Guild War's speedy performance

Not sure if this is a real issue or not, but would Guild Wars run faster with a disc not inserting into the drive? Because I lost my actually campaign discs (meaning I only have Guild Wars: Eye of The North disc). My friends say when Guild Wars IS NOT running, and I have the GW:EoTN disc in, stuff runs twice as slow as normal. This brings to me another question. Would any damages to the disc cause slowed performance with the game itself?




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You do not need to use the disc at all once the game is installed.

With mine, you do. See, if you install the game with the GW:EoTN disc, it's not really installed. You just don't have to install it again, but it requires the disc for you to play, since there's no shortcut or anything on your computer unless the disc is in.

Eh.. I just installed Guild Wars from the EOTN CD 3 times in the last 3 months, It works fine.

You're doing something wrong, go to Program Files or something and look for Guild Wars and drag the icon to your desktop or something, there is no reason you should need that CD in. The reason why you don't have to ''Install'' again is because it *is* installed, you just have to find the icon on your computer.

Also EOTN CD is the best one to have for installing the game off of, it has the most files on it so you have to download less after install.

And your performance will be indifferent with the CD in or out.

It just makes no shortcuts. But the gamedata *IS* actually installed.

I suggest you locate the Guild Wars root folder (C:\Program Files\Guild Wars if 32bit Windows OS) and manually create a shortcut.

I never actually installed from the CD, after I got factions. I just downloaded the webclient, then use -image to force download all the patches. That way I get no .dat bloat.

In Vista, you'd just click on "Games" on the Start menu (or whatever the main menu under the Orb is called)

the whole thing you the op has mentioned is extreamly odd. i have never heard of any mmo needing a disk to play, esspecially when you can just download the client.

As everyone else here as said, you've done something wrong. Not only would the fact that needing a disc to play gw would be rediculous, it's not even technically right.

All the disc does is install some of the files for that particular chapter as far as i'm aware, remember how when you installed, you still had to download alot of stuff? Alot of the files and stuff are downloaded not from the disc but from ANETs servers. And since you seem to have everything downloaded the disc is not needed at all.

You need to find your Guild Wars folder (most likely in your program files) and create a shortcut to your Gw.exe

As for making Guild Wars running slower with the disc in, I really really doubt this and cannot for the life of me see any logical reason why a disc in a drive would effect an online games performance.

I wonder if it pulling data files as needed vs downloading when possible?