Ruined Embrace
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I've had this computer for about 5 years and I'm just now getting into PC games. Mainly was in console games but now I'm slowly transferring. I bought Guild Wars Collector's Edition and I've had problems playing. When I load up the game, the screen will go black and then it will go back to the desktop and then it will turn black again and then back to the desktop with Guild Wars being minimized in the taskbar. I click on it to bring it back up but it keeps doing the same thing. So, I visit this site and try to do some research and I find someone has a problem similar to mine but it is shutting down his whole computer, so he downloads a program that speeds up the fan in his tower. So I give it a try....it suprisingly works. I downloaded Speedfan from download.com. I guess my motherboard was overheating and it was shutting out. But now with that program running behind the game, it lags really bad. So how do I fix this problem with hardware and not software? I'd rather spend money and have it fixed than just let it keep annoying me. Here's my system's guts:
Windows XP
AMD Athlon Processor 1.1 GHz
256 MB RAM
256 MB GeForce FX 5500 video card
74.5 GB on C drive....50.9 free space
Here's the game's minimum requirements:
Pentium 3 800MHz, or equivalent
256MB RAM
2GB hard drive space
32MB 3D Card (Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX)
Internet connection
Windows XP
AMD Athlon Processor 1.1 GHz
256 MB RAM
256 MB GeForce FX 5500 video card
74.5 GB on C drive....50.9 free space
Here's the game's minimum requirements:
Pentium 3 800MHz, or equivalent
256MB RAM
2GB hard drive space
32MB 3D Card (Radeon 8500 or GeForce 3 or 4 MX)
Internet connection