Help!!!!! My game loads very slow!!!

Phirechyld

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2009

R/

Hello Guys,

I just bought a new laptop to play Guild Wars on after my old one crashed. It's a HP dv4-1365dx. I downloaded Guild Wars and everything came up fine. Except for one thing. The download screen that pops up after I select my character moves snail slow! I left it up for two hours and only half of the files were extracted. Has this ever happened to anyone before. I really need some help. I updated my BIOS and made an exception for GW.exe to make it through the firewall. And still files get extracted at 14kbs!!

Card name: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip type: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
DAC type: Internal
Display Memory: 1759 MB
Dedicated Memory: 64 MB
Shared Memory: 1695 MB

Any suggestions? I have yet played my Guild Wars since buying this computer 3 days ago.

Lord Sojar

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

Mo/Me

You are redownloading the entire game, and most likely trying to zone into a large zone (like Lions Arch, Great Temple of Balthazar)

You will want to use the -image and let it download for 24 hrs straight to rebuild the gw.dat file. Once it has finished, zones will load like normal.

Phirechyld

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2009

R/

Thanks, but uhhhh... How do I do that when all I am given is the pc client on the website?

Phirechyld

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2009

R/

Should I just let the location download screen continue on instead of trying to restart it?

Wrath Of Dragons

Wrath Of Dragons

Burninate Stuff

Join Date: Aug 2005

New Mexico

E/Mo

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/-image#-image

this will take the game to the downloading files screen (before it ever asks you to log in) and just download the entire game. Large file.