How to fix DAT?

Well I thought this was a game bug, but someone in the bug report forum said my DAT might be corrupted. In my game, my male sin attack has been different and my female ranger doesn't /sit. Whenever I use /sit, the camera view goes down but I see her standing and will occasionally do /boo.

Is there any way to fix this and prevent it from happening again?

Delete gw.dat, copy the gw.dat from your latest GW disk (EotN if you have it, otherwise Nightfall) then run Guild Wars using the -image switch. Leave for some time (hours) then all will be good.

Where can I locate the DAT file? And can uninstalling then reinstalling it work?

D:\Program Files\Guild Wars


Your .dat file will be in there, quickest way to to do what Snograt said and leave it over night.

Or C:\Program Files\Guild Wars

It depends on which drive you installed it on, but I'm assuming the OP did C.

This is what I get when I go to the C Folder.



Which is the dat? Sorry for my stupidity, unless it said 'Guild Wars-DAT' I have ono clue which one it is.

Also- I get a CD to copy the DAT?

If you have a shortcut for guild Wars on your desktop, right-click it and select "properties". On the window that opens, click the Shortcut tab, then the button that says "Find target..."

Unless you have Vista, of course - in which case you have to trawl the depths of the Games folder. Which I hate.

[edit] Damn, you posted again before I could reply. Yes, it is gw.dat and yes, you can take it off the cd. Uste the most recent cd you have: Eye of the North > Nightfall > Factions > Prophecies.

Even if you take it from the installation cd, I would still use the -image switch, otherwise you will be downloading data here, there and everywhere.

If you don't have a Guild Wars shortcut on your desktop, make one. Here's how.

Open the folder containing gw.exe, as mentioned before, probably C:\Program Files\Guild Wars

Right-click AND HOLD on gw.exe and drag it to the desktop. When you release the right mouse button, select "Create a shortcut here"

Now you have a GW shortcut, do the following.

Right click on the GW shortcut and select "Properties"

Click on the "Shortcut" tab

In the box marked "Target" it wil have "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\gw.exe"

Change this to "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\gw.exe" -image Note that there is a space between " and -image.

Cick the Ok button.

Now, when you double-click this icon, it will download every update to the gw.dat since that version was released. It mat take a long time, but it is very much worth the wait.

Once it has finished downloading, you can re-edit the shortcut to remove the -image OR, as many have done, leave it there for whenever you need to -image again and make a separate shortcut for playin the game.

''Gw'' MPEG Media File is your dat, because of the 3,755,104 Size, nothing else can be your .dat file.

I think I had the same problem when I installed VLC Media Player, it made my .dat look like that until I told it to not manage any of my files by default, then it went back to normal.

Though I do not believe this changes the functionality of the .dat file by any means, I wouldn't imagine that it would, but I just can't confirm that.

Oops - didn't see the picture because I'm at work.

Ah well, good advice anyway

Oh, and the file association is a pain but shouldn't affect functionality. If you double click it, that media player would try (and fail) to open it. I hate programs that associate by default, especially something as common as a .dat file.

NEXT DEFRAG THE HARD DRIVE!!!!!!!!

soz this will save us more unneeded posts lol.

Delete the dat and use -image to rebuilt it! The only sure way to prevent the bloat as well!