Yeah, I am downloading the trial straight from the official website of guildwars.
Just wondering, how big is the trial? 2GBs?
How big is the Guild Wars trial?
kakaislegend
Kendil
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So I guess it's ~3.8GB.
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Originally Posted by Silmar Alech
The download is a one-time download, since it is all cached locally in one big gw.dat file. It is approx. 3.8GB. If you install GW from a retail dvd, this cache file is preinstalled and the download is only the game updates since the manufacturing of the dvd. If you installed without dvd directly from the ncsoft website, you download these 3.8gb during gameplay. There is one big initial download of perhaps 1-2GB, and the rest is pulled on demand every time you visit a yet-unvisited area or outpost until you have visited every place.
The every-day bandwith is very small. The game was originally designed to support even 56k modem users, I was told. |
waeland
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Originally Posted by Kendil
So I guess it's ~3.8GB.
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kakaislegend
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Originally Posted by waeland
Question was not about whole game cache, but initial download you need before you can play and it is much less than this.
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Surely it must be less than 3.8 GB hahhaha!
Covah
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Originally Posted by kakaislegend
Yeah, it is just the trial I am asking.
Surely it must be less than 3.8 GB hahhaha! |
MasterIceSlayer
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Originally Posted by Covah
Nope, all gw.dat files are the same size. Even if you don't have the other games you need the textures to see other players and their armors etc.
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But I have no idea how big the cache is for the trial, depends on how far you go. Maybe less than 1 gb?
caballo_oscuro
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Originally Posted by MasterIceSlayer
No, they can't be. The dat file stores info depending where you have been. It isn't 3.8 gb unless you have been to all the zones in all the campaigns. That is why you get longer load times the first time you zone into a place (if you change PCs, you will hvae the same problem, reloading, since the dat file is stored on your local drive).
But I have no idea how big the cache is for the trial, depends on how far you go. Maybe less than 1 gb? |
As you rezone, if you don't have the requisite elements for that zone, these are prioritised as you can't play til you get to where you are going, but eventually the entire ~3.8GB will be downloaded.
The trial is linked to a key which gives you 14 hours of play over 10 days.
Dzjudz
One thing you can do is do a -image before creating an account. That way you can enjoy all the trial time without having to download anything while playing.
wilderness
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Originally Posted by Dzjudz
One thing you can do is do a -image before creating an account. That way you can enjoy all the trial time without having to download anything while playing.
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Right click the GWs .exe, go to properties, find the 'Target' field and add the command '-image' to the end. Hit apply, Ok, then let the client download all files before creating your account.
Remove the -image command when you're done.