Graphics Drive Failure

Eroth

Eroth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

ummm no

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

A/R

When I leave Wehhan Terraces and go into Yatendi Canyons my load screen pops up, then it stops at 100%. I then find another pop-up saying my graphics driver is failing even though this is the first time I've EVER had a problem with this. Help!

Njaiguni Blaze

Njaiguni Blaze

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

The Netherlands

The Biggyverse [PLEB]

Me/

I had the same problem, told me to save all work and restart the computer to solve the problem. It wasn't a GW pop-up btw, it was a Windows message. Also, I pressed OK, but it wouldn't restart and gave me a black screen with the "-" flashing. Never had this before myself either.
btw, happened to me when coming back from a battle in HA.

Eroth

Eroth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

ummm no

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

A/R

no it's a pop-up by GW. has a html link on it too. and GW just closed down, my comp didn't shut down. AND I've restarted it a million times already.

mini junk

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2006

DTH

N/Me

I had to same thing happen to me , same spot and all Eroth. Any ideas any1 ? plz!!!

MegaMouse

MegaMouse

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

south mississippi

Warriors Of Melos WOM

E/N

Several possible cures. These may take a bit of time but they should fix the problem.

1 Download the latestest drivers for the video card that you have from the manufacturers website.
2 update directx to the latest version.
3 after dowloading the newest drivers UNINSTALL ALL OLD DRIVERS FOR YOUR VIDEO CARD THAT ARE ON YOUR COMPUTER.
4 after that install the new drivers from the .exe you got from the manufacturer.

This should fix your problems. One reason people have video driver problems is due to an incomplete uninstall of the previous version, which causes conflicts between the old and new>

Mega Mouse

Eroth

Eroth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

ummm no

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

A/R

well I have no Idea how to do that so i'll ask later.

MegaMouse

MegaMouse

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

south mississippi

Warriors Of Melos WOM

E/N

To uninstall yur old graphics drivers open the control panel: start then look for the contol panel. Next open the Add and REmove program section within the control panel. This will show you wat can be removed or repaired. Find any entries within there pertaining to the video card that you have. Remove all of them then restart your computer. the windows found new hardware thing will start cancel it. Go to where you downloaded the new drivers and start the instalation .
At and Nvidea will have there own entries within the Add or Remove program section so if that is what kind of video card you have then look for those entries. Intel might be under something slightly different though.Hope this gets you going again.

Mega Mouse

RPGmaniac

RPGmaniac

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

there was another thread on this a while ago with a bunch of people (including myself) who had this problem

here is the linkhttp://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10070689&referrerid=&highlight=gr aphics+card+failure+canyons

all i needed to do was install the program than start it with that program then quit it once it started, havnt had this problem since

BFG

BFG

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Lost

DCSB

What graphics card do you have? The problem may stem from you having outdated hardware which Guild Wars does not support.

Eroth

Eroth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

ummm no

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

A/R

I do and I have found a computer in my basement with tons'o'memory, a raedeon(sp?) 9000 and a crappy motherboard. But I can always change that. Thx for the help anyway (^_^)-b

unmatchedfury

unmatchedfury

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Cookie Cutter [FTW]

had the same problem. obviously its a particular efect in vabbi that requires shaders. Awsome, I'm gonna try it tommorow moring. i was so depressed and my rit not seeing the end of nightfall.

Eroth

Eroth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

ummm no

Modified Soul Society [SOUL]

A/R

gl to ya.

unmatchedfury

unmatchedfury

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Cookie Cutter [FTW]

great it works. visit the tutorial sicky for it. also you can remove the ingnore textures form teh screenie and it works fine for me, no blurring or funky squares