Game freezing

Nordoki

Nordoki

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2008

23 miles east of San Francisco

Last night I kept experiencing the game halting. Then it would unfreeze itself and move on. Sometimes I would get disconnected.

Today I got the game totally freezing up to where I had to force the computer to shut down and reboot.

Is it just me or are others having this too?

Brianna

Brianna

Insane & Inhumane

Join Date: Feb 2006

Well, it could be overheating, bad drivers, the Multi-Core Processor-freeze bug, and other things. Need more specifics from you.

What is your computer's specs?

When is the last time you dusted it out?

When is the last time you updated drivers?

Nordoki

Nordoki

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2008

23 miles east of San Francisco

What is your computer's specs?
Area-51
Full-Tower Black Case 2.0B Alienware P2 Chassis
NVidia NForce 790I Ultra SLI Motherboard
YOR, Intel QX9770 CPU, 3.20/1600, 12M, 4C Processor
Elpida 2gb DDR3 1067Mhz CL7 Jedec Standard PC3-8500 Memory
Seagate 500gb Sata 3G 7200rpm 18mb Cache NCQ system drive
NVidia NForce 790I Ultra SLI Integrated Audio sound card
Geforce 9600GT 512mb over clocked graphics processor
Alienware Alienadrenaline (ETPS V3.75) video optimizer
Windows XP Pro

When is the last time you dusted it out? Never, it is a month and a half old.

When is the last time you updated drivers? Didn't think I had to since the computer is just a month and a half old.

Brianna

Brianna

Insane & Inhumane

Join Date: Feb 2006

Alright, then try this first.

When you have Guild Wars open, tab out into your Task Manager and go to the processes tab, then find ''Gw.exe''. Now, right click that process, go down to ''Set Affinity'' and uncheck all of the cores except just one, then try to play and see if you still freeze.

Nordoki

Nordoki

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2008

23 miles east of San Francisco

Done. I also went to options for video and whatever was set by default to High I changed to Medium.

I'll keep you posted.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

Note that you'll need to do what Brianna said every time you run GW. But, if you find that doing that keeps GW from freezing, there a small apps you can get (ForceCore, for example) that will do it for you.