Guild Wars Freezing My Computer

Bandanna Gangster

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2010

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Hello and thanks for looking into this. I just recently (today) began to start playing Guild Wars after a 2 1/2 year hiatus. Playing again has been fun, but the game, it seems, is freezing my computer every 1-10 min I play. Now Guild Wars is the only game that does this - WoW has absolutely no problems running almost ultra settings and a variety of Steam games have been working as well. Also, the game only freezes when I am playing. If I leave the computer for 30 min or so and come back, it is fine, but as soon as I begin fighting baddies or even running around town, it craps out. When the game freezes, everything is frozen, cursor, picture, and the music is turned into a god awful buzz. I cannot alt+tab or ctrl+alt+del out and am forced to hard start my computer which I would prefer not to have to do. Any help provided would be very much appreciated and followed. The specs of my computer are below:

Alienware m11x laptop
4 gb ram
i-7 520-UM overclockable processor
320g harddrive
Windows 7
1024 NVIDIA GT335M GeForce

Thank you again and have a nice day.

Bandanna Gangster

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2010

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Please any help?

Elephantaliste

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

adblockplus.or

try to reinstall it to get fresh files

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

Try reducing the graphics settings in GW

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

Try uninstalling and reinstalling the graphics drivers. Failing that, try to reinstall Windows if it isn't too inconvenient.

womBonk

womBonk

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2011

Could this be an overheating issue? Try downloading Speedfan or CPUID HWMoniter and see what your temps are.

drkn

drkn

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2009

Wroc??aw, Poland

Midnight Mayhem

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the great flo

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2006

The Fishmongers

W/

How do I download guild wars on to my m11x Alienware does anyone have a link I can use?

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

You can either copy it from another computer* (or the CD/DVD) using a flash drive or USB external hard drive, or download it from the GW website.
http://www.guildwars.com/support/downloadclient/

*if you have a desktop computer with GW installed, you can just copy the entire GW folder to the m11x and run gw.exe