Hello MMOers!

I am a returning player, so I already have an account. Thus, I decided to download the game off the GW site. The first couple of times I downloaded, everything seemed to go smoothly, but the updates went REALLY slow once I picked a character in the game and tried to enter the world.

Since I didn't check server status (and the whole maintenance thing they're doing) I uninstalled and tried to download again (not really sure why I thought that would help but yea). The second (and subsequently third) time I did this, I've been having trouble with downloading patches to get to the login window. The connection exists, but it's at 3-4kb/s!

To make a long story short, I've been trying to repatch after reinstalling a bunch, and it's been VERY slow. Is anyone else having this problem at the moment?

BTW my firewall is off, and when I tried to get on with my other computer, the in-game performance was good.

Please suggest what I should do. Thanks!

If you've finished downloading the game you can add -image to the end of the file name to download all updates and everything thus you won't need to wait in game while it downloads the areas.

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In the 'Target Area' field you will see the location of your Guild Wars executable file:

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe"

Write the desired command line arguments after the quote marks (as I've done in the image above):

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image

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Otherwise I think it may have to do with the current maintenance they are currently having - yesterday I couldn't even log on.

hey, im a noob, but godliest, how do u do the

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and other stuff? btw, when u download GW, is it trial? i have bought the Prophecies disk and had it for i think 1-2 years, but im not sure if u can play the whole thing by download. plz answeer

Ok, first off you need the client to play Guild Wars, so lets clear up all the issues people have with it and getting started:

Installing the client

Ok, first off, don't install from the disk, its a pain in the butt! Instead, grab it here:



K, when thats downloaded, install from that file

When its installed, you should have an icon on the desktop, right click on this and make a copy, then right click on the desktop and click paste. This will then create a second Guild Wars icon.

Once you have the second icon, right click on it and rename the icon to "Guild Wars Image" or similar (as your going to hide this icon later anyway, it doesn't matter what you call it).

Right click on your Guild Wars shortcut and select 'Properties'.

In the 'Target Area' field you will see the location of your Guild Wars executable file:

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe"

Write the desired command line arguments after the quote marks (as I've done in the image above):

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image

Click apply, then click ok, then double click the icon to start it and the client will start and find and download all relevant and up to date game files and decompress them, this makes the game so much faster and saves people waiting whilst you load an area that you haven't been to before

Now, whilst this is doing its thing, move the icon you just made into the Startup section in your start menu (click All Programs and goto "Startup", right click on it and click explore to open a file window) by clicking and dragging into the file window. This will now make the installer check for updates whenever you start up your PC, meaning your always up to date and if you watch your start up, you also see if there has been an update so you can go and see whats been changed (if your as anal as me that is )

Now, the imaging can take anywhere between an hour to 5/6 hours depending on your connection, time of day and timezone (for the server it will connect to), so whilst your doing this, go and have a good read through of the official Guild Wars Wiki to get to know the game better

lol but i already downloaded it from the disk, and i personally think its easier, without the WinZip and stuff. :D

Originally posted by deathpulse9

lol but i already downloaded it from the disk, and i personally think its easier, without the WinZip and stuff. :D

then goto the Guild Wars folder and delete the GW.DAT file and do the IMAGE for the most upto date

My .DAT file was 6.2gbthis morning and deleted it, ran an image and the upto date version is 2.9Gb