Guild Wars 2

Now this doesn’t always happen with just Guild Wars 2 as it does it randomly. Mycomputer just up and shuts off. Guild Wars 2 was fine when I first bought it but now it crashes 10 minutes into game play. I’ve just bought a new GTX650 video card as well get another gig of ram (at 3 gigs now, I know, not much at all) and i do not know what seems to be the issue. Could it be my processor or motherboard?
I downloaded speedfan and every temp is fine but temp3 which is overheating and I do not know what that is. What’s a common solution for this? Get a new motherboard?

I downloaded the client NCSOft Game Advisor and ran a check for GW2 so if anybody needs that I can give that to help figure out the situation. I give kudos and many thanks to anyone who takes their time to help me with this.

Does your power supply unit is able to feed enough power underload? Any sudden shutdown issue these days points to a hardware issue

Correct, I am leaning towards a hardware issue. My power supply is 500w but It is old and dirty beyond belief.

Next Spirit.2894:

Correct, I am leaning towards a hardware issue. My power supply is 500w but It is old and dirty beyond belief.

newer video cards uses more power these days

does your problem happen ever since you brought the new GTX650

I do not have much knowledge on how much power this card uses under load, but I think there isnt enough people to feed your system

if you use reddit then these guys will help you

http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc

I do use reddit. I’m an ent from there

No, it didnt not begin with guild wars 2. But out of all the games, GW2 shuts off the quickest. I’m wondering if its a memory issue or heating or now that you bring it up, a power supply problem. Thank you for the the feedback sir

Next Spirit.2894:

I do use reddit. I’m an ent from there

No, it didnt not begin with guild wars 2. But out of all the games, GW2 shuts off the quickest. I’m wondering if its a memory issue or heating or now that you bring it up, a power supply problem. Thank you for the the feedback sir

I do not know the rest of your system. 500 w should give alot of leg room for one graphic card and cpu + components. I hope your psu is not dying

i do not have enough experience to diagonsis this issue. You should ask other places too

My guess would be either you ended up with a problematic card or your power supply isn’t quite keeping up. The first thing I’d suggest though, if you haven’t already, is to reseat both the graphics card and the RAM. Seems silly, but sometimes the stupidest things can cause problems.

In my experience bad memory is more likely to cause a freeze or BSOD rather than instant shutdown (I’ve had to RMA my current RAM about 4 times now, so I’ve seen it a lot), but you can run memtest86+ to check for bad memory (http://www.memtest.org/). Run at least one full pass, more to be sure. I usually just set it up before I go to bed so it does a number of passes. If 3GB can pass an overnight of that, your RAM is most likely good.

If you still have the old graphics card, I’d throw that back in for a bit and see if you continue to get the crashes. If the old card runs smoothly, it’s definitely related to the card at least. You could also do the same with the RAM (independently).

Do you know the brand of your PSU? 500w should be enough if your PSU is actually putting out about 500w (nVidia recommends at least 400W with that card), but some brands don’t put out what they’re supposed to to start with, and all PSUs will lose wattage over time (cheap ones will do so much faster). As far as I know there isn’t a really good way to test a for a PSU related issue other than swapping in another, or using a meter on it.

I doubt this is a processor issue, but you can test the CPU with prime95 if you’d like. Just make sure you keep an eye on your core temps, and stop the test if they get too hot (look up the safe operating temp of your CPU ahead of time).

What people tend to forget is that the video card requires 400w all to itself, leaving only 100w for the rest of your system to work with. This is extremely stressful on your system and will cause it to shut down randomly because of the strain of maintaining GW2 when things start to pick up in the game. I would suggest getting a whole new power supply. You can get an amazing silent power source for $90 at Fry’s Electronics made by Thermaltake and provides 1000w of power.

JackSpacer.4320:

What people tend to forget is that the video card requires 400w all to itself, leaving only 100w for the rest of your system to work with. This is extremely stressful on your system and will cause it to shut down randomly because of the strain of maintaining GW2 when things start to pick up in the game. I would suggest getting a whole new power supply. You can get an amazing silent power source for $90 at Fry’s Electronics made by Thermaltake and provides 1000w of power.

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-650/specifications
You can see that the max is 64 W just for the card alone. If yours is using 400W at any time, then go check it …. It’s a graphic card, not a freaking microwave :p
It doesn’t require 400W, it’s recommended to have 400W minimum for the hole system. If you don’t believe me, just go see the link and see how much you need for the best card nvidia can offer.