Possible to download on one comp, then move to another?

Hey, I was just wanting to know if it is possible to download the newest updates for Guild Wars on one computer, and then move them to a different computer? My grandparents have 56k, and I would like to be able to play when I head over to visit them, but I don't want to have to spend two days just downloading everything. I already have Prophecies and Factions installed on their computer, but there are no updates. Any help would be appreciated.

I think you can put the gw.dat file on a disk and transfer it. I'm not sure if you also need to add the client as well or not.

Yup as was said you should just be able to copy your dat file and paste it into the guildwars folder on your grandparents pc, although I have never tried this, in theory it should work.

Post your results back here once you have tried it.

It does, I reloaded my pc (but burned my gw.dat file to dvd+r before hand) ran guildwars installer (just enough to get a log in screen) from the web then swapped the gw.dat file on more then one occasion.

Thanks, will try asap


EDIT: I looked to see how big the .dat file was... its 2.7 gigs! My pen drive only holds 1gig... is there anyway to split the DAT file up into a few pieces?

DvD-r? Usually holds around 5 gigs, but im not sure if you can copy that file type onto it.

You can try compressing it using WinRar or Winzip. Both allow you to break the compressed file into multiple pieces. Just set it to make 1 gig files, then tranfer them over one at a time and uncompress.

Try using 7zip. Somehow it gives better compression than winrar.

http://www.7-zip.org/