Want to make Guild Wars work NICELY

I don't want ANY lag.

I want to load into areas very quickly.

What stuff do you recommend?
-Graphics Card
-RAM
-Processor
stuff like that?

To be lag free would depend on you Internet Connection, nothing to do with you hardware. Any hicup on your pc, your ISP, infrastrucre, and Anet's servers will cause lag.

As long as you don't have any spyware / adware problems and you are above min specs to run GuildWars, you should not really have any lag (caused by your system).

To load maps more quickly, incresase your Ram. Min 512 to 1gb of memory.

Also check this thread for the heapsize trick to get get maps to load quicker
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=94814

Get more RAM and turn your settings down. If you're looking to buy hardware, this is what I have:

Pentium M 2Ghz
1GB RAM
Radeon X700 Mobility 128MB

1680x1050, Max Settings, 0xAA/0xAF - Never had an unplayable framerate, most of the time it's quite high.

In a desktop, a cheap setup would be this:

Athlon 64 Socket 939 (the lowest end processor in this line should run fine)
Geforce 6600GT
1GB RAM

What's your budget? Would help.

Yes your budget please.

Also, IMO my computer is Overkill for GW, but this game is just that great

7800gt
AMD X2 3800
2gb ram.

I reccomend a 6800gs, or if you like ATI x800gto.

lower price just opt out for a 9800pro/6600gt. 1gb of ram IMO is a staple, just for the average performance increase you get out of 512mb of ram.

Processor is something so many people OVERRATE. AMD 3000+ Venice is good enough. 130$ i think currently.

Also please tell us if your buying/building a new computer, or just swapping out parts, cause then there's the compatibility problem.

200-300 dollars.... lol.... only cpu

Very good post, that! The connection is usually the culprit, Im SO sick of hearing some people immediately saying "I need a better computer, vid card, CPU, ect", when 9/10 times, its actually their connection thats the problem. Must temper that however, as sometimes it IS the computer, because it isnt able to process then send info(packets) to server fast enough. If it takes, say, 25ms to process info in your computer, and 40ms to get to or from server, thats a ping of 130(25 processing time+40 to server+40 from server+25 processing=130). Not too bad, but not great if others are getting 65-80ms total. Things will be happpening that you cant react to, because that inforation hasnt been fully processed by your computer yet.
Id also like to know your current sytem specs, as well as the type of connection you have, that would be very helpful. You could also get a nice video card for $200-$300, but maybe your CPU and/or video card isnt the problem.

Bad connection? Check your CAT5 cables. Make sure they are in good working order.

Lag is entirely because of high latency in your net connection. Low RAM will cause slow framerates, but thats completely different from RAM. Guild Wars has been programmed amazingly. Despite the impressive graphics, it doesnt really need all that high-end hardware to run.

If you are facing issues with your current system, please post the specs so that we could help you resolve the issue.

DELL Dimension 8250
Intel (R)
Pentium (R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz
2.52 GHz
256 MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
INTERNET: DSL, not a problem.

Problems:
Takes much time to load into towns, terribly annoying

Once loaded in to city, takes a few minutes for you to actually be able to move around.

Sometimes when I fight the game slows, hard to use skills during combat.

Graphics aren't as stunning as I have seen, quite sad really, compared to videos and pictures I have seen, lowest graphics set.

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I'm sorry I'm not tooooo much computer literate. This is what I can tell you.

The older Nivida MX 420 cards are weak. Look to adding another AGP card. This should help you with some of the lag. Your ram should be a minimum of 512Mb....I like a minimum of 1Gb...but that is me. Having only 256Mb of ram is mostly used up just from XP.

yes 256mb or ram loads very slow, takes about 10s-20s, even after loading, the first mob that comes up to u and everyone start casting would give you lag for another 10 seconds

The good thing is, in PVP arenas I load into it just right before the battle starts, otherwise I wouldn't PVP because I don't want to make my teams lose because of me.

Alright, so it seems I need to be focusing on...
-Getting more RAM
-and a new?? graphics card?

I need help with both of them lol, no idea where to look or what to do.

The good thing is, in PVP arenas I load into it just right before the battle starts, otherwise I wouldn't PVP because I don't want to make my teams lose because of me.

Alright, so it seems I need to be focusing on...
-Getting more RAM
-and a new?? graphics card?

I need help with both of them lol, no idea where to look or what to do.

Intel 4
Nvidia GeForce 5500FX (Can run settings one notch from ultimate, and with high shadows)
1GB RAM
Verizon DSL (It does NOT suck. Get that through your heads, RoadRunner fanboiz)

For a graphics card, shoot for an Nvidia 5500FX at the least. Pretty good graphics from such, but definitely shoot for higher if you can.

You can look here. This is an older thread but still has some great info on Vid Cards.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=10749
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Personally I would stay away from the Nvidia 5XXX series cards all together.