What is official size of GW.dat file at the moment?

In this thread Gaile said:But it was a few months ago. What is the official size of GW.dat file now?

Before Wintersday event, mine was like 3450MB, now it's like 3650MB - so +200MB during last week...

Haha, I just redownloaded it all, and mine is over 6GB...Woot?

Hmm, I redownloaded all mine about a month ago, and played actively since then, and mine is 3.52gb.

hmm.. wierd

Close to mine then.

Everyone's .dat file is different. Mine is 4.38 GB atm. It all comes down in wether you download it all in one go, or let it be updated everytime you log in or zone to an area. You can try to make it smaller by uinstalling, and when you reinstall it, as soon as it starts downloading, close the program. Then right click the shortcut, select Properties and put in " -image" at the end of the command line. In a way the command line will look like: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image
This will download everything in one time and then will close the program. To play the game, delete the -image part and you are ready to go.

That is what I did Njaiguni, was quite strange. I was going to try it again next time I go to the local net cafe. (As I'm on dial up) Hopefully it won't be so big...

@Njaiguni Blaze: I know the way to download full image butas you see herewhy reinstall makes it.. hmm.. bigger in some cases?

My case is similar to Whiplashr's one.I didnt do -image (as him) but I play GW a lot: 4-5h/day on average since 1st GW's release - I have all three continents explored.

Yes, this is really weird. I've heard about some bug (which makes dat file larger) but it should have been already corrected in March (according to what Gaile said).

Maybe it was installed from the cd? I dunno. Why does it matter, if I may ask?

Don't be like that... everyone can understand that 4 is greater than 3 and that that, combined with the fact that not everyone runs 4x600GB in RAID2, makes it matter to some people.

You get my point. I'm on 20GB HDD and dont have plans to upgrade now - I have a lot of other expenses.

I still have a few GB of free space but just looking at this file When I did full install of GW for first time it was like/below 1GB

I've got a 3.31GB GW.dat, and that inlcudes every file fully downloaded and decompressed using -image. I would say that is probably pretty close to the official size. I only reinstalled 2 months ago so I probably don't have previous events as they were probably removed from the download server after they finished, which could be the extra you have.

3.58 been installed since the First World Preview Event of chapter 1

I use the -image switch at every update (even the minor ones) to keep load times down, and my dat file is at 2.93.

I'm at ~2.8GB after an "-image" download.

2.8gb After a clean install on my new laptop. This was through the Nightfall CDs.

2.9GB here, after a full reinstall around early October, I think, with -image. And every update thereafter with -image as well.

3.168 GB, never used -image.

2.77 GB, reinstalled last month with -image.

Well, I wouldn't call 70 GB that much neither. And the stats of my PC aren't all that, but I can play fine. If i knew this was about a 20GB harddrive I would know more. But anyways, as you see, someone did an image install with the NF cd and got it to 2.8. Good luck.

3.56 GB is what mine is at.