Two questions

Two questions:


When I get a lag spike, The ground get's covered in what looks like snow. I was wondering if this was normal, or if I need to look into something not working?

Also, I'm planning on buying a Laptop soon, I need one for school (yes it's a need, not a want! ) I need it to run programs like AutoCad, Derive 6, Mathmatica, etc, without blinking (well maybe not need...) and I'd like it to be a viable gaming machine as well (definately not a need...).

Any suggestions?

I think the techies generally find it helpful to have your system info. Please post that.

AMD Athlon XP 2500+, 1.5 GHz, 512 Megs of Ram, Geoforce 4mx

The snow effect on the ground is your graphics card, it possibly is overheating, or it my be a driver related issue, try a few different drivers. It might aslo be good to udate your drivers such as motherboard, graphics and direct x. I normally find lag is down to the anet servers, there is normally nothing you can do about that, but other tech minded people might say otherwise.

Your PC is few generations old, but it should still play GW at an acceptable level.

One final thing you could always defrag your hard drive and stop any programs from starting up, when you play guildwars.