Guild Wars 2

Now that I have my own computer, I decided last night that I download my own copy of gw2 instead of playing off of a friend’s. Well, I start it up, went to go get a drink and came back to 260k files. I spent about 3 hours total getting gw2 downloaded on my computer before I gave up and went to bed.

I have attached my current progress below.

I think it might be a good idea to consolidate all of the patches into as few files as possible, Arenanet. 5Gb and I still have ~230k files to go. Good thing I have 1Tb to mess with. :c

EDIT: Forgot the picture. Lol!

It downloads the largest files first, if you stop the download and come back later it picks up where you left off.

The game totals 18 GB and the speed to download it depends on your internet connection.

The 400 KB/s speed is the problem. When I installed GW2, I was averaging over 1 MB/s download speed.

Karizee.8076:

It downloads the largest files first, if you stop the download and come back later it picks up where you left off.

The game totals 18 GB and the speed to download it depends on your internet connection.

Oh seriously? Well then I should expect a great speed up in progress very soon. Thank you for telling me.

The fastest option would have been to just copy the Gw2.dat from your friend’s computer. The system specific data is in a different file.

The final size of that file is 17GB+ so you still have a ways to go for the whole thing. Patches are already consolidated. You are just far from having the whole thing. There is a reason the minimum system requirements has “25 GB available HDD space”.

The game also resumes downloading automatically so you don’t have to do it all at once.

Aidan Savage.2078:

The 400 KB/s speed is the problem. When I installed GW2, I was averaging over 1 MB/s download speed.

I would have been delighted with 400KB/s. I live out in the country at the edge of the connection and on a good day I have 100KB/s, but usually around 50.

It took me ~3 days (over 72 hours) to download the game, running continuously.