Jul 01, 2007, 09:56 PM // 21:56
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Houston
Profession: A/Rt
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Guild Wars and Xfire
Okay so I have a decent gaming notebook that I've been playing Guild Wars on for about a year now. During then I have always used the application Xfire.
Well about two weeks ago I started getting strange FPS, strange lag, and weird stuttering problems with Guild Wars and EVERY other game I was playing.
So I took care of the usual suspects first:
1. Ran spyware/adaware/virus scans
2. Used my registry optimizer
3. Defragmented
4. Checked my router and connection settings
5. Checked my CPU temperature
and even after that, I still got these strange FPS spikes (I'd have 80 FPS in a town, and then every 30-60 seconds it'd stutter down to 1 then repeat the process)
So then I assumed that it might be my connection. I did speed tests, tested for packet loss, all that crap... nada, nothing. My connection tested fine, and I was able to ping servers.
So I thought I had tried everything, and I never suspected that Xfire was the culprit. I closed down absolutely everything except Guild Wars, Ventrilo, and my antivirus suite and closed Xfire down.
so after running Guild Wars without Xfire... what do you know... ran smooth as glass for HOURS.
then I tried running Guild Wars again with Xfire.... lag problems returned.
Bottom line... Xfire may be the cause of your lag/FPS problems. It most certainly was for me. I find this very disappointing as Xfire is one of my favorite messengers.
I find this so odd because I've been running Guild Wars with Xfire perfectly since Guild Wars launched.... what's up here? Either way, Xfire is coming off my system for now
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