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When I play Silkroad it keeps freezing for 30 seconds to 1 minute (Happens every 2 minutes or so and sometimes multiple times in a row) and then sometimes the graphics end up extremely messed up(Changing resolution fixes the graphics):

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When it is lagging the hard drive light doesn't go on and it doesn't make any weird noises.

I got the most recent driver for my video card and I am able to play games like Battlefield 2142 and Crysis with no lag, its only Silkroad that I have a problem with. I changed all the graphic settings around and the lag is still there.

this looks like your video card is dying to me

I use to freeze every time i went to town, or i use to get the ??? error a lot. So what i did is the following ( screenshots included ) and it solved my problems. Although I typed this all myself I got the info from the technical help section, where you should of gone first.

First of all to fix those pesky dc errors, we do the following. Go into the silkroad folder in the program files, then for each of the four .exe's right click and go to properties. Whilst in properties go to compatibility, and change the compatibility mode to windows 98/me.



Now do this for each of the four .exe’s They are labeled sro_client, replacer, silkroad and SilkErrSender

Now that should hopefully fix the ??? errors, though i chose to do this next step as well as it fixes problems where my computer just freezes when in town. Note the fact that this must be done every time you load up your client. So its best to do it at the character selection screen, as theres no point doing it if your client closes when you fail to log in on the first attempt.

Now when your client is all nice and loaded up, hit the windows key and proceed to use the crtl alt del combination. When at this screen, right click on the sro_client and click on go to process.



Now from here, right click on sro_client.exe, then go to priority, then set it to high as opposed to normal



Now if you have a dual core computer, like myself, you can also set the affinity so it runs off one as opposed to 2. I don’t know the logic behind it, but it fixed my problem. So now once again right click on the sro_client exe and go to Set Affinity, it should be right below the set priority option. From here, click the boxes so just the 1st cpu is clicked.



Now you must do this each and every time you open the client, but it has been a perfect solution for me. I hope it works for you too.

p.s If theres any mistakes someone please say so and ill fix them. Im very tired so i did this without paying too much attention >.<

I keep trying to play, but I just end up losing xp. Right as I attack it freezes and then it unfreezes once I die..

Did you try over clocking your video card? I got this error when i over clocked it way to much