Fix for Intel Extreme Graphics 2 Woes!

Hi all,

Anyone having a problem with bluescreen hard crashes when playing Guildwars using Intel Extreme Graphics 2 integrated video?

I was getting nasty crashes 95% of the time when trying to drag and drop stuff in my invetory, and also when trying to re-allocate skills. It only seemed to go mental on my laptop when dragging overlay icons/sprites like the inventory items and skills, so after a bit of head scratching came up with this:-

1. Go to extreme graphics options - OpenGL.
Make sure memory footprint is set to "high" (this forces your card always to use 64mb of memory, rather than act dynamically, and is much more stable).

2. Go to your normal Display settings, then Settings, Advanced, Troubleshoot and drop the slider down one notch from the top (you can leave write combining on though). This troubleshooting setting is to troubleshoot issues with bitmap overlays (such as sprites, mouse pointers etc)... The area I had identified was causing my crashes.

Guildwars now runs flawlessly. I can drag, drop, and re-allocate skils to my hearts content. No crashes in the last 4 hours of stress test (compared to my usual 5 mins max!). Give it a bash and tell me how you get on!

#Wonderdog

Interesting, as I would think any ATi game would run far far away from OpenGL. Known fact that they don't support it as well as nVidia. Used to be the opposite for the other one, forgot the specific name, but nVidia is quickly closing the gap.

Google it if you don't believe me.

That's the difference between the Way It's Meant to be Played and Get in the Game.

Going to add this to our index thread. Thanks for the post!