Curse

Potential Murder · Mar 15, 2009, 12:14 AM // 00:14

I've recently started having problems with my copy of Guild Wars. For the first year of playing, although I didn't get extensively into the game's content, I had no problem with it whatsoever. This was using the Factions disc, installation etc. However, I eventually got my mitts on a brand new Complete Collection edition of the game, installed that and not long after that, encountered my first blue screen from Guild Wars. Currently, after about 2 months and after a reformat of my PC, Guild Wars refuses entirely to enter any missions at all and just gives me a blue screen. I doubt drivers are an issue, as after I reformatted, I managed to run a mission ~4 times before an endless amount of blue screens. I'm now very perplexed and annoyed, considering I can't play any further into the game and my current area to explore is very limited. Hence, I'm wondering if anyone here can help...

My computer specs are... sufficient, I believe, as I've managed to run the game without problem for a full year, despite it being pretty laggy in towns and stuff. Drivers should be installed and up to date and beside that, I can't think what's up with it aside from general file corruption or problematic settings.

=/ Any clues, guys?

Icy The Mage · Mar 15, 2009, 03:30 AM // 03:30

Is your hard-drive full?

When I accidentally left my recording software recording one time, it filled up my hard-drive and left about 12 Kb of space left; every time I tried to do much of anything I got blue-screened, including missions.

Hope I helped..

Seed of Yggdrasil · Mar 15, 2009, 03:34 AM // 03:34

Have you tried running with -image?

make a copy of your gw shortcut, and then right click the copy, and select properties. in the target box, you should see the path to guild wars in quotation marks (something like "c:\program files\guild wars\gw.exe")

add -image to that line, after the quotes, then hit ok.

this will download all of the assets for gw, even the ones you already have, and should fix any corruption you have. beware that this is EXTREMELY slow as it's going to download 3-4 gigs.

This wont help if it's something wrong with your machine or drivers. Do any other games mess up?

Potential Murder · Mar 15, 2009, 11:04 AM // 11:04

Well, my computer was completely cleared and reformatted yesterday, I'm currently running with about 66GB of free space, so I don't think a full hard disk is an issue.

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Originally Posted by Seed of Yggdrasil

Have you tried running with -image?

make a copy of your gw shortcut, and then right click the copy, and select properties. in the target box, you should see the path to guild wars in quotation marks (something like "c:\program files\guild wars\gw.exe")

add -image to that line, after the quotes, then hit ok.

this will download all of the assets for gw, even the ones you already have, and should fix any corruption you have. beware that this is EXTREMELY slow as it's going to download 3-4 gigs.

This wont help if it's something wrong with your machine or drivers. Do any other games mess up?

Ah, didn't know about that o.o I haven't had chance to test any of my other games, but during the period I've had blue screens, I've played Perfect World and Flyff. I've also run a few emulated games for the Playstation 1 and none of those caused me any troubles except for when my computer had been running for too long (i.e. +24 hours)

I'll give it a try anyways, thanks ;D

moriz · Mar 15, 2009, 01:22 PM // 13:22

might be overheating. are you overclocking anything (especially graphic card)? GW is very picky with hardware stability, and a stable overclock for anything else will crash with GW. if you are overclocking your graphic card, try running it at stock. if that doesn't work, lower overclock on CPU and such.

blackmage_z · Mar 16, 2009, 01:17 AM // 01:17

If the blue screen continues it may also be outdated video drivers (in case you didn't update these with the reformatting).

Potential Murder · Mar 19, 2009, 07:44 PM // 19:44

Well, I double checked all my drivers, installed possibly more than necessary. Reinstalled the game too, restarted and everything is running fine now. I'm not sure what did it, but the problem is solved =] Thanks for all the hints and tips anyways *Goes to finish off a Canthan mission* :x

Snograt · Mar 19, 2009, 08:56 PM // 20:56

I'm glad that you got everything running again, but I need to ask: Were you playing Factions when this first started happening? The older the chapter, the least problems you should expect. If you're running a fairly old system, I can almost guarantee you're going to experience problems with Eye of the North, especially in Asuran areas like Rata Sum, where they used new-fangled graphical tricks that can bring an integrated graphics solution to its knees.

Hope you're ok though - good luck