Guild Wars owned my 8600?

Odd thing happened a week or so ago. I was bored so I was going through a few old games I haven't played in awhile. I installed Guild Wars, which should be no problem for my 8600 GT. And it wasn't, not at first anyway, I was doing a good 40-60 FPS all maxed out. Then about 20 minutes in the game crashed. I restarted and it was fine again. Next day I installed the expansion (Nightfall). Then I tried running it. Every few seconds I got a little artifact pop up. Then about 2 minutes in the whole screen got really fuzzy and artifacty. You could still sort of see the game but it was super blurry... It kinda looked like someone put a feathery filter over the game. Then my computer just restarted on its own. I wasn't all that interested in playing guild wars really so I promptly uninstalled it, not wanting to risk damaging my less than one month old laptop.

I'm just wondering why such a non-demanding game would have done this?

 

its not the game, its your computer. its overheating, and it looks like its toast at this point. time to call dell and get it replaced.

 

No this was an isolated incident. My computer has never before then or after done anything like that. And I play plenty of other, more demanding, games.

 

If you overclock your GPU, reset it to stock clocks when trying Guild Wars. Some games are sensitive to overclocking and don't play well unless clocks are reset.

 

Stock drivers and no OCing.

 

If it isn't overclocked, then perhaps the driver set you're using could be updated. Try a different set of drivers and see.

 

Same scenario as mine. It may be because guild wars uses little to no cpu, so your fans don't trigger at their higher speeds or at all. Thus your gpu overheats and crashes. You may need to disable speedstep through your bios.

 

It cant be the game...i have all the guild wars games and i run it maxed out and I oced my 8400M GT and get constant 60fps..

Perhaps your card is defective? or maybe you havent upgraded the game or your driver

 

What driver are you using?

 

He said he used stock drivers.

 

Try the new Dell drivers. They're great.

 

You could try fan controllers. See if it is the overheating problem.

 

I run Guild Wars max'd out on my 2090. I have it on a Zalman cooler though...odd that other games play but not guild wars cause it definitely sounds heat related...idk...

 

i had the same problem but it wasnt heat related (use rivatuner to monitor temp, never above 73c) it was driver related. now i use 177.44 xp 32b and havent happened once since.