Curse

EternalTempest · Nov 28, 2006, 10:46 PM // 22:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by UndeadsRUs

Using the -fps command to limit the engine's rendering to your refresh rate can give the performance of disabling VSync, without the image problems normally associated with doing so.

Very nice, I will give it a try and add that to the guide as well.

Laughing_Man · Dec 18, 2006, 10:30 PM // 22:30

anybody get the -map switch to work, or know what it's 'supposed' to do?

EternalTempest · Dec 22, 2006, 05:27 PM // 17:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laughing_Man

anybody get the -map switch to work, or know what it's 'supposed' to do?

My guess (shot in the dark) it's used so your character maps to a specific location. It may be disabled or an admin function that normal players can't access. Some of the switches were found when they started scanning / hacking the exe and found all the switches as part of the exe.

Njaiguni Blaze · Dec 22, 2006, 06:23 PM // 18:23

-heapsize doesn't work anymore:
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Talk:Co...apsize_removed

Percipience · Dec 28, 2006, 06:07 PM // 18:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by UndeadsRUs

Using the -fps command to limit the engine's rendering to your refresh rate can give the performance of disabling VSync, without the image problems normally associated with doing so.

This is false. The mechanism Vsync uses to prevent tearing cannot be duplicated with FPS capping. Tearing does not magically stop because you are at some arbitrary FPS, anyone who experiences tearing can verify this easily. Vsync prevents tearing by not displaying an image until the full screen is rendered and thus prevents tearing. Capping the FPS has NO mechanism to prevent tearing, the game will display partial screens with a cap just like it did without a cap.

hippynz · Jan 04, 2007, 06:24 AM // 06:24

I have a Duron 1gb (over clocked to 1.12gb)
Geforce 4 64mb video card
640mb ram

and I know it is time i upgraded my system http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/i...es/redface.gif

The game sort of runs but is jittery and crashes after a while.

any ideas?

Njaiguni Blaze · Jan 04, 2007, 02:46 PM // 14:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by hippynz

I have a Duron 1gb (over clocked to 1.12gb)
Geforce 4 64mb video card
640mb ram

and I know it is time i upgraded my system http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/i...es/redface.gif

The game sort of runs but is jittery and crashes after a while.

any ideas?

I have a computer with an online video and soundcard. Intel Celeron 3.06GHz and 479 MB RAM and Guild Wars runs fine. I don't know what a Duron is, but am surprised that you would have problems with GW.

EternalTempest · Jan 14, 2007, 07:48 AM // 07:48

Major Update - Found out how to use an hex editor

Need to thank everyone again for posts, feedback, and new discoveries.

I cleaned up of switches, better order of listing

Any idea what some of the new switches are?
-authsrv or -newsound

authsrv (guess) may be a switch to deal with authentication server?

newsound sounds like there experimenting with a new sound engine / sound code?

Laughing_Man · Jan 14, 2007, 11:25 PM // 23:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by EternalTempest

Major Update - Found out how to use an hex editor

Need to thank everyone again for posts, feedback, and new discoveries.

I cleaned up of switches, better order of listing

Any idea what some of the new switches are?
-authsrv or -newsound

authsrv (guess) may be a switch to deal with authentication server?

newsound sounds like there experimenting with a new sound engine / sound code?

Could you point me in the direction of this hex editor and a link to where/how you figured it out? I'd like to try my and at it with GW and some of my other games to see what I might find ^_^

EternalTempest · Jan 15, 2007, 05:17 AM // 05:17

After reading the post with the link to this wiki (ty to Njaiguni Blaze for pointing it out) - http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Talk:Co...apsize_removed

I looked / found this freeware hex editor - http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delph...vi32/xvi32.htm

When you do a "Find" in the exe dialog box, make sure you:
Checkmark "as Unicode Latin (UTF-16LE)
Uncheck case senstive
Do a search for any of the known strings (dx8, nosound, etc)

See screen shots

onerabbit · Jan 16, 2007, 01:31 AM // 01:31

Hi, erm cant seem to get this right

any tips?

cellardweller · Jan 16, 2007, 03:11 AM // 03:11

add a space between the " and the -

onerabbit · Jan 16, 2007, 12:23 PM // 12:23

lol..thnx

Fay Vert · Jan 20, 2007, 03:00 AM // 03:00

There is now a -bmp switch to save screenshots in the old bitmap format since the new jpg update.

EternalTempest · Jan 20, 2007, 03:55 AM // 03:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fay Vert

There is now a -bmp switch to save screenshots in the old bitmap format since the new jpg update.

Thank you for that update

I re-looked and also spotted an -mce switch as well that ... launched my media center on Windows Xp Media Center Edition. Also an -exit switch that makes guildwars.. not launch.

sevendash · Jan 20, 2007, 04:42 AM // 04:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by EternalTempest

Thank you for that update

I re-looked and also spotted an -mce switch as well that ... launched my media center on Windows Xp Media Center Edition. Also an -exit switch that makes guildwars.. not launch.

Can you explain better what -mce does?

EternalTempest · Jan 24, 2007, 02:06 AM // 02:06

Will try.

There is a version of Windows XP called XP Media Center Edition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows...Center_Edition

It's an application built in to windows to make your pc more TV boxtop.
It has an easy to use interface for watching tv, record tv like a DVR (if you have tv tuner card), watching dvd's, listening to music.

It also allows you to stream video / audio to a device hooked to your tv as well called MCE Extender (xbox 360 is one, xbox has a kit to turn it in to one).

If media center is your primary application... aka pc is close and hooked to your tv and use the remote control it, even though it runs on top of windows, you don't really want to get out of the MCE interface to plain regular xp pc interface all the time.

With the mce switch on guildwars on, when I exit guild wars it auto launches the media center software automatically. That way you can lauch guildwars from within MCE (and it close media center), play GW, then it bring back you easy to use media center interface without being dumped back to xp and have to manually re-launch media center.

Again, this would be more for people who pc is acting as there tv tuner / cable box / dvr that interact with the remote. Not a traditional computer user.

LAMS3K · Feb 03, 2007, 04:39 PM // 16:39

"-Authsrv" is used to specify what authorization server you want to connect to. The format is: -authsrv [IP]
Such as:

-authsrv 127.0.0.1

Would make Guild Wars try and authenticate(login or any account modifications) itself with the local computer. Which fails considering no one but ANet is running a server. It does not appear to accept a port number. This command does not accept a domain name instead of an IP address. I suppose this command is here for alpha testers. It would enable them to connect to a different server network than the rest of us.

fikusan · Feb 24, 2007, 04:58 AM // 04:58

i think the -authsrv switch can also get you on faster servers maybe?
if the servers of your region are overloaded, you can get a buddy on a non-laggy server to tell you the ip of the server they are on(it shows up during map travel). see if that works

Feuer · Feb 26, 2007, 11:01 PM // 23:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by EternalTempest

Yes, in fact if you get to 1gb of ram for Windows XP, a
lot of things will run better (not just guildwars). Now anything past 1gb you may not visible see a boost as you would coming from 512 -> 1gb.

#1
Nah, there is still a big difference when you get 2 gig upgrade from 1.

My rig is athlon(tm) 64 3800+ 2.4GHz. video card is: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 gs. And I've recently stopped playing/paying wow, and let my dad barrow 1 gig stick.
Then i decided to start playing gw again, and when i put the other stick back in, my fps went up from usual 60 fps to 75, a lot more smoother, and maps download a lot faster, loads up great!

#2 I just want to say, i started reading this thread from the middle and didn't know how you do the shortcut thing(i do now), but i just put it in the run box from the start menu and it does all the things for me from there. (os windows xp)

#3

(sorry but i got to number the points that i make)
does anyone know if there is a way to get all your default settings for GW (such as graphics, sound) to default without deleting the DAT file?
i know there is the "reset all" or "auto detect" but some of the things weren't changing for me, like the shader would stay on high even when i slid the bar around and pressed "auto detect"