slow...

I have recently started playing guild wars and I have created my character and everything but when I start to load ascalon (I think that is what it is) it downloads at 1-3kb/sec. Has anyone else had a problem like this? Can someone please help me get up and running? Before you ask, yes I do have dial-up but I would think it would go a little faster than this...

thanks

Its because it has to download all the game files the first time you load every city. I would recommend using the "-image" command and leave GW to load overnight, this will download all the files you need. Im sure someone else can give you more detail on the image command, as i always forget exactly how it works.

Just go to guild wiki and type in search -image it will have a guide on exactly how to do it.


http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Page

Try a few days on that -image :P

But no in reality I think thats probably normal for dial-up I can't say for certain of course I never played gw on dial-up but yeah...but yeah look roughly right...

i had dial up when i started playing GW, leave it to load overnight and it will download all the files

dialup is 1-5kbps normally

yeah i would recommend using -image and letting it download overnight(dialup might take a week or so)

You're lucky if you get 4-5 KB's; I'm a dial up user myself and mostly get 3 max.

Wow, people still have Dial up?

If you have a real-life friend who also plays GW, ask him to -image as described above, then use a USB drive or a writable DVD to copy his gw.exe and gw.dat.

I'd see if you can find somebody who has any discs to let you borrow them for install. Technically against the rules but I dont see the harm lol. Most of my waiting time was zapped and it beats image.

Some people don't have a choice!

Yeah, where I live, it's either dial up or satellite.

Paying 12.95 for a Semi-Laggy game

Or paying $400 installation and then 70-80/mo for a Nerd-raging laggy-game.