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aside from a slow computer, the main reason i quit is because my video card wouldn't work past yatendil canyons in nightfall, and i know it has happened to other people. ne1 know if its been fixed?
edit: guess not :p
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| 12/01/07 13:39 |
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What video card do you have? It must be really horrible if it can't play through GW.
Video cards are a lot cheaper now, maybe you should invest in a new one.
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| 12/01/07 16:47 |
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I have the exact same problem, as do many other players using Intel Integrated GFX, but there is a solution. You need to run GW through 3D Analyze.
From Wiki:
| QUOTE | | It seems that there is a bug with this area, many people using Integrated Intel Graphics cannot go into this area and crash if they attempt to. This problem seems limited to the 82xxxG series of cards. It is probably due to severe limitations or absence of hardware Transform and Lighting (TnL) and can be remedied with the 3DAnalyze program. |
A Guru thread explaining, and giving the full solution to the problem can be found HERE.
It's annoying that this has to be done, as if you forget to open GW through 3D Analyze you can just get booted if you try going somewhere not supported. It is, however, the only solution that I know of to date, so I can't grumble. >_>
Hope you get to grips with it, good luck! :-)
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| 12/01/07 17:04 |
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yo the link on guru is a dead end it was error 404 not found.
+ cred still and cred to ne1 with a working solution :p
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| 12/01/07 19:19 |
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| QUOTE | | yo the link on guru is a dead end it was error 404 not found. |
The link works for me. :-|
Here's the OP quoted, anyway:
| QUOTE | Hello everyone,
I, myself have the same problem as most of you have (i assume that the poeple who will be reading this will have an intel video card). In this "tutorial", you might find some stuff that might get usefull.
So before i start, i would like to advise you that i have gathered this information all over the net. I will try to edit/update this tutorial as much as possible, but for now, here's the version 0.01, some gathered text that i will be editing shortly.
"Tutorial" For the Crappy Video Cards aka intergrated intel cards
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OK, I have a Toshiba Satellite A45-S121 with an (Un)Extreme Graphics 852 display and 512 MB sytem RAM. I was having tons of problems with my inventory screen, and after a lot of note taking here in the forums I applied a few fixes, and after about 5 hours of play time haven't had a single problem! Here's what I think fixed it, hopefully it helps everyone else who shares in my woes.
1) Go to http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDo...nload-8679.html and get the 6.14.10.3943 driver, and install it. (Posted by Knight Hound... thanks!)
2) Go to the advanced display settings for your adapter and edit the 3D settings. Change the memory footprint setting to "High" (it's probably at "Normal" right now). Apparently this forces the driver to constantly reserve the maximum amount of memory it could need. My guess is that the system was low on memory and trying to swap video RAM or something, who knows.
3) Go to the "troubleshooting" tab on the advanced display dialog. Move the slider down a notch. This setting I might try putting back tonight to see what happens, since I'm not sure what this accomplished. All I know is that it worked, so I'm including it. Steps 2 and 3 were provided by WonderDog, thank you!!
Lastly I installed DirectX 9.0c. Thanks a million Knight Hound and WonderDog, you have freed me from the dungeon that is my basement and allowed me to take my addiction anywhere!! ;-)
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First, let me say how new I am and excited to be playing Guild Wars, and I come to you with a fix to a common problem
I'm sure all you prospective buyers (who, like me, have Dell Dimension 2400's [there are a LOT of us]) are wondering whether your system can handle Guild Wars, and hearing the nightmarish bug stories has made you kinda scared to buy this game. Well, I am here to put your fears to rest
My computer (after an upgrade) has 768 MB of DDR RAM and Intel Extreme Integrated Graphics 2, an unworthy substitute for a nicer video card. I wasn't keen to chunk out 130$ for a new card, though, so I gave the game a shot
IT RUNS FINE WITH INTEL EXTREME GRAPHICS CHIPSETS, but only as long as you have enough RAM for your system (I'd spend the money if you don't have a good bit of RAM like I did before my upgrade). One of the first problems I ran in to while playing, however, was dealing with some ialmnrt5, and I feared I would have to buy a new video card after all.
I tried upgrading my drivers, but that only eased the problem a little. The game would still mess up almost everytime I tried to slide items around my inventory.
Then I read a suggestion to download an older version of the drivers for the chipset, and I did. I haven't had any trouble since!
Of course, this is all at the lowest setting, and the game runs (and looks, in my eyes) perfectly fine.
Intel® 82845G Graphics Controller
This is the driver version I upgraded to in attempt to fix that didn't help very much
14.10.0.4020
So I rolled back the driver version to this one (running a search for intel extreme 6.14.10.3889)
6.14.10.3889
I haven't had much trouble since, save for a little lag in very detailed areas.
I hope I helped ease your mind, my fellow lowend system users!
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GuildWars does not support most of the Intel Mother Boards, espically 82845G on-board. I found this fourm post and applied it to my Dell 2.4Ghz, 1gb ram, On-board 82845G video card laptop and it works. This may also work on some of the other 828xxG on-board video's.
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http://www.guild-hall.net/forum/showthread.php?t=17362
From Poster: Vladd_Drac
On: 06-05-2005, 09:24 AM
Ok i Just got contacted by support saying the the 82845G integrated graphics is not supported. So we can pretty much say with all honesty that NCsoft does not plan to make a patch for us.
However I was able to work out some kind of fix.
first of all download this great tool called 3danalyze http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/tools/emutnl.htm
(this is also useful for SOME of the next gen games if you can't get them to run or install on your outdated machine)
Now have it open your GW .exe and check these boxes
http://www.ixtlanstudios.com/webimages/GW.jpg
I have spent many hours trying to get this to work and I have been testing this combo for about an hour with no prob. I can access inventories, and shops, select, etc without a crash.
I have noticed a few artifacts show up (such as a green square next to an NPC) but it is definately not severe, and I think we can live with it. Also on one occasion I got a wierd blacking out of an area on my screen. If this happens, just exit GW and reload.
Also if your text seems unclear, make sure to jump out of windowed mode in the options. For some reason 3danalyze will put the client in windowed mode (which it actually won't be, but it will say that it is). Once you put it back into resolution it clears up the aliasing.
Im hoping this fix will work for the 82856G guys as well, but i know it works for my 82845G, and im sure its probably the same hardware wise.
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I was getting nasty crashes 95% of the time when trying to drag and drop stuff in my invetory, and also when trying to re-allocate skills. It only seemed to go mental on my laptop when dragging overlay icons/sprites like the inventory items and skills, so after a bit of head scratching came up with this:-
1. Go to extreme graphics options - OpenGL.
Make sure memory footprint is set to "high" (this forces your card always to use 64mb of memory, rather than act dynamically, and is much more stable).
2. Go to your normal Display settings, then Settings, Advanced, Troubleshoot and drop the slider down one notch from the top (you can leave write combining on though). This troubleshooting setting is to troubleshoot issues with bitmap overlays (such as sprites, mouse pointers etc)... The area I had identified was causing my crashes.
Guildwars now runs flawlessly. I can drag, drop, and re-allocate skils to my hearts content. No crashes in the last 4 hours of stress test (compared to my usual 5 mins max!). Give it a bash and tell me how you get on!
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Once again, good luck getting it sorted. I know it got me in a fluster when I first discovered the problem.
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| 12/02/07 06:30 |
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If I were you, I would buy the 8800GT. It's a very good videocard for only €150,-. It's really worth the money and you can play almost every game you want!
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| 12/02/07 06:47 |
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corky22
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copy and pasted what it linked to for me :(
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| 12/02/07 09:34 |
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| QUOTE | | copy and pasted what it linked to for me :( |
I already did. >_<
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| 12/02/07 09:59 |
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i mean i clicked the link and that is what came up so i pasted it here.
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