The boxes are coming!

Vel Satis

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

No guild as yet

30 Sep 2005 at 21:54 - 1
Anyone encountered one of these white boxes yet?

This is a mantle savant in the middle of a mission:

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This is when I got back to town:

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The boxes move around and fight like normal chars but they look freaky as hell in-game.

Alone)

Alone)

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Campbell, California

Legio Imortalii

W/Mo

30 Sep 2005 at 21:55 - 2
Um man, I think something is wrong with your video card. Don't know if you are being sarcastic or not about the boxes, but those ARE characters, just not random boxes. Yousa gotta sumtin wong bout urrr mr. 'puter.

Vel Satis

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

No guild as yet

30 Sep 2005 at 21:57 - 3
Well, i've just re-installed the game after a couple of weeks and this happened. The video card runs fine on anything else.

edit: hmm, just restarted GW and it's 'repairing data archive', kinda worrying

Aera Lure

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

30 Sep 2005 at 23:40 - 4
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vel Satis
Anyone encountered one of these white boxes yet?
All I can add is that while I have not seen this happen, someone in Ventari's Refuge yesterday was standing around saying "WTF?" in All and complaining that all in town rangers, Reyna included, were showing up to him as boxes and now I know what he saw. :P He quit and came back in and said that half of the rangers were fixed and half were still boxes.

Warskull

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jul 2005

[out]

01 Oct 2005 at 08:34 - 5
The white box is not a video card issue. It is what happens when you drop an item that no graphic exists for. The necros 15k tattoos will create a box. Guild wars doesn't have graphics for the things the boxes appear for. The information may have been corrupted and you may need to delete and reinstall again.

Alone)

Alone)

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Campbell, California

Legio Imortalii

W/Mo

01 Oct 2005 at 08:37 - 6
Well not techinally a video card issue. But yah, some corrupted data. On my friends comps it has that on I think warriors?

Zakarr

Zakarr

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Finland

01 Oct 2005 at 16:09 - 7
I use to have that problem but after I replaced faulty memory module, it went completely away.

Alexandrite

Alexandrite

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

Heroes of Order

N/Me

02 Oct 2005 at 20:19 - 8
Quote:
Originally Posted by Warskull
The white box is not a video card issue. It is what happens when you drop an item that no graphic exists for. The necros 15k tattoos will create a box. Guild wars doesn't have graphics for the things the boxes appear for. The information may have been corrupted and you may need to delete and reinstall again.
uhh, nope. Well i can't confirm or deny the item-dropping thing, but when characters, mobs, NPCs or certain professions turn to boxes, it is either a video card issue or a video driver issue. Or the game gets corrupted occasionally and has to repair itself, that's why there is the repair option on the original CDs as well. It's when the game doesn't think there are graphics for it, or the file is somehow inaccessible at the time.

update your drivers or let the game repair itself, that usually fixes it for me.

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Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Just down the road.

Mo/

02 Oct 2005 at 20:39 - 9
(OFF TOPIC) Vel Satis... very original name. Not at all like a car that may or may not have parked on my block.

Vel Satis

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

No guild as yet

03 Oct 2005 at 06:27 - 10
lol, tell me about it. I used the name for another game I used to play but couldn't remember where it came from. Then, one day about a month ago I was driving in Holland and this butt ugly car went past me on the motorway with 'Vel Satis' in big letters on the back.

Now i'm stuck with it until I delete the char (car!). d'oh.

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

03 Oct 2005 at 09:40 - 11
Just out of curiosity, do you guys who get these boxes have ATI cards?

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

03 Oct 2005 at 09:44 - 12
I have a ati card; it has happened to me; just maybe somthing gets f'd up over time. just close window open guild wars and repair's itself.

I love guild wars for this... a self fixing game cleint... auto restarts after a patch was downloaded...

/cheers to ArenaNet

Vel Satis

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

No guild as yet

03 Oct 2005 at 12:36 - 13
I have an nvidia 6600GT