lag or problems of any kind.

And if you think 36000+ files to decompress is ugly - I just had to delete my gw.dat file and download a new image in order to repair a bad .dat file. It was well over 96,000 files. I had to leave it run overnight. It fixed my problem though. Thankfully I have a really fast broadband connection.

Morgot · Apr 10, 2007, 09:11 PM // 21:11

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Originally Posted by Pariah

It is most likely as Dutch said, just too much for your comp. I run Winamp and GW at the same time constantly and have no lag or problems of any kind.

And if you think 36000+ files to decompress is ugly - I just had to delete my gw.dat file and download a new image in order to repair a bad .dat file. It was well over 96,000 files. I had to leave it run overnight. It fixed my problem though. Thankfully I have a really fast broadband connection.

Hehe, thats one of the benefits of 2 computers - Never have to download the whole .dat file again. Just copy it from the other computer.

Raaaaa · Apr 10, 2007, 09:19 PM // 21:19

I've noticed some problems with winamp and GW running together at times.

The main cause I found though was lengthy playlists. If winamp is just playing a couple of files it should be reasonably ok. But if you're cycling through your entire hardrives collection it can interfer.

But the newer builds of winamp dont seem the same as before, spose thats AOL's fault though :P

Omega X · Apr 10, 2007, 10:37 PM // 22:37

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Originally Posted by Raaaaa

I've noticed some problems with winamp and GW running together at times.

The main cause I found though was lengthy playlists. If winamp is just playing a couple of files it should be reasonably ok. But if you're cycling through your entire hardrives collection it can interfer.

But the newer builds of winamp dont seem the same as before, spose thats AOL's fault though :P

Newer builds of Winamp is just as good as the older versions. They maintain the code rather than trying to bloat it up AOL style. Since the bulk of Nullsoft was canned anyway, they can only maintain it now days.

Since the recent Guild Wars update, running together with Winamp causes problems. That hardly if ever happened before. But then again, that isn't the only problem with Guild Wars since that update.