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ForgeWhelp · Nov 03, 2006, 05:55 PM // 17:55

I now have 2 shortcuts. One with -image and one for playing. I'm lazy but it makes life better for me.

FYI -image is basically a one use per update. The game will not actually play with -image in the shortcut and will have to be remeoved once it is doen to play the game.

Shifty Geezer · Nov 03, 2006, 09:04 PM // 21:04

I posted a thread about this a few days back (and got no replies...*). I also contacted NC Support and they said it was a bug they were aware of. So no need to fix your gw.dat file - you just have to wait for NCSoft to fix the game. And that's not going too well given that now my level 12 warrior only does 6-8 damage against level 3 stone elementals...

Tell a lie. There were some replies after NCSoft contacted me

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...33#post2152233

Retz · Nov 04, 2006, 08:06 AM // 08:06

Shifty, have you noticed if your HDD works extra hard when playing?

Keilious Ahruhk · Nov 04, 2006, 09:23 AM // 09:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Retz

Shifty, have you noticed if your HDD works extra hard when playing?

Funny you should mention that, cause starting a couple of hours ago, my RAM and harddrives started working extra hard, and I've been getting the same 7-10FPS problems as quite a few people.
Oh, and lots of Err-07s today too.
I'm running on 2 gigs of RAM, X1900XTX and PXE+HT, so... something's really screwy.

Oh, if it helps, GW is always setting its process priority to "low", and there's no way to change that. Maybe it has something to do with our problems. O.o

Shifty Geezer · Nov 04, 2006, 11:08 AM // 11:08

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Originally Posted by Retz

Shifty, have you noticed if your HDD works extra hard when playing?

I can't say I've noticed. The PC's on the floor so can't see the HDD light, and can't hear the HDD either. I'll try and have a look, but with such an inpotent Warrior at the moment I can't really play the game.

Retz · Nov 04, 2006, 04:20 PM // 16:20

If your HDD is working hard, what it's doing is decompressing files on the fly. This isn't good for performance -- at all!

Use the -image flag as explained earlier and you should see it decompress 20 - 30 thousand files. Once it's done (might take an hour or two) run the game again and you should notice that your HDD wont be working as hard any more and game performance will be back to normal.

To use -image:

1. Click Start and then click Run...

2. Click Browse and select your gw.exe program. It will be in "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars" by default.

3. The Run window should now read-

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe"

Modify the line in the run window to read

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image

4. Press OK, and let it do it's thing.

5. Once complete, run the game from your regular shortcut.

Keilious Ahruhk · Nov 04, 2006, 10:21 PM // 22:21

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Originally Posted by Retz

-snip-

Naw, I -image very often, that's not the problem. In any case, the harddrive thingie isn't happening anymore it seems, so we'll see.