Curse

R1kk1 · Feb 11, 2007, 01:05 AM // 01:05

Hi guys.

I recently added GW's to my computer and I'm having a great time playing it, but I have a problem.

Whenever I go into a town or somewhere where there are alot of NPC's or RL Players then the game locks up and starts freezing, and it takes me ages to walk somewhere.

Now, I wanna sort this out quickly so I don't have any trouble when I try to do group hunts later in the game.

This usually happens when I enter a place like Ascaron. I just freeze and can't move if there are alot of people there. I usually just switch to a more empty District, but it takes about 2 minutes for the drop down menu to appear because it's going so slow, and my computer should be able to handle it anyway.

Thanks for any help!

Rik

Tachyon · Feb 11, 2007, 01:35 AM // 01:35

System specs would be useful!

R1kk1 · Feb 11, 2007, 02:06 AM // 02:06

Pants! Knew I forgot something! How do I check my system specs? lol, not good with computers!!!

EDIT:

Windows XP

Processor
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz
Version: x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2
Speed: 1794 MHz

Video Card
Model: NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT (Microsoft Corporation)
Driver: nv4_mini.sys
26 March 2006
Supported

IS that what you needed? I dunno if that will be enough, lol

Lord Sojar · Feb 11, 2007, 02:49 AM // 02:49

The vanta processor from nVidia is an extremely weak integrated solution. It is a twin texel 3D processor, not a graphics card. I recommend HIGHLY you add a low cost graphics card into your computer.

How much system memory (RAM) for you have? 512MB? 1GB? 2GB? that is crucial for us to know.

R1kk1 · Feb 11, 2007, 01:55 PM // 13:55

I think it's something highly disgusting, like 256MB :S It's not anything higherr then that. I fact, thinking about it i KNOW its 256MB. That's bad, huh?

MegaMouse · Feb 11, 2007, 02:22 PM // 14:22

First upgrade your ram to at least 1 gig, that will help out tremendously. Next is too look at getting a dediicated video card. I run a laptop with a 1.8 ghz processor within it and the game doesn't ever put the cpu usage over 40%. The ammount of ram that you have in your machine now is forcing Windows and Guild Wars to be run out of the "Virtual Memory" file on your harddrive. By upgrading to more ram you give both a lot more leg-room to work with instead of using the slow hard drive to run.

Mega Mouse