I just finished replacing my old Athlon 64 system with a new Core2 Quad setup. As I keep my programs on a second hdd, all I had to do to play GW after installing the OS was reinstall the client and point it to the old .dat file.
Or so I thought.
With (almost) all new equipment, I am having a random problem. Guild Wars is occasionally locking up, repeating the same sounds over and over (a one-second loop driving me insane), and kicking me to the desktop. The GW taskbar items disappears, but the sound loop continues until I kill the process in the Process manager. For a split second, I can see the "GW error submission" box, but it disappears when the taskbar thing does.
The error is completely random. Vanquishing Joko's Domain with my guild last night, it happenned 3 times in 2 hours - thank goodness for the reconnect dialogue! This afternoon, I played for a couple hours and absolutely nothing happenned. Tonight, it took 15 minutes to boot me to the desktop. It's totally random; I can't tell when it will happen.
The system is running at stock and is stable in all other applications; 25C at idle, 45C at maximum load. I have tortured this thing to high heaven (8 hours of ORTHOS, 4 hours of Memtest86) to ensure component stability and nothing has flinched. I've even hard-tested the PSU for rail stability. I can't for the life of me figure out what is going on.
Here is my system, if that will help.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5GHz
Gigabyte P35-DS3R rev 2.1, F3 BIOS
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair DDR2-800
Sapphire x1950xt w/ 8.3 drivers
Hitachi SATA 7K250 hdd
Pioneer SATA DVDRW
Corsair HX620 PSU
Vista64 w/ SP1
Stutter & kick to desktop - erk!
Thorsten
Mork from Ork
I've been having the same problem since the most recent updates.
I have not had a freeze or crash in something like 8 months but have had 5 crash to desktop/briefly see error submission box since thursday.
I have not had a freeze or crash in something like 8 months but have had 5 crash to desktop/briefly see error submission box since thursday.
Thorsten
I just deleted my .dat file and am reinstalling to see if the updates hosed something internally. I'll report back with my findings.
Tarun
You may want to set the affinity to 1 core/cpu in your Task Manager.