Guild Wars 2

Hello, Just to open this up I was doing alright for about a month (including the 3-day head start thing) and boom black screen after some serious graphical vomit (best way I can describe it) which would lock my whole computer down and required a hard restart to get back. While looking for solutions my card died on me, the fan spins up and everything just no display at all. Im not going to blame it on the game 100% because my card was a bit old (same make and model as the card I am borrowing from my girlfriend just so I can use my computer). Im posting this up to help get information about this out and to see if anyone has recommendations for a card to put in my clunker and maybe some feedback about anything else. Also, I am not currently playing at all due to this card being the same make and model and the fan is acting up. I would like to play this fine game so if anyone can give me suggestions that would be fantastic. Attached is my dxdiag. Thanks for your time and suggestions.

you need to provide any information on your systems powersupply or mainboard, we can’t really provide recommendations without them.

lso, I am not currently playing at all due to this card being the same make and model and the fan is acting up.

Good idea, the 8600GT chips suffer from the brittle bumps issue as well (the solder between the gpu and board itself crack)

PSU- Delta Electronics 400W model: DPS 400 RB A
MB- 4006159R – Intel (Stoughton) G965 Motherboard

Ive been eyeballing some cards but Im not really familiar with anything other than Nvidia. Im not trying to run the game on uber settings or anything, just enough to do some dungeons and what not.

Edit: here is a webpage for the power supply : http://www.ascendtech.us/delta-dps-400rb-a-400-watt-power-supply_i_cspdeldps400rba.aspx

And here is the motherboard: http://www.ascendtech.us/gateway-stoughton-motherboard-4006159r_i_mb4gat4006159r.aspx

I’m running a GTS 430 on a 400w PSU it’s not too bad, playable, a tad laggy in some spots.

Though I also have a AMD phenom 965 BE at 3.4 ((OC’d to 3.8))
And I know GW2 is really processor heavy.

Either way the first issue was GW2 eating your card a GT 8600 definitively can’t run GW2.

Slip on over to Newegg.com, their GPU section is pretty extensive and have breakdowns on the cards so you can check and make sure you have a powerful enough PSU and such.

um.. lol the forum is censoring graphic card numbering now.

Indeed I know that now WereDragon, even though its above the minimum system reqs. and I use canirunit.com to see if my system is up to par for some games, and it said it was a pass, not spectaularly but it was a pass. Thanks for the suggestion as well, I was looking at a 610 or 620 as tiger direct has those at a price that fits in my wallet. I was wondering about ATI’s stuff as well as I have never used em but am willing to give them a shot. Thanks for both of your time and effort to help me out.

No problems also ATI is similar to Nvidia where the first number is the generation and the next few numbers are usually the power.

6970 and 7970 to use a poor example are basicly the same the 7970 just has newer hardware

The same rings true for Nvidia where in the case of a 610 and 550. The 550 is more powerful but the 610 is a generation newer.

unless its the case of a rebrand, where a 550m ends up being a 640 or 630m

Follow this instruction, this will help you revive your GPU: “Just be careful doing it”

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792

After doing that with your GPU, do this step with your CPU:

Remove the fan and clean it and if you have a extra thermal paste put more into ur cpu..

Goodluck