Originally Posted by kagami

Hi all,

A friend's computer has been having serious issues with GW lately, and I was hoping one of you would have a tried and working solution. Basically, the game installs fine, loads fine, and at the beginning of each play session, plays fine.

However, within 30 minutes (sometimes within 1 minute even), the game will totally lock-up for ~10 seconds before returning to normal. This problem recurs every few minutes after the first instance. Alt-tab and Ctrl+Alt+Del do not work, the keyboard and mouse don't work, and the screen is frozen. Sound keeps playing fine, and in sessions where we've tried running something in the background to see if the lock-up affects the entire computer, video files continue to play fine (at least as far as the dialogue goes). It doesn't seem to be a problem with any particular aspect of GW (ie. fighting, looting, inventory, etc.), since we've even experience game freezing during the character selection window.

So far, we've tried numerous things listed on forums, including:

-changing aperture in BIOS
-defragging computer
-installing CoolBits and changing the GPU frequency
-setting the video performance setting to "highest quality"
-changing video options to run in 16-bit instead of 32-bit
-changing pagefile (exceeds 1G now)
-installing the newest video driver
-decreasing all in-game video options to the lowest setting
-increasing all in-game video options to the highest setting (yes, stupid as it may sound, it was a suggestion from someone and we decided we didn't have anything to lose trying it)

Additionally, we have tried running GW with as few background applications as possible, and monitored system/video card temperature to no avail. There has been no overclocking, and scans show the system is free of viruses, spyware, etc. System specs have been compared to other listings, and the only potential problem I can see from his specs seem to be the GF4 MX440 64mb vid card. Sadly, we've tried installing the game onto another friend's computer, running with the same video card, and it works fine.

This problem seems to be isolated to GW only, because running even more graphic-intensive games like UT2k4 are ok on his system, minus the expected low-fps due to his less-than-amazing video card.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for your help.

*edit* Oh, and the game doesn't crash the computer or the game, and doesn't cause any error messages to pop-up. It's just repeated instances of the game hanging. Thanks!

Originally Posted by kagami

He does have 512 ram, DDR2100 I believe.

Originally Posted by Mumoto

Buy the program PerfectDisk and let him defragment his computer, this thing made my computer go faster ;p

The windows-defrag utility sucks.

Originally Posted by AutoBot

This is the same problem i have/had too. I found that using older video drivers work. For me nvidia's 66.93 driver work perfect and other say 77.72 work for them for me didnt. So I would say try older drivers.