Guild Wars 1 : Character Model Falling Apart.
Make sure your drivers are up to date (consider reinstalling the graphics driver). If it persists, run hardware diagnostics, specifically for the graphics card and RAM (memtest is good here), and check the temperature of the card when these artifacts appear.
With this kind of glitch it is usually not the program messing up. It could be anything from corrupted drivers to overheated or dying graphics card to bad RAM.
Make sure your drivers are up to date (consider reinstalling the graphics driver). If it persists, run hardware diagnostics, specifically for the graphics card and RAM (memtest is good here), and check the temperature of the card when these artifacts appear.
With this kind of glitch it is usually not the program messing up. It could be anything from corrupted drivers to overheated or dying graphics card to bad RAM.
Goodness, rather scary comments you’ve made considering the PC in question here is brand new less than 2-3 weeks old built by myself, considering the 6700 being the soul source of GPU hardware currently cooled by a corsair h110i water kit, considering if it was a hardware fault I should see instability in other games including Guild Wars 2 which runs like.. well a dream even on the current setup before I’ve even gotten around to buying a 970.
So .. I guess it might be a driver issues that might be more likely than a hardware fault as this point I’d imagine, I’ll do some digging and see what I come up with.
ed: Drivers check currently running the latest available version, could this be a DirectX problem Guild Wars 1 does run on 9 and we’re at 12 now.
(edited by aerial.7021)
It’s been nine months since the last time GW1 was updated, according to the wiki . That suggests the issue is local to your machine, rather than the game (besides the general trend that Artanis mentioned, i.e. that graphical artifacts like the one(s) you are seeing tend to be local).
So while it’s still theoretically possible that the issue is in gw.exe, it makes more sense to look at things you can adjust on your end first. (Especially since there’s no longer any official GW tech support, except for account issues.)
It’s been nine months since the last time GW1 was updated, according to the wiki . That suggests the issue is local to your machine, rather than the game (besides the general trend that Artanis mentioned, i.e. that graphical artifacts like the one(s) you are seeing tend to be local).
So while it’s still theoretically possible that the issue is in gw.exe, it makes more sense to look at things you can adjust on your end first. (Especially since there’s no longer any official GW tech support, except for account issues.)
Oh I don’t doubt that its likely something my end, even if that “end” results in the out come of modern hardware becoming to advanced, to run older software which does and will happen eventually even to Guild Wars or any other software for that matter.
That said after some deep web searching it would appear I’m not the only one with this problem, all be it Guild Wars 2 not 1 but I guess it still apples.
https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/forum/guild-wars-2/?forumcurPos=50;msg=125157