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I stand corrected – I didn’t scroll down that far.
What you posted (and what I saw in the log) sure looks like a bad memory stick (or socket).
Private: 1722MB
WorkingSet: 1563MB
PeakWorkingSet: 1820MBThat shows that GW2 is using 1.8 Gig, which is reasonable for max settings. If it was a memory leak that would probably be a whole lot higher.
A interesting side test I ran is to have Windows only use 3GB of the 8GB installed. When I did that, I could consistently get a windows error anytime I get GW2.exe to use 1.8GB of ram.
I then up the available amount to 4096 and GW2 didn’t complain at the 1.8GB mark, it even was fine at the 1.9GB mark. But once I opened up a few resources like, Outlook, powerpoint and a couple of IE browsers. Windows 8 again started complaining about GW2.exe not having any memory.
I’ll have to run those test again under Windows 7, but my guess is that as windows is running out of memory, it targets the Application using the most as being the problem. Versus telling me Outlook or IE had a memory shortage problem
Assuming no faulty memory problems, It’s possible you’re hard drive has some sector defects and has it’s thrashing around on the pagefile it hits something that causes the game or system to hiccup. You could try setting the page file to 0, reboot, run a disk defrag and then creating another 2-4GB pagefile. This should make sure the pagefile is not scattered over your disk.
While you should be able to play with 4GB and let the pagefile handle any overages. You’ll probably find that you’ll have smoother game play and alt tabbing with 6-8GB of ram.
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That log file is useless if the specs you state in your first post are true.
That log shows:
-Geforce 8400GS GPU
-Windows 6.1 = Windows 7
Scroll down more, you should see
Version = 9.18.0013.1422
Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Compat = 0×00100000
VidMem = 2770 MB
and
Processors: 4 [GenuineIntel:6:7:7]
OSVersion: Windows 6.2 (64 bit)
I’m looking at
Physical: 1026MB/ 4095MB 25%
Paged: 2828MB/ 6972MB 40%
Virtual: 1561MB/ 4095MB 38%
Load: 74%
CommitTotal: 4144MB
CommitLimit: 6972MB
CommitPeak: 7673MB
SystemCache: 1439MB
HandleCount: 27094
ProcessCount: 59
ThreadCount: 805
—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1722MB
WorkingSet: 1563MB
PeakWorkingSet: 1820MB
PageFaults: 36135404
And what seems odd to me that the pagefile would be 40% in use, but the Physical ram is showing 25% in use, of course, if the memory is released when it crashes that might explain that.
I’m not that clear on how to read some of this data, but the CommitTotal of 4144MB makes me thinks he is hitting the 4GB of physical memory that he has. If that’s true, I woudl think adding another 4Gb would be the simple fix.
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Before Wiping and re-installing Windows, I’d try a fair amount of other things first. Since you say you can play Skyrim on Max settings and not have a issue, I don’t believe we can just call it a Windows problem and be done.
I’d start with either updating or downgrading my video drivers. I’d go into the nvida control panel and set the power management to best performance. I’d go into the game’s graphics settings and move it to low and give it a try.
Personally, if setting the graphic settings to low doesn’t at least stop the crashing I’ll be surprise. From there we can start ticking the settings back up to see if it’s 1 setting that’s causing the problem. You could have something like corrupted textures being loaded and maybe you’ll have to re-install GW2.
I’d say maybe a good side test is to go download Prime95 (64 version) and run it. There is a option when you go to run torture test to pick how much ram to use, tell it to use 4096 and let it run for a while. If you have a bad memory stick, Prime95 should catch it for you
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Come now, GW2 is not the God of MMOs, even if you think this is one such instance that you should defend it to death, I really have nothing else to say, since it is your right.
Just get this, there is a problem. And like I said, there is nothing wrong with my system. I have played many games and all runs SMOOTHLY except GW2.
Don’t get me wrong, in-game, apart from the lag that everyone is experiencing, there is nothing wrong with it, BUT there is definitely something wrong happening in the background or the client.
Not to take sides, I will simply throw out this nugget. Anytime you want to try and resolve a computer\game problem. You should always keep an open mind that the problem can be anywhere in the system.
My wife plays on a Core 2 duo system with 4GB of ram (was actually running Win7-32 bit so she didn’t get the full 4GB), and she’s the type that has the client run for 5-6 hours at a time. She might get bored, tab out and watch hulu and forget the game was running. Never had any issues with running out of memory.
Also, you can play Skyrim for 8 hours a day with no problems, another game that doesn’t even have to tax the system as hard and run into a overheating problem. It’s not always purely the game, it’s a combination of things. GW2, running on Windows 8, using video driver XYZ, with feature X turned on runs out of memory (X turned off and works fine). It’s not the game client, it’s the video card driver that’s doing it, GW2 just runs into a problem and gets blamed. That’s were logs tend to help, they (GW2) can see if they were requesting abnormal amounts of ram or if they were using normal amounts and got denied on request for more.
As always, check out the drivers for your various components, Sometimes people go back to a previous driver to resolve a issue. Maybe play around with various graphic settings to see if something like turning shadows off makes a difference.
Of course, it could be a GW2 problem when running on X, using Y will cause Z to happen.
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Thanks for the replies. Mike the Mad even came over and party with me and ran me around and cleared up some areas of confusion I had. It’s better, but things still seem off for lowbie leveling. I wonder if part of my problem is that the server appears to be a west Coast server, but I’m more East Coast. One of the issues I keep having is if I rush into enemies, 95% of the time they will end of behind me. I’m just not use to that. As I try to readjust to face them, they seem to be re-adjusting too and we end up back to back again. Some of the attacks feels like they have a half sec to 1 sec delay, I’m not sure if that’s normal or just me.
I am using a blue level greatsword, though Mike showed he had no trouble using two 1 handers. Rest of the gear is just whites and blues I’ve picked up on the way.
One area I keep dying that I don’t know how to solve, is I get knocked down, I fight, I get revived\Back up. And even though all the enemies are dead, I have this kinda greenish smoke coming out of me and then 3-4 secs later I fall over defeated.
Thanks for the feed back and Mike for giving me a guide tour.
I need some serious help here. I’m new to this game and it quiet different from WoW and Rift, maybe even confusing to me.
I created warrior and I’m level 7 currently and I’ve managed to die probably a good 15-20 times now. I really just don’t get what’s going on here. It “seems” everytime I go to fight or do any event, I have 2-3 mobs on me and I just melt. My Heal seems to be non-existent. I’m not sure when I’m suppose to be dodging, I’ve tried just spamming the dodges when I fight. Not much seems to make a difference.
When it’s just a 1 on 1 encounter things go pretty good, no real touble. Anything more than that and I’m probably going to die. I’ve tried a few different weapons so far, none seem to make much difference.
I kinda hate that I get scaled down to whatever ara I’m in. I’d be happy questing in a lower area until I can figure out what I’m doing wrong.
Anyways, I know it’s a wide open questions, but any guess on what I’m missing here ? Doesn’t seem like lowbie intro levels would be this complicated\hard, so I must be mising something obvious.
Thanks