Guild Wars Freezing

While I'm playing Guild Wars I will freeze and have to end shutting down GW or sometimes because of the game be so frozen restart my computer. Some days I will not freeze at all and other days its like 5 times a day. But I am really not sure whats the cause of it. I do have a windows vista and people say its because of that. Since vista takes 500 MB of ram roughly by just doing nothing and I only have 894mb total on that computer, that could be the problem. But other then that I don't really know if anything else is wrong. My graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE so I don't really know if thats may be good enough for GW either. Thats all I can really say.

yep, know it, been there
it only happens when all my USB-gates are taken (mp3, HDD...)
so, my advice, only connect the things you really need, it might work

Memory. Vista really needs 2GB to work smoothly.

Vista is a demon. My computer is a beauty, but if I were to install Vista, it'd barely run Notepad.

your computer is a failure then, not a beauty

mine runs vista perfectly......ive had 1 blue screen in 12 months and no other issues except hardware

stop vista bashing!!!!

Alright I was thinking of buying more Ram anyways, thanks Snograt and everyone else.

I'd also upgrade your graphics card. Vista does need a better graphics card to run on it's potential.

I have a 8600, which is brilliant when running anything on XP, but on Vista I have to put HG:L's setting on low just to get it not to lag like mad. (I do have DX10 enabled though. Runs fine on DX9.)

I'd tell you the specs, but it'd go over your head. Everyone I know, (IT Specialists who deal with fixing and repairing hardware and software of computers) acknowledge its low security, memory leakage and the incapability of it doing anything but being nothing more than a fancier version of Windows ME: A failure.

Now if they actually spent another year fixing it as planned rather than rushing it out to compete with the Mac... You MIGHT have a point. Vista sucks.

no, vista is a failure

ive yet to see a feature worthy of that ram gobbling system

then why is it that i run it fine with no problems? is it your computers that suck? several computer technicians i know say its usually human error and unfamiliarity with how vista works.........so is it you, not the OS?

-.-'

/sigh you completly missed the point there didnt you?

If you want to talk about how Vista sucks/rocks, do it somewhere else. Technician's Corner is a fine place to start.

/lazy

cba changing forums for discussions so it ends here

I had a similar problem with random freezing and it was down to GW not liking dual cores:

Every time I launch GW now, I follow this advice and it doesn't freeze. The problem with GW as explained to me is that it wasn't originally coded with dual cores in mind, and sometimes it freezes when the thread hops between cores. So, you just force it to stay on one core and the problem goes away

GW crashes don`t have anything to do with XP or Vista i had them on both OS.
I was running XP and ocasionaly crashed (restarting system takes care of that), i bought a new computer it`s Intel`s q6600 with 4gb of ram and Vista Ultimate, i had crash last night! Crashes have something to do with GAME UPDATES, whenever a some "bigger" update is applied my system get`s stuck (no matter is it XP or Vista).In my humble opinion crashes are coused by the updates u all know how Microsoft`s OS deal with major updates to some programs "it needs restart" to applied them properly.Again i`m not expert on this matter but it`s rather strange that OS get`s stuck after updates and runs perfectly in everyday gaming (few hours a day in my case) !!!

more ram and invest in a better grpahics card im stating the obvious tbh

GW crashing is often associated with dual-core processors. If you have a dual-core processor, try using an app such as ForceCore to make GW run in only one core. That got rid of most of the problem for me.

Btw, I don't think that the problem is just because of dual-cores. It seems to be more of a combination of various things, but setting GW to run in only one core does seem to help.

My mistake, i found a bad RAM module in my machine he was "guilty" for freezing , and crashes !!!

Hey

One more thing you could try is to make it run in Windows XP compability mode. It seems to have lowered the amount of crashes.

I have a related question, when I minimize my GW and then bring it back up again, the game slows down considerably and I have to restart GW to get it back to normal speed.

I have a decent machine with 2GB of memory and my Vista runs fine. For those of you bashing Vista, how about trying to help the OP with his questions and not say 'Vista sucks! Use XP' as it's very unproductive and really it just makes you look like you don't know what you are talking about.

Also could you please post a link to that app that allows you to force an app to use a single core?

Thanks

See you in Ascalon ^_^

I've been seeing the same issue. Qx6850 (quad core) on a Striker Extreme with 4G ram on Vista. I am curious to try the affinity trick. I have used this several times to keep other intesive programs from taking time away from GW, but never limited GW to a single core, and can completely see core hopping causing a crash now that it has been brought up.