Guildwars Installation On Win7

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monkoffunk
Ascalonian Squire
#1
Hello i just built a new computer and i put windows 7 on it. I have tried re-downloading the game but i get an error, and it asks me if i would like to continue anyways and i clicked continue.. then once the game was installed it opened fine but when i went to click on one of my characters it loaded up to the loading screen and it had to download the entire place and it took FOREVER, and then everywhere i try to map to takes hours to download and connect, anyone know the problem?
moriz
moriz
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#2
that's pretty normal. the game downloads itself as you play. this means that the first time you install it, it can take a long time before you can load into a zone.

if you want to download the game all in one go, start the game with the -image tag. this will force the game to download everything.
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monkoffunk
Ascalonian Squire
#3
how do you start the game with the -image tag?
moriz
moriz
??ber t??k-n??sh'??n
#4
make a shortcut of your GW.exe. then right click->properties on the shortcut. in the shortcut tab, add -image to the end of the "target" field.
vamp08
vamp08
Krytan Explorer
#5
Quote:
Originally Posted by moriz View Post
make a shortcut of your GW.exe. then right click->properties on the shortcut. in the shortcut tab, add -image to the end of the "target" field.
Warning: The above takes at least 4 hours.

Be prepared to hurry up and wait.
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Commander Kanen
Lion's Arch Merchant
#6
I have had windows 7 for a while now and GW runs fine. It ran fine on the BETA versions of 7 aswell.

Also i had my install from a disk and i coppied the main folder over onto this hard drive to speed up the prosess and to keep all my skill templates.
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Snorph
Krytan Explorer
#7
Yes it worked great on WIndows 7 here. Even I installed it.
Devastating Flames
Devastating Flames
Frost Gate Guardian
#8
new installs of guild wars has to load every place for the first time. once you've got it all loaded it will be back to normal speed again