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Post by soaringarrow on Aug 4, 2005 8:01:09 GMT -5
Well guys if you haven't noticed my sudden disapearence ::)I have been grounded per se from guild wars and the internet  , this could last weeks or months so if I pop up one day you'll know. Know second part of this thread is that my mom wants me to play on my laptop and it isn't fast enough which I believe is related to connection speed due to the wireless connection(54.0 mbps). But this may not be the problem any thoughts on making my laptop run at a guild friendly speed would help ;D |
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Post by Indagatrix on Aug 4, 2005 8:33:02 GMT -5
well soaring I can't speak to the speed thing--I will let wiser tech minds discuss that--but as far as the grounding thing -- WHA!?!? If your mom happens to read this I would be happy to work out a punishment in the pub for you instead...you know cleaning Tru Kitty's litter box, taking Inu for a walk, or even feeding Morbs---although that last one you may lose a finger or two.  Long story short don't worry soaring--we'll keep your guild spot warm until you are able to get back in your parent's good graces  |
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Aug 4, 2005 9:00:25 GMT -5
Soaring, when you have the chance (as in don't further your punishment), please post the specs of your laptop as this will help determine if the problem is the wireless connection (shouldn't be the problem as GW can be played on dial-up), processor, memory, or video card...
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Post by Aerynrox on Aug 4, 2005 9:01:36 GMT -5
Soaring, you'd better not be reading this unless you're de-grounded! Don't want you to get in any more trouble with your parents. And as for cleaning Tru Kitty's litter box - I don't think I can ask you to take that one on. You can only imagine the stuff I find in there: Charr hairballs, Not-quite-jade-anymore-mandibles, etc. Dark remains, indeed.  |
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Post by Morbid Eclipse on Aug 4, 2005 10:27:20 GMT -5
Well guys if you haven't noticed my sudden disapearence ::)I have been grounded per se from guild wars and the internet . Know second part of this thread is that my mom wants me to play on my laptop and it isn't fast enough which I believe is related to connection speed due to the wireless connection(54.0 mbps). But this may not be the problem any thoughts on making my laptop run at a guild friendly speed would help ;D Didn't notice your disappearance, and damn, that sucks for you...go rents!  What the hell did you do anyway? Awww your mom wants you to play on your laptop...damn, I never had a laptop when I was your age. If your mom happens to read this I would be happy to work out a punishment in the pub for you instead...you know cleaning Tru Kitty's litter box, taking Inu for a walk, or even feeding Morbs---although that last one you may lose a finger or two. Screw that he's gone...he reminds me of Ike (Kyles little brother in South Park)..."Kick the baby"... Kyle: "Ready, Ike? Kick the baby!" Ike: "Don't kick the baby." Kyle: "Kick the baby!" |
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Post by Fate on Aug 4, 2005 17:06:07 GMT -5
My laptop plays fine on wireless 54 mb. I find that I have to turn down the graphics as low as possible in game. Setting the desktop to 16 bit color as well as tweaking the other Open GL settiongs to performance seemed to help.
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Post by soaringarrow on Aug 4, 2005 18:17:39 GMT -5
Well my dad let me post this thread so its not a violation of my punishment
My laptop specs are
Intel(R)celeron(R)2.80GHz
448 mbs of ram
ati radeon 7000 igp 64mb vram
also I checked the divx video codec and it was 5.2.1 and I believe it was the 7.0 codec or 9.0 so that might be a problem
btw its a Toshiba laptop
and referring to what fate said
this video card was already installed and I can't find a setting page or anything like that but I can but the graphics down.
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Post by Fate on Aug 4, 2005 18:40:22 GMT -5
How do you get 448 ram a 256, a 128 and a 64? Wow.
Anyway I don't think you are going to have much luck with a Radeon 7000. The Guild Wars box states a Radeon 9000 as minimum reqiuirements. However, if you upgrade the drivers you might just get a tab for the video card when you hit the advanced butting on settings screen (right click on desktop, select properties, select settings screen).
Since it is a laptop, upgrading the video card is out. Hmm. Hopefully some other option will work. I have found that flowers and chocolates with a sincere apology work well not only on wives but on mothers. The sincere part is always the hard part though.
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Post by soaringarrow on Aug 4, 2005 21:35:46 GMT -5
thanks fate I updated the driver and after that I set it to 16 bit and set open GL to performance all the way. I'll test it as soon as possible. ;D
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Post by Talairina on Aug 5, 2005 14:16:18 GMT -5
Guild Wars also says it does not Support GeForce FX 5200 (as battlefield 2 does not) but it runs almost perfect on my system. What settings is your NIC running from? (Network Interface Card)
Also whats the speed of the reciver and is there anything such as T10 or T1 along the line in the network, be it a wire or wireless part. Also what make is the Nic/Reciver/Router etc...
Tal
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Post by soaringarrow on Aug 5, 2005 19:14:40 GMT -5
1.what do you mean by running from
2.the speed is 54.0 mbs on a standard broadband connection (time warner), don't know what T1 or T10 is
3. the make is time warner (I looked on router and it had a sticker that said cl or cable lbls or somthin)
So I can't give you a full answer.
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Post by Fate on Aug 5, 2005 21:44:58 GMT -5
My Guild War box actually lists Geforce3 or 4 Ti as the minimum and radeon 8500. So I was looking at the wrong one.
Tal is right. You never know if it will work unitl you try.
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Post by Talairina on Aug 6, 2005 2:45:40 GMT -5
What I meant is, do you have a home network running? If so does all the computer plug into the broadband reciver? If not what do they plug into? Also what I mean is, is your Internet settings set to a static IP? Dynamic IP? A certain phone number to dial out to? etc...
For example, I have this computer set to a dynamic ip (changes everytime i make a new net connection), it always dials out to 0,38 (Standard British broadband number which then links to every isp here. might be the same in the us too?) and it goes through my router to my DSL modem. my router has 5 other pcs and 2 laptops attached to it with cat5e network cables. That may seem like a load of jargon but it simply names of things.
Have a look and let me know. It sounds like a network problem and not hardware per say.
Tal
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Post by soaringarrow on Aug 6, 2005 9:28:04 GMT -5
1. yes we have a home network
2. if you mean our laptop plugs in wirelessly then yes
3.dynamic ip
so yes to all your questions
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Post by Dreamsmith on Aug 6, 2005 23:45:24 GMT -5
How do you get 448 ram a 256, a 128 and a 64? Wow. Actually, VRAM on a laptop frequently subtracts from the main RAM. The laptop in question likely has two 256MB or one 512MB module in it; thus with 64MB of "VRAM", it has 448MB left over for non-video purposes. It is very unlikely your connection speed has anything to do with Guild Wars running slowly. Even the slowest wireless cards (11 Mbps) are an order of magnitude faster than broadband Internet speeds. If you're having network issues, the game should run just as fast as normal, but you'll have problems with lag and/or Err=7 disconnects. If the game itself runs slowly, it's most likely due to a poor video card/chipset, or excessive amounts of other software or spyware infesting the system. Incidently, if you add "-perf display fps" to the startup parameters for Guild Wars (just get the properties of the shortcut you use to launch it, and add that to the end of the "Target"), it will give you some statistics on your performance, both network and video. Network issues will have no effect at all on your FPS, so if your FPS is low, it's certainly not a network issue. |
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Post by Fate on Aug 7, 2005 1:41:08 GMT -5
Dreamsmith? Dreamsmith? That name does sound familiar. Glad to see you are still alive. |
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Post by Dreamsmith on Aug 7, 2005 10:06:38 GMT -5
Dreamsmith? Dreamsmith? That name does sound familiar. Glad to see you are still alive. Thanks. I've been pretty busy lately, putting in some long hours, but things should be getting back to normal this week. (Whatever "normal" means...) |
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Post by Fate on Aug 7, 2005 10:36:01 GMT -5
Glad we will be seeing more of you. Between you and firin being gone its been kind of slow around here.
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Post by soaringarrow on Aug 7, 2005 12:34:03 GMT -5
Does "-perf" stand for something cause when I put it in it says perf is invalid
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Post by Dreamsmith on Aug 8, 2005 0:26:36 GMT -5
Make sure you put it in outside the quotes. For example, this is the Target field in my Guild Wars shortcut:
"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -perf display fps
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Post by soaringarrow on Aug 8, 2005 7:50:57 GMT -5
well there wasn't any windows that came up but I got logged on and the results are............
5-15 fps lowest to highest
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Post by Fate on Aug 8, 2005 9:25:15 GMT -5
A start. Any programs that are running automatically you can shutdown? Anitvirus, etc.
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Post by spiritofice on Aug 8, 2005 21:02:46 GMT -5
All you can really do is set everything to lowest on the advanced settings in options and hope for the best. After all, thats all I can do with this piece of junk machine *hits pc*. Now not only is my sound card broken, but my video card is beginning to waver- hurrah! Every so often I get blue-screen-o-death which says a video card dll is faulty.
Fortunately come october I SHOULD have saved enough money from work to afford a beauty of a pc.
*cough* so lesson here is to get a job and save up enough money to buy an uber laptop...that or grovel, grovel, and grovel some more to your parents.
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Post by soaringarrow on Aug 8, 2005 21:49:28 GMT -5
gosh if I could get a job that'd be awsome but I have to stick to mowing lawns as a source of income (sighs). But by the time I can get a job I'll want a car, gas, etc. So when some of you are in your 50-60s [glow=gold,10,000]( 90's)[/glow]I'll have a real job  . |
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Post by Indagatrix on Aug 9, 2005 8:35:08 GMT -5
So when some of you are in your 50-60s [glow=gold,10,000]( 90's)[/glow]I'll have a real job . You think so huh? Well consider this--I started driving truck for my family agriculture business at the ripe old age of 7. So by my calculations you are way behind on your work. Also, I know how much money can be made mowing yards (a butt load)--up the price you charge a little and sneak in at night and water them so they grow faster. |
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Post by Yoko Nishi on Aug 9, 2005 12:17:57 GMT -5
Perhaps he lives in a town like mine. All the lawn care services run a monopoly, they're almost like the mafia. They're the only ones that do anything. Everytime I'm out cutting the grass, they give me the bird!
Or, his town might be very strict about 'child labour laws' (*cough* useless anyway because most kids want to work in the countries that have those laws*cough*), only 1 place in our town hires under 16 age (almost said 'under lvl 16'), and they filled up fast.
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Post by soaringarrow on Aug 9, 2005 13:01:36 GMT -5
Yah I live in a big city alot of people have lawn service neighbors, neighborhood etc. I think our arlans take 14 year olds but I'm guessing  It dosen't matter because my dad has a powerwasher and most services don't do that unless asked so I have a advantage (plus its not hard cause you get wet). And as for programs I can turn off there was one and I turned it off. |
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Post by Asya on Aug 9, 2005 13:46:51 GMT -5
'Tis a vicious circle:
1. Need to get hardware/software to play video games all day.
2. Need to work to buy hardware/software.
3. Need to go to school to get a job.
4. Need to stop playing video games to go to school.
Back on topic, sounds like you are out of luck on the laptop.
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, this could last weeks or months so if I pop up one day you'll know.
It dosen't matter because my dad has a powerwasher and most services don't do that unless asked so I have a advantage (plus its not hard cause you get wet).
