im on a 3 year old laptop and really can't afford anything don't have a job this year
my specs are
256 megs of ram
intel pentium 4 cpu running at 2 gHz
ATI mobility radeon
i have been running it at the lowest settings and still get only around 5-10fps and only about 3 when fighting a mob.
and is there a way to run gw on 256 color i don't really care how it looks (im used to runescape graphics) as long as its playable.
increasing fps on a really bad comp
gloserous
jackers1234
do you have all the latest drivers for your graphics card and motherboard?
and what operating system are you using?
and what operating system are you using?
gloserous
i just got updtated drivers for everthing and don't see a real diffrence
and for the OS i think its xp home Edition or something like that ill check when i get home
and for the OS i think its xp home Edition or something like that ill check when i get home
jackers1234
if you are running xp, it may be worth trying to switch to classic view, as this will save memory, leaving you more free to play guild wars with.
gloserous
how whould you switch to classic view?
llsektorll
play windowed in xp
jackers1234
you can switch to classic view by right clicking on the desktop, then clicking properties. Under one of the tabs, (cant quite remember which, dont have a pc to hand), there is a themes option that says windows xp, change it to classic.
Pleikki
Yeah and dont run anything nessecary while playing so like only Firewall + Gw nothing like msn or music and stuff
llsektorll
on my machine with geforce 1 and amd athon xp 2000+ processor and 512ram i was able to run gw and winamp streaming family guy over shout cast
gloserous
i delete all Unnecessary processes when playing guild wars.
also isent there a command line to run guild wars with no Shading if there is can anyone tell me the syntax of it.
also isent there a command line to run guild wars with no Shading if there is can anyone tell me the syntax of it.
jackers1234
i think its the ram that is the limiting factor on the machine, so i wouldn't recommend trying to do lots of stuff at once
Lord Xeshm
Try the -dx 8 and -noshaders command line
gloserous
whould this command line work like this...
start (path to gw.exe on most comps its c:\program files\guildwars\gw.exe)
-dx 8 -noshaders
start (path to gw.exe on most comps its c:\program files\guildwars\gw.exe)
-dx 8 -noshaders
jackers1234
right click on your gw icon on the desktop, hit properties, at the end of the line which shows the file directory (c:\program files etc), add -dx8 -noshaders
Kattar
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Originally Posted by jackers1234
i think its the ram that is the limiting factor on the machine, so i wouldn't recommend trying to do lots of stuff at once
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Is it that you don't have enough money to buy a new laptop? Or you can't spend any money on it at all? Because a 512 MB stick of RAM is about 40 usd online. That's what I would suggest if you can afford it.
Generally the answer to most problems is MOAR RAM.
gloserous
at the moment i have no cash, ill try to save some up if i can.
and it only takes 3 mins to boot up lol
and it only takes 3 mins to boot up lol
jackers1234
/agreed, xp on 256 is like suicide
if switching to classic doesnt help enough, (it should help quite a bit), then i would suggest buying more laptop RAM, or installing windows 2000 or 98 on your machine
if switching to classic doesnt help enough, (it should help quite a bit), then i would suggest buying more laptop RAM, or installing windows 2000 or 98 on your machine
Kattar
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Originally Posted by gloserous
at the moment i have no cash, ill try to save some up if i can.
and it only takes 3 mins to boot up lol |
Lol, only three minutes? Well, that's no so bad. I've worked on laptops with 256 mb and they can take almost ten minutes to boot. One had Limewire on it...though it wasn't going to boot at all. Heh.
gloserous
got my fps up to 10-15 in towns and 7 in combat with using -dx8 -noshaders, classic view, deleting all Unnecessary processes on my comp, putting every setting in guild wars as low as possible, defragmented my c: drive, and putting gw.exe on high priority in processes.
anything else you guys can think of short of adding more ram?
anything else you guys can think of short of adding more ram?
Winston
Turn down sound quality as well?
It may take a little load from the CPU.
It may take a little load from the CPU.
The Meth
Try adding -nosound to your command line. Assuming that it will actually disable loading sounds (instead of just muting sounds) you will probably be able to trim quite a bit off.
dicecube
invest in getting more ram, if you continue playing on playing on 256mb you will eventually fry your system.
beregond
You need to get more RAM seriously...RAM really isn't that expensive.
lennymon
Gogo moar ram, other than that it'll work like butter. I'd recomment 1Gb+ for XP. My laptop 1.6mhz pentium M runs it just fine with similar other specs, not as fast as my desktop of course, but... that's not surprising. Depending on what kind of ram yours needs I'd be happy to toss you my old one that I wont never use but it's only 256k I think.
gloserous
my firend has some left over comp parts from making his computer so i may go over to his house get a 512mb stick of ram and just make a new computer
beregond
Preferrably you should get at least 1 GB of RAM. My old computer had 512 MB, and it didn't run GW very well...though the processor and video card were also very bad.
gloserous
ill try it with 512mb of ram and save up for 1gig when i can
beregond
Ok then.
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