Guild Wars 2

Why is GW2 the only game that requires to download 10mb every single time you open the game in order for it to detect whether it needs to update?

A 10mb update to detect updates? This seems massively excessive.

As someone on a completely unrestricted internet it’s not so much an issue, just having to wait each time, but for those who are on maximum bandwidth contracts this could be an issue. If you play GW2 and load it just once per day you will be using over 0.3GB bandwidth without any new content actually being downloaded. This is not allowing for any game crashes or bugs with TP that force you to reload the client.

Surely you can do a little better than this…. It never used to need 10mb download every time. This is something that has come along since release.

I don’t have those issues. I think you might be having issues with corruption of your dat file.

I would suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the game.

You need to run your game as admin so it has write access to the file that it needs to keep re-downloading.

If it cannot write to the file it will download the new one each time you start your game until you run it as admin so it can overwrite the file with the updated version.

Run As Admin

• Close your game completely.
• Right-click your GW2 game shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Compatibility” tab, check/enable the box at the bottom for your game to “Run As Administrator”.
• Hit OK after making sure this setting is enabled.
• Re-launch your game and see if the issue persists.
  It will likely need to do one final download to update the file properly. Any future launches should not have to download the file again.

StinVec.3621:

You need to run your game as admin so it has write access to the file that it needs to keep re-downloading.

If it cannot write to the file it will download the new one each time you start your game until you run it as admin so it can overwrite the file with the updated version.

Run As Admin

• Close your game completely.
• Right-click your GW2 game shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Compatibility” tab, check/enable the box at the bottom for your game to “Run As Administrator”.
• Hit OK after making sure this setting is enabled.
• Re-launch your game and see if the issue persists.
  It will likely need to do one final download to update the file properly. Any future launches should not have to download the file again.

That fixed it thank you, but again why with ALL other games do they prompt for Administrator access when required?

I believe you AV could be the reason for that.

Just put GW2 into the exceptions and run gw2 as admin

Dal.5872:

StinVec.3621:

You need to run your game as admin so it has write access to the file that it needs to keep re-downloading.

If it cannot write to the file it will download the new one each time you start your game until you run it as admin so it can overwrite the file with the updated version.

Run As Admin

• Close your game completely.
• Right-click your GW2 game shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Compatibility” tab, check/enable the box at the bottom for your game to “Run As Administrator”.
• Hit OK after making sure this setting is enabled.
• Re-launch your game and see if the issue persists.
  It will likely need to do one final download to update the file properly. Any future launches should not have to download the file again.

That fixed it thank you, but again why with ALL other games do they prompt for Administrator access when required?

I assume your GW2 folder is in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86)
Windows doesn’t like non admin users messing with that folder.
You could try changing your GW2 folder to give yourself full permissions and see what happens (I don’t really suggest putting doing it for the entire Program Files folder, but it’s up to you).
(ie. right click on the folder -> Properties -> Security tab: Tick yourself with Full control)