Guild Wars 2

I’ve been stuck at 99% for nearly an hour with a total 1225MB downloaded, the final 1% seems to have taken 300MB… How large is this update actually?

Should I restart gw2?

lol what internet connection have? i have it download in 3 min.

I normally have a really good connection, but for some reason this update has been very slow. At one point it dropped to 56KB/s and the best I’ve seen is 220KB/s (I can normally get at least 1MB). But it still only took about 40 minutes in total.

The percentage is unfortunately not that helpful since it’s the percentage of files rather than overall data. So it looks like the last file happens to be a very big one.

You could try restarting it, it wouldn’t hurt since you won’t lose any of the files you’ve already downloaded, but I don’t know if it would help either.

Do you use any add-on’s? There was a post in the main forum about one of them interfering.

NA English version for me was 986MB on the screen with the downloading files bar. Of course a few MB for the installer and other minor updates (looks like we got a new version of the Coherent UI browser).

Decided to check out this post because the same thing seems to be happening to me.

99% 1 file remaining. 1778 meg downloaded so far. The download screen seems to flicker a bit too.

Speed for me seems to flicker between 0KB/sec and 1MB/sec. And its been about an hour since i started the download.

Though i am also curious about what addons you may be referring to. But what i really want to know is the actual size of the file.

It’s over 9000!!!!

(sorry couldn’t resist)

I am experiencing the same issue here. Though I am on 1195mb and it is hardly doing anything which is unusual considering I have always had reasonable internet speed and still currently have.

Unfortunately I can only add my story but not offer any answers to this.

I would also repeat the question:

How big is that one last file? Why does it take so long to download when everything else is running fine (connection wise).
Is it maybe that the server is having a busy time?

Well I read a bit more and checked a few other links out.

Restarting wont delete all the files youve downloaded, so closing and restarting the client wont cause issues. Though i have no idea if the files that are only part downloaded are lost.

Restarted client when first download got to 1812 meg. still had just one files remaining.

Restarted client second time after downloading 1208 meg of last remaining file, connection seemed to freeze at that point and wouldnt download any more for over 10 mins.

next time i restarted the client it wouldnt work at all.

Luckily i had some decent TV to watch so didnt get bored. However when i restarted my pc and then the game it still said 1 file remaining. Checked out some more forum posts at that point and came across something nice.

Well, for PC users anyway. If you are having this problem on PC try right clicking on shortcut and select properties. In the Target Window near the top directly after the last " hit the spacebar once and then type…….

-StreamingClient

Apply and start client again. this should allow you to play the game while download streams in the background. At least it working for me anyway. Currently ingame and playing, though todays daily missions are lost to me.

And on a final note, yeah, apparently these types of things can happen (and have happened) on fairly big updates when lots of people try to grab them on the first day.

Hope this helps.