Curse

corcesca · Aug 11, 2005, 06:17 AM // 06:17

I have a problem with Guild Wars as well... but I don't get any blue screen... the video just freezes... I can move my mouse cursor around... but it shows as my desktop cursor.. and I can still hear my teammates in TS. I can't alt-tab anything or use the Windows Task Manager.

My temp:
CPU Idle: 45-47 C
CPU in game: 55-65 C <---that's not good.
MB: 32-33
MB while in game: 32-33

System specs:
Motherboard: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ overclocked to 3200(2.2ghz)
RAM: Corsair TwinX-LL 512MB
Video: Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 128MB with Catalyst 5.5
PSU: Antec 380W
OS: Win XP with SP2

Pitterson · Aug 11, 2005, 12:51 PM // 12:51

For people that have Asus videocards, download Asus Smartdoctor. Go to Fan control, go for manual mode and set it to 100%. My temp now remains about 50C and I just played guildwars for 2 hours without problems, where before it got near boiling point and made guildwars crash within 5 mins.

LivingDeadGrrl · Aug 11, 2005, 03:30 PM // 15:30

While I'd like to be able to post here and say that my problem is fixed, it isn't, but it's... much improved. So I wanted to tell others what I did incase the issue may apply to them as well.

Although I still don't know if my issue is heat related (which I don't think it is), I couldn't access GW for the past 2 weeks at ALL. I could stay in the game a few seconds - literally - before the PC would crash. I had codecs installed on my PC for when I play video media files, and on a hunch, I removed them. I was able to access the game again, but for only about 5 minutes before it crashed. So if you have any codecs packs on your PC, you might want to see if they're causing you any problems.

Like I said, not a fix, just a suggestion. I'm about to install video drivers (again) and see if I can access the game longer this time. If it works, I'll certainly post again. Also, as far as the CPU getting hot/warm during game play, the game uses nearly 100% of your computer's resources, so by nature you'll get an increase in temperature. My AMD chip isn't in the danger zone until it's 80 C or higher, and the game only boosted mine into the 50s and 60s.