Total System Lockdown.

Okay.. i bought the game, installed it, and leveled up some times. Been playing it for about 2 weeks. And i was wondering, why does it just all of the sudden freeze? Itll be in old ascalon, ill be running around, getting a quest or buying items, and my pc just locks up. I ve never had this with any other game. My pc is extremely over-qualified for the game, seeing it is i have two Intel Xeon quad cores, 4 gb of ram, a quadro fx 4600 gpu, and a soundblaster x-fi. If its not hardware, is it xfire? Anyone who might know a suggestion to this please help.

What OS are you running? I have a similar rig and had the same problem under Vista Ultimate.

Windows Xp professional

that happens to me sometimes, it always did if i had internet explorer up, sometimes xfire...try closing all of those, and if that doesnt work, dont know what to tell you

Okay.. well i only had xfire running in the background, trying to clock some GW hours in. I guess ill try it without it, thanks guys

wow, horrible. Not even that helps. It always seems to lock up EVERYTIME i go to character select.

Use the task manager and force it to run on a single core.

Seems to be working.. No difference in performance so far

Hmmm... not something with a graphics driver issue...??? since its a quadro it might have some difficulty gaming....

And even if you ensure its not the hardware... it could be overheating due to dusty fans or a failing fan... this could be a cause for system freezes...

apart from that, do a driver check... if that didnt help... let me know...

Remember GW is only designed to run on a single core.

Why would you need a octo-core system with 4GB RAM and a Quadro 4600 graphics solution when you're only running XP pro? That system is designed for graphical design and high-end rendering rather than gaming both of which require a much better OS than XP. Incidentally, what Motherboard are you running that system from?

As said above though, if you do indeed have eight cores then you need to force GW to run on only one!

Well, since it's all relevant and he's seemed to resolve it - perhaps I can ask a question?

I was wondering this; I run two Guild Wars games on one PC at once, I'm sure most of you are familiar with this. So the question is, is can I set my ''Processor affinity'' for Guild Wars#1 to CPU 0, and Set Guild Wars#2 to CPU 1?

What would be the effects of that?

Yes you can. However, start another thread, please, that way other people can get an answer to your question also.

Alright thanks. Yeah I know that was kind of ''Thread Hijacking'' but It was relevant so I thought I'd put it out there. Later I'll run some tests on it and maybe make a thread with the results or further questions.

I had also the freezing thingie, especially during deathlevel sessions, now as dedicated to 1 core, i dont have the problem anymore!
So yesterday i started GW and set up another DL session, after 2 hours, it freezes again, i forgot to set it to 1 core.
Is is possible to start GW automaticaly dedicated to 1 core (core 0 or core 1 is no difference)?

This thread with these answers helped a lot, many thx.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...7-6168870.html

This article should help you out.