Curse

Shmutt · Nov 02, 2009, 08:45 PM // 20:45

Okey, so this problem have been bugging me for a while now. Ever since I got my new graphics card it's been quite unstable in Guild Wars and I can't seem to find any reason for it, so here we go.

Comp specs (tell me if you need more)
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2,14GHz
4GB Ram
XFX HD4770 512MB PCi-E (running on latest drivers)
Windows 7 64-bit

The problem only seems to be in Guild Wars, I can play newer more demanding games like Borderlands and Batman: Arkham Asylum at a steady 60fps. Guild Wars, however, is at 10-30 FPS with maxed settings inside my Guild Hall. I've tried re-installing GW, formating and defrag through Windows and a program called Smart Defrag. I'd like to metion that I've had it working for a while but it cuts out all the time, when it's working I run at a steady 60fps with v-sync and ~150 without. I've also tried installing XP, but with the same error.

There's just no logic to this in my eyes, I have no idea what to do/try next.

I've done both disc installs and downloading the game from the web and using "-image" command. (This is definitly not a network issue since I just tried it and got 80Mbit/s download and 20Mbit/s upload.)

Thanks a lot for your help!

moriz · Nov 02, 2009, 09:15 PM // 21:15

hmm, i honestly don't know. you can try downloading and installing the latest directx redistributable and see if that fixes it or not. failing that, try installing older drivers. as far as i know, the latest driver does not break compatibility with GW, but you never know.

Spiritz · Nov 02, 2009, 09:45 PM // 21:45

Id check the specs for which graffix cards are totally compatible - i used to run my onboard card which gw used to moan about and even tho it was 256 meg i had seriously low fps - switched to nvidea card and im around 100 fps everywhere.
Also set all graffix options to low/lowest they will go.

the pretender · Nov 02, 2009, 10:02 PM // 22:02

Alright here we go:
So i had the same problem my spec are:
AMD Phenom 3.1GHz
6Gbs of DDR3
Dual GeForce GTX 295
and yes to my surprice GW was running at 16FPS.
Few things I notice Guild Wars main procces is alwasy running at "Low" not "Normal" or "High" and yeas i think the games it self does purposely and sends the big work to a background worker thread(s).

What I did was run the game with the -fps ##(Set it at 60 the standard) parameter. You should only have to run this command once. That resolved my problem. Hopefully that helps ya too!

moriz · Nov 02, 2009, 10:16 PM // 22:16

GW.exe will always default to low priority if you minimize it. when it is not minimized, it automatically set itself to normal.

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Id check the specs for which graffix cards are totally compatible - i used to run my onboard card which gw used to moan about and even tho it was 256 meg i had seriously low fps - switched to nvidea card and im around 100 fps everywhere.
Also set all graffix options to low/lowest they will go.

the OP is using one of the best upper-mainstream graphic card in the world. it is obviously sufficient to run GW. and the amount of vRAM on a graphic card is a very poor indication of its performance.

Shmutt · Nov 06, 2009, 06:24 PM // 18:24

For some reason it's been working for a few days now, I didn't change anything. I'll come back if the issue does.