Q:
NEW update problem
It should be only downloading the update files. It will, however, check the files already downloaded to see if they need to be updated.
Remember, the percentage only shows number of files downloaded, and not amount of data.
Good luck.
well my guildwars 2 map is 20gig maybe you should let it update
Edit
20,0 GB (21 495 738 368 byte) to be exact
The game will only download the required files, not the whole game again.
It might start with some big files, for example videos. So it will download 10 files of 1000 required files (1%) but with a size of 200MB.
So 200MB = 1% but then the 999 remaining files are all 10KB in size, so 10 MB = 99%
In this case the patch would be 210MB and said 1% at 200 MB downloaded.
This is the problem with percentages pointing to remaining files.
Don’t worry about the patch size, since you will see the percentages rise fast when downloading lots of small files.
Comparing gw2.dat file sizes is also useless since it depends on your client / language setting (and maybe some other things too).
Setting ingame language to english but client to spanish may give a different file size than setting ingame language to spanish but client to english (or obviously any other language combinations). Also if an event was only temporary and might not be needed any more, it’s possible that some files won’t be loaded now. My dat size is 24.0 GB, just btw (voice english, text german).
Last but not least:
You can cancel the download at any time, the files you already downloaded won’t have to be downloaded again! So if it said 5.000 files in the beginning and you close at 4.123 remaining and then open it again, it will continue at 4.123 remaining.