Guild Wars 2

Yesterday at night , i started to download the game and today at like 6 am i was at 55% , then i had to go school leave my computer , the electricity went off, and my internet connection is limited i have a limited gbs/download a month or else i pay extra fees.
now i wanted to continue the download , i saw it was beginning from 0 so is the downloaded files go away or they’re saved or anything ? i need to know

bump please help anyone ?

I believe I have seen a dev respond to a similar situation posted some time ago. They stated that a power outage while updating would corrupt the archive and would need to be started from the beginning. I’ll see if I can dig up the post.

However, you could try running a repair on the game to see if it can recover the damaged data so you can continue where you left off at the time of the outage.

Check the game for errors and repair it

• Close your game completely.
• Next, make a copy of your Gw2 game shortcut and rename it “GW2 Repair” or to something that you will recognize it for being only for running a repair on your GW2 installation.
• Now, right-click this “Gw2 Repair” shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Shortcut” tab look in the “Target:” field, you should see:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” or wherever you have Guild Wars 2 installed.
• After the closing quotation marks in this line put a space and then add -repair
  It will look like this but with your GW2 install location:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” -repair
• Hit OK after making this change.
• Run this repair shortcut. Your game will run through a repair cycle and fix any damaged files it finds.
• After it runs through, start the game using the normal GW2 game shortcut (not the repair shortcut) and see if your game can continue its update around where the outage took place instead of from the beginning.

I also highly recommend making a backup copy of your game files somewhere else on your hard drive after you get it downloaded for just this kind of situation in the future, especially since you have limited bandwidth.

Tried the repair command and it keeps downloading from the start i’ve and .dat file in the gw2 folder with a size of 17 gb how do i properly fix it?

karonte.5621:

Tried the repair command and it keeps downloading from the start i’ve and .dat file in the gw2 folder with a size of 17 gb how do i properly fix it?

• Close your game completely.
• Ensure your game is set to Run As Administrator in the shortcut’s Properties > Compatibility tab.
• Ensure the ‘Read Only’ attribute is not set in the right-click > Properties for Gw2.exe, Gw2.tmp and Gw2.dat files in the installation directory.
• Then re-launch and see if the issue persists.