Game is very chuggy

any1 have any ideas why my game is chuggy? unplayable atm, im using nvidia fx 5700. but im not missing any terrain or having any other problems other than the game chops around..

I have the same problem sometimes. This never happened during BWE. Only happens occasionally, and its not really a bother for me, but why does it occur?

When you say chug, do you experience people and creatures popping around like popcorn...They go one direction, disappear, and appear in another location. Do creatures seem to teleport on you etc. Im experiencing this with a fx5700.

What router are you all using?

Same problem here,

spec,

P4 3.2ghz
1024 ddr
36gig 10k Sata HD
AIW 9800pro 128mb

the game usually works fine but every 10mins or so it will become very very choppy for a minute or 2, even my sound will start to crap out

also, when i start a pvp character and enter the arena the game will run very bad for 10-20sec then become fine...

its extreamly annoying lol

i used to run this game on a p4 1.6ghz, 512ddr during beta and it would work fine.

anyone have any ideas?

thanks-

I have noticed that in towns that im *usually* ok.... When on mission/quest i have major problems. Alt-tabing seems to make things worse

What kind of connections you do guys have? If broadband, what kind of router?

I'd guess that it's a server side problem. For a while the official GW page had a news item on the main page apologising for lag issues due to large player volume. I wish that I had archived it, because it seems to have been removed.

The date of the news post was April 29. Now the previous one from April 28 is there. As well as a couple for May 2. One from May 2 states:

"Fixes for lag"

But I don't notice any difference.

I hope that this does not bode ill.

My friend tells me that he is not experienceing the same things as iam...while we are in the same party doing missions/quests

I am using a linksys wireless. I dont think it has anything to do with it...I have a feeling it is the vid card for some reason.

im on DSL, i dont think its the problem because my fps will usually go down from 85fps to 10fps during those lag period

This problem had a very strange cause and solution for me; maybe this will help some of you as well.

I installed microsoft .net framework 1.1 in order to get a character builder to run, and it caused objects in the game to teleport instead of showing movement animations. I ran windows update and it offered service pack 1 for .net framework 1.1. I installed this, rebooted, problem solved.

I advise anybody having this problem to run windows update and see if you get the same thing; I'm running windows xp with service pack 2.

I will give this try. But this seems like a very odd solution

Trying as well, this thread answered my question before I asked...

Wow..it actually worked.

Thank you.

I dont think that guildwars even uses the .NET Framework

Well my screen is just constantly lagging when I look around. Maybe time to buy a new vid card (

Im starting to think it may be my comcast internet......Or possibly just something wrong with the 5700fx

It listed an update for my graphics driver..I am basically illiterate when it comes to computers but that worked.

I really have no idea why this fix worked for me either. The funny thing is it must have been something else, since now a few days later its gone back to jumping around again. However, my brother lives a block away from me and has the same provider, and his works just fine, so it can't be a connection problem. When I ran windows update it literally went from barely playable to smooth, and it worked for a couple days. Not sure what to try next.

Got the game on the evening of May 3rd and played till morning without any problems. The game was perfectly smooth and wonderful and I was in bliss. Started playing the evening of the 4th, and every so often (5-20 minutes), the whole game lags down for a 1-3 minutes. Things still happen, but it's going so slow in the game that it's hard to tell what's happening. I don't think I've noticed sound chugging though. It felt like a local problem, but I've tried everything I could think of.

I'm playing on a laptop, Pentium M 1600 with 512 RAM with a Radeon 9000 (32 MB). I have good cooling on it, though I don't think it's a heat problem as I've had it happen before my laptop's warmed up. I thought maybe it might be some sort of speedstep issue with my processor dropping down to 600 Mhz which is what the game feels like when it chugs, but researched that and changed my power settings so that it'd run full performance all the time and still had the problem. Tried disabling anti-virus, and killing just about everything I didn't need to have running and still had the problem.

Haven't noticed anything trying to steal processor time from the game in task manager when it's happening. Did notice that GW was running at low priority. Tried bumping it up to normal, but still had the problem.

My drivers are pretty much up to date, since I just reformated this laptop a month ago, but I just saw a new video driver, so I'll give that a shot. Noticed that I didn't have the .NET service pack, and since it's something I'd want anyway, I'll go ahead and hope that maybe it'll help, but I doubt it.

Oh, my network info: cable internet, last speed test gave about 460 KB down, 42 KB up. Using a NetGear WGR614v4 over ethernet (stopped using wireless for games after problems with FFXI).

Edit: One of the reasons I think it's a local problem and not network related is the game is still chuggy on the logon screen when it takes me back after logging a character out.

In relation to this problem and people asking about this possibly being the connection. My girlfriend uses an fx5700 and we're both on the same connection. She has this issue, but I don't even when I used an fx5200. Currently I used a 6600GT.

I think I'm having the same problem. Bought the game, played just fine for 2 days. Then on the 3rd day, I went out on a quest, and when I started to attack an NPC both the NPC and my character started jumping around. When I was just running to get to the NPCs for the quest everything was fine, but as soon as I started to attack everything involved went haywire.

I thought that maybe it was just because the game was updating, so I let it finish it's updates. A couple hours later, I come to try again... Yay! Everything's fine. 10 minutes later, it all goes down again, jumping npcs, etc. I try installing the .Net update, once again it seems fine for the rest of the day... Try to play the next morning, what do you know I'm jumping again. Deleted the gw.dat file, things are fine... Then I'm jumping again. I've opened up the port for GW, so I don't think that's the problem. My average ping is usually a little under 200, so I'm doubting it's a lag problem.

I have to admit, I'm almost to the point of ditching guild wars. I've looked through this thread and the rest of the tech help area, with no success. If it helps, here's my system specs:
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+, ~2.8GHz
Memory: 1GB RAM
Hard Drive: 164 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 256MB
Monitor: Sylvania F74 CRT
Sound Card: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio (integrated)

What cooling solution do you have on that 3200? I ask because if I push my 3200 to 2.8Ghz it starts to lose stability. That's with a Freezer Pro64 sitting on top of it in an Antec 900 case.

Also, you're using onboard sound. You could invest in a cheap but decent sound card, something like an Audigy will only be £10.

Oops, just realized it's actually running at 2.2ghz . Thanks for drawing my attention to that. As for the sound card, I just use headphones for everything, so what would I really gain by buying a sound card?

Either way, I don't think the problem is my hardware messing up. Other games (Star Wars Battlefront, Battlefield 2, Neverwinter Nights, Freelancer, etc.) all run fine, online and offline. I just popped that in there in case there's some known incompatibility with some piece of my computer.

The soundcard will help quite a lot, even if it's only a cheap 2-channel one as it'll free up cycles that can be put into running the game. It's all about taking as much strain off the system and putting it on dedicated components.

I run an ASUS A8N-SLi board with onboard 7.1 audio and when my old sound card decided to give up I was forced to rely on the onboard for a few days. The majority of games lost FPS and became quite jerky until I dropped in a £12 Audigy, now it's back to smooth gameplay.

I'm running at an average 30fps or so with the game at highish settings, 50 and above at low graphics settings. I don't really think the FPS is the problem... I'm totally confused now. I was just in a party with some other players, and none of them could see me jumping but I saw myself jumping all over the place. They also appeared to be jumping. Very strange :P.