Loading screen downloader

Reinstalled guild wars, got me to dl a 150mb ~ patch then I log in, click on character and it starts a loading screen down loader.

Its @ 10mb so for with 0% done and 14,816 files remaining.

Any idea how long will this take?

Use -image and leave it running while you go do something else.

If your on a slow connection leave it overnight.

It can take a bit, just depends on how fast your connection is.

Burn .dat and then

install > copy the old .dat over the new one > play

What are you talking about?

^^you said you reinstalled...so does that mean you still have your old GW.dat file...if so copy and paste it into the new directory...if not try using the -image switch to download the entire game file from GW then you will not have to worry about it.

^lol don't worry about it, seeing that you've already dl the update. Stopping it half-way might cause the file to corrupt. Anyway "-image" is a shot cut use to download all of the gw data in one sitting. Look up on tech faqs for the instruction.

Burn .dat mean you back up the gw.dat file, yes the 3gb+ file from your gw folder on a dvd. When you need to reinstall for whatever reason just swap the .dat file out. Also work on a new pc as well.

As for how long the dl will take, that's depend on your connection.

My cable connection can download the entire archive in about 6 hours, that's 3.7 gb. Again, it's connection dependent.

my dialupo...56 k connection can dl 10,000 files ever 18 hrs.....GGG


as stated above it all depends on your cable conenction

Bump, how do i download all the maps @ once.. give me a basic step through please.

"G:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image

Make your shortcut look like that, replace the drive with w/e you have.

And it will automatically download them all when i make the shortcut that?

Yes, it will, -image enables you to download all files in one go, so you don't have to download things when you load into a new area.

Well from personal experience the first and seconds loads are always the longest.