Guild Wars 2

Alright I had to re download guild wars and I noticed after a certain amount of files are downloaded it says “Playable” and lets me play, but I was just wondering. If I click play does it keep downloading even while I’m in game?

Yes.

Well that was fast, thanks!

It’s the streaming client. I haven’t tested it myself because all the builds load super fast anyway and I don’t want to incite any lag, but the idea is that you can finish getting the files while starting to mosey around in game.

Basically when it reaches the ‘playable’ point it’s got the bare minimum of files it needs to run the game. After that it’ll keep downloading in the background and if you enter a map that’s not fully downloaded it will prioritise that one.

I re-installed last night due to some errors with win10 not functioning correctly with certain apps.

It took roughly 30% of the full client then it was playable, just meant that loading into DR took longer than usual, but load times are back to normal once streaming has finished.

Just over 300k files – Aug 2015. Still pretty fast download with standard connection during prime time.