Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I have the problem that my PC crashed while I was downloading the new patch. After I restarted PC and game there was a message saying something about checking data archive. Now Guild Wars 2 gets downloaded fully again, which would take my about 28 hours.

Is there anyway to stop that or speed it up?

Thanks in advance!

To stop it would be futile because of what happened. The gw2.dat file most likely got corrupted and needs to be re-downloaded because of the sudden crash during the modification of said file.

To speed it up, dish out more cash to your internet service provider to get a better speed.

In short, I think a lesson has been learned here:
keep a backup of the gw2.dat file somewhere on a media hard drive and update on occasion. This way if your main game gets corrupted, you already have most of the game downloaded to patch up.

Well not really the answer I wanted to hear, but thank you.
The problem with my internet is that the provider have bad connection to my area.

How does the backup plan work? Just safe this one file in another folder?

The same thing just happened to me, my game crashed and its downloading the entire game again. I can see the game file in the folder still, is there a possible way to just repair the data?

@Creest
The ‘backup’ plan is basically what you described. Once the gw2.dat file is in a fully working order, simply copy it to another directory. This takes up another 15GB or so, but it is worth it if you have a slower internet connection. Then, when something happens to the gw2.dat file and needs to be redownloaded, you can simply copy the version that you saved in another directory into the original directory again.

@Savaunte & Creest
You can try the repair switch. To add it simply follow the instructions here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments#-repair
There are a ton of other switches as well, some of them you might find useful.

Thanks, have copied it on an external drive.