Restarts/Freezes

Hi see if you can help me here

PC Specs.


Asus A7V8X with all the lastest bios.
AMD 2100+
768Mb (2700)
120GB
Windows Xp Pro
Nvidia Geforce Abit GF4 Ti 4200 8x AGP Graphics Card
Internet 8MB
Latest Direct X
PSU is a 300w


ok the thing is when Playing Guild Wars sometimes ever hour or so, sometimes less the game just freezes or the Pc just restarts on is own.


I have all the updates to the Nvidia, Sound card, windows, i use Zone Alarm as a Firewall and AVG for Antivirus.

I have try playing the game with Zone Alarm Running but it makes no diff.

I have Reinstall GW 2x times but nothing changed.


This only happens when i play GW never had the type of problems before.

Any Idea Advise?

No problems playing HL2 / CS Source or GTA San Andreas etc...

Read the sticky on latest Nvidia drivers messing up GW, then edit first post if its about the latest drivers or not.

Yep, what he said, read the sticky


But in short roll back or install the forceware 71.89's, they worked for me and countless others, good luck

late reply but been away.

ok the drivers rollback dint work, i notice this in Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Event Viewer - Application.

Source (2002)

The open procedure for service "WmiApRpl" in DLL "C:\WINDOWS\System32\wbem\wmiaprpl.dll" has taken longer than the established wait time to complete. There may be a problem with this extensible counter or the service it is collecting data from or the system may have been very busy when this call was attempted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

file name-prflbmsg.dll


and this one under the same error name (1015)


The timeout waiting for the performance data collection function "Spooler" in the "C:\WINDOWS\system32\winspool.drv" Library to finish has expired. There may be a problem with this extensible counter or the service it is collecting data from or the system may have been very busy when this call was attempted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


how the descripition looks like

Error/ Date/ Time/ Source (perflib)/ Category (none)/ event (1015) (2002)/ User N/A/ Computer Name

Any ideas whats the problem?

Thanks

Do you see these errors every time GW crashes? Check through them by time and cross-reference them. Make notes.

I say this because many people have complaints of random freezes/restarts, and if we can get yours solved we might have a headstart on the others too.

-sam

Disable your anti-virus software if you have any.. this is similar to a problem I was having.

yes everytime it crashes i check the time and check the Event Viewer and always get this 2 source errors, (not at the same time) is either one or the other.

I have try playing without the Firewall and virus scanner, but nothing really changes i still get the crash.

I even try lower my Graphics Card to the lowest when i play guild wars but it still crashes.


Thanks for looking into it.