My Guild Wars is Broken?

Kosar The Cruel

Kosar The Cruel

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2010

Ontario, Canada

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In the past 2 months my Guild Wars has come up with "Repairing Data Archive..." two or three times now. After about 5 or 10 minutes it's done and my Guild Wars runs like normal again. Not really a problem, but kind of annoying.
Anyone know what's wrong with it? Or anything I can do to fix it?
Any help is appreciated!

(If there is a thread like this already I apologize)

Diab Soule

Diab Soule

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2010

Yes I get that every now and then, I have read it could be any number of things, hardware/software no real answers. It has been happening to me for months and haven't done much to get rid of it just kinda got used to it. Everything else seems to work fine with this computer so I don't know. Reinstalling the game usually doesn't work either.

IronSheik

IronSheik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2008

Wolfenstein: Goldrush

Zombies Go Nom Nom [Nom]

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Probably a .dat, delete it, then -image

Bob Slydell

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

There is probably something causing corruption in your .DAT file, and that file idn't getting the repair it needs fully.

I'd delete it and do a -Image to re download a fresh one.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

It could several things. Like Bob says, something is corrupting your gw.dat file.
Some likely suspects:
- overclocking - if you are overclocking anything, set it back to normal.
- bad RAM - the gw.dat file is BIG and when it is being read and written to, it can occupy areas of RAM that aren't often used, so the problem doesn't show up all the time. If you also get registry errors though, that's a good indication of bad RAM.
- bad hard drive - gw.dat may be on a bad sector on your hard drive. You could run a error check on the HD - make sure to enable checking for bad sectors.