So a couple of weeks ago my computer caught a nasty, nasty virus and had to be completely wiped. Last week I reinstalled GW and played for about an hour before the lag monster reared it's ugly head and I got the ol' error 7.
So this morning I booted up GW and noticed the little lightning bolt in the corner which said "background Download . . ." I let it run and do it's thing as I busied myself cleaning the bathroom and such, and it finally quit at 1.033 GB.
1.03 GB?????!!!!!! What the hell is that?
What did I just download?
Dirty Savage
Shaq_gw
GW content is "streamed to you when needed" meaning you do not have to download EVERYTHING at startup. It could be you crashed when a download tryed to start entering a certain area or you just timed out because the download took so long.
When you get back and try to get in you have to finish the download before you can enter the zone. That is probably the reason why it worked that time.
When you get back and try to get in you have to finish the download before you can enter the zone. That is probably the reason why it worked that time.
Dirty Savage
Yes, I know that GW content is streamed silently in the background while you play and that when you enter a new area for the first time you have to download the map and everything in it, but downloading 1.03 GIGABYTES of information? That's a huge amount of information as far as i'm concerned. I knew that, after having reinstalled the game, I would have to download all map areas as I entered them again but I was not expecting such a huge amount of stuff to be downloaded all at once.
Malice Black
Well if you reinstalled then that means you had to reinstall all the past updates etc I had to go through the same thing when I reinstalled.
bilateralrope
Which disk did you reinstall from ?
The prophesies and factions disks don't have any nightfall content (maps, textures, models, etc. the stuff that takes up a lot of space), so you need to download that. The prophesies disk also doesn't have the factions content. And the installer from guildwars.com doesn't even come with the prophesies content, so you need to download everything.
How big is your GW.dat file currently ?
Mine is about 3.2GB, so until yours reaches that size you probably still have stuff to download. Even if your account doesn't have all chapters, GW will want to download everything.
The prophesies and factions disks don't have any nightfall content (maps, textures, models, etc. the stuff that takes up a lot of space), so you need to download that. The prophesies disk also doesn't have the factions content. And the installer from guildwars.com doesn't even come with the prophesies content, so you need to download everything.
How big is your GW.dat file currently ?
Mine is about 3.2GB, so until yours reaches that size you probably still have stuff to download. Even if your account doesn't have all chapters, GW will want to download everything.
Ma3x666
Before you clear your disk is good to copy the .dat file to another disk (if u have 2 or more partitions) or on a DVD... then after reinstalling just copy the .dat file back in the GW folder... and voila... no downloads, quick play.
If you have all 3 campaigns and you have been to every possible map (PvE + PvP), it should be even more than 3.2GB but you will download that content when you need it.
If you have all 3 campaigns and you have been to every possible map (PvE + PvP), it should be even more than 3.2GB but you will download that content when you need it.
AlienFromBeyond
Your .dat file should be about 2.7 gb large if you do a clean install and use -image.