Overheating crashes..

I checked the forum, and only found a topic about this from 2005 and 2006. Maybe I wasnt looking hard enough. But its 2008 now and I have a the same question.

When playing Guild Wars for more than an hour the game freezes on me. Normally if there is a noise happening(like a monster attacking me) it loops the noise extremely fast. I cant CTRL+ALT+DLT out. I have to press the power button and restart.

I have a Asus A8JP notebook. It runs the game wonderfully when its working, almost all maximum settings.

At first I thought it was my computer, and after servicing (they found nothing wrong, just needed a bit of cleaning inside) it still did the same thing.

Thats when I saw a topic hear stating it could be Guild Wars's fault?

I can run other games, that are much more taxing on my system, fine without any interruption for hours on end if I want too.

I have sent an email to Tech Support. But havent gotten a respone back yet. Any help?

If other more taxing games run fine, then it probably isnt overheating.
Have you tried the normal 'defrag, re-install' routines?

I havent de-fragged in a while to tell you the truth.

Im guessing overheating because the fan is blowing out very very hot air, and the bottom of my laptop is extremely hot to the touch. It hasnt burned wood yet though

Ill try the re-install and de-fragging, but the heat in the comp scares me when playing Guild Wars. Its never gotten that hot with other games.

get a laptop cooler or if you have any fans, try that and see if that resolves your problem before plunking down hard cash for the cooler. GL

Tell us the results of the re-install and Defrag before you go ahead and stick yer Laptop in a fridge :P

Had this once. It was a DirectX error. See if this works: Run DXDiag; turn the hardware sound acceleration all the way off; exit; run GW once or twice; run DXDiag again and turn hardware sound acceleration back on.

(PS: Doesn't look like heat to me. Heat should cause a spontaneous shutdown/reboot, not a system hang.)

If you have a dual-core (or quad-core) cpu, try running ForceCore (google it) to force GW to run in only one core.