guild wars lags

Ork Pride

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

help plz help

Josh

Josh

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

England, UK

D/Mo

specs plz specs, 8 years old?

How stupid are you? There are MANY reasons if you provide no information.

Try giving us your PC Specs such as RAM, Processor, Graphics Card...?


Sheez..

Lateralus

Lateralus

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Mo

If you don’t really know shit on computers (like me) just turn all of your graphics options down, everything in the 'advanced' button in the options. Turning all three of the sounds qualities all the way down makes a difference also. If you have any programs running that aren’t necessary close them. If you have a live anti-virus program running (such as Norton) just disable it for the time your playing your games.

Kaguya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Moon

Mo/

Or then just the general network lag I've been encountering in the past few days.. *shrug*

Bump for better description of the problem :P

ownage of teh elite

ownage of teh elite

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Paradise =)

N/Me

Well Josh,

You don't have to be such an ass about it.

Damn snobbish people.

Sam Stormwind

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Dragon Knights

W/

I had a problem with lag when i switched to a wireless router. IF you do have a router the only options i can think of is to get better antena to boost Range and power of the signal. Or get an ethernet cable.

MegaMouse

MegaMouse

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

south mississippi

Warriors Of Melos WOM

E/N

I have found that sometimes it can be caused by your router. You will have to turn off your router and your modem for 30 seconds or more then turn them back on to reset the cache. Be aware that this fix is only for those of us on dsl or cable, if you have dialup some of your firewall settings can cause this also. Another thing that causes lag is your antivirus trying to scan your computer while you are playing. Turn the scan off until you are done playing. Also from experience do not let Disckeeper (defragger for hard drive) run while playing, it will cause major lag(sometimes locking up the game. I hope these help and happy gaming.

Josh

Josh

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

England, UK

D/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by ownage of teh elite
Well Josh,

You don't have to be such an ass about it.

Damn snobbish people.
Be an ass? Snobby? Well I'm sorry but if he's expecting ANY help at all, by just saying "help plz help" and saying "guild wars lags", how helpful is that? No matter what his age is, he MUST know that to be honst, is NOT helpful whatsoever.

pepto

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2006

atl,ga

[CO]

R/W

i would turn the effects down a bit. also, don't run gw in full sscreen mode. if u minimize the screen, i think it'll help.

Lateralus

Lateralus

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Mo

instead of doing all this confusing computer stuff and networking and other confusing shit just take my advice... it works real well...

Antisocial

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

W/Mo

You could also try to check your download speed..

chilln_1ce

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

W/Me

If you live in Australia like me then guess what ... get used to it

pkodyssey

pkodyssey

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

In a cardboard box with Internet

The Order of the Frozen Tundra (TofT)

N/

Make sure you don't have a crap load of spyware and unnecessary stuff running in the background. Use programs like Spybot, Ad-Aware, Antispy, Spyware Blaster, and a Virus software to clean up your system. You can download and use most of them for free AND they work if you regularily use them. Run them multiple times to get everything. When your done defragment your hard drive and then add some RAM unless you already have 1GB or more.

If you are getting a jerking type reaction on the screen (low frame rate) when you turn around, it may just be that you are running your graphics settings too high for your current equipment.