Guild Wars 2

Maybe this is just me, but the past few days, my client is making me download something every time I log into the game. I could literally log in, exit the game, open it right back up again, and it starts the download over.

Anyone else having this issue?

That’s because the past few days they’ve been releasing new bug fixing patches for the game to fix various bugs introduced when the March 16th patch was released that added and changed a fair amount of the game.

If you don’t want for the patch to finish downloading before exiting, the launcher picks up where you left off.

If that’s not what you mean, then please explain.

Not quite what I meant.

So to explain it further here’s exactly what’s happening to me:

1) I open the game, it downloads the update.
2) I log in, and log back out.
3) I close the game.
4) I open the game again, and it downloads the same update that it downloaded last time.

It does this every time I open it, regardless of when.

Can’t say I’ve heard of that before. Try doing a client repair, maybe you have corrupted files.

Here is an answer to a similar question: redownloading whole client

Healix.5819:

Did you move Gw2.exe out of your %temp% folder? If not, files in the %temp% folder can be deleted, as the name implies. There was a small patch, are you sure it’s redownloading the entire game (over 300k files)?

Ensure that you’re running the correct Gw2.exe. There should be a Gw2.dat file in the same folder and it should be around 20GB. You may want to check your drive for any errors (under Computer, right click the drive > properties > tools > error checking > select all options). If you must fully download the game again, verify the state of this file after it’s complete and make a copy of it just in case.

As for other storage locations,
Hardware settings and CoherentUI crash dumps are under %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/
Alternate settings, logs and screenshots are under Documents/Guild Wars 2/
CoherentUI cache files are under the %temp% folder, in any folder that begins with gw2cache
Temporary Gw2Setup.exe files (Gw2.exe, Gw2.dat, Gw2.tmp, bin) are stored in the %temp% folder

After download just login then play ! Why logout and restart ?

SteveK.5827:

After download just login then play ! Why logout and restart ?

I’m pretty sure you’re trolling, but just in case…I just used logging out and back in as an example of how I have to redownload the update every time, even if it’s right away.

I tried repairing and it didn’t fix it. The only thing I can think of us that I’m using a .bat file to launch the game. I do this because I have 2 accounts and it saves the login information for me.

If I launch the game normally it seems to skip the downlad, but when I go through the .bat file it starts over.

Here’s my .bat file:
@echo off
copy /Y /V Local_2.dat Local.dat
start "" “[PathToGame]”

I just took out the path to the game to paste here, but you get the idea. Any thoughts?

Zumi.6384:

SteveK.5827:

After download just login then play ! Why logout and restart ?

I’m pretty sure you’re trolling, but just in case…I just used logging out and back in as an example of how I have to redownload the update every time, even if it’s right away.

I tried repairing and it didn’t fix it. The only thing I can think of us that I’m using a .bat file to launch the game. I do this because I have 2 accounts and it saves the login information for me.

If I launch the game normally it seems to skip the downlad, but when I go through the .bat file it starts over.

Here’s my .bat file:
@echo off
copy /Y /V Local_2.dat Local.dat
start "" “[PathToGame]”

I just took out the path to the game to paste here, but you get the idea. Any thoughts?

That is probably the cause. I believe it stores a copy of the game client in there and if it sees the modification date changing then it might try to update.