Why does my Guildwars crash after 15 minutes of play?

[Firebat]

why does my guildwars always crash?? I put my graphics on the minimum but it still crashes, what happens is that my screen freezes and there is this weird color changing square on teh top left of my screen and it flickers. and what can i do against it??

these are my system capabilities:

Pentium 4 CPU 3.00Ghz
2.99 GHz
512 MB RAM

someone pleeeaaase help me, im really desperate to solve this problem.

 

[DDooby]

Hmm.. Sounds like overheating..
Isn't there a support thing orso at the official website of Guild Wars?

 

[Firebat]

what can i do against overheating?

 

[Rolon]

what can i do against overheating?

Depends on what is overheating. We need a little more info about your system. What video card are you using? There are programs that can monitor you temps for you? if you dont have one you should get.

But for now here is a quick fix. pull you case out and pull the side panels off. This should help with overheating. If you have a small fan use it to keep everything cool. If you are still having the same problem after doing this. then its probably not overheating.

 

[DDooby]

Well.. If you see white squares.. It's probably his video card.. Like Rolon said
What videocard are you using?

 

[Galatia]

I have the same problem, mr. Firebat. Usually after Downloading new additions. According to the reports i recieved after sending Error reports to Microsoft, the problem is created by the graphics driver. Apparently it needs to be updated. I use a radeon64 card.

 

[Firebat]

radeon 9800 pro, thats what i have, so should I buy a new graphics card?

 

[Rolon]

radeon 9800 pro, thats what i have, so should I buy a new graphics card?

No, I think that should be enough. If I looked at the right card, it had 128M DDR and should be plenty (64m is min I think) Have you updated the drivers latley. If not goto www.ati.com and do so.

Are you having any trouble playing other games?

 

[Firebat]

sometimes my cs source also crashes just like that as well as my halflife 2

 

[DDooby]

Hmm.. I'm also using a Radeon 9800 Pro but with Omega drivers..
I don't have any problems and got the same CPU spec and MB-ram spec as you.

I can run GW at maximum and 4 AA with no problems at all..

It could be your drivers..

 

[Firebat]

so what do I have to do to my drivers?

 

[kl0wnz]

I have an asus 9800xt, it seems to me like 9800 series may have had some funny problems...I have been having horrible problems, it seems somthing got heated and prossibly fried on the card. First I was getting VERY high temps, so I got a huge heatsink/fan, it dropped the temp about 20c...

Now with very low temps I am still having problems, seems to me somthing could have fried, i'm just going to get a newer card soon.

 

[Brandon]

here ill get you a new driver from www.guru3d.com ... http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=18 ... find one that fits yrou card and get it, best site ever.

 

[DDooby]

I already sent him the driver URLs for his Radeon 9800 Pro.
ATI Catalyst 5.4 and the Omega Drivers for 5.4

^^

 

[Firebat]

im afraid it still doesnt work ddooby, now the thing that happens is that the screen freezes and then it goes black and it says something like" saving energy "