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Lasair · Jun 01, 2005, 04:31 AM // 04:31

A couple pieces of performance advice.

Page file over 1 Gig has virtually not effect last I read or tried. Especially if you have over 512 megs of ram.

What does has a huge effect is placing your page file on a physically seperate drive on a seperate IDE chanel. This allows the machine to read from page file at the same time as reading from the system drive. Next best would be to have a partition only for the pagefile.

Second Win 98, Win ME do not benefit from > 396 megs of ram.

This is a great article to read on performance tips.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=1590&page=1

Masquerade Demonica · Jun 01, 2005, 11:11 AM // 11:11

Yay it worked that you all so much!! I am glad someone put this where everyone can see it mwas all.

Furious Surearrow · Jun 01, 2005, 02:26 PM // 14:26

be very careful when you are looking at upgrading your ram. Many motherboards only support ram of certain speeds, and more motherboards require identical sticks, even number of ram slots filled and have maximum amounts of ram they can support.

Take my sli k8nxp mobo for example. All sticks of ram MUST be identical (initially I had received 3 identical sticks, 1 slightly different stick and got blue screens and reboots until I pulled that stick) and you must run either 1, 2 or 4 sticks of ram, but cannot use 3 sticks in that motherboard. Some motherboards also will only accept certain brands (had an asus board that was a finicky thing) and even with two different brands that were both listed as supported, they wouldn't work together on the old asus a7v600 I had.

I've seen some systems take mismatched sticks of ram without an issue and seen others refuse to post. You must make sure you have read over your motherboard manual and select the right speed, type and brand that will be compatible with your system. Don't make the mistake of not reading the manual and then trying to figure out why certain games or programs make your system crash (I didn't even notice the one mismatched stick initially, had to run a memory tester to find the error and then inspect each chipset to see which was different)

End result, it's easy to tell people to upgrade and what to buy, but without knowledge of the components you have and the potential for compatibility problems, you can really set yourself up for some headaches.

Ortwein · Jun 08, 2005, 10:17 AM // 10:17

I, too, am one of those poor souls with an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 card. I use a 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller and the game didn't even install. I could not even connect to ArenaNet but the support guy said it was due to graphics. Will that driver work with my card, too?

uxud · Jun 11, 2005, 12:18 AM // 00:18

Thank you!

This fixed the blue screen that I got running off my Intel 82852/82855

Thanks!

Ashlar · Jun 12, 2005, 04:11 AM // 04:11

it fixed my issue with 82852 crashing out at my inventory, thanks so much! i would kiss you if you are into that sort of thing lmao.

XAznBOi007 · Jun 15, 2005, 03:08 AM // 03:08

So where do i go to download 14.9?

Mine is 82915

Tron · Jun 15, 2005, 05:16 AM // 05:16

Deadally I wanted to say thanks! I have the Dell problem and when I get home I will try your fix. i am so happy to have found this post!!!!! I love this game and was looking at having to buy a new vid card. I sure hope this resolves my troubles. Thanks for the help!!!!!

Purveyor Of Death · Jun 15, 2005, 09:24 PM // 21:24

I have a reasonably new desktop computer (Dell Dimension 2400), with intel 82845G graphics, 512 RAM, 2.8 Gz and 80GB Hard drive, but recently when i have been playing guild wars, my computer crashes and a blue screen pops up with some error message. In addition to this, when i installed GW, another graphics related message (/error) appeared, and asked me if i wanted to install GW anyway.

I used to play normally for a few weeks, but then all of a sudden my computer started getting wierd, and it kept crashing on GW (as mentioned above). Sice then i re-installed windows Xp home edtion, and my computer works fine...apart from GW. The same thing keeps happening.

Is this due to intel graphics? and if so what should i do?

Ps. can u please give the link of the exact older version of driver u used please, or specify which one you used instead...

Tron · Jun 16, 2005, 04:29 AM // 04:29

Just an update. I installed an older version of the drivers as was suggested and it worked. No more crashes..... Thanks!!!!!!!

Deadally · Jun 17, 2005, 12:45 AM // 00:45

You're all very welcome! It's exciting to be a help to you guys if I can

Phenron · Jul 02, 2005, 01:45 AM // 01:45

Nevermind, I got it working. Thanks!

Jacada · Jun 14, 2006, 06:07 AM // 06:07

OMG, I love you :P i've had this problem for ages now and i was thinking about quitting guild wars as i could not fix it but now its fixed and just... woah thanks mate

Lurid · Jun 14, 2006, 07:29 AM // 07:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Serafita Kayin

never buy 1 GB sticks, not only are they not always compatible they run crappy latencies.

Good call on the 9550s, just make sure you have an AGP slot. near 2/3 of the 845 boards didn't.

This is no longer true. 1GB sticks are now sold at the same latencies as their 512MB and lower counterparts. Even though the older ones weren't marketed at the lower timings the majority of them could be easily tightened to 2-3-2-5 or 2-3-3-6 or so.

This in itself is pointless, unless you are running Conroe, current AMDs, or a Pentium M, as they are the only systems which will currently take much advantage over looser timings. At any rate the performance lost in 2t timings is more than that of the loosened timings of the other 1GB memory modules.

laudanum · May 10, 2007, 02:44 AM // 02:44

HELP I've been trying to find an answer to this forever... that driver, I realize my best bet is probably downloading an older version, but when I try to find it on the intel site its just some conversion chart with no downloads, I searched the internet for an older version (I have a dell inspiron 710) but I cant find an older version anywhere... I'm about ready to kill someone. WHERE DO YOU DOWNLOAD THE OLDER VERSIONS? I will love you forever.

klambman · Sep 24, 2007, 07:23 AM // 07:23

ok, ive been having the same problem as everyone else. open guild wars, take a couple of steps and crash...ive been looking for a fix for over a week now and i hope that this idea will work but i am having heaps of trouble finding a older driver...if anyone can help me my vid card is a Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller

moriz · Sep 24, 2007, 04:02 PM // 16:02

try this one:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filt...eng&sType=prev

i'm not sure if that's the correct version, but it is an older version. that one's for 82852/82855 winXP btw.

as for the 82915, it shouldn't have any problems whatsoever running GW (although it is slow).