Improving Loading-screen time

Ordovian Prince

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

Mo/W

whats are some ways to improve loading screen time??

i have the latest video driver. i did defragment the C disc.
i put my video quality to FASTEST.

but still loading between areas, arenas take like 15 secs

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

It's probably just your PC waiting on data from the server that causes things to slow down a little. If there's more people in a district, the district will take longer to load, since more data has to be pushed down to your PC over the network.

If you post rig you're running, we can make sure it's not a hardware problem.

Ordovian Prince

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

Mo/W

TOSHIBA NOTEBOOK.
pentium 1.96MHz. 500mb RAM. 128mb video memory (intel). Windows XP.

I think it way be cuz im in PARAGUAY (south america).. and the server is way far.. but idk what server is nearer

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

Heh, no, I doubt seriously it's the server. It's your gear, more than likely, that's the source of the long loading times.

Sucks, but it's true.

Age

Age

Hall Hero

Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

STG Administrator

Mo/

I would say it is the server from where you are located and possibly your internet connection speed.I have about the same specs and my loading time is fine and I live in Van. BC.

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

Both your hardware and Internet connection speed will limit you.

Ordovian Prince

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

Mo/W

well i got a 3.4 MHz Pentium 4, 1 gb RAM, and no video card PC

i got PCI-e slot

what do u recommend for GW??

Admael

Admael

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

California

Xen of Heroes

Loading time of games depend on the speed of your hard drive. Since Guild Wars is an online game, it depends on the internet connection as well.

So you'll need a faster hard drive and a faster internet connection if you're experiencing long loads.

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ordovian Prince
well i got a 3.4 MHz Pentium 4, 1 gb RAM, and no video card PC

i got PCI-e slot

what do u recommend for GW??
A graphics card will let you load faster. Adding in another GB or two of RAM will help as well.

AidinSwiftarrow

AidinSwiftarrow

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2008

Lion's Arch

R/Mo

Excuse me, I recently redownloaded Prophecies,Factions, and Nightfall(Don't have EotN) and when I log in it loads for anywhere from 2-8 min. On the right it says X amount of Files Remaining. I would like some clarification about this. It took me about 10 min to log in the first time on my Ranger. Then I went to La and it only took a couple min.

zamial

zamial

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2006

Usa

TKC

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by AidinSwiftarrow
Excuse me, I recently redownloaded Prophecies,Factions, and Nightfall(Don't have EotN) and when I log in it loads for anywhere from 2-8 min. On the right it says X amount of Files Remaining. I would like some clarification about this. It took me about 10 min to log in the first time on my Ranger. Then I went to La and it only took a couple min.
ok you have the client from the disk or web site that normally will not download all the patches for the game at 1 time, it will feed you a little bit at a time in between areas. In order to download all the files at 1 time you will need to run the -image on the icon. I will define this, again, just for you.

right click on your guildwars icon, select create shortcut. name the new shortcut guildwars update. Then right click on the gw update icon. in the line that says target: "c:/guildwars/gw.dat" add in a space then -image to the end of it. it should look like this: "c:/guildwars/gw.dat" -image
hit ok and double click on the new icon. it will call up the anet server and download all, and i mean all of the patches at 1 time. also use this for getting updates when a patch is put out. this is for xp for vista see the sticky at the top of this section.