Curse

fritz300 · Jun 01, 2006, 01:25 PM // 13:25

Okay I've came back to GW after like a 8 month break, any way, I've been having a couple of technichal problems that I can't resolve.

The first one is that randomly my game will start chugging and have frame dips and play very choppilly until I change the resolution, minimize, re-focus window, change resolution back (to 1280x1024) and then it resolves and runs at max FPS again. It may take a couple hours of playing for this to occur, but it still happens at least 1-2 times a day and it is very annoying to have to change the res' and stuff to restore it. Restarting the game also works, but can't do that when I'm busy with a group.

The other, and more rare, problem is that sometimes the game will randomly freeze, but not completely. The sound will continue, the action will continue, infact I can still here players making actions and running around but my screen becomes completely frozen and it's like I'm just looking at a still image while hearing all of these sounds and stuff. Stranger yet, I can still move my cursor, but it does nothing.. I can alt tab and even tell that I'm bringing other windows into focus and even type to others on IRC or messenger and they'll get the messages, all while I have a frozen image of Guild Wars frozen over my screen. Some times I can alt+f4 and GW will close and the frozen image will be gone, but when I restart GW I get a "Directx 9 failed to intialize." error and I still have to end up restarting my computer

Just a couple of very annoying problems I've been haveing, I hope someone can help it would greatly be appreciated.

AMD 64 3700+ OC'ed @ 2420 MHz
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
2x 512MB Corsair XMS (fsb 220 dual channel)
GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP (OC'ed @ 540/1150 (500/900))

Drivers/DirectX/etc all up to date.

Regards,
fritz

Josh · Jun 01, 2006, 03:34 PM // 15:34

Try re-installing DirectX 9.0c, also update to the latest 8x.xx drivers, DON'T get the new 9x.xx ForceWare drivers from nVidia.

Also, have you checked your comp isn't overheating?

fritz300 · Jun 01, 2006, 03:45 PM // 15:45

CPU is always fine during extended periods of play, though I can't really check it at the time when the game locks up and my screen is frozen. Graphics card I guess it hits the threshold (65-75ish) but barely and artifacting never occurs.

Currently reinstalling DirectX now and I'll stop by to read here and let you know if I run into any problems.

Regards,
fritz

Josh · Jun 01, 2006, 04:43 PM // 16:43

Your Graphics Card can overheat and shut of your PC without showing artifacts...

Check your nVidia Control Panel for temps when your maxing out utilization on your gpu core.

fritz300 · Jun 02, 2006, 05:20 AM // 05:20

Reinstalled DirectX, still running into problems. Graphics card not overheating.

fritz300 · Jun 04, 2006, 11:47 PM // 23:47

Hate to double post but it's been a couple days.. and I really need to be pointed in some kind of direction to get this problem resolved, it's really starting to get annoying

I noticed the chugging tends to start more whenever I load into a zone/area or restore my game from being minimized more than it does randomly(which it still does also from time to time.

- Zak

fritz300 · Jun 07, 2006, 01:08 AM // 01:08

Okay, since I couldn't seem to resolve it, I decided to try several driver combinations. When I updated to 84.21, every time I launched Guild Wars it was a plain black screen yet I could still hear sound and do things in game. So I tried several other drivers, and finally decided to uninstall the drivers completely and reverted to the 77.77 (optimized for 6600gt) and now when I try to play it looks like this:

;( Other games seem to work fine.

[EDIT]
Nevermind, it seems any DX game has this problem.

[EDIT x2]
So far I've updated DirectX, mother board bios, AGP drivers and etc and still can't resolve the issue.