Guild Wars

amx · 28 Mar 2006 at 09:29

On a friends recommendation, I spent a whole 18 of my hard earned pounds on this game. However, much to my dismay, I cannot get it to install :mad:

I can install the first CD without problem, but as soon as the installer asks for the second CD, it freezes with no error messages / BSOD's etc. I then have to reboot to clear it, as CTRL + ALT + DEL doesn't work :confused:

Does anyone play this game and have any idea why I can't get it to work?

I've been checking out all the Guild Wars forums and some seem to have problems installing with overclocked graphics cards, I have a X1900 XT-X which is running stock, but I was wondering if I can underclock it, to see if it is the card causing the problem? I will also download the latest client tonight and see if that works as I only have the CD's at present.

The rest of the system is Windows XP SP2 (with high priority updates @ 27/3/06), a DFI LP NF4 Ultra-D, X2 3800+ @ 2.6Ghz 1.55v, 2Gb G.Skill HZ Ram 260Mhz @ 3-4-4-8, an Audigy SE sound card and a 74Gb Raptor. The system has been primed for 10 hours without any errors and the load temp is 43 degrees, so I've assumed that it is stable.

Edit: I'm also running Catalyst 6.3

amx · 28 Mar 2006 at 10:22

Thanks for the suggestion.
I'm gonna give that a go when I get home, gonna be annoying downloading each area as you progress though.
Thankfully LLU is in my area and i don't have to rely on BT, so any downloads should be fairly swift!

From reading the forum posts, the game sounds fairly flaky at best.

amx · 28 Mar 2006 at 13:47

I'm making the assumption that it's a driver error as the installer didn't freeze when I tried to load it on a fresh copy of Windows XP. The installation bombed out 'cos it couldn't detect my 3d video driver.

As soon as I installed the Catalyst 6.3 drivers, the installed continuously freezes when it asks for disc 2.

Does the downloaded version give you the oportunity to create my account etc as I haven't even managed to do that yet.

amx · 29 Mar 2006 at 08:35

Well I downloaded the client and it has worked fine

Now just need to figure out what to do as I have never played this type of game before :confused:

Thanks for all your help!

amx · 29 Mar 2006 at 09:24

Thanks for the offer, but the only reason i bought the game was 'cos a friend needed extra members for his own guild.

He added me last night but I can't remember what it was called.

What's the aim of the game?