Anyone checked out the gw.dat filesize yet?

Mine is 3.8gb, it used to be WAY MORE than that O_o

Was it always this small or....did anet slip something in?

That size is about right.

That is the result of 3 campaigns and EOTN which has way better textures.

3.88 as well. After I -imaged it. I do recall seeing it at almost 8GB yesterday, what happened?

I'm at 3.5GB .dat file and it's fully -imaged up. I did install from Nightfalls CDs a couple of weeks ago.

The compressed files were probably decompressed and deleted after you looked at the size.

4.4gigs here :x

3.6 gig here

2.9 gig. 3 campaigns, no EotN.

Weird, mine is 5.10Gb. Kinda big ...

5,828,272 Kilobytes (almost 6 gigs). I have three campaigns, 12 char slots, and EotN. Though, I was under the impression that everyone had the same dat file, and that keys merely granted access to that content. I did do the -image switch last tiem i played, so I should have everything... maybe you guys need to load some maps still.

Here:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10044762

How the bloody hell do uncompressed files end up smaller than the compressed versions?

3.65 gigs for me.

Gonna -image in 1 hour or so, i'll post the results.

~Prof.

Id suggest just copying your templates and reinstall/DL the game. Then replace your templates, and run a defragmenter that can handle the GW.dat (windows defragmentor cannot).

That topic is covered here.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10037429

This will also help your game run a LOT smoother in general.

EDIT: Powerdefragmenter takes a very long time to run through the whole process, but it does do a thorough job i use it myself. Just a heads up.

3.7 from 2.8

Lossless compression will always mean that certain high-entropy files will end up larger than their uncompressed counterparts.

my GW.dat is 3,754,528 kb big (3.58 GB). I have all 3 chapters & EotN. Although anyone who's run -image recently should have same files as me. I have run -image, so have everything downloaded. Installed from Proph, Factions & Nightfall CD's and d/l'ed EoTN b4 preview event.

3.05GB (3,281,674,240Mb) on mine, all 3 chapters but not EotN

Okay that makes no sense. Compression by definition is to compress the size of a file, this is what makes me wonder when the uncompressed version ends up smaller. Unless what happened was the dat file was cut down because it held the uncompressed AND compressed files in the same part.