White blocks as different proffesions

Hey guys,

My brother just got another 256MB of ram to get to 512MB and enough to play Guild Wars smoothly. After a days worth of problems with the computer (i.e. the computer had a corrupt %SYSTEMROOT% then some wierd errors trying to get the sound drivers), we eventually got the game up and running. Now the problem is every time he loads it up Guild Wars says it's repairing data, than conintues to download (I guess) the corrupted files. Once in the game, random professions appear as white blocks and the only way to fix it is to restart Guild Wars and pray all professions appear.

I've thought maybe it is bad RAM, but everything else seems to work fine.

My brother's system info:

AMD Sempron 1GHz
512RAM
Windows XP Home SP1 (no updates have been done after a format)
SiS 7012 on-board sound device
MSI RADEON 9250 (D.N.A 4.1.5.7 driver)

If you need anthing else, just let me know. I've sent this also to ANet in hopes to get this resolved, but maybe you guys will have an idea aswell.

Here is a picture of a female warrior as a white block:

1st off, run windows update now if you have broad band / always on internet. Consider doing Service Pack 2, if not ignore SP2 and keep updating till you have not critical updates.

Update the following

Sis Motherboard Driver
http://www.sis.com/download/download_step1.php

You espically want the AGP driver, 7012 sound driver and possible the IDE driver or the SATA/Raid driver depending on what type of hard drive you have.

I would switch to official Ati drivers instead of modified ones (DNA Driver...).
Ati - https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...questionID=640

If you don't upgrade to XP sp2, make sure you upgrade Direct X
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

With modern high end games with newer graphics, it's best to use the most current "stable" drivers or if you want to try bleeding edge, beta driver and you might have some glitches. It was a very good idea to go to 512 mb ram and you should notice a great deal of improvement across the board.

Guild Wars comes with the latest Direct X version, so that should be fine. I'll try changing back to the official drivers for his graphics card (D.N.A just seems to tweak the ATI drivers for better game play).

I've got the current version of the sound driver (took awhile since it kept coming back with "Invaild data" until I formated -- agian). I'm unsure why I need the AGP driver since I'm using a graphics card, but I'll do it with the IDE driver tonight.

Thanks for the help, and I'll report back if this works!

I Had this one time after reformatting

Reinstall/Update Direct X it worked right away for me

I would just like to report that EternalTempest's solution worked! Thanks alot!

Phew, for a minute there I though I had to go all the way back to the store for a replacement RAM.

Great news

i had that for a while too! I thought i was crazy because no one else seems to ever report this error. It would crash randomly, then repair files... then i'd get white boxes, i'd shut the game down and repair files again, and pray it would work this time... i hate missing out on the beautiful graphics, and refuse to play when there are white boxes on my screen
funny, white boxes cast reflections and box-shadows!

then i think i ran Windows Update and got whatever latest critical files i was missing.. there were heaps i needed, it turned out, so i dont remember which one was the one that worked, but something did.

Also your GW discs come with the ability to repair to the original files... not the auto-repair it does when it starts up after a crash, but clicking on the option to restore the files to the original release-date build (i think). I also found that doing that occasionally helps with errors that creep in after a long time playing, restoring helped solve the white-boxes problem for me also.

hope that helps.

as a side note, i love the fact that GW repairs itself, and gives you the option to restore its files. thanks devs

it's an object error. The object definition is corrupt and therefore can't be loaded. Delete the data file completely and then restart the game.

Thank You for the kind words very glad it worked.

The suggestions about checking for corrupt files are extremly good options I didn't think of. The go to windows update NOW was due to the fact that if your on broadband with clean xp sp1 means unless you are behind a router, you machine could of been taken over / infected within 15 minutes of hitting the web with just three huge security problems some patched in sp2, one just recently.

i was getting that problem last night. So its just a matter of having a few files repared/reinstalling etc? (im using nvidia not ati)