OMG my guild wars takes up more than 4gb

i just went to uninstall some programs and i saw my guild wars taking up 4gb the other day it was only 1gb. any one elses this big.

If you are getting that size from the add remove programs entry, don't trust it. I've had 50MB programs on my work computer report as taking up 5GB. My GW folder takes up 1.77GB

my data file takes up 1.7 gb and screnies 5 gb

1.62gb here

1.92GB here

I got 1.76 GB ...u might wanna check the actual folder, b/c my add/remove programs thing said it was 800-something MBs and was last used on 2/11/06 which is definately off as i was playing it lats night...

1.68 GB here, i dont belive you can have 4gb 0n GW unless u have Loads of screenshots.

1.6gb here. Most I've say was a screenshot of someone backing it up saying 2.3gb.

Have you been to every map / location since you've installed the game (in c1).
Anet sends you a "compressed" file and leaves it that way untill you need it then it decompress's it which makes the gw.dat file bigger.

yes i have been every where on the whole map im posting pic in minute when the hosting site uploads it there is the pic i can get more if u dont belive. http://i1.tinypic.com/sc6jd4.jpg

can anyone help i dont think its meant to be that big

mine is 1.66 gig

with 1.7 gig additional in screenshots.

Posting a screenshot of the details view of the actual folder might shed some light on it.

ok thats kinda of weird maybe you should ask support.

i have see posts about how much is the data in GW and they are all around 1.60 and 1.70gb but 4.gb look 2 much.

Don’t know if all that data is how much you have explored, cos I reinstalled my pc about 6 days ago and I dint go everywhere yet to load all the files but most people report around the same what it show to me.

This is my one.

8 gb, i got 5gb screenshots i think

*edit*

took screenshots

oh and i only have 20 screen shots aswell

When Guild Wars is installed (via retail CD, not sure about the downloaded client yet), it's about 1GB. The massive updates I believe are streamed or compressed greatly, or your computer just acquires a cache of sorts so that you can quickly access the actual updated content via ANet's servers.

Add/Remove programs says I have 1.08GB here. If I view the properties of GW's directory, about 2.02GB (aka, the size of the entire directory). But I have the SF Mini-Pack as well. Keep in mind any screenshots/DirectSong files you may have in the directory.

I dont think that would show in the DATA File, Not Sure

the entire folder is 8 gb, the .dat file is about 2 gb

But his one is 4,453,146kb.