Curse

babochabo · Dec 26, 2007, 01:21 AM // 01:21

i am very tired of playing guild wars laggin because it annoys me so much been playin like this almost for a year...i need a way to play w/o it lagging and w/o buying a new vid card anyways heres my spec
i tried playing it on low quality but it seems to hurt my eyes so ive been playing on medium
Manufacturer:Gateway
Processor:AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ (2 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Memory: 894MB RAM
Hard Drive: 309 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE
Monitor:Generic PnP Monitor
Sound Card:Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Speakers/Headphones:
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)

Mammoth · Dec 26, 2007, 02:32 AM // 02:32

Try this: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Comma...arguments#-dx8

Unfortunately a 6150SE looks like a VERY low-end card...

If you cant turn down any more graphics settings like Anti-Aliasing or Anisotropic Filtering, or even the resolution etc, then there's nothing you can possibly do but be forced to buy a better video card.

Your processor is more than up to the task, and you have enough RAM for the most-part.

Swift Thief · Dec 26, 2007, 02:55 AM // 02:55

Defrag your hard drive. Upgrade your RAM. Install Windows XP instead of Vista. Turn your graphics down.

Alias_X · Dec 26, 2007, 02:55 AM // 02:55

Your processor is fine, but you video card id definitely bottlenecking it. If you haven't already, try lowering all of your video settings.

Joshthor · Dec 26, 2007, 04:09 AM // 04:09

i have a very very low end card (not even supposed to run guild wars low) and i trippled my framerates by simply lowering my resolution to 800x600, you may not like that, but i dont really mind, and i can put it on high texture medium senery (or whatever its called, i forgot) and the rest on low or off, it looks fine. not anything amazing but fine.

Redfeather1975 · Dec 26, 2007, 04:31 AM // 04:31

My friend used to have a choppy game and I told him about adding -image in the GW shortcut so you can download everything and it seemed to help.
I don't know if it did actually fix it or not, or was just a coincidence or illusion.

Mineria · Dec 26, 2007, 10:23 AM // 10:23

Memory: 894MB RAM + Windows Vista™ Home Premium...
Either you made a typo there, or you really need to get more ram or downgrade to Windows XP.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...uirements.mspx

Fril Estelin · Dec 26, 2007, 10:26 AM // 10:26

If you download the whole game with the "-image" flag, I'd advise you to defragment the file because it's huge (4Go). You can use contig for that:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sk/Contig.mspx