Guild Wars 2

Hi, after a while my mouse icon becomes a little black rectangle, the map changes color and TP doesnt work. I then know im about to crash, otherwise it will just crash zoning. very frustrating, i cant go more then 15 min tops without a crash. pc runs fine with everything else, tests other games etc?
not heat issues as i have monitored temps etc too

please help im getting kinda over over it.

Geforce 8800GTX
2TB HDD
4 Gig Ram
intel core two duo E8200 2.66Ghz
Windows 7 32bit

pls see attached file for a crash log

Hi, let me repeat something I posted earlier in a similar topic. Your PC setup does look like one that might benefit from this. Good luck!

Hi,

I’ve had the same problem for a while, and found some advice for it that helped me get rid of it. If your issue is caused by the same factors as mine was, it might help you too. If you’re running Windows 7 on 32-bit with an NVIDIA graphics board, you might want to give this a try.

usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=9583842&linkID=9240697

(You’ll have to copy/paste that link into your browser manually.)

It describes how to make more system memory available to applications. It’s a support page for a different software product, but the actions it describes are related to general Windows behavior and also benefit GW2.

Here’s the relevant part:

To enable the 3GB switch on Windows Vista™ or Windows 7:

1. Right-click Command Prompt in the Accessories program group of the Start menu. Click Run as Administrator.
2. At the command prompt, enter “bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072”
3. Restart the computer.

Read the link carefully though, you might need to undo this change if your system starts misbehaving in other way. The link also has 3-step instructions of how to turn it back off.

Also, setting your resolution to “Windowed Fullscreen” in the in-game video options appears to improve things, if you’re not running like that already.

I hope this helps.

Manasa Devi.7958:

Hi, let me repeat something I posted earlier in a similar topic. Your PC setup does look like one that might benefit from this. Good luck!

Hi,

I’ve had the same problem for a while, and found some advice for it that helped me get rid of it. If your issue is caused by the same factors as mine was, it might help you too. If you’re running Windows 7 on 32-bit with an NVIDIA graphics board, you might want to give this a try.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=9583842&linkID=9240697 describes how to make more system memory available to applications. It’s a support page for a different software product, but the actions it describes are related to general Windows behavior and also benefit GW2.

Here’s the relevant part:

To enable the 3GB switch on Windows Vista™ or Windows 7:

1. Right-click Command Prompt in the Accessories program group of the Start menu. Click Run as Administrator.
2. At the command prompt, enter “bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072”
3. Restart the computer.

Read the link carefully though, you might need to undo this change if your system starts misbehaving in other way. The link also has 3-step instructions of how to turn it back off.

Also, setting your resolution to “Windowed Fullscreen” in the in-game video options appears to improve things, if you’re not running like that already.

I hope this helps.

did this work… and that link is down…

I’m sorry, I can’t get the link I posted to work properly with this forum’s external redirection warning system. You’ll have to copy/paste it into your browser address bar. I edited my earlier post to make this clear.

It did work for me, Korgoth, and I’ve heard from other people how it solved their “Out of memory” errors on 32-bit windows systems. I haven’t had that error for almost 2 weeks whereas before I ran into it every other hour of play.