Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I’ve encountered a bug that the launcher gives wrong download information.

Many reason why other people saw in the launcher that stays 0 Kbyte/sec, exaggerated speed (higher than your actual download speed), sometimes it won’t show up and you think that the download was interrupted.
All of three… the download is STILL running in the background.

How to reproduce the bug:

Please open the Task Manager before to start updating GW2

-> go to Tab: Network (Windows 7 and older) and check the current network usage.
-> Tab Performance (Windows 8 and newer) -> Ethernet (depends which connection is connected to the router) then right click on the graphs “show network details”. The window will pop up and it shows how many bytes was sent or received.

Start GW2.exe to begin the HoT update and you will see this in a few hours.

I have a screenshot and it’s clearly visible that the Task Manager have way more bytes sent/received than the indicated values in GW2 launcher.

The HoT update is about 11.5 GB big (may be vary by the language) than about 6 GB in GW2 launcher (I left my PC turned on during the night before i went to sleep)

So… dear Anet. Please fix the bug asap.

Regards,
Zeyo

Unless I’m missing something, your bytes received state 6.5gig, not 11.5gig…? Not sure where you magicked that number up.

My download was exactly the size of what the HoT launcher said it was, router recorded it.

I forgot to make a screenshot about 11.5 gig at the end of HoT update. No magic…

@Acheron
That’s okay that you have a correct download size between your router and the launcher.
Not every ppl have this problem.

Mine still doesn’t (see attachment). My router says about 12 GB and it’s still different from Launcher.

But it’s still weird tho.

Some translation for the attachment:
Heute = Today
Gestern = Yesterday
gesamt = total
gesendet = sent
empfangen = received
Datenvolumen = data volume