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Awesome O

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

Pro United Gamers [PuG]

Mo/

30 Oct 2006 at 16:18 - 1

Hi, is guild wars nightfall just a laggy game?

6600GT
1giga byte RAM
2800+ AMD

And on top of that my connection is a 1megabit/512 upload.
And I am still lagging when i move around and even more when i fight or hold right click and look around?

How can i tjeck my fps if that is possible and are others having same problems as me?

If you know how to fix then PLEASE let me know. Hard to be a monk with those kinda lags!

jonnieboi05

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mableton, Georgia

Guild Ancestors Reunited [?????????]

30 Oct 2006 at 16:28 - 2

hmm i dunno. i dont lag at all with nightfall actually. maybe its just all the people who were on during the weekdend? a new release...the server having to adapt to a an entierly new world, ect. i dunno this is just what i think

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

R/

30 Oct 2006 at 16:30 - 3

go to your gw shortcut, and add -perf into one of the lines... it should be the second one. that command will give you the number of polygons currently on screen, as well as the fps and internet speed.

Awesome O

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

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Mo/

30 Oct 2006 at 16:30 - 4

I was lagging even more during the weekend.. But its still there

It is so bad that I almost cant play coz its going like 1 pfs for hour!

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

R/

30 Oct 2006 at 16:32 - 5

i have a geforce fx5500 pci, and my fps are still pretty normal.... i have no idea why you guys are getting these problems.

Awesome O

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

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Mo/

30 Oct 2006 at 16:33 - 6

What do you mean ? Just rename into the guildwars Exe file?

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

R/

30 Oct 2006 at 16:36 - 7

right click on the shortcut icon, go to properties. click on the tab on the right. there should be a input box called target. add -perf to the very end of it, outside of the double quotes. make sure to seperate with a space before the -perf.

Awesome O

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

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Mo/

30 Oct 2006 at 16:38 - 8

Ok im stupid but is it the summary?

Awesome O

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

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Mo/

30 Oct 2006 at 16:44 - 9

Oh now i get it, my game runs 5-7 fps

How do i fix it ?

wilderness

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Join Date: Mar 2006

We Couldn't Figure Out A Name [LMAO]

W/N

30 Oct 2006 at 16:49 - 10

Try this: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10037429

In another thread, a user mentioned contacting Anet's tech team and they replied that there is a known issure regarding lag and that they're working on resolving it.

Try the process mentioned in the above link and see if that helps.

ktadie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Grotto dis1

Scars Meadows

R/N

30 Oct 2006 at 16:56 - 11

me big big lagg also..
fps:5 .. k/bs: 2-3? :O

well i know that my net is very slow, but my fps? thats something new.

sandmanfvr

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

W/N

30 Oct 2006 at 17:03 - 12

This goes along with the 007 disconnection errors and topics here. It is just they need more servers or find the problem and fix it. I think the release hit them hard and they weren't prepared for it.

Awesome O

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

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Mo/

30 Oct 2006 at 17:07 - 13

I already tried that contig thing. I went from 1230 to 1. still lagging.

Moonwarrior

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

Canada

House of Moon

N/Mo

30 Oct 2006 at 17:29 - 14

It seems that the lag issues I experienced were directly related to the section of Nightfalls that I was travelling at the time. Not all areas were laggy...only certain areas. As for the reason...your guess is as good as mine.

Sabe

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

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Mo/

01 Nov 2006 at 23:59 - 15

Ok recently upgraded my NTL Broadband from 1 MB to 4 MB.

Did this the same time as buying Nightfall.

I thought this would make performance better but has made things so much worse. I MB was good hardly any lag now upgraded so much lag its unbearable.

The lag is now so terrible i can hardly do nothing.

Checked FPS and it goes from around 25 FPS down to 4 FPS regularly up and down.

Do you know if this is a problem with Nighfall or my broadband? Any suggestions you think may help?

kelicula

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

Realm of Sanctity [Life]

E/Me

02 Nov 2006 at 07:56 - 16

I simply lowered my resolution and that ended all my nightfall lag yesterday. I'm running on 40g hardrive, 758 ram, geforce 5200 graphics. I also downloaded the free trial version of diskeeper which will defrag the gw.dat file. Now, that's down to one. The forum for resolving lag is amazing so I would recommend reading through that, it helps.

Carth`

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

02 Nov 2006 at 10:39 - 17

The results I've had are:

Prophecies I always got over 60fps, silky smooth.
Factions some areas dropped below 30fps, occasional pausing.
Nightfall I struggle to maintain 20fps, frequenly it goes below 15 or right down to almost 0, lots of pausing.

I can only presume they make each game look better, and since my PC is getting old now, it can't keep up. Also 11GB gw.dat ftl.

Overnite

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

02 Nov 2006 at 15:16 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sabe

Ok recently upgraded my NTL Broadband from 1 MB to 4 MB.

Did this the same time as buying Nightfall.

I thought this would make performance better but has made things so much worse. I MB was good hardly any lag now upgraded so much lag its unbearable.

The lag is now so terrible i can hardly do nothing.

Checked FPS and it goes from around 25 FPS down to 4 FPS regularly up and down.

Do you know if this is a problem with Nighfall or my broadband? Any suggestions you think may help?

1. Connection speed has nothing to do with lag, you can have 200 meg. broadband and still get lag.

2.There is no way internet connection can affect FPS.

Shady Rome

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

02 Nov 2006 at 15:17 - 19

get better pc ?

not so newb

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/N

02 Nov 2006 at 15:21 - 20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Awesome O

I was lagging even more during the weekend.. But its still there

It is so bad that I almost cant play coz its going like 1 pfs for hour!

Sometimes you will have some lag it will go away eventually once it was on me for a week but then it worked great after that and never complained again.

-Not So Newb

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

02 Nov 2006 at 15:43 - 21

Depends on where you are at.

It think it's more lag, not due to your computer but the amount of players flooding nigthfall. Some zones are very bad, other's are lag free for me.

You may want to defrag your hard drive, it can cause lag but my hunch is anets server's being swamped.

My System
Nvidia 7600
2giga byte RAM
3400+ AMD

Qual

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Denmark, Karup.

[PuG]

W/E

02 Nov 2006 at 18:00 - 22

My GW use to run almost perfect, but after NF it is all laggy. A-net servers seems to have run out of juice.