Re-Instaleld Guildwars with Prophecies CD

JPT1

JPT1

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Lion's Arch

I had to reinstall the game becase GW been crashing on me. I have all the threee campaign and I do not want to sit and wait to download every map. Is there a way for me to dl the maps somewhere else?

farkas

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Honestly, IMO the best way would be to download all in one go with the "-image" variable at the end of the command line in the shortcut.

2nd best would be with a CD/DVD that contains all campaigns including EOTN.

getting the maps and other content thru other means would not be beneficial.

PS : Some people keep a copy of the GW.dat file for those such cases, but make sure you dont have a bad copy.

Meat Axe

Meat Axe

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Brisbane, Australia

R/

You can run "wherever-your-gw-install-is\Gw.exe" -image (or create a shortcut on the desktop with that as the destination) and it will download all of the files. It does take an awful long time, so maybe choose a time when you won't want to be playing, like when you go to bed or work or school or something.

Curse You

Curse You

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

South Pole

The Magus Order

N/Mo

The EotN CD probably has the newest version of the Gw.dat on it, so should reduce the required download time the most. After that, using the -image command is the best way.

mr_groovy

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

Yep pretty much only install the eotn. Then -image.

JPT1

JPT1

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Lion's Arch

So something like this, "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" "-image"

BenjZee

BenjZee

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2006

The Overacheivers [Club]

Mo/

right click on it and go properties. Then write that in the target spot

captain_carter

captain_carter

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2007

England

The X Viles [TXV]

R/

yes, except without "..." on the image part I think

Redvex

Redvex

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

R/

If i copy the all GW directory in a dvd and then i copy on a new computer?
will this method work?

captain_carter

captain_carter

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2007

England

The X Viles [TXV]

R/

I'm pretty certain that would work for GW.dat, but I'd expect things to have to be written into other parts of your computer, like the registry, for that you would have to install from an original CD or download the client from the GW website.
Perhaps after an install replacing everything with the files from the DVD you wrote might work, but I'd definately think you would have to install first...I'm no expert though.

Redvex

Redvex

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

R/

Maybe you're are right for the registry....but saving gw.dat and work will be a lot earn of time