Curse

Thelesto · May 08, 2005, 08:54 PM // 20:54

I'm having some serious instability issues with Guild Wars, I bought the game 4 days ago, and it worked perfectly the first day of play. However on the second day I was only able to play for about 5 mins before my screen went red/green/blue and crashed.
Since I've had this error with two other games (Planetside / Unreal Tournament 2004) wich is based on the same engine, I decided to update all my drivers and format my OS drive since that fixed my problem with those games. But when i booted up GW again, played for about 15mins *bleep* same error again.
I did a defrag and formatted again.
*Bleep* SAME error! By this time I was totally pissed off and decided to switch MB/CPU/RAM/Disks/VGA. Played for 15mins, and the same error occured again.
Since it couldnt possibly be anything wrong with my hardware, it must have something to do with the game. I'm thinking crappy graphics engine, but not sure. Any solutions to work around the error?

Current Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (not overclocked, running at 2400mhz)
TwinMos 400mhz 512mbx2
Gainward Geforce 4 Ti4200 (not overclocked)
....PSU 450W
nForce3 Motherboard
... 5.1 soundcard (creative i think)
Maxtor Diamond 120gbx2 S-ATA

The CPU is running ~30degrees C while idle, and around 40 when playing.

As mentioned, I'm using the latest drivers for all the hardware.

EDIT: My two friends also plays GW, both using P4 2.8ghz. One is using a G4 Ti 4600, one using Geforce 6600GT. No problems what so ever for them.

Thelesto · May 09, 2005, 11:28 AM // 11:28

Bumping up...

grittybeard · May 09, 2005, 01:07 PM // 13:07

I don't have any solutions, but it sounds somewhat like this: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=8233

Thelesto · May 09, 2005, 08:18 PM // 20:18

Thx for the heads up

adam.skinner · May 09, 2005, 08:27 PM // 20:27

I have a similar problem. It's caused by Teamspeak.

Thelesto · May 10, 2005, 04:46 PM // 16:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by adam.skinner

I have a similar problem. It's caused by Teamspeak.

Well, the crash occurs even if I'm playing without any VoN-programs at all... I've also tried to raise the voltage to the RAM, as well as stopping ALL programs running in the background, except for the windows programs.

Principa Discordia · May 10, 2005, 04:57 PM // 16:57

What motherboard are you using? There could be an incompatibility somewhere, it's unlikely, but it's best to be sure.

Thelesto · May 11, 2005, 08:21 AM // 08:21

I'm using a k8n Motherboard. And i also noticed a really strange thing yesterday when i did a complete system format and then ran GW: For the first time in this beautiful computers life, the processor was running at 100%, even if i only had the system networking programs running.