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Please take a look at this thread. I’m too lazy to retype my responses:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Satellite-Internet/first#post2339680
It’s under User Accounts in the Control Panel.
Nvidia drivers:
Disable UAC (user account control) and try again.
Yep. The -12v (I’m sure) isn’t being used – unless that machine has RS232 serial ports.
But yes, the sensors certainly could be off (mine are off a little).
Edited: The -12v may be used for the network card (forgot about that for a minute).
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The difference would be barely noticeable, if at all.
RAM is temporary storage space. If you aren’t currently maxing out the 6 gig – then you’ll just have more memory that never gets used. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have more – but I would only do it if it was a really good price deal.
@Cath
I am just trying to guess
http://modcrash.com/nvidia-geforce-320-49-beta-drivers/#.UdNdI-zHbZt
320.18 nvidia drivers are quite bad
It kinda’ makes you wonder how competent
Windows
Hardware
Quality
Labs
is.
That 2nd picture really shows the problem…the text is in Russian!
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Moggwai -
Your CPU IS overheating, according to the specifications found here:
Temperature is near the bottom. Yes, even a few degrees over max can cause the CPU to behave strangely. The max for that processor is 72.6 degrees C.
Ricky -
It’s entirely possible that many people’s computers are infected and they don’t know it. I’ve seen it quite a bit.
The worst infections are rootkits that infect the MBR (master boot record) of the hard drive…bootkits. They take over the system before Windows is loaded. They hide. They mask their activity. They control the kernel.
They can be very hard to detect, very difficult to remove and you won’t even know it’s there.
I was working on one lady’s laptop that had one. The only indication was that Skype would crash on boot. Her antivirus didn’t find it and there were no other symptoms.
Fortunately, I was able to remove it with TDSS Killer:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
Edited: Don’t need both links.
Edit 2: You will probably know if you ever get the “ZeroAccess” rootkit. It’s called that for a reason!
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No need to worry. From what I’ve seen, the cellphone method has pings comparable to cable.
Yeah, those speeds are fine. Online games use very little bandwidth – it’s the latency that’s important.
Edited to add: You shouldn’t need a third party system. Cellphone data transmission is plenty fast.
You’re welcome
I still do it lol. I always set my systems up a certain way and have relatively few problems. If anything goes wrong it’s usually me doing something I shouldn’t…“that’s an interesting program, let’s run it!” Thanks for the bootkit!
Or…this one is great….
Last week an Avast update caused a bluescreen on boot for 64 bit systems. I was not exactly happy when both Win 7 64 bit desktops bluescreened first thing in the morning. Fortunately, they fixed it the same day, but I still had to uninstall Avast and reinstall it from Safe Mode.
That’s just another reason my computers are imaged.
I suspect that the crashing issue people are experiencing is one or both of the following:
1. Failing, mis-configured or overheating hardware.
and/or
2. Software issues – conflicts, malware/viruses, damaged operating system/corrupted files, OS updates needed, etc.
It may help to increase the page file (virtual memory). In a 32 bit system, the amount of RAM is only useable to 4 gig. Only about 3.5 gig is available because the system is using the rest (drivers, bios shadow, etc.).
However, the page file can be as large as you want. The “old” standard for page file size was 1.5X the amount of RAM. I still use that convention. I always set min and max size to be the same (so that Windows won’t dynamically adjust the size).
Usually, Windows will show a recommended value which is pretty close to 1.5X RAM. I usually use that setting, but you can go to 2X RAM. Any more than that and you’re probably just wasting hard drive space.
BTW, Silverstone, you really need to free up some hard drive space. Some defragging programs will fail if you have less than 10% free space. You aren’t too far from it.
Asgard.9046 -
Take a look at the Hardware Monitor screenshot you posted; specifically – the voltages shown. I have never known Hardware Monitor to be buggy.
Those voltages are all-over-the-place and WAY out of spec if those readings are true – which would explain the odd crashing you’re having.
The only way to know for sure is to check the voltages with a meter (check the 5 and 12 volt rails which can be done easily on the molex connectors of your power supply).
Anyway, if those readings are correct, your power supply is failing and needs to be replaced.
Edited to add:
1. Vcore may vary a little — but .256 volts variance is quite a bit (at idle). Vcore on my CPU (@ 1.4 volts) only varies about .1 volts.
2. 3.3 volts is varying from 2.256 volts to 3.360 volts = way too much.
3. 5 volts is dropping to 3.629 volts = way too much.
4. The worst one is the -12 volt rail. It’s changing by over 6 volts!
Make sure to check that out with a meter or substitute a known working power supply.
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It wouldn’t be playable – satellite has about a 1 second ping time.
There is another way, if you have a 3G or 4G cellphone. Most cellphone services these days have internet. You may need to change the plan though.
Also, you’ll need one of these:
Of course, you’ll need to get the correct one that works with your cellphone provider.
I assumed that the crash log showed some system information. Thanks for some tips though, I am running on atleast 16gb of ram so I didn’t think having skype, chrome, and steam would really even dent my memory even slightly with GW2.
It’s not about memory usage. It’s about avoiding possible software conflicts that can arise – especially when gaming.
Most people don’t read the info when they are installing software/games; but most of them say to shut down any programs that are running (that includes background applications).
I always manually set mine (min & max) to 1.5X the RAM size. It’s just a habit I’ve had since the Windows 98 days – when that was the recommended setting (for max anyway).
Did you try reinstalling your graphics driver?
Try re-installing Flash Player:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Note There are two versions of Flash Player. One is the ActiveX control (which is required for Internet Explorer), the other is a plugin that Firefox uses. If you have Firefox installed, install both versions.
W’ell just have to agree to disagree.
I know how monitors (LCD and CRT) and computers work at the component level (electronics tech here for over 30 years). Before I got into the engineering environment, I spent many years repairing consumer electronics (TVs, VCRs, Stereos, CD players, dvd players, camcorders, tape decks, etc.).
Either way, this is most likely a hardware issue.
Take care.
Interesting. I have a habit of using Ccleaner fairly often – maybe that’s why I have no issues patching or running the game?
Honestly, you need a faster CPU and GPU in order to handle group events. I’m in the same boat, but will hopefully be building a new PC in a few months.
That page isn’t showing your info (it’s probably stored in a cookie on your PC which we don’t have).
Anyway, in order to run this game well – you need much much higher than the “minimum” specs.
Most of the time I can play the game pretty smoothly with my (very) old gaming machine; but I’m actually very surprised if I’m able to get 9-10 FPS doing the Jormag event. I don’t even want to talk about the group events at Southsun Cove.
The premise is wrong.
The driver can malfunction and the system still think it’s working properly, so it wouldn’t kill it, nor give any error message. The result would be the driver telling the graphic card to give information to the screen that the screen can’t interpret, hence the “no signal” message. I’ve seen this a lot back in the day of non-user-friendly unix enviroments while trying to figure out the synch of a laptop’s screen on a default driver.
Now, I’m not ruling out It could be a faulty GPU, what I’m saying is It could still be a driver issue, and your null hypothesis is flawed.
Cheers,
Crp
Monitors don’t work that way electronically – whether they are analog (CRT) or digital (LCD). I presume by “information” you mean data (sync issues are different but I’ll address that next). The screen will display ANYTHING (data) the graphics card sends to it. Let me try and articulate that a little better:
You have digital data on the DVI output of your graphics card. Each bit can only be high or low. It doesn’t matter what the data bits are – the monitor WILL display it.
Sync issues, on the other hand, are different. CRT monitors (well most anyway) will blank the video if the sync frequency is out of range. This is to protect the CRT, which can be damaged if the sweep circuitry fails. I don’t know of any way to repair burnt phosphor in a CRT.
LCD monitors do the same, although sync being the wrong frequency won’t damage an LCD monitor.
Of course, it could be a driver issue – however, if the hardware is working properly; there is absolutely no reason for it to suddenly “malfunction”. In addition, DirectX is controlling the graphics driver when running GW2 (or any D3D game).
If it is indeed a driver issue, then I would expect that everyone with the same card by the same manufacturer would have the exact same problem. That is obviously not the case.
This problem points to failing or misconfigured (overclocked, etc.) hardware, specifically the GPU.
Edited to add: It’s nearly impossible for me to try and cover every possible aspect regarding this problem without writing a novel. Yes, other component failures such as motherboard and power supply could cause this problem.
I’m sure I forgot to mention something. Either way, I certainly hope the OP and others are able to resolve the problems they are having.
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Disable User Account Control (UAC) and reboot.
Is your computer overclocked at all?
The person you bought this from can tell you, I’m sure.
Also, check RAM timings and voltage settings in BIOS. It’s entirely possible for RAM to run right on the edge of stability – which doesn’t show up under normal usage or even Memtest scans.
Remember, component specifications will change with temperature. So, if your RAM is borderline, increasing the temperature (by running a game) will push it enough to cause stability problems.
This really looks like a RAM issue to me because of the corrupted archive data.
Another thing you could try would be to UNDERclock the RAM, as a test. If that works, then you know where the problem lies.
For anything over 100Mbps (which is overkill for gaming), you’ll need a 1Gbps network (lan card, router, etc. must support 1Gbps).
Also, you aren’t getting anywhere near the speed you are paying for:
Ping: 12ms
DL speed: 27mbps
UP speed: 50mbps
Anyway, those things aren’t really relevant in regards to lag spikes. The first thing I would look at, is if any other program is “flooding” the network:
1. Windows Update checking and downloading?
2. Antivirus or antimalware programs auto-updating?
3. Spyware present?
4. Unnecessary network or router configuration software running?
5. Other unnecessary background programs running (Skype, etc.)?
You could try resetting winsock as well as tcp/ip:
http://www.speedguide.net/faq_in_q.php?qid=272
The above applies to Windows XP, Vista and 7 – I don’t know about Windows 8.
It’s an A-net server problem. If you keep trying you’ll get in.
I highly doubt this will work to make GW2 large address aware.
The reason is that GW2 isn’t using a separate executable file. The entire game is in one large file and individual (needed) files get extracted and decompressed in RAM.
It’s likely that using this patcher will break the game. If there’s a CRC check it will fail after modification.
Edited to add: GW2 is probably already large address aware (one would hope so, anyway).
Copy the game folder over from the one that works to the Win 8 machine.
How do you expect us to help you when you didn’t even provide us with any specifics about your computer?
GW2 doesn’t crash for me at all – ever - no matter how long I play.
Download, install and update the free version of Malwarebytes’ Antimalware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/
Then run a FULL scan.
Be patient that site is loading VERY slowly for me at the moment.
In addition, it may be a good idea to reinstall or update DirectX:
Do a search for the file GW2.exe. If you want to make a shortcut on the desktop; right click that file and choose ‘Send to desktop’.
Hope that helps.
I have always been a fan of AMD CPUs.
However, my next build will be using an Intel CPU for the following reasons:
1. Intel is currently the better performing CPU.
2. The 22nm technology uses less power = runs cooler (77 watts for an i5).
3. Support for PCI-E 3.0, although is isn’t fully utilized right now.
For RAM; I’ll probably start with 8 gig then expand as needed. I’ll probably go with Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600. I’ll be using dual channel (2 X 4gig). In my opinion, the small performance gain of ddr3 2400 vs. ddr3 1600 isn’t worth the added cost.
Why am I using only 2 sticks of RAM? Because I can use a lower (faster) command rate than with 4 sticks. With 2 sticks I can use a command rate of 1T and be stable. Most of the time 4 sticks won’t run at 1T and must use a 2T command rate.
For video card – get the best you can afford. Personally, I’ll probably go with a Geforce 660Ti to start with. The performance jump from a Geforce 650 to a 660Ti is pretty significant judging by the benchmarks I’ve seen.
Anyway, just my two pennies worth of advice.
It’s not gonna’ happen. That would require a lot of code to be re-written and really isn’t necessary.
As I mentioned in the other thread, ntdll is crashing and GW2 isn’t the cause.
Exception: c0000005
Memory at address 9297805f could not be read
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 1364
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 19175
Module: ntdll.dll
When: 2013-06-09T14:34:52Z 2013-06-09T16:34:52+02:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:10
Flags: 0
It isn’t the game crashing, it’s Windows crashing – then the game crashes.
Troubleshooting ntdll.dll crashes involves checking the things we all mentioned above. A rootkit/bootkit or virus infection can also cause ntdll to crash.
This link might help:
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It sounds like a configuration issue. On my router, “Filter Anonymous Internet Requests” is enabled.
On my PC I don’t use a 3rd party firewall – just the Windows firewall. You could try resetting it to defaults. Make sure ‘Core networking’ is allowed through (private only for a home network).
Unfortunately, there’s only about 1,000 things that can go wrong with Windows networking; so you’ll probably need to just go through all the settings on the router and PC.
Software will not damage hardware unless the hardware is defective to begin with.
Most of the time, BSOD’s are an indication of bad hardware (including settings) OR corrupt/incorrect device drivers.
You mentioned that you ‘upgraded’ your OS. Was that a clean install (which includes formatting the HDD) or an actual upgrade over the existing operating system?
If it was the latter, you should really format the drive and do a proper install. It’s been my experience that OS upgrades (without a clean install) generally don’t quite work right.
In regards to the memory upgrade: Was it completely new RAM or did you add more to your existing RAM?
A good thing to check would be the memory timings and voltage settings in BIOS. What happens sometimes is that BIOS will incorrectly detect RAM settings. Make sure the settings match the manufacturer’s specifications.
Also, if this computer is overclocked at all; try setting everything back to default settings – at least as a test. Good luck.
I agree. I don’t know why this setting wasn’t implemented in the first place – it could really help a lot of people I think. Maybe the game engine doesn’t support it; I don’t know. A certain other MMO has it, which is great for old PCs like mine.
The base clock is pretty low (comparatively) for those i7 mobile chips.
If it was comparing 4.2Ghz to 4.5Ghz I would say “no”, don’t spend the extra dough. In this case, I think it’s worth the extra money to start with a 2.7Ghz CPU vs. a 2.4Ghz CPU.
DeeGal -
What you want is external to the laptop. The laptop rests on it. Most have at least one fan (I recommend two fans) and it gets power by plugging into a USB port on the laptop.
Something like this would work well:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Targus-17-Laptop-Chill-Mat/14979792
I have a different one for my laptop, but it has two fans. Although my laptop is too old and slow for most games, my temperatures in normal use dropped by about 20 degrees C.
Try this:
1. Go to your sound device properties (Speakers in my case):
Right-click the speaker icon near the clock and then click ‘Playback devices’ to get there. Click ‘Properties’ and then click the ‘Advanced’ tab.
2. Un-check the following two boxes, then click ‘Apply’:
“Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device”
“Give exclusive mode applications priority”
Don’t know if that will help, but those settings can cause sound problems in some programs.
Another possibility -
Did you install DirectX?
Check your mouse options in Control Panel. Make sure to turn off “Pointer Trails”, or set your mouse at default settings.
Classic poor translations always read like this:
“Once your account is complete certification, we will check your account and let you know that we can do for you.”
I was addressing Halmo in my post.
It sure looks like a memory error to me. The failing addresses are pretty high, so that eliminates a hardware device as the culprit.
The first address 73576b34 (hex) is right around the 2 gig mark. If a RAM check shows no errors (they don’t always show memory problems because they don’t really stress the RAM) – try swapping memory sticks around or removing one.
It’s really never a good idea to “upgrade” a Windows OS. It’s been my experience over many years that the new OS just doesn’t quite work right after doing this.
It’s better to back up your data, format the drive and do a fresh install of the new operating system. I know it’s a pain, but at least you’ll know that you’ll be starting with a clean system.