Couple of annoying problems

Okay I've came back to GW after like a 8 month break, any way, I've been having a couple of technichal problems that I can't resolve.

The first one is that randomly my game will start chugging and have frame dips and play very choppilly until I change the resolution, minimize, re-focus window, change resolution back (to 1280x1024) and then it resolves and runs at max FPS again. It may take a couple hours of playing for this to occur, but it still happens at least 1-2 times a day and it is very annoying to have to change the res' and stuff to restore it. Restarting the game also works, but can't do that when I'm busy with a group.

The other, and more rare, problem is that sometimes the game will randomly freeze, but not completely. The sound will continue, the action will continue, infact I can still here players making actions and running around but my screen becomes completely frozen and it's like I'm just looking at a still image while hearing all of these sounds and stuff. Stranger yet, I can still move my cursor, but it does nothing.. I can alt tab and even tell that I'm bringing other windows into focus and even type to others on IRC or messenger and they'll get the messages, all while I have a frozen image of Guild Wars frozen over my screen. Some times I can alt+f4 and GW will close and the frozen image will be gone, but when I restart GW I get a "Directx 9 failed to intialize." error and I still have to end up restarting my computer

Just a couple of very annoying problems I've been haveing, I hope someone can help it would greatly be appreciated.

AMD 64 3700+ OC'ed @ 2420 MHz
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
2x 512MB Corsair XMS (fsb 220 dual channel)
GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP (OC'ed @ 540/1150 (500/900))

Drivers/DirectX/etc all up to date.

Regards,
fritz

Try re-installing DirectX 9.0c, also update to the latest 8x.xx drivers, DON'T get the new 9x.xx ForceWare drivers from nVidia.

Also, have you checked your comp isn't overheating?

CPU is always fine during extended periods of play, though I can't really check it at the time when the game locks up and my screen is frozen. Graphics card I guess it hits the threshold (65-75ish) but barely and artifacting never occurs.

Currently reinstalling DirectX now and I'll stop by to read here and let you know if I run into any problems.

Regards,
fritz

Your Graphics Card can overheat and shut of your PC without showing artifacts...

Check your nVidia Control Panel for temps when your maxing out utilization on your gpu core.

Reinstalled DirectX, still running into problems. Graphics card not overheating.

Hate to double post but it's been a couple days.. and I really need to be pointed in some kind of direction to get this problem resolved, it's really starting to get annoying

I noticed the chugging tends to start more whenever I load into a zone/area or restore my game from being minimized more than it does randomly(which it still does also from time to time.

- Zak

Okay, since I couldn't seem to resolve it, I decided to try several driver combinations. When I updated to 84.21, every time I launched Guild Wars it was a plain black screen yet I could still hear sound and do things in game. So I tried several other drivers, and finally decided to uninstall the drivers completely and reverted to the 77.77 (optimized for 6600gt) and now when I try to play it looks like this:







;( Other games seem to work fine.

[EDIT]
Nevermind, it seems any DX game has this problem.

[EDIT x2]
So far I've updated DirectX, mother board bios, AGP drivers and etc and still can't resolve the issue.