Curse

Stevonio · Jul 28, 2008, 07:33 PM // 19:33

This occurred for three months are so already. My Guild Wars would just freeze, and I can't move. But everything else around Guild Wars is perfectly fine. After 3 - 180 seconds, I can do perhaps one or two actions, before it freezes for another 3 - 180 seconds (sometimes eve more). However, every time I come back, I have a red dot with a lightning symbol, or sometimes just a red dot. I play on windows mode.

My Computer Specs are:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 2.40 GHz (2 CPUS)
2014MB RAM
DirectX 10
Video Card: NVidia Quadro NVS 140M

Sometimes, it doesn't occur for a few days. While, sometimes it freezes every day or every 3 hours! The only solution I can find so far, is restarting, but even when I do that sometimes, it freezes again after 30 - 300 minutes.

Thanks,
Steve

Alexandra-Sweet · Jul 28, 2008, 07:42 PM // 19:42

Run Guild Wars on 1 core, go to the Task Manager (either press Ctrl+Alt+Del or right click the Taskbar and click Task Manager) then go to Processes, right click on Gw.exe and click Set Affinity... and make sure only 1 box is checked, unfortunatly you'll have to do this each time you start Guild Wars unless you use a 3rd party program to save the settings.

jiggles · Jul 28, 2008, 07:43 PM // 19:43

When GW freezes is the music still playing? If you answered yes to that its lag,if no theres a problem which someone else can sort out.

Stevonio · Jul 28, 2008, 07:49 PM // 19:49

Yes I can still hear the music still playing. But then it stops after a while.

Painbringer · Jul 28, 2008, 07:52 PM // 19:52

Correct me if I am wrong but I think the lightning bolt indicates a background download is happening.

Alexandra-Sweet · Jul 28, 2008, 08:01 PM // 20:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Painbringer

Correct me if I am wrong but I think the lightning bolt indicates a background download is happening.

According to Arena Net, yes a lightning bolt indicates a background download.

However I believe Arena Net is wrong because when you're downloading files while playing the game it shows the amount of KB downloaded, the download speed, ect. So I think the lightning bolt indicates a lag spike.

zamial · Jul 28, 2008, 08:15 PM // 20:15

Ok I am curious, You have 2 gigs of ram and are running dx10. If this is a vista machine you need more ram. If it is an xp machine you are running dx9.

(DX10 does not and will not ever exsist for xp)

What is your means of connecting to the internet? Dial-up, DSL, Cable, Fiber, Cell?

Are you connecting to a wireless router, is it secured with a wep/wpa key? Are other people using the connection?

You should download spybot S&D, adaware se, and ccleaner if you have not. They are all free to use. Google will help you find them.

You can also try using international districts, they seem less laggy most of the time.

Stevonio · Jul 28, 2008, 08:19 PM // 20:19

I use Vista, DSL, yes it is secured. My vent works quite well even when I am frozen on GW. I have tried spybot. Well, it happens a lot of times in guild halls and gvg (which I am in most of the time I am on gw).

Elder III · Jul 28, 2008, 08:23 PM // 20:23

What is your Internet Connection? If you are on wireless or "mobile broadband" you could have problems like that... at least I experience the same thing when I'm connecting through my cell phone provider.

Risus · Jul 28, 2008, 08:24 PM // 20:24

If vent works, its lag.

Stevonio · Jul 28, 2008, 08:31 PM // 20:31

I am on wireless. However, if it is lag, how do I fix it?

Snograt · Jul 28, 2008, 09:18 PM // 21:18

Ecch, Lag :/

There are so many causes and cures. If it's the usual ANet lag, there is nothing you can do. If it's your DSL, get them to run a line check. If it's the wireless, try repositioning the wireless router/antennae or making it a paper hat (no joke), if it is at all possible, forget wireless and trail a nice solid length of CAT5 between your router and PC.

Oh, and click on the thingie below, let it test your system and post the results so we can see what your speed is like.

Alexandra-Sweet · Jul 28, 2008, 09:27 PM // 21:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snograt

If it's the wireless, try repositioning the wireless router/antennae or making it a paper hat (no joke),

Making it a paper hat? o.O

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snograt

forget wireless and trail a nice solid length of CAT5 between your router and PC.

CAT6a > CAT5

Stevonio · Jul 28, 2008, 09:38 PM // 21:38

@Snograt

Here is my speed

Lord Sojar · Jul 28, 2008, 10:09 PM // 22:09

It isn't lag, it's frame reprocessing. Revert to an older driver from nVidia. You have an older Quadro card, which does loop frame processing. The newer drivers didn't function well with older Quadro cards.

You can find older drivers here:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Tarun · Jul 28, 2008, 10:11 PM // 22:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexandra-Sweet

CAT6a > CAT5

CAT5 cables are still perfectly acceptable. Not too much hardware utilizes the 1000 speeds yet of the 10/100/1000.

Snograt · Jul 29, 2008, 11:03 AM // 11:03

Agree with above - and there's nothing wrong with your speed (would be described in Britain as "Up to 2 Mb download!!) - and your ping is fine.

(And I always recommend CAT5 because it's cheap, common and does enough for the job at hand

)

guevera verreuil · Jul 29, 2008, 11:56 AM // 11:56

Not sure if you can do this on vista, but on XP I changed the virtual memory from default and gave it a little more room...from 768mb to like 3-4gb more room since your processes/programs run from this memory. Helped soo much!

Also would recommend doing the -image command once or twice a month.

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I would also recommend buying more ram for your vista machine and using this site to determine if you can: http://www.crucial.com . They have all kinds of memory at a rather good price. Also, you *CAN* upgrade ram on a laptop too, so don't let that fool you. You need 4gb with Vista. It's too demanding graphics wise.

Big John Thomas · Jul 29, 2008, 05:07 PM // 17:07

Sounds very similar to what i've been experiencing for the past 3 or 4 months.I've gone through all the forum posts and believe me i've tried everything.It happens on 2 pc's and a laptop with xp cleanly installed,new router and i've even had BT out to replace the cable outside my house.Been in contact with my isp (Demon uk) and explained everything and so far they say its nothing to do with them and theres nothing they can do about it if the gaming server has issues.

Now the strange thing with me is it goes away as regular as clockwork just after midnight on a friday and comes back monday morning.If there was something wrong my end surely it would be doing it 24/7.I've asked my isp several times if they are traffic shaping or something and they have never actually said if they are or aren't.It would be interesting to see a list of GW users isp's that shows those that have regular lag issues and those that don't because i am beginning to wonder if certain isp's have issues with GW traffic.

jimmyboveto · Jul 29, 2008, 05:14 PM // 17:14

I've been having huge lag problems lately too. In fact, I lagged out and dc'd 3 times while doing the Deep last night with my guild.