Restart Problems (exclusive to GW)

Unfortunately, I am having the hard freeze problems too. It happens usually once an hour, but sometimes I can play for many hours without a crash.

Athlon XP 2100+
Giga-byte GA-7s748 MB (SIS chipset)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB (Catalyst 5.5 drivers)
Creative Audigy I
2 512 MB sticks PC2700 RAM
Windows XP, SP2

Just had a quick look at your Mobo online.

Do you have Audio on Board as per the details on the website. If so, have you tried completely uninstalling your Audigy 1 and drivers and then running with only the Onboard Sound enabled.

Also, with regards to the ATI Drivers, Roll these back to Cat 4.11 as I think they are more stable on the older 9xxx series cards and work just as well and probably better than the Cat 5.5 will on a 9800 pro.

Remember to use Driver Cleaner to remove any driver files that get left over. You can get this from www.guru3d.com I believe it will remove the Audigy drivers too, but I'm not 100% sure.

1 last thing to check. See what the Dram timings are for your memory and adjust these in the BIOS to the correct settings. You should be able to obtain these from the web or even your mobo website. It may be an instibility in the settings etc running on the mobo.

Well I found out a few thing about that supposed "ding" in the backgorund. My computer is having problems reading a "memory location", and giving me a windows error I'm also using "FreeRam" program which gives me the exact address and details of the problem at hand. So I ran a memtest on my board. Here is the odd part, the memtest will pass normally but after the game crashes and I run the memtest it goes crazy! Like 100,000 errors and then the computer reboots, so I run windows again and after about a hour repeat the memtest with no problems. I know its strange but that is what is happening. It sounds like a power issue to the memory controller to me but I ran the PC with 2 different PS and it is occur with both (one 350W Antec and a 500W Antec) So bad coding? Who knows but when I run other programs/games and the error pops up in the background I won't notice it until I actually quit the game, it doesn't freeze the game up like Guild Wars does, My new memory is coming in from newegg on Friday so I'll keep you guys posted if it might have fixed the problem or not. I was also getting memory errors on my GC but that stopped when I installed the MB's AGP driver before the Nvidia driver (I didn't have the MB's AGP driver installed prior because their old driver was crashing my windows system). The best advice I can give people for troubleshooting for the BSOD is to copy down the memory location and look up the internet where that memory location is located, that is how I discovered I was not only having memory problems with my RAM but also with my GC so I get about 15 minutes of playtime now until the game hits that spot in RAM and crashes.

I just reinstalled XP a couple of weeks ago, so there are no old drivers on my PC. I will try to roll back to Catalyst 4.11 (which I had to do with KOTOR II) to see if that helps. I just tried the latest drivers since it was a new Windows installation.

My onboard audio is disabled in the bios. I would prefer to keep using the Audigy.

My memory settings are set to the default, though I am considering trying to run with only one stick of memory.

I will update after trying the Radeon driver change.

Well I finally found a solution for my problem hope this help you guys.
Here are my specs
Athlon 64 3000+
Nvidia 6600GT
ASRock K8 Combo-Z MB
1GB Corsair DDR400
Audigy2 ZS
500W Antec PS
Dual 17" LCD Screens
WinXP SP1
Every option on my MB is enabled in the Bios and all options are set to auto
*NOTE: No overclocking was done on the MB,GC,or mem*

Well I had all the above issues before (resets,freezes,GW error,BSOD) So I tracked my BSOD and random reboots down to the memory (I use to have 512MB of Samsung)
so I replaced the memory with the current 1GB, upgraded my bios. So that fixed my BSOD issue, as for the freezes and GW errors well, I still had those.
To fix the freezes I use a program called Driver Cleaner Pro
*Freeware* (search for it on google)
To uninstalled All nvidia,3dFX,and ATI drivers (just in case something ATI come fixed in there awhile back because I use to have a ATI card)
After that I reinstalled my MB's AGP driver,rebooted, and than installed the OLDER version of the Nvidia Forceware driver from www.guru3d.com (77.50 version),rebooted
fired up guild wars and played for 2 hours until I got tired of playing. So to sum things up
1. The BSOD issue (unless it says nv***.dll along with it)
is a memory issue so run your memtest bootdisk to check it out, Guild Wars is the only game that messed up on me because of a bad sector in the memory so even 1 bad sector can mess up the game)
2. The freezing issue and guild wars errors is a driver conflict issue, try wiping your old drivers with Driver Cleaner Pro and reinstalling first the motherboard's AGP driver, and than a older version of the Graphics Card driver. (77.50)

Hope this helped you guys, Guild Wars is a great game once you getting running.

Totally understand you want to keep using the Audigy, but uninstalling it and removing the hardware is a way to find out if that hardware or indeed the Creative software is causing any problems, or even if GW is causing any problems when you have it installed.

If the problem is still there after you uninstall the drivers and remove the card, then just reinstall it again.

This is problem determination and sometimes you have to do these things to find a solution.

Ok, this is my problem. I have a new graphics card and a new cpu-fan.
I have tried with 3 different cards. Got hte newest drivers, i have done all things

*--> Crash <--*
Assertion:
P:\Code\Base\rtl/Array.h(559)
App: Gw.exe
ProgramId: 1
Build: 11087
When: 6/24/2005 10:48:20
Flags: 0

*--> System <--*
Name: xxx
IpAddr: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
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OSVersion: 5.1

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cs=200202 ss=001b ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0023 gs=003b efl=00000000

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*--> DirectX Device Info <--*
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PART II

OK after whole day of "-no sound" and no BSOD(!), I gave a try to 'with sound' playing yesterday.
Guess what happened - yes, BSOD ingame.
I d/l latest audigy 2 driver update provided in this post http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...&postcount=400
BSOD ingame
I run Driver Cleaner to eliminate last remanants of nVidia AC97 sound and
BSOD ingame

I changed TRas setting to 11 from (7) and it went even better - bios replied with bootblock cheksum error "kiss my as I'aint gonna even turn on"
I almost got my pants wet but cleared CMOS and the chunk came back to life.

Anyway I turned "-nosound" again. Of course:
NO BSOD

In a weekend I'll remove audigy and try to play on ac97 sound.
Im really interested if it is going to work properly.
Cheers

Btw 17th page already -_-;;

This should be interesting to see what happens.

I only run my machine using the onboard NForce 2 Sound Chip. To be honest, I think it's a damn good sound chip and does what it's supposed too. The only thing I would like is Optical Digital so I can hook it up to my Cinema Setup, but I can't. My PC only has Co-Ax Sound and Not Fibre optics, and my surround sound only has Fibre.

Oh well, I could install my old Platinum Live but that could screw up my gaming.

I decided to stop using Creative Soundblasters as I was forever hitting problems with them, as I never thought there drivers were the best they could be. I could be wrong and lots of people will say they never had a problem, but most of the problems I hit with my PC was Soundblaster related.

There is another guy here who I have also advised to remove his Audigy 1, so will be interesting to see if he decides to actually do that, or leave it in as he likes using it.

Ok, I switched my Radeon drivers from 5.5 to 4.11, and I haven't crashed in the last 4 hours (2 yesterday and 2 today).

I kept everything else the same. Maybe that is the simple solution. If anything changes, I will post it here. I am just happy it is working.

i guess every1's problem is a bit different, but similar consequences, if u are having major restart problems, BSOD, gw errors, 1st off, to see if it is a heating issue, play the game, and wen sumthing happens, jus start up the game again and see if this time the game stuffs up more quicker and quicker, till u jus have major restart problems, if this is ur case, heating is ur problem, this doesnt have 2 happen only wif ur vid card, but mainly ur cpu (i personally am running my x800pro @ XT speeds and no problems even after 24 hours of gameplay). Other cases are driver problems, and sum simply arent feeding enuff power into GW (since it takes more power then most other games u've played), for now, my problem was the heating, so i can only help wif that issue sorry, GL for fixing this problem, and im sure this problem will ethier stay the same or start 2 decrease

Another PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGE_AREA error.... *sigh*

Well all i have to say is a friend of mine has the exact same parts as i do in my computer, except for one additional RAM stick and a new HD. Im not sure how to set my RAM timings ( still very n00bish ) so i decided to try every other solution i knew how. My friend who has the exact same parts runs Guild Wars fine so i suspected it was something to do with my RAM or HD. So as my first approach i attempted to take out my excess RAM stick, and try running guild wars on just a 512. This didnt help at all, so as my next attempt i tried a Defragmentation, and then soon after a Disk check on my hard drive. Before i did this my G/W would randomly crash when i warped to another town or place. Now what i just did fixed my problem untill about 6 hours of gameplay i recieved the error once again but not on my way to warp somewhere, just out in the open. This draws me to one of two conclusions; that i may have a recurring problem with my hard drive, or the disk check was only a minor setback for the errors with my RAM. I am not sure how to set RAM timings but once i figure out how to, thats my next step in attempting to fix this mess. Hope this could help someone out. = \

Have you tried a complete uninstall of Guild Wars and then reinstall it?

Just make sure, that the parition you are installing on has been defragged first, as the GW game file is one very large file and keeps growing as the updates occur.

If you have a split partition with the GW file located all over the place, this could cause you to have errors appear.

I know you have tried Defrag already, but try it before you reinstall Guild Wars and see what happens.

Well after I reported to you guys I had it working yesterday,
I starting playing this morning and had freeze ups and BSOD,
So I tested my *NEW* memory I got in yesterday, now I know it isn't bad but I got the same thing 100000s of errors in memtest and than a reboot. So onto a new motherboard I guess, what do you guys thing a bad memory controller on the MB? I don't know what else could cause it. Well hopefully that will fix my problem and I can start playing again.

*UPDATE*

The Techies at NCSoft told me to install VIA chipset drivers. So I installed them, restarted my computer, then attempted to play Guild Wars. I noticed a 10 - 15 FPS boost, then after 15 minutes of play, I got the BSOD.

So I'm still in connection with NCSoft Techies. I'll let you guys know of any updates. And if I do get my game fixed, I'm not going to leave cause alot of you guys have problems and I wanna help out.

Before you go out and get a new Mobo, have you tried putting your BIOS to defaults and then run the memtest program again?

Addition - Also, I know it's a pain, but try and remove all the unnecessary hardware and drivers from your machine before trying again, such as your Audigy. Then rerun the memory test. I know you are getting errors, but nothing is totally true and you may well have a hardware conflict that isn't necessarily related to your memory but could be causing it to fall over.

Without going back through the whole thread, have you made sure your Ram Timings in the Bios are correct?

Well I uninstalled GW, defragged, and now im reinstalling it as we speek. I hope this works, and thanks for the help ^_-

Once again, the problem persists. I did uninstall completely, defragment, then reinstall, but i still recieved these problems. Im convinced its something with the RAM or HD... hmm...

I had everything set to "auto" setting in the bios and everything else set to default when I ran the different test, I ran a older version of memtest from a bootdisk, the microsoft mem. test off a bootdisk from their website and a
the windows version of memtest 3.2 (The one with the update for the Athlon 64 chips) and all three test failed with the thousands of errors. The timing for my memory states 1.5 but my MB only gives me the option of 1T or 2T
so I just set that to auto. The mem test will run for awhile before it errors though so that might be why I'm only getting a BSOD in game and not anywhere else since I don't use any other programs that fill the memory up to that spot. The odd part is when the game crashes without the BSOD (the usual AreaNet error screen) and I look at the details I'm getting that memory address c000050 and I'm pretty sure thats just a graphics card driver issue but that only happens once in a blue moon so I'm more worried about getting the game to work so I can at least finish 1 mission.

*UPDATE*

As weird as this may sound, I played Guild Wars for 3 hours last night, with NO problems.

The GW Techies told me that it isn't my video card overheating, its my motherboard. So this weekend I am going to get a fan and I'm going to remove the cover to my computer and try that. I'll update if that fixes anything.

Did you try removing all the uneccessary hardware from your Mobo.
I remember a situation I used to have with one of my Old mobos, relating to the AGP slot and the PCI slots and a soundblaster. For some reason, if the soundcard was in the slot below the craphics card, it would crash the machine like crazy. Place it in a totally different slot and it would work perfectly ok. I think this turned out to be the Mobo from what I read, but it solved all my problems with the mobo then.

So, give it a go. Uninstall the drivers for your Audigy and remove the card. Then reboot and test away and see if it makes a difference. If not, then maybe it's time to buy a new mobo.
If it does work though, maybe placing the card in a different PCI slot might make a difference?

I'm just trying to think of solutions that may help you save money.

*UPDATE*

Went up to Best Buy today, got some air cans so I could spray the inside of my computer. I also went out to Target and got me a small fan.

I sprayed the crap, and I mean the living crap, out of the insides of my computer for about a good 30 minutes. I got every nook and cranny of dust that ever existed inside that computer. Afterwords, I hooked up that small fan right next to my computer, blowing inside of it with the fan setting on High.

I felt very accomplished after doing all this and spending the money for the fan and cans. I turned on my computer (with the cover off and the fan still blowing inside of it) and I just have to say, wow. I could seroiusly hear the RPM rise. I proceeded to play Guild Wars. I noticed about a 30 FPS increase, and the loading times were about 2 seconds. I thought I had fixed the problem.

After about 10 minutes of play, I got the BSOD. I was pissed. So just to make sure, I tried to play again. Got about 20 minutes of play and then I got the BSOD.

I just contacted the GW Techs and told them what happened. I will update when I get more news.

Did you make sure you installed the correct VIA drivers?

There are several different versions available for new and old motherboards. Make sure you installed the right set, as there is one set for older mobos that is a lot more stable and is explained on the VIA website.

I'm 200% positive I installed the right ones.

It looks like i have made some progression, ive played for two hours with only one lock up and when it locked up in five seconds the screen came back and i could play!!!

Still wondering what exactly there is left for me to do. For about 6 hours of gameplay it worked perfectly fine after i had defragged and ran disk check. Now the error appears again. So i tried uninstalling guild wars completely, then defragging and doing a diskcheck, then installing it and running it, but still the same error. And i doubt its my Graphics Card, Motherboard, Processor or anything of that type because my friend has the exact same parts as i do except for one extra 512MB Ram stick, and a different hard drive. So im convinced its my hard drive or my RAM stick. Ive tried taking out the extra ram stick but that seems to have no effect on the error. It would be great if theres something else you guys could tell me i could do. Thanks = )

Well even after my memory failed on numerous test I'm afraid I found the problem to be in the Nvidia driver, I tried a beta driver last night from www.3dchipset.com and now my BSOD's "almost" went away, the odd part is now the lockups only happen in a "town" and never when I'm out on a mission. When they do the curor turns to a regular white microsoft cursor and I have to reboot, after I reboot I get the BSOD until I completely turn off the system and back on, and than I can play again. But like I said no problems whenever I'm outside of a town on a mission or on a quest. Anyone know how a driver conflict can cause BSOD in reference to the memory? I know the nv4_disp.dll BSOD is regarding the GC but the others point at position in my RAM, not my card.

I was having the exact same problem (still am to a point) and it isn't the ram (I bought a brand new GB of corsair to make sure but I still am having the problem), try different version of your graphics driver to see if it might change anything, even a beta release on my GC's current driver appears to work better than the most current version!

Thanks for your help stelmate. I will try to get a new graphics driver, but in the mean time, i found a way to overcome this problem, described as in the following. Because i get this error after i load into town or other map, i went to char select, and immediately hit this windows button to minimize guild wars. I waited 5 seconds, then went back onto guild wars. The only problem was that the ground became invisible and very blury, so i went to my options and put everything to fastest and it went back to normal. And every time i go to a new map i just do this and it seems to work. Im not sure why it switches back to highest though. But untill i get a new graphics driver, ill try this ^^ Thanks.

I still have lockups (screen freezes and I have to do a hard reboot), but they are a lot rarer now with the 4.11 Radeon drivers. It frustrating when it happens, but it probably only happens once every 8 or so hours of gameplay.

Hi Guys,

just reading through all the replies and everything as I am experiencing the same problems as pretty much everyone else, I am yet to try most things because it has only just started happening for me... but I was thinking, does anyone have thse same issues running a different OS other than Windows XP? I am thinking of trying to install Windows 2000 on my PC and see if I get the same issue's as I ahve experienced a crapload of issues with Windows XP and SP 2. Just a bit of food for thought, if I do go down this path I will let you know the outcome. I am going to try the easier options first (drivers, defrag etc etc) but if they dont work, I am gonna install Windows 2000 and see how that goes.

Silentmind

its not possible for so many people to have memory problems, unless the new Guild Wars Update fried everyones RAMs, including mine. :P...

I'm having problems too. It happends to me when i shut down the game, clicking on the X to close it.

Guys, this has to be a problem with the new update that ANet has done recently. Seems like everyone is having problems with the recent updates, including me.

Lets just hope ANet fixes this problem this week, cuz I would hate for my importand data to get currupted because of restarts.

The GW Tech group told me that it sounds like a wattage problem.

I bought a new powersupply and my rebooting woes continued. It only occurs when I overclock my cpu though. For some reason, my brother with a near identical system can overclock his cpu and run GW fine. Not sure what the problem is but I just play the game and everything else underclocked now with no problems.

Hey I had the reboot/shut down problem for a while now. Yesterday I finally found a solution that worked for me. Just keep trying different drivers (Official and modded), and remember to use driver clean to remove them if they don't work. The Omega 2.5.90 (Catalyst 4.11 based) worked for me.

I recently bought the game... Specs then were:
Windows XP (sp2)
AMD Duron processor 1.31Ghz
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
252MB RAM
26GB HD

Basically it kept blacking out on me, at random points in the game. I could be anywhere, from the login screen to in the middle of a fight. I was only barely able to get out of Ascalon city (where it lagged badly) and once out of there if there were like 5 NPC's it'd crash. So, I invested in some more hardware (in the vicinity of $400):

Windows XP (sp2)
AMD Duron processor 1.31Ghz
NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT
768MB RAM
26GB HD

To my dismay, it still blacks out and occasionally just freezes. I've only managed to get to level 5, and if I enter the Catacombs or Wizard's Folly it blacks out.

Contacted tech support, they've been responsive so far, had my first reply within 4 hours, and two subsequent ones within the next 40 minutes. Tried putting settings to the lowest level, and they then told me it was overheating (the house fan to the side of the tower didn't work, it added like 2 minutes). So now I'm waiting for their next reply... I'll keep you posted.

I also tried that Memtest 86, and got up to test #6 with no errors before they contacted me and I stopped it before it had completed. Oh also, this comp has no other programs apart from games and Trend Micro internet security, so no viruses or anything. I am so far not convinced that its a client problem, mainly because other people can still play the game. If every single person was experiencing this, then it would be their fault... I dunno.

Does Any of you get the VPU Recover Message?
when your screen goes black and it restores with a VPU Recover message from ATI?

Ironically, I'm getting the same problem, a BSOD with no visible text, just scrambled lines of text which I can't understand. I ran it for a while with my case side off today, it ran fine,at 45 degrees celcius for my CPU, I put the case on and it rose to 47.5, which is no big deal, 2 minutes after I checked the temperature, which was 47.5 my GW had a BSOD and I had to restart. It's definately not a temperature issue, as 47.5 isn't really 'testing' for my CPU, my specs:

Athlon 2500+ Oc'ed 3200+ (2.2GHZ)
512MB Geil PC3200 RAM
120GB Maxtor Diamond Max Plus SATA HDD
40GB Seagate Series 6 IDE HDD
Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB (5.3 drivers)
Abit NF7-SV2.0 Nforce 2 motherboard
DirectX Version 9.0C
Windows XP Home Edition SP2
Iiyama Vision Master 1403 CRT


It's really getting annoying, NcSoft really need to fix it, it's definately not a temperature issue, even though it ran fine with my case side off. GW is the only game which does this, HL2, Flight Simulator 2004, IL2, UT2K4 and more don't do this either.

Also, I upped my AGP Aperture size to 256MB, thinking it would solve it, I got about 20 minutes longer gameplay out of it. But this problem is really stressing me out, it's making me fed up of this game; nice one NcSoft, make a game which has so many problems, thank god it costs nothing per month, otherwise it would be cack paying monthly for something faulty.
It's definately not a heating problem...