GuildWars "minimal install"...

Moloch Vein

Moloch Vein

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Reactive Hexing Sucks

[Thay]

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27 Jul 2008 at 15:16 - 1
Just a thought...

Would it be possible to somehow make a "minimal install" of guild wars on a computer with low system resources?

Could files be deleted manually? Meshes etc...

I mean, we all saw Ascii Quake, I am not advocating that but still...

Alexandra-Sweet

Alexandra-Sweet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

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Ember Power Mercenaries [EMP]

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27 Jul 2008 at 16:00 - 2
Deleting files will only give you more free disk space, and not better performance.

Anyway if you want to delete files then you'll have to find a way to unzip the gw.dat file (.dat files are a huge archive of data, just like a .rar file, unzipping it requires special tools).

hevi metalac

hevi metalac

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2008

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27 Jul 2008 at 16:11 - 3
Yeah the tools like: screwdriver hammer tongs etc...

zamial

zamial

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2006

Usa

TKC

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28 Jul 2008 at 16:02 - 4
Not to point out the obvious here. GW is not very big. Delete some porn or old music you do not listen to.

Stockholm

Stockholm

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Censored

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28 Jul 2008 at 16:09 - 5
Quote:
Originally Posted by Moloch Vein
Just a thought...

Would it be possible to somehow make a "minimal install" of guild wars on a computer with low system resources?

Could files be deleted manually? Meshes etc...

I mean, we all saw ASCII Quake, I am not advocating that but still...
Even if you could "unzip" the dat.file and delete some parts, the game client would download them as soon as you reconnect with the server, and that would mean worse performance as it would be done in the background.

Try turning off as many graphics options you can in the game, that might help you with performance.

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

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28 Jul 2008 at 16:25 - 6
It would also be against the EULA, since technically, it's a hack.

Snograt

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

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[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

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28 Jul 2008 at 19:19 - 7
-dx8 -noshaders -nosound are your only hope.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

28 Jul 2008 at 21:13 - 8
Other than screenshots and templates, there is basically only 2 files to GW - gw.exe and gw.dat - that's as minimal as it gets.