No problems here except for my normal abuse to my cables bandwidth lag.
I find they don't mention anything but game changes in their notes. Oh well, just assume the best.
Weird Graphics Error
EnDinG
Childeric Kaldor
I think each day it should be maybe just a game bug ... isn't it ? 
Or a driver one... Or simply a network issue... Or can be many thing. Can be those things you'll never be able to produce but who exist as many bugs in computer world...
Or a driver one... Or simply a network issue... Or can be many thing. Can be those things you'll never be able to produce but who exist as many bugs in computer world...
Warlokk
The patches over the last few days haven't helped me... I had to quit on a group on the damned Frost Keep (or whatever it's called) because my system freaked out again... textures all went to hell, all UI stuff disappeared, and when I minimized to hopefully fix it, my system dropped to 800x600x4 and stayed there until I rebooted. I'm getting really frustrated with this, 'cause I can't group with other people without possibly ditching them halfway through 'cause my system chokes, and the missions are too hard now for henchmen. So I'm screwed until somebody fixes this.
Incidentally, I played HL2, UT2004, Brothers in Arms, Call of Duty and a number of other games on this card on max or near max settings, and never had a single problem... so whatever is causing it, it's in the game itself. If the game is overheating my video card, then it's the only one to do it, so that makes it a game problem. I've got a big ol' copper heat-piped heatsink on my CPU, a nice fan on the vid card, and a double-exhaust fan PSU. This thing should NOT be overheating.
Incidentally, I played HL2, UT2004, Brothers in Arms, Call of Duty and a number of other games on this card on max or near max settings, and never had a single problem... so whatever is causing it, it's in the game itself. If the game is overheating my video card, then it's the only one to do it, so that makes it a game problem. I've got a big ol' copper heat-piped heatsink on my CPU, a nice fan on the vid card, and a double-exhaust fan PSU. This thing should NOT be overheating.
dolemite01
I have the exact issue, either my whole screen turns blue or red, alt tabbing or WindowsKEy+M makes my desktop 640x480x16 colors in which case I have to hard reboot. 6800 card here also with massive HSF and all temps are fine and this is the only game it happens with.
Pharoke
What programs are running in the background? Have you tried disabling things like antivirus and other memory intensive programs. Also, how big is your swapfile?
keerf
The problem with mine seems to vary .. although it seems to maybe be also when the servers are experiencing more of a load. Though I could be completly off. It seems now like it happens after longer playtime. Like say after a couple of hours. So I honestly have no clue what heck it could be.
What I do know is its rather annoying to be walking with a party, then seeing your textures warp to all hell. Then if that "maybe" corrects itself your screen goes either full blue or red. I'm happy though to see I'm not the only one with the problem (weird to be happy about a problem isn't it?).
Anyway, I really am running out of ideas to try. I tried cleaning the drivers out and reinstall, I tried redoing bios settings. From what I can see also it dosen't *always* happen. It seems to be really random when it does.
I'm lost.
What I do know is its rather annoying to be walking with a party, then seeing your textures warp to all hell. Then if that "maybe" corrects itself your screen goes either full blue or red. I'm happy though to see I'm not the only one with the problem (weird to be happy about a problem isn't it?).
Anyway, I really am running out of ideas to try. I tried cleaning the drivers out and reinstall, I tried redoing bios settings. From what I can see also it dosen't *always* happen. It seems to be really random when it does.
I'm lost.
Xagoth
Just had that happen to me as well.
I noticed one of the Ascalon guards head was floating ABOVE his body. Was actually somewhat humorous to see. Then I see waterfalls randomlly appearing in the sky.
Last time I had some graphic issues like this, I just alt tabbed out and bang, everything back to normal.
But this time, my computer went into 800x600x4, with ZERO option to change it to anything else. Its like the graphics driver was completely unloaded. Had to do a reboot.
So yup, looks like an Nvidia issue. Hopelly ANet gets together with Nvidia and works this out. As much as I LOVE Guild Wars, I am not going to go out and buy an ATI card.
Side note: Fast Writes are off. Desktop and Game resolution are same (1024x768). Minimal background app's running. Swapfile is a fixed 2gig.
I noticed one of the Ascalon guards head was floating ABOVE his body. Was actually somewhat humorous to see. Then I see waterfalls randomlly appearing in the sky.
Last time I had some graphic issues like this, I just alt tabbed out and bang, everything back to normal.
But this time, my computer went into 800x600x4, with ZERO option to change it to anything else. Its like the graphics driver was completely unloaded. Had to do a reboot.
So yup, looks like an Nvidia issue. Hopelly ANet gets together with Nvidia and works this out. As much as I LOVE Guild Wars, I am not going to go out and buy an ATI card.
Side note: Fast Writes are off. Desktop and Game resolution are same (1024x768). Minimal background app's running. Swapfile is a fixed 2gig.
Pharoke
Don't buy an ATI card hoping to fix this. They are having problems too. I am going to check nvidia's forums and see if there are any posts there relating to this.
Pharoke
What is the average temp of the room your computer is in. Have you tried taking the side of the case off and blowing a room fan into the side. I am seeing a lot of other threads in other forums related to heat issues.
keerf
Well I ordered a new video cooler for my card. I talked to BFG also .. and the temps I am seeing (so far) seem to be within limit they claim.) Either way I'm going to put on the new cooler thursday.
I also have 2 120mm fans blowing into the computer. My CPU temps are pretty low which has never been a huge issue for me. Plus I've never had a heat issue with any other the games I play. Such as Brothers in Arms, Riddick, Half Life 2, Doom3, Far Cry. So I don't know. I seem to think it might be a nvidia driver issue, but who honestly knows. I'm trying not to point the finger at anyone.
I also have 2 120mm fans blowing into the computer. My CPU temps are pretty low which has never been a huge issue for me. Plus I've never had a heat issue with any other the games I play. Such as Brothers in Arms, Riddick, Half Life 2, Doom3, Far Cry. So I don't know. I seem to think it might be a nvidia driver issue, but who honestly knows. I'm trying not to point the finger at anyone.
Beqxter
I also had this problem. I updated to the beta drivers from nVidia (76.50), and haven't had it happen since. Don't know for certain that it fixed it since it was intermittent to begin with, but it hasn't happened in over a week now.
Pharoke
To be honest it could be any number of things. It could be thta it is Tuesday @ 0352 and it is expected to rain in the morning and be sunny the rest of the day. Who knows why it happens. Sorry rambling....just spent 3. hrs fixing my wife's boss' work computer. My god I can't believe how easily some people can F'up a computer.
Tabien Sharoud
yesterday i ve got the same problem two times, but the screen will red and it comes message from GUILD WARS about graphic error or something like that.
And it seems like generally problem three of my friends havent a nvidia graphic chip instead of it a ati and they got the same problems.
if it comes again i will write the message in here...
And it seems like generally problem three of my friends havent a nvidia graphic chip instead of it a ati and they got the same problems.
if it comes again i will write the message in here...
Warlokk
I just downloaded the beta 7300 Forceware drivers from Guru3d, we'll see if that helps any.
Incidentally, I've been playing the last couple nights in a window instead of fullscreen... the error still happens, but I can minimize the screen and go right back in, and it's fixed instantly. The error might happen after 10 minutes or 2 hours, you never know, but as long as I'm running in a window, the minimize/recover trick works every time. Full screen, 9 times out of 10 it was the 800x600x4 thing, and a reboot to fix. So if your system can handle it, give it a try... and since it instantly recovers simply by minimizing for less than a second, it pretty much rules out overheating... plus the software that came with my video card (Gigabyte 6600GT) says the overheat level isn't reached until 145C, and I've seen mine running about 90, so it's not even close.
I hope these new drivers help... I usually don't use beta vid drivers, but then I usually don't have problems either.
Oh and before anyone says anything else about "it's your rig, maintain your PC better, blah blah", I'm a PC tech by trade, 12 years now... my machine is fine, has been through 5 upgrades in the last 4 years, and I'm still getting this problem. It's something game/driver related, it just comes down to who's going to fix it for us. My fingers are crossed, I'll let everyone know if it helps any.
Specs if anyone cares:
Gigabyte GA K8N Ultra SLI w Athlon64 3000+ (tons of room to grow)
1GB DDRAM (not new, but still fine)
Gigabyte 6600GT PCI-E
WD SATA 180gb HDD 7200RPM
WD EIDE 120gb HDD 7200RPM
450watt PS
Linksys Wireless 802.11g PCI adapter
Cable internet (3mb max or so)
Incidentally, I've been playing the last couple nights in a window instead of fullscreen... the error still happens, but I can minimize the screen and go right back in, and it's fixed instantly. The error might happen after 10 minutes or 2 hours, you never know, but as long as I'm running in a window, the minimize/recover trick works every time. Full screen, 9 times out of 10 it was the 800x600x4 thing, and a reboot to fix. So if your system can handle it, give it a try... and since it instantly recovers simply by minimizing for less than a second, it pretty much rules out overheating... plus the software that came with my video card (Gigabyte 6600GT) says the overheat level isn't reached until 145C, and I've seen mine running about 90, so it's not even close.
I hope these new drivers help... I usually don't use beta vid drivers, but then I usually don't have problems either.
Oh and before anyone says anything else about "it's your rig, maintain your PC better, blah blah", I'm a PC tech by trade, 12 years now... my machine is fine, has been through 5 upgrades in the last 4 years, and I'm still getting this problem. It's something game/driver related, it just comes down to who's going to fix it for us. My fingers are crossed, I'll let everyone know if it helps any.
Specs if anyone cares:
Gigabyte GA K8N Ultra SLI w Athlon64 3000+ (tons of room to grow)
1GB DDRAM (not new, but still fine)
Gigabyte 6600GT PCI-E
WD SATA 180gb HDD 7200RPM
WD EIDE 120gb HDD 7200RPM
450watt PS
Linksys Wireless 802.11g PCI adapter
Cable internet (3mb max or so)
Krystoff
I have been having the same problem. Screen goes all red or blue, have to either minimize or reboot to fix it. I've checked my system in other games, as well as have all updates, patches and am not overclocking.
My system specs:
MSI K8N Neo ILSR Mainboard
Athlon64 3400+ DTR (~2.2Ghz)
1GB PC3200 DDR (2x512)
GeForce 6800 GT w/Zalman Cooling system
2x 80GB Maxtor SATA HDDs 8MB Buffer, 7200 RPM
2x 80GB Maxtor IDE HDDs 8MB Buffer, 7200 RPM (Storage only)
MSI Dual Layer DVD R/W
Antec NeoPower 480W PS
Liquid Cooled CPU ~90-100 F
Video Card Air Cooled ~100-110 F
Guild Wars is the only game that I have these types of issues with, among a plethora of games that I have.
My system specs:
MSI K8N Neo ILSR Mainboard
Athlon64 3400+ DTR (~2.2Ghz)
1GB PC3200 DDR (2x512)
GeForce 6800 GT w/Zalman Cooling system
2x 80GB Maxtor SATA HDDs 8MB Buffer, 7200 RPM
2x 80GB Maxtor IDE HDDs 8MB Buffer, 7200 RPM (Storage only)
MSI Dual Layer DVD R/W
Antec NeoPower 480W PS
Liquid Cooled CPU ~90-100 F
Video Card Air Cooled ~100-110 F
Guild Wars is the only game that I have these types of issues with, among a plethora of games that I have.
Darkest Dawn
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Same issue here, Athlon64 3000+, GeForce 6600GT PCI-E, 1gb RAM, running on 4 mbit cable... every now and then, the graphics get all stuttery, bits and pieces will either disappear or start flying around, then the screen goes all blue, usually with a red square someplace. If I'm really lucky I can minimize and get back in and it's OK, but many times it just stays like that, and Windows gets stuck in 800x600x4 color mode, and only a reboot will fix it. It's almost gotta be an Nvidia driver issue, although I'm running the newest version currently on Nvidia's website (71.89).
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Darkest Dawn
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I also had this problem. I updated to the beta drivers from nVidia (76.50), and haven't had it happen since. Don't know for certain that it fixed it since it was intermittent to begin with, but it hasn't happened in over a week now.
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MaglorD
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My ATI had zero problems. (Not even texture mapping problems, which ATI is occasionally wont to have.)
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Pharoke
That's good for you Now instead of wasting time try to find an answer to these guys' problem. I have no problems playing either, but I am trying to help them, for the most part.
Now instead of wasting time try to find an answer to these guys' problem. I have no problems playing either, but I am trying to help them, for the most part.
Taffy2c
I'm finding that it's only GW that has this problem where the graphics just go all over the place. Trees take the place of folk, or stuff just appears. The scenery just blends all together. Then the controls all poof and I'm left in one place.
Have upgraded the drivers so unless it's a bad day, then I'm going to have to do more research. I turned the video option down and that seemed to help but now it's returned and in full force.
I want to play! GW is the only game that this happens with as all others are fine.
GEforce 6800 GT, but going to see about other drivers now (using 7.1.8.9)
Have upgraded the drivers so unless it's a bad day, then I'm going to have to do more research. I turned the video option down and that seemed to help but now it's returned and in full force.
I want to play! GW is the only game that this happens with as all others are fine.
GEforce 6800 GT, but going to see about other drivers now (using 7.1.8.9)
keerf
Well I might give the beta forceware drivers a try and see what happens I think
Terragen
Anyone have this problem?
Terrain goes white. Fix is just to minimize/maximize, but happens every few minutes. Nothing crashes, not a big deal, but the White Noise severely lags the action and momentarilly removes me from the battle in the seconds of min/maxing.
This was cropped from a cinematic, but it happens in every area of play, from town to mission.
AMD 3200+
768 MB DDR memory
GeForce 6800 (both Official and Omega drivers have same issue)
MSI K8T800 mobo
Terrain goes white. Fix is just to minimize/maximize, but happens every few minutes. Nothing crashes, not a big deal, but the White Noise severely lags the action and momentarilly removes me from the battle in the seconds of min/maxing.
This was cropped from a cinematic, but it happens in every area of play, from town to mission.
AMD 3200+
768 MB DDR memory
GeForce 6800 (both Official and Omega drivers have same issue)
MSI K8T800 mobo
Serafita Kayin
I get that too now, but I know my hard drive is dying, so I get all kinds of random stuff, not just in game.
Warlokk
So far I haven't had any problems since I installed the new 73.00 Beta Forceware drivers from guru3d.com. However, I've only really played for about 3 hours since I installed them. I plan to give them a better workout now that the weekend is here, but I thought I'd mention it. The 73.00's are dated April 14th, so it is still right before GW was released, but I don't see a changelog in the driver package anywhere, so I don't know if anything was specifically fixed or not.
Anyway, I'll play some more and post back if I still get the crashes or not.
Anyway, I'll play some more and post back if I still get the crashes or not.
aeroclown
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Anyone have this problem?
Terrain goes white. Fix is just to minimize/maximize, but happens every few minutes. Nothing crashes, not a big deal, but the White Noise severely lags the action and momentarilly removes me from the battle in the seconds of min/maxing.  This was cropped from a cinematic, but it happens in every area of play, from town to mission. AMD 3200+ 768 MB DDR memory GeForce 6800 (both Official and Omega drivers have same issue) MSI K8T800 mobo |
Might be post process effects wigging out with the drivers or settings you have.
Warlokk
Just a heads up, I had the crash again while playing in full-screen with the 73.00 betas... played for about 3 hours before it happened, but it's always been real intermittent so that doesn't tell me much, except it's not fixed. Bleh. Back to windowed mode, at least it recovers then... and I can run in 1280x1024 anyway, so it's not so bad.
Pharoke
So just out of curiosity, under your advanced settings for your graphics card are your forcing AA, AF, or Vsync or is it set to application controlled? I have mine all set to App controlled and have no problems at all. This is really starting to bug me cause we can't figure it out
Warlokk
I have everything set to Application Controlled also, and nothing is OC'd... I do run at max settings in the game, and it runs beautifully. I played in a window for another several hours today, and had no problems at all, but then I was in town most of it... dunno if that matters or not.
Rogie
I used to have graphics problems, but then I turned off my antivirus before playing and now it works fine. Then I just turn it back on when I finish playing.
Epsilon
Just hit the key "Print Screen" and it will do like a "minimize/maximize" (texture are normal again), not a big solution but it's faster to go on with the fight.
keerf
Just thought I would give an update. The beta 76.45 Forceware drivers seem to work good (so far). I played for a while yesterday no issues. Might be worth a shot to try.
Warlokk
Thanks for the tip, just went out and grabbed them. We'll see how it goes.
Draken
same problem here too. when i do a print screen when this is happening to my computer bad things happen heh. I have to reset. If i ignore this problem long enough it freezes my computer eventually.
althon 64 3500+
nvidia 6800 gt
lotsa fans no oc and video card doesnt sound an alarm or anything for heat. i was thinking the cpu was overheating but i opened the case up and put a box fan next to it and it still happened. so mabye some hardware i have is failing but im not sure what.
althon 64 3500+
nvidia 6800 gt
lotsa fans no oc and video card doesnt sound an alarm or anything for heat. i was thinking the cpu was overheating but i opened the case up and put a box fan next to it and it still happened. so mabye some hardware i have is failing but im not sure what.
siztem3rror
i get something similar... sometimes but not always wherever i am currently running the landscape turns to snow. but the land ahead is still desert.
check dis
check dis
shawn23233
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Hi Folks,
I'm having what appears to be a nice graphics error. It first started happning when the wrote on the webpage that they were having server problems. My game was just glitching like crazy. My char would turn into a tree at certain points, or the landscape would melt into one almost. Then after they fixed that it worked ok. I just a few days ago got a new CPU, a AMD64 3800+ Venice (currently have a DM64 3500+ winchester, but that is going to a family member). HAd to take out the venice though cause few quirks I still need to work out. In either case, now the game after certain amount of play (no real time estimate, hour or longer) My screen just goes completly red. I have to exit out and restart the game. Anyone else seeing weirdness like this? Might it be something with my computer perhaps? Specs: AMD64 3500+ DFI Lanparty UT nForce4 Ultra D Corsair XMS Memory (1 gig) BFG 6800GT OC If anyone has any insight, or settings I might try. That would be great! Terry |
Sounds like a overheating Video Card. Being a BFG that would certainly be very very likely to happen. Have you checked your temps?
I run 2 (Nvidia) 6600GTs and do not have this problem. But years ago I used to overclock a VooDoo2 and got a very similar effect when it overheated.
Terik Stoermshade
I had this exact problem this weekend: I was in the home stretch on the Frost Gate mission (had been playing for about 1.5 hours), when the screen went red. I could hear the sounds of my party in combat, but could see nothing but red. Tried Alt-Tabbing out but only got my desktop in low res. Had to hard boot the machine to recover.
My system:
AMD AthlonXP 3200+ on Asus A7n8x Deluxe (v2.0)
1GB Corsair PC3200 DDR Dual-channel
XFX GeForce 6600GT using 71.89 WHQL (all settins on application-controlled)
Creative Audigy 2ZS
Western Digital WD1200BB IDE
My system runs cool (37-43C CPU, 53C max. GPU) and I do not overclock. I will try the Print Screen if the error occurs again. If this doesn't solve things, I may update to the beta Video drivers.
My system:
AMD AthlonXP 3200+ on Asus A7n8x Deluxe (v2.0)
1GB Corsair PC3200 DDR Dual-channel
XFX GeForce 6600GT using 71.89 WHQL (all settins on application-controlled)
Creative Audigy 2ZS
Western Digital WD1200BB IDE
My system runs cool (37-43C CPU, 53C max. GPU) and I do not overclock. I will try the Print Screen if the error occurs again. If this doesn't solve things, I may update to the beta Video drivers.
Pharoke
Just out of curiosity has anyone tried reseatting their video card and or memory. A friend of mine here at school said he was having a similar problem and after pulling and reseatting his memory his problem went away.
keerf
Well after playing some more now. Been doing long sets in the game. The beta drivers I am currently using seem to help alot. I haven't hit that problem yet. The drivers I am using are the 76.45's from Guru3d.com. They seem to be working very well. So I would suggest those as a possible fix. I don't honestly know if its the best fix, but atleast it is one to try.
I know someone else claimed the 73.00's work as well as well as the 75.00's(?) I think. So those might be a good shot too.
I know someone else claimed the 73.00's work as well as well as the 75.00's(?) I think. So those might be a good shot too.
Terik Stoermshade
Thanks for the update, keerf. I'll take a look at downloading those beta drivers.