Curse

Godz Faith · Feb 17, 2006, 09:26 PM // 21:26

Ok so ive been playing GW for some time now, and around 3 days ago i come across a frustrating problem. When playing GW the screen will just freeze ( removing everything but my character and the background) because of this i then have to restart my pc(i cant press windows key or anything) but for a split second you can see that it says-

'' Your video graphics card doesn't meet the minimum reqs''

even though for the past year or so i have been playing flawlessly. I have took the time to write down the link for the official site and its problems but cannot seem to find a solution, any ideas from ur guys? It would be much appreciated so i can enjoy GW the way it should be. Thanks

Old Dood · Feb 17, 2006, 09:38 PM // 21:38

Once again...we need system specs in order to help.

Stalker Haras · Feb 18, 2006, 12:07 AM // 00:07

Guildwars runs fine on computers thata rent suposed to run it. Just when in heavily populated towns does it take a while for the computer to catch up.

My sisters comp runs a crappy onboard videocard that isnt even close to GW req, and it runs the game fine.

Nazo · Feb 18, 2006, 07:46 PM // 19:46

Yep, we need system details. What video card in particular. As for requirements, well, this thing will run on some pretty low end hardware. According to the box, as low as a Geforce 3 or 4 MX or a Radeon 8500 (note that 9200 = weakened 8500, so performance may be somewhat lacking despite the fact that it sounds like it's a better card.) Heck, since it supports MX, it may actually run at absolute minimum settings on a good Geforce 2 (I'm thinking GTS would be the best bet,) and I saw someone mentioning it running on a 7500 tolerably. Simply put, if you have a video card made since 2002 or so, you're probably going to eke by. It's 2006 now, if you have a video card from before then, UPGRADE ALREADY!! d-:

Anyway, from your description of the problem and the fact that it's happened all of a sudden, I'd say you should look into the possibility that your video card may be getting messed up. Perhaps the cooling has failed, or perhaps it's just getting old. I've seen failed cooling many times before, so see if its fan is still going if it has one. Download a tool called ATITool (it's free, and don't worry, it works on Geforce cards just fine for our purposes) and run the artifact test. If your system crashes or it tells you artifacts detected, your video card is either already damaged or getting there. I've seen in the past a card where the core would just sort of crash and games would give me a message much like you saw because they'd essentially detect no 3D at all. The 3D part crashes and all it can do is 2D from that point until it's reset (which usually means a reboot, though that's why they now have a "VPU recover" option in the video settings to try to hopefully handle such a crash.)