Client Download Question

WarM0nger

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2011

Is there a way to download the full client and not the streaming one?
I'm tired of waiting 10-15 mins at a loading screen every time i switch zones.

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

Start -> Run -> "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\gw.exe" -image

Change the directory to wherever you've installed GW.

http://www.guildwiki.org/-image#-image

DeanBB

DeanBB

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Arizona

Wizardry Players Guild, http://4guildwars.7.forumer.com

copy your GW shortcut and edit it to add "-image". Run it to do a full download. If you need more specifics, search the wiki for -image.

WarM0nger

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2011

sweet ty guys

Rites

Rites

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2010

Deep in the belly of Texas

R/

WARNING--- it does take a bit of time to fully DL the image, but once it is done, loading screens will no longer be an issue

Hollygen

Hollygen

Core Guru

Join Date: Feb 2007

UK

Blinkie Ponie Armie [bpa]

R/

Also note that once you have run -image whilst you will have the full client for that moment in time, when an update comes in you won't have the update files automatically. Thise will stram in as before.

This is not a big issue since most updates are reletively small, and will give you brief pause whilst they stream. However it's worth occasionally re-running -image just to make sure you're not missing bits.
This is particularly useful when bigger updates, such as new GuildWars:Beyond content, come in, as on those updates are often larger