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no talent · Jan 19, 2008, 07:50 PM // 19:50

the quest its self is not hard, but whenever i go to talk to livia, my guild wars freezes and i cannot reconnect back to that session. i did this quest on my warrior no problem, but i recently upgraded to windows vista and now it freezes every time i talk to livia. i have tried it 5 times already and it froze every time. please post suggestions...

Curse You · Jan 19, 2008, 08:15 PM // 20:15

If it's a problem with Vista, too bad. They don't support Vista and so any problems you have relating to it are your problem.

farkas · Jan 19, 2008, 09:13 PM // 21:13

Just to test out, try GW in DirectX 8 mode, to see if the culprit is Vista's DX10/9 build.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -dx8

To be put in your shortcut of GW to try DX8

Curse You · Jan 20, 2008, 09:22 AM // 09:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by farkas

Just to test out, try GW in DirectX 8 mode, to see if the culprit is Vista's DX10/9 build.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -dx8

To be put in your shortcut of GW to try DX8

Doesn't Guild Wars use DirectX 9?

Abedeus · Jan 20, 2008, 09:34 AM // 09:34

It does, but you can force it to use low-res textures to run it on dx8, if for example your graphic card is too old, or you have a notebook without hardware T&L settings or pixel shader 1.1.

**cosyfiep** · Jan 20, 2008, 10:54 AM // 10:54

yeah some have to use dx8 (my hubby included, cant seem to get gw and dx9 working on his)....so yeah try this out.

CyberMesh0 · Jan 21, 2008, 03:35 PM // 15:35

Could be hardware compatibility issues, many of us are running Vista with no problems. You can try forcing DX8, another suggestion is to use XP compatibility mode.