Curse

Jamison0071 · Oct 30, 2006, 09:59 AM // 09:59

Hey, well last week I started to get alot of error 7s on my computer, when Nightfall came out, I get a error 7 almost every couple of minutes, especially when I try to log in or map travel to a location. I know this is probably not my internet or ANETS fault, because my brothers computer (which btw is older than mine) has no troubles at all. He is getting no error 7s at all. I am getting constant error 7s and sometimes crashes.

My specs are as follows:

128 6600GT Nvidia
120g Hardrive
1gb Ram (512 x2)
3.5 AMD processor

Can anyone help me?

sandmanfvr · Oct 30, 2006, 01:13 PM // 13:13

Me to. I get this when I try to leave town. I fought this all weekend. Last night, it acted right and lag went down and I got henchmen and left the main town. Fought for a bit and then I went to the Sunspear temple. Now I try to leave, 007. This is bull.

Rakeris · Oct 30, 2006, 03:28 PM // 15:28

Yeah, I have been having this for some time, all you can do as far as I know, is wait for a few minutes in the town...and usaully if you try to leave after waiting a few minutes you won't error 7. It's a real pain, especially if you zone and join a group and they leave very quickly...

I was going to try to reinstall but being on dial up...that is like shooting my self in the foot as I won't be able to play for a few days maybe even weeks.

sandmanfvr · Oct 30, 2006, 03:43 PM // 15:43

Dial up here to. The one time it worked here this weekend, I waited and the lag went away then it was running fine, in town with alot of people, no lag. Ran like the first Guild Wars. I transitioned and I was golden. Now, I went to the Sunspear Temple and I am stuck. I hope they fix this....

Shadis · Oct 30, 2006, 04:02 PM // 16:02

I'm having this same problem, and I've pretty much concluded it's because of overcrowding and masses of people still bunched up near the starting areas. The way I solved this last night, and got to play an Err7 free session. You first right-click your Guild Wars icon on the desktop and then click "Properties", it should bring this up:

Notice where I put "-perf" in the line. Make sure there's one space before you type in -perf.

Now, once you load your game you'll have some numbers at the top of your screen, FPS and your "ping" to the server, you'll want to watch the "Bytes/Sec: ####" of that number. It should spike pretty high once you load an outpost. When you load a crowded city or outpost, you watch those numbers, as soon as they drop to 1000 or below (not exact numbers, but that seems to be the "safe" range to change districts or portal out), zone to the last district you can manage, this should make life a lot easier. It's the little trick I've been using and haven't had Err7 or lag since.

Once you get playing and already have the areas opened up, just make sure to select the last district you can and you should avoid the lag entirely. Now over time, this problem should fix itself, but I hope this helps some of you in the short term. I know how infuriating this is.

sandmanfvr · Oct 30, 2006, 04:40 PM // 16:40

Interesting, I will try that tonight and see how it goes. I to remember I did try to go to the last district.

Eviance · Oct 30, 2006, 05:13 PM // 17:13

So what do we do if the lag is not just in town but in missions and such as well?

sandmanfvr · Oct 30, 2006, 05:31 PM // 17:31

It will be up to Arena NET to get this right. This way lets us get around it and such, but I hope Arean NET is going to fix this, this week.

Rakeris · Oct 30, 2006, 06:46 PM // 18:46

Ah yeah, I've been doing that for ages as well Shadis. Good advice, it works! ^^

sandmanfvr · Oct 30, 2006, 06:56 PM // 18:56

Can't wait to get home now and actually get out and play.

Pevil Lihatuh · Oct 30, 2006, 07:23 PM // 19:23

Agreed with others, think this is "new chapter syndrome". Everyone is bunched up in a tiny area and the servers are dying. I never lag on this game, but last night I kept lagging up really bad and eventually err7 whenever in Istass (sp?) Fields. This eventually cleared up. It then happened again this morning whenever I tried to get tot he Plains of Jarrel from the Sunspear Greathall; everytime I went out the portal it would err7 immediately rather than let me even get to the loading screen. So I simply mapped to Kamadan and ran to the marker in Plains; it worked fine.

So my suggestion would be if you're having problems in one specific area, go do some quests elsewhere and come back at a quieter time.

Jamison0071 · Oct 30, 2006, 09:40 PM // 21:40

Ok the funny thing is, that I never have error 7ed in an mission or explorable area. Only when I try to log in or map travel to an outpost. I also have another computer on the network which is working fine...so I think it might be my computer...

ectospasm · Oct 30, 2006, 10:33 PM // 22:33

ive crashed to my desktop 4 times. sent the report each time to anet. and ive had maybe 10 err7s and other errors.

i always use the perf string, and my fps are below 20 in outposts and outside its around 20-75

my refresh is 85hz and i have a really good gaming rig. so i figure its just the game/servers. but its pissing me off

Lonk · Oct 30, 2006, 10:34 PM // 22:34

Me too, heh my buddies thought it was just me because I too am dial-up, but i knew it was something with Guild Wars, I've had the same problem since the major update/halloween event started.

I can't enter any town without really really bad lag and alot of error=007 messages unless the town has like 10 people or less.

Cherrie · Oct 31, 2006, 10:28 AM // 10:28

Im having 007 or 010 every 5 minutes regardless of the town or outpost Im in... Funny thing is that I dont have lag (apart from low fps), simply 007 out of nowhere. My connection - at least with my isp - is fine, so I guess its my isp <-> ANet :/ As you can easily guess, I can't enjoy any of Tyria (Elona OR Tyria OR Cantha) at all, Im just waiting till the even is over >_>

vaxmor · Oct 31, 2006, 10:46 AM // 10:46

I am having almost constant err007, too.

Its stopping me form getting a hat! :-(

my ISP is 1.5MBit and my PC has 2.5GHz of AMD 64bit goodness, X800XL 256MB GDDR3, 1GB GeIL Ultra PlatinumX 2-2-2-5, WD raptor, DFi lanparty, etc.

---->>> I used the contig file and it WORKED <<<<< see sticky

it had 617 fragments, and now. . .the lag is almost gone.

AydenV2 · Oct 31, 2006, 08:32 PM // 20:32

Same, 007. Please fix this Anet!