Curse

misfire200 · Nov 28, 2006, 04:00 AM // 04:00

Well i am lucky enough to have two computers that run guild wars. One (The one i preferred to play on) was experiencing the same issues as M1h4iL was experiencing; however, my laptop(wierd heh?) played it just fine with no lag, no long loads, no first battle lag, etc and it was running through a wireless connection. Did not make sense and for the most part definitely ruled out lag being server based. The only time the laptop would lag would be when loading into the major city zones(kaineng, kamadan) and only when they were extremely busy. However, first off i ran hijack this, and did a virus scan, also used contig to get my frags down to 4/1 on the file, -image, etc, etc. After all that my main computer would still have major lag going into cities, first battle lag, etc. Laptop still was running perfectly, so i decided i would try to emulate as much of my laptop as possible which required making sure they were running to a certain degree the same programs. And the part that helped the most was opening up services.msc via the run command. Here i matched my laptop to the best possible degree. Made sure everything was good, opened Guild Wars and voila!, no lag, no first battle lag, and was running on the highest graphics settings.

Now to be perfectly clear, i would not go fiddling around with your services.msc without knowing a little bit about what you are doing, and what not to disable, and what is necessary for your particulary system. However, i do find it is not coincidence that by making the computers match in certain areas it fixed the problem, which means somewhere you have something running or disabled that is possibly causing the lagginess effect in Guild Wars. A site i would recommend is The Elder Geek which tells you pretty much everything and recommendations on each service running. If you would like some help please send me a message or an email and i will do my best, not every system will be the same; however, some services are required and some can interfere.

I can also offer the list of services i am running, disabled, and in manual, etc, etc; however even with that i would recommend comparing the to the list on elder geek to make sure you do not want to disable certain ones. This may or may not fix your problem but it might or get you a step closer. Let me know if you would like my help. Thanks.

M1h4iL · Nov 29, 2006, 05:44 AM // 05:44

An update on my situation, the problem has been fixed. I followed the advice of Anet staff: I updated my windows with IE 7.0 (the only "important" windows update I could download) installed an AVG Antivirus (free) and deleted two entries in Hijackthis. I sent in the log made by hijackthis and Anet staff found 2 "malicious" entries, which I deleted. Anyhow, after I have done these three steps, as well as fragment my hdd, update my graphics drivers, ran all my spy ware removers (spybot: search and destroy, ad-aware, etc) the problem was still there, GW still had massive FPS issues. So I decided that what I have done and all the steps I followed were useless. BUT, the next day, GW started to perform better, with some fps lag here and there, and still taking 1 minute to load. Day after that, GW worked FINE, no fps lag, 10 second load times, just like it was before NF.
My advice to those who have FPS lag, even on very capable machines, send in a report to GW support, tell them what is happening, specs of your PC and other necessary details. Once they request you to run hijackthis and other updates and tweaks, hopefully GW will work fine for you, it did for me, after trying EVERYTHING, (except a full reformat). Good luck.