Guild Wars 2

Bought a physical copy today and decided to start playing, everything was going smooth. Game installed and it began to download all 220,000+ files. It proceeded to download roughly 4.5gb of data with 700 files left, then computer dies.

I figured things would be fine and it would restart where it left off. I guess not.

I start up GW2, the game client pops up as well as another box which says “Repairing Data Archive”. It gets to around halfway and stops, I wait for a while hoping it would move but it doesn’t, so I close it. Next thing I know it starts redownloading all 220,000+ files all over again! I check the .dat file in my game folder and it reads 14.8 GB. The file’s there, but the client seems to be skipping over it. On top of all this, I’m not even sure if it’s really downloading anything at all (even though it says it is on the client). The free space on my drives isn’t changing one bit. Where exactly are all these files being downloaded to? Because they certainly aren’t being written on my computer.

I’ve tried -repair, doesn’t work. It only checks what I’ve downloaded after the crash.

I’ve googled the kitten out of this and so far haven’t found any solid answers. Others who have experienced it have all had their computer shut down during the download so I’m more lead to believe this is a client issue.

Please, don’t tell me it’s a hardware issue. Plain and simple, it’s not. I believe it’s pretty clear that this is a software problem.

If anyone has any sort of info on this, or perhaps even a GW tech guy or w/e, I’d be very appreciative if you could help.

create a new folder on the root of the hard drive, and copy the guild wars files right into it and run them from the new location.

BossMustang.4071:

Bought a physical copy today and decided to start playing, everything was going smooth. Game installed and it began to download all 220,000+ files. It proceeded to download roughly 4.5gb of data with 700 files left, then computer dies.

I figured things would be fine and it would restart where it left off. I guess not.

I start up GW2, the game client pops up as well as another box which says “Repairing Data Archive”. It gets to around halfway and stops, I wait for a while hoping it would move but it doesn’t, so I close it. Next thing I know it starts redownloading all 220,000+ files all over again! I check the .dat file in my game folder and it reads 14.8 GB. The file’s there, but the client seems to be skipping over it. On top of all this, I’m not even sure if it’s really downloading anything at all (even though it says it is on the client). The free space on my drives isn’t changing one bit. Where exactly are all these files being downloaded to? Because they certainly aren’t being written on my computer.

I’ve tried -repair, doesn’t work. It only checks what I’ve downloaded after the crash.

I’ve googled the kitten out of this and so far haven’t found any solid answers. Others who have experienced it have all had their computer shut down during the download so I’m more lead to believe this is a client issue.

Please, don’t tell me it’s a hardware issue. Plain and simple, it’s not. I believe it’s pretty clear that this is a software problem.

If anyone has any sort of info on this, or perhaps even a GW tech guy or w/e, I’d be very appreciative if you could help.

If your system cut off suddenly during the installation, that’s not a software problem.

ANYTHING could have happened to your GW2.dat file. If the OS didn’t properly write the data out to disk, the entire file might be corrupt.

RvLeshrac.2673:

BossMustang.4071:

Bought a physical copy today and decided to start playing, everything was going smooth. Game installed and it began to download all 220,000+ files. It proceeded to download roughly 4.5gb of data with 700 files left, then computer dies.

I figured things would be fine and it would restart where it left off. I guess not.

I start up GW2, the game client pops up as well as another box which says “Repairing Data Archive”. It gets to around halfway and stops, I wait for a while hoping it would move but it doesn’t, so I close it. Next thing I know it starts redownloading all 220,000+ files all over again! I check the .dat file in my game folder and it reads 14.8 GB. The file’s there, but the client seems to be skipping over it. On top of all this, I’m not even sure if it’s really downloading anything at all (even though it says it is on the client). The free space on my drives isn’t changing one bit. Where exactly are all these files being downloaded to? Because they certainly aren’t being written on my computer.

I’ve tried -repair, doesn’t work. It only checks what I’ve downloaded after the crash.

I’ve googled the kitten out of this and so far haven’t found any solid answers. Others who have experienced it have all had their computer shut down during the download so I’m more lead to believe this is a client issue.

Please, don’t tell me it’s a hardware issue. Plain and simple, it’s not. I believe it’s pretty clear that this is a software problem.

If anyone has any sort of info on this, or perhaps even a GW tech guy or w/e, I’d be very appreciative if you could help.

If your system cut off suddenly during the installation, that’s not a software problem.

ANYTHING could have happened to your GW2.dat file. If the OS didn’t properly write the data out to disk, the entire file might be corrupt.

OK, this post wasn’t created to solve my shutdown issue. Of course the system cut-off was hardware related, but that does NOT mean my hardware is at fault regarding the installation/client redownload.

I let it download overnight again, and it now plays just fine. It “downloaded” all 4.5 GB+ data AGAIN, but the space on my HDD is unchanged, and the file size of GW2.dat is also unchanged. This is a problem I believe needs to be addressed by the GW2 Tech Team. There are a decent amount of threads out there with this same problem, but no set in stone solution other than a complete redownload.