Bug: GW suddenly losing FPS

GW always runs at a consistent 20-25 FPS on my laptop which is good enough for me, but twice, in the Vizunah Square and Jennur's Horde missions, GW suddenly dropped to 4-7 FPS (memory leak?). I tried to play through it both times because I was with PUGs, but the graphics lag would not stop until I switched characters (it was still present in the character selection screen). The drop happened randomly in the middle of the mission and I've done those missions many times before without trouble.

The specs for my HP Pavilion 6815nr are:

AMD Turion 64 X2 2.0Ghz w/ AMD processor driver
3Gb of DDR2 RAM
4Gb page file
NVIDIA GeForce 7150M w/ 512Mb VRAM
Custom Forceware 180.70 from laptopvideo2go.com
DirectX 9.0c
Windows XP Pro SP3
160Gb HD, 92Gb free

I run GW on max settings without anti-aliasing and KSMod 2.3 high def.

I run GW on 60FPS with V-SYNC on on a ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT and it never goes down from 60FPS.

Try to kill processes in task manager before playing. If that doesn't work, check your memory supply. I see you have 160GB which I'm guessing on a laptop?

Like I said I have 500GB and run it just fine with 3GB of RAM. My OS is Windows XP Home Edition SP3 as well.

First off ,just wow..don't post if no have no knowledge K?

OT: Is it only those two missions? You do realize Vizunah and Jennurs load alot more textures at once than other missions (save unwaking).

Ill put my money on your graphics controller, sure it has 512mb of vRam, but its still an intergrated mobile chip.

Have you ever thought of IOBit's gamebooster program? It turns off unneccessary windows services and some programs (you get to choose), while you play. Some of them are actually necessary, but in the list of stuff I have most chosen. Ebooster (implemenation of ReadyBoost for Windows XP) also helped me too.

It just happened to me again in Jade Quarry. Really seems like a bug rather than optimization issues, tho it may or may not be in Guild Wars itself. Come to think of it, these three times all happened in the last couple weeks, so it's probably some updated software that's conflicting. Until I hear about other people having the same problem, I assume reinstalling Windows should fix this. I've just been kinda lazy. Thanks for the input tho.

geforce 7150 is an older video card try turning your setting down a bit i think your just overloading it. if you want to run it at max setting try getting a newer card for your system instead of one that built into the motherboard

I am having a poblem that seems similar.

I normaly run GW in 2080 x 1024 with max settings. And I tend to get 60 FPS.

Lately though, after 5 mins or so of playing, my FPS will drop to 40.. then to 5-7. The only fix I have found so far is to play in 800 x 600, I get 20 FPS in this mode. Another thing I noticed, is if I stop my NVidia services, and start them back up, it returns me to the 40 FPS for a while.

I have tried reinstalling windows, reinstalling GW, updating all of my drivers.. and none of it has helped.

Computer stats:
OS: Vista Home Premium (32)
Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600
3Gb of DDR2 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT
DirectX 9.0c
50 Gb free hard drive space

Though I am unsure if your problem and mine are related, as my problem occures every time I start up GW (usually after about 5-30 mins). I also seem to stop being at a low FPS after I change areas, but not always. Kind of hit or miss on that one. (Mission, or waiting areas.. doesn't matter.. spend enough time somewere and I start losing FPS like a fiend)

First off your hd has nothing to do with it and 2 gw doesent use up even half a gig of RAM,the problem is g crd i have the same problem.i have an nvidia they suck.

your problem i think has to do with the geforce 8500 gt guild wars has problems with that i noptivce a lot of people have that same problem not much you can do except maybe think of getting a new video card

at OP: as others have said, the problem most likely lies with you built-in graphics. try lowering your settings a bit, that should sort the issue.

at Neryen: as rick said, this can be an issue with the 8500. try updating the nvidia drivers off their website, see if that helps. if not, then you may need a new graphics card. is it an AGP or PCI-E card btw?