download updates ahead of time?

Crenait

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

12 Jan 2008 at 01:05 - 1
does anyone know if I can download the area updates ahead of time? I am playing from the downloaded client as I cannot find my disks at the moment, and it gets annoying having to wait 5 minutes to load a zone, especially when im in a party. Is there a way I can download everything at once and not have to wait for it in game?

zyphern

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

Knights Assassins

Me/E

12 Jan 2008 at 01:38 - 2
It is possible to pre download all guildwars content to your hard drive overnight! Simply do the following...
  1. Right click your Guild Wars shortcut (the direct .exe icon itself will not work)
  2. Click Properties
  3. Where it says target, go to the end of what is already there (after the last "), place a space and type -image
  4. It should look like this: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image
  5. Hit okay, and double click your shortcut, this is referred to as imaging by players

In order to play GW you will need to remove -image, you could also make a separate shortcut for playing, and updating.