Cant get guild wars to wrok since the update?

hei, for about 3 or so days now i havent been able to get my guild wars game to work. I can click on the gild wars shorcut(hasnt been changed still "works") but i stay stuck at "connecting to arenanet" it never goes past 0%. i'm not sure whats going on w/ my game since i tried getting the update(which it said it added i.e it said adding the files to the clien and things like that it does every update). So any help would be appreciated because i need to log back in to my account so i wont get kicked out of my guild/i need to farm for the canatan NY/ i want to play xD. so any help/ uggestions will be nice tank you all in advance for helping!!!

i had the same problem. i compressed the files using " -image" at the end of the command line and it loaded up as usual.

edit: just incase that was a bit vague, right click your gw icon --> properties

In the "Target:" tab you should see something similar to this ; "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe"

type -image after this line leaving a space after the " and run GW. The new update files should be compressed. Then revert the command line back to how it was to run GW as normal.

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im srry if i seem a lil slow.. but im not the most tec savy person youll ever meet... but what is -image? i put that into the search thing for files on my comp and i came back w/ like 10,000+ things w/ that xD. any idea...

edit: also, whats a command line? it seems like a military term... i can see someone yelling at their computer"get ur lazy @$$ outta bed and get in a command line now!"

edit2: dont see a "target tab" but i see a spot i can type in under the "general tab" that refers to location so im gonan try that lol

edit3(getting to be alot of edits lmao): it seems you could onlyhover over that locations.. and besides that i dont seem to see the "target tab"

edit4: ok i did the -image like u said.. it didnt do anything. i might have been a bit confusing in my first post so im gonan re-adress the problem. i got the update, but when it finished it wouldnt connect to anreanet. hope this helps

I have no idea if it will work, but i'm solely commenting on the command line topic.

Go to where you have a Guild Wars program located, and create a copy of it (right click option)

Then on the copy, rename it something like "Gw Updater", literally anything you want.

On the copied version, right click and go down to Properties.

In the middle of the new interface opened, you should see something like;

Target: "C:\Users\...\Documents\Guild Wars\Gw.exe"
Change into:
Target: "C:\Users\...\Documents\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image

Make sure it is exactly how I said, otherwise it will not work.

well thank you for telling me how to do the command line. i did that(i did read ur "no guarentee warning" so im not mad) and it didnt work. i just wanna know whats up w/ it.. b/c i had been playing ti before the update closed out fo rthe update tried to get back on got the update like normal.. then it essentially "froze". so i dont know whats up w/ connecting to anet but im sure am mad

*starts going hulk b/c i really want to play and it wont work!!!!*

hey i did a clean boot on my computer. it seems that guild wars is reinstalling itself 11k files left ;p. but it SHOULD work now... ty all for being ever so helpful ;p.(if u need to do a clean boot for xp or vista just type "msconfig" into your program sarch. its a great way to clear all the crap and extra services you dont need(and apprently to get your damadged gw to rebuild itself xD)

Just remember to remove the -image tag when you want to actually run the game. Personally, I keep two shortcuts around (one with -image and one without), so that I can use the -image at any time, and then run the game without needing to change the properties again.

oh yea thanks almost completly forgot about that.. (sad i know since i have about like 6 edits about it but its true ;p)

I think there has been a problem with your hosts file. I had the same problem a while back and it was because somehow some entries in the windows hosts file were wrong. Look up how to view or edit your hosts file maybe yours got messed up too somehow.

hmm dont know what a host file (read above im not tec-savy) but i think it will be ok now.. i am apprently reinstalling GW after i restarted my comp. so, once that is over i think ill be ok. (my comp managed to download 5k files in 4hrs.. kinda sad but what are you gonan do? *shrugs*

oh btw its 9:30 here.. halfway there to finished download(4.3k files left)