Guild Wars 2

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let me start with the last question one First – AMD or INTEL

U are already using AMD your budget doesn’t allow for you to go INTEL cpu.
This mean u need to change your motherboard and Ram and in some cases
a reinstall of windows.

Stay with nvidia ( for AMD (ATI ) people stay with yours ))
After all we only have two choices and both are equally good
( secret – they copy each others tech and price fix the market too )

400 bucks u have. Let’s see if i can save you some money.

PC run faster if you have a fast CPU and lots of RAM to prevent swapping to the hard drive ( swap file or fake ram i call it ). That’s it – no big secret there.

8gb of ram is more then enough. Way more ram then what the regular joe needs.
You know the type – the guy of girl that has tons of ram an only uses the PC to surf the web, facebook, email and watch youtube videos.

You only need tons of ram if your running a server ( FTP, application, terminal server, web , email ( fill in blank server ) etc. )) OR you keep launching 20 application at the SAME time. So if you just have GW2 running 8 is good. too good

SSDs are ok. Overkill in my i think. Save it for you Next system in 2 years.

My take on what i think you should do:
Going SLI ( 2 video cards ) with your existing video card OR get a really good single card. In SLI you will be able to crank up the graphics BIG time.
That will cost you under 200 bucks ( an you will have change left over )

You can even try getting a faster hard drive and install the game on that.
My HD spin at 7200rpm. they have 10,000rpm hard drives out there. But, i wouldn’t do it and you shouldn’t either.

Finally – save that other 200 bucks and put that aside for your future PC.
Keep it simple and get the SAME Video card ( make and model ) already in your system.

Final answer: SLI

Developer – Roll back your patches

- my card is fine. Other High profile games i have work just fine.

here is something new here and shows promise other then the same OLD – update
your drivers advice – any noob tech knows that – you hear the same old cheap advice year after year.

Matt the tech guy here is off base like you. The fix is in the source files.

microgit.6598 a user – who isn’t getting paided to troubleshoot GW2 has a real good lead. renaming the local.dat file. he should get paided – why – cause in my case it worked.

I said it before and i’ll say it again – it is not the users job to fix an troubleshoot a product. Do you fix your car too – after you just got it yesterday – i thk not.

I’m telling you – it is the source code pal.

As for the light going amber – the app did that pal not the card.

Here are my basics:
i7-920
geforce 470
2 gigs of ram
750 watts of power
xp sp3

I followed his lead and now the game works. for now.
i renamed the file to local.old – when the game launches it creates a new one.
the local.dat file grew to 24kb. the new one is 1.7kb

See thread:
Fix found – my black screen login problems! microgit.6598

bump – looks like this might actually work

it is something IN the update. I was playing all thru the halloween event and even before that.
patch came – then Black screen for me.
They just don’t get it.

Well – here we go again.

Was working when i got the game about a month ago.
They patched me out of the game.

Yeh – i got the Nivida card – but there FIX above doesn’t Work.

I still get that blinking black screen after i click Play.
somethimes i can make it to task manager to end the game.
If i don’t make it – it actually screws up my PC man.
If i let it continue – My PC loses connection to my monitor. The light goes
from Green to Amber – then i have to hard boot – come on !!!

Can i get my money back ? I didn’t have to patch the 60 bucks i gave you
before you put my money in your Bank.

system spec u need ? Sure here we go again. this is all u need.
Since alot of people r having this issue even with Vista and Windows 7.
XP SP3
2 gigs of ram
geforce 470
i7-920

yeh yeh yeh – all my other CURRENT game work with no Issue and GW2 Was one
of them before a patch.

This is way more then enough to run this game – especially since i have a LEVEL 70

So what is the Fix ?
And stop deleting my post – others Need to see this.