Guild Wars 2

Hello guys, I’ve just recently bought the guild wars 2 and have finished installing the game, but am currently downloading the updates for the it. About 3 hours later when the download is at 60%, windows decided to update, which i did not know, and my computer was forced to restart and update. When I opened up guild wars 2 to resume the update, it was at 0% again which is really frustrating as I’ve waiting for hours to just play the game but update is right back at the start. Is there anyway to play the game without the update or make it resume back at where it currently was? Sorry if you find this question dumb.

BlackFrost.3576:

Hello guys, I’ve just recently bought the guild wars 2 and have finished installing the game, but am currently downloading the updates for the it. About 3 hours later when the download is at 60%, windows decided to update, which i did not know, and my computer was forced to restart and update. When I opened up guild wars 2 to resume the update, it was at 0% again which is really frustrating as I’ve waiting for hours to just play the game but update is right back at the start. Is there anyway to play the game without the update or make it resume back at where it currently was? Sorry if you find this question dumb.

My guess is that this update forced the client to close, as is windows update and Guild Wars 2 do not play nicely together. It’s a real shame, to be honest, that something like this where the client should recognize that it needs to close in a safe manner rather than fighting the system, happens.

Basically, anytime Guild Wars 2 is downloading or updating, if something unexpected happens then there is a very high chance that the gw2.dat file becomes corrupted. Anything from a simple crash or blue screen to a power outage will cause this. Sadly you’ll just have to download the game again since the data is corrupted and you can’t start back from where you left off. I would recommend that you make a back up of the gw2.dat file once everything is downloaded so that when you are updating the game and something bad happens, you don’t have to download the game all over again and can just replace the game with the backup and patch up from there.