Curse

I Need Coffee · Oct 02, 2007, 06:16 PM // 18:16

Ten minutes after logging in the screen turned fuzzy and the game froze. I was unable to get to the taskmanager and had to close down the PC. When I tried logging in again the same happened at character selection.
I have benn playing GW on this machine for roughly 7-8 months (that is how old the machine is)
I have all campaigns and EotN, this happened in NF. The only other game I have installed - Oblivion, runs fine; I tried it afterwards.
The disk gets defragmented regularly, I use AVG antivirus and spyware as well as Ad-aware. The drivers are up to date.
System:
Fujitsu-Siemens Intel Duo T7200 2 GHz (Notebook)
1 GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon X 1800
Windows XP

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do?
I saw someone mention getting GW to use only one core, but as it has worked as is up to now I would prefer not to fiddle with that if possible.
Ideas please?

SaucE · Oct 02, 2007, 07:46 PM // 19:46

Sounds like GW.dat may have got corrupted. Tried redownloading?

I Need Coffee · Oct 02, 2007, 07:51 PM // 19:51

I haven't tried that, mainly because I am on dial-up from South Africa and it will take literally days...
Oh, well, I will save the current one elsewhere and do it. Should I do a complete re-installation as well?

Just had a thought. Could I use the DAT. file of someone else? I recently introduced a friend to GW; I gave him my DAT. file some two weeks ago.

SaucE · Oct 02, 2007, 07:55 PM // 19:55

Would hurt,the other files are small.

I Need Coffee · Oct 02, 2007, 08:02 PM // 20:02

I hope you meant "wouldn't"...
Do I have to use all the CD's again if I do a comlete reinstallation? Sorry, I just don't want to bollix myself even further.

SaucE · Oct 02, 2007, 11:45 PM // 23:45

haha! Yeah, wouldn't.

Sometimes I type too fast.

Lonesamurai · Oct 03, 2007, 01:00 AM // 01:00

All you need to do is delete the .dat file, the GW.exe will automatically start to redownload the .dat file fresh when you next try to start up