Guild Wars 2

I have recently purchase a new I7 computer for gw2. (because my old videocard broke down and my cpu is 6 yrs old). I’m still waiting for my computer but while waiting, I am concerning should I re-download a fresh gw2 data? which i want to avoid that or is it possible to re-use what I have on my new OS? (It’s going to be window 10).

My computer knowledge is very minimum. My old pc graphic is completely mess up, but still able to find a way to back up files to small external hard-drive. Is it safe to just copy and paste the big gw2.dat to a small external HD? (I remember these external HD cannot store one single file bigger then 4gb)

Is there any steps I can follow? I can give up on my screenshots but would like to re-use the rest of my game and setting. Doing so won’t increase any game crash or bugged right?

Gw2.dat contains all the game’s data. Combine it with Gw2.exe and that’s all you need. GW2 doesn’t need to be installed in the traditional sense, so you can simply copy the entire GW2 folder.

The 4 GB file size limit is due to a FAT32 format. If it’s an option, reformat to NTFS, though doing so will wipe the drive. You can format a drive by right clicking it under Computer and selecting format (or Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management).

If you are limited in how much you can transfer at a time however, split Gw2.dat into multiple parts. Most compression software can do this. If you don’t have any, download 7-zip. Compress Gw2.dat and split the volume by the desired size.

I just did what you suggested… use 7 zip, moved gw2 dat into 8 pieces into my ex-HD. I also copy and paste gw2.exe (the 64 bit one), just this two? I see other files and folders such as crash file or bins… those are not needed?

You can copy the bin folders if you want, everything else other than Gw2.exe/dat is only temporary. If you don’t, they’ll simply be recreated on the first run.

You don’t have to reformat a FAT32 drive to NTFS; you can use the ‘convert’ command without losing any data. I’ve done it lots of times without issue.

More info here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/58953/how-to-convert-a-hard-drive-or-flash-drive-from-fat32-to-ntfs-format/