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Zenithos · Nov 10, 2011, 09:53 PM // 21:53

it is freezing with a image of whatever i was doing in GWs and there is no sound

Mireles · Nov 10, 2011, 10:01 PM // 22:01

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Originally Posted by Zenithos

it is freezing with a image of whatever i was doing in GWs and there is no sound

in that case try the audio driver... it could be hanging because it is not responding.... also you can create a guild wars short cut and put "-image" behind the target field in properties (no quotes) then launch gw with that short cut (remove -image when you want to start the game normally)... this will download all the data in guild wars so your not downloading it as you play... will re-leave some stress of the hard drive... you may want to run disk derangement before you do this in your accessories folder... make sure u close all programs before doing so.

Zenithos · Nov 10, 2011, 11:19 PM // 23:19

still freezing sadly looks like i cant play unless i get a old windows xp and reformat the harddrive for it or just quite trying =/

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unless....could it be my microsoft framework maybe?

Mireles · Nov 10, 2011, 11:24 PM // 23:24

https://forum.guildwars.com/forum/fo...3650-AGP-Issue

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/g...t10300668.html

http://www.modacity.net/forums/showt...-and-me/page3&

Doing a Google search on your card series and guild wars seems to be a well known issue... unfortunately it seems nobody found a confirmed fix.... some of these threads may have some options you might want to look into. good luck.

Zenithos · Nov 10, 2011, 11:24 PM // 23:24

or maybe one of the installed updates making it worse?

Showtime · Nov 10, 2011, 11:42 PM // 23:42

Laptop or desktop?

Do you play any other games that require some video processing? Most likely this will happen with any game, so it's not just GW, right?

It's your drivers, hardware, mulittasking, a virus/malware, or all of the above.

Did you change OS? From xp to win7? 2 gigs of ram could be a problem if you are multitasking/have stuff running in the back ground.

Basics for even if you don't have problems.. yet.

Clean out dust. You mentioned it froze before after a couple of hours. It could be that win7 is using a bit more of your cpu/gpu and that you cooler(s) are clogged with dust. Blow out all your coolers. Youtube for how to do it to either a laptop or desktop. Just make sure the power is off completely before doing it. Coolers generally don't go bad, but fans do. Make sure they are all running correctly. If you have a desktop, add a fan and aim it at your video card. Leave door open. This will generally make it run cooler and you can watch for bad fans. If a lot of dust comes out, that is probably a good part of the problem.

Turn off as much junk as you can. Messenger, updates, and any bloatware that might have come with your computer. That stuff uses up resources/ram and even if it's not a problem, will make your computer a bit faster if not running.

Download/update and run malwarebytes in safe mode.

Download/update and run anti virus sw like ms security essentials.

Download/update all relevant drivers.

Download and run Memtest to test your memory.

Check hard drive for bad sectors. Probably not this, but might as well check everything.

Add ram if you can. You want at least 4 gigs nowadays. Slickdeals is a good place to search for computer deals/stuff like that.

You could have a bad power supply. Either way, dont forget to blow that out too.

ephion · Nov 10, 2011, 11:48 PM // 23:48

There can be a bit more simple thing : Are you using TeamSpeak3 Client ? because it sometimes happen that if you run gw after ts3 it will freeze pc.

Zenithos · Nov 11, 2011, 01:03 AM // 01:03

still having the same issue regardless of what i do, and so im thinkin about downgrading to winxp

Family Guy · Nov 11, 2011, 01:39 AM // 01:39

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Originally Posted by Showtime

Add ram if you can. You want at least 4 gigs nowadays.

This is exactly what I was thinking, especially with win7. You'll need more down the road anyway. Hope you get it fixed.

Wenspire · Nov 11, 2011, 02:02 AM // 02:02

Has gw ever been running ok on your current win7 64bit setup? If so, what have you changed since that time?

I am running gw with win7 64bit (with the sp1) with a 4870 ati card with no issues. My other pc is running the same os but with a 4850 and I have also ran it with a 3870. It shouldn't be an os issue unless something happened during the update.

Maybe try reinstalling the curent directx if you haven't already.

Zenithos · Nov 11, 2011, 02:15 AM // 02:15

already did all that, only thing ive done is updated whih if thats the problem i dont know which update

Wenspire · Nov 11, 2011, 03:34 AM // 03:34

Last thing I can suggest doing is uninstalling the radeon driver and reinstalling an older version. I think I am still running 11.7 on my machine. Worth a shot. Good luck.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...w_vista64.aspx

Showtime · Nov 11, 2011, 07:23 AM // 07:23

if it's not the software/drivers, it's probably heat. open it up add a fan or 2 and run it.

drkn · Nov 11, 2011, 10:16 AM // 10:16

Seriously, lock ups like that are harbingers of video card's death.
When it locks up, try pressing mouse buttons rapidly, while randomly moving the mouse in all directions. Hold mouse buttons and move it rapidly. Do you hear a beeping from the computer? (You might not because of hardware specs, but if you do, point for me). Does the cursor change its position, jumps from one point to another, after about a minute or more?

Spiritz · Nov 11, 2011, 11:28 AM // 11:28

It does sound like driver issue - im using a tricore amd system with catalyst and win 7 32bit - ive had no problems at all.
I would do the following - go into dos ( command prompt ) and go to the drive that has gw on it ( usually c drive ) and type in chkdsk c: /r - the c: refers to drive so if it was on d you`d type chkdsk d: /r
It should give a message that the drive is in use - either select to disconnect the drive and scan or set a scan for reboot ( usually the latter ).
It will scan the drive and check for bad clusters and correct indexes - sometimes a big problem can be the indexes and that can cause system freezes.
Any signs of my system acting up i always chkdsk it - its always best to be safe and cover all bases than get caught out.

drkn · Nov 11, 2011, 11:47 AM // 11:47

Also, pay a visit to the event log, somewhere in the control panel, in administration tools (it's there in XP at least, google's your friend). Check for errors and warnings. Check if anything happened when you computer froze.
25 plat on you finding at least one infinite loop there.

Quaker · Nov 11, 2011, 03:09 PM // 15:09

And, don't forget to clean the dust out of your PC and make sure all fans are working.

Spiritz · Nov 11, 2011, 05:53 PM // 17:53

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Originally Posted by drkn

Also, pay a visit to the event log, somewhere in the control panel, in administration tools (it's there in XP at least, google's your friend). Check for errors and warnings. Check if anything happened when you computer froze.
25 plat on you finding at least one infinite loop there.

Win7 also has this an probably vista too - something i forgot