Downloading Data

afrinspray

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

R/N

I haven't played in maybe two years. I've moved to Australia since and I didn't bring the CD/DVD, so I'm downloaded the client from the guildwars.com website.

Last time I played, I was in Abaddon's Mouth. Now, it's loading the data for that area.

My question is how big is this data? Is it just downloading the data for Abaddon's Mouth, or is it downloading data from everywhere? Also is the percentage thing accurate? I'm at 41.5 MB and it's still at 0%.

Do I have any other options without the CD/DVD?

Thanks,
Mike

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

The full gw.dat file is about 4 Gigabytes. I'm not sure if it will try to download the whole thing in one go, but it is big, and will take some time.

afrinspray

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

R/N

Thanks for the reply.

It's up to 100 MB and it jumped to 10%. I guess the percentage thing was just lagging for the first 8 or so percent.

edit - actually the percent complete seems to be based on the file count rather than the total data. Is that true?

Wrath Of Dragons

Wrath Of Dragons

Burninate Stuff

Join Date: Aug 2005

New Mexico

E/Mo

I believe so. So it can be deceiving on actual time remaining.