Decompressing...

Perhaps someone can help me out here. I just took the latest patch, but when it gets to 99% it changes to Decompressing and just sits there Decompressing forever. Nothing else happens. Yesterday it did this to me, I closed the patch session and reopened Guild Wars and it allowed me to get in game. This time everytime I close and restart, it takes patch and sits at 99% while announcing it is Decompressing.

What's the deal? Anyone have any ideas? It's frustrating.

Try a clean up on your hard drive. Delete Temp files, Temporary Internet files etc and run a defrag on the C: drive and your Guild Wars partition.

If you still have problems after that, Uninstall GW, clear out the GW folder and the GW.Tmp files located in the Windows/Prefetch folder and then try a clean reinstall.

If you still have problems after that, then repost with your system specs, OS and Router/Modem details and and firewall or virus software you may have running.

That makes no sense. I haven't had ANY problems with patching or playing the game since I bought the game. And now all of a sudden I have to do a huge cleanup? I do a cleanup practically weekly. I'll try again...but I just don't see how this will alleviate a problem that didn't pre-exist.

It was advice that you were after, and it's advice that you got. It's called solution finding and the only way to find a solution is to go through certain things to get there.

There isn't just one thing that someone can always say, "just try this and it will fix it". We don't know what you do with your PC and how you treat it and going by what you just said, sounds like you may have a Space or file problem. The reason I said it would be a good idea to uninstall Guild Wars and try again.

It is very easy to get a corrupt file and this can cause all sorts of problems. Being that Guild Wars has one very large file it appears to work from, it can be even easier to get this file corrupted.

Think of it like an Outlook Archive folder, the larger it gets and the more email adding and deleting you do, the larger the file gets. If you don't compact it on a regular basis it can corrupt.

The only way I see of doing this with Guild Wars is a complete reinstall of the game.

Whether it fixes it or not, we won't know until you try it.

If it doesn't, then we start the solution finding again.

Good advice and certainly no arbitrary ill-will directed towards you. I'm just frustrated, because I know if I uninstall the game and reinstall it, then I have to wait for every for all the patches (I'm on 56k dialup). In the meantime, I cleaned up my C drive and defragged the system. I'm currently taking that one-file patch again and we'll see what happens.

Unfortunately, I have this sinking feeling I have to uninstall and install again. Arrrrrrrrg

I presume you have the full copy on CD?

If so, I believe the updates will take less time to download, although, knowing that you have 56k it can be a pain in the whatsit.

The only alternative, is do you have any firewall and virus software installed on your PC?

If so, check the Firewall settings and delete any references to Guild Wars and then restart your PC. Then restart Guild Wars and see if the Firewall picks up the Guild Wars Ports again.

If you don't have firewall or virus software, you could have Spyware or Viruses?

If so, then you would need to get these checked out. Try www.zonelabs.com for Zone Alarm. They have an online Spyware Checker and there Software is very good for Firewalls and Virus Checkers.

I used to use Nortons, but switched to these guys as it's less resource hungry and seems to work so much better.

Anyway, I'll wait and see how you get on.

I did a reinstall and that fixed the problem. Thanks for the advice.

Umm.... someone sticky this as a refrenece for everyone having this problem... or at least make it part of an faq or something