Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

Whenever i login to the game, and select my character.
Or i visit another location in the game. It takes forever to load.

It will take between 20 seconds to 2 minutes, its horrible.

How can i make it load faster?
Seriously, for a HDD 2 minutes isnt healthy.
I might get a SSD for GW2, but 2 minutes isnt alright for a map to load.

Specs ;

CPU : i3 2120
GPU : Radeon 6850 1gb
Ram : 8gb
HDD : 500GB / 280GB left

Thanks in advance

I would get an SSD, or maybe even two. The first SSD is just for the OS and the other one is just for games.

that really sounds like your system isn’t optimized and cleaned.

• try to keep your operating system’s drive usage to 60-70%
• uninstall all unnecessary programs/tools/games you don’t use
• delete temporary files and clean your registry. (make sure that the reg-cleaner of your choice has a backup feature!)
• after all that, defrag your HDD/s.

also, try to check if any background program/s are slowing down loadtimes by either performing a clean startup or using gamebooster.
if you’re getting noticeable faster loadtimes after doing one of those two methods, than some program/s is/are the culprit/s.

other things you can try or check:

• there might be something wrong with the game’s archive. launch the game with the " -repair" command line argument.
• delete the “local.dat” file at “C:\Users\”yournamehere"\My Documents\Guild Wars 2\"
• (rare and very unlikely) bad memory – download and run “memtest86”
• (very unlikely) bad HDD – check your drive with windows’ “chkdsk” (checkdisk) feature.

of course, buying a SSD is the easiest and most effective way to reduce your loadtimes.
but also the most expensive one.

well, that’s it with my knowledge.

wauwi.9162:

that really sounds like your system isn’t optimized and cleaned.

• try to keep your operating system’s drive usage to 60-70%
• uninstall all unnecessary programs/tools/games you don’t use
• delete temporary files and clean your registry. (make sure that the reg-cleaner of your choice has a backup feature!)
• after all that, defrag your HDD/s.

also, try to check if any background program/s are slowing down loadtimes by either performing a clean startup or using gamebooster.
if you’re getting noticeable faster loadtimes after doing one of those two methods, than some program/s is/are the culprit/s.

other things you can try or check:

• there might be something wrong with the game’s archive. launch the game with the " -repair" command line argument.
• delete the “local.dat” file at “C:\Users\”yournamehere"\My Documents\Guild Wars 2\"
• (rare and very unlikely) bad memory – download and run “memtest86”
• (very unlikely) bad HDD – check your drive with windows’ “chkdsk” (checkdisk) feature.

of course, buying a SSD is the easiest and most effective way to reduce your loadtimes.
but also the most expensive one.

well, that’s it with my knowledge.

Sorry for my late response, but it did the job!
I cleaned up my whole computer, and using game booster really speeds it up.
Loading a map takes now between 5 to 15 seconds

TimoFTW.8017:

[…]and using game booster really speeds it up.[…]

which means, that background applications probably slowing the system down.

So the load times for waypointing or loading into the game has to do with your hard drive? And not internet speed?

My load times are bad too but I thought it was becaue of my internet. I mean I have 7mbps internet.

I just built the computer too and have virtually nothing installed except GW2. It is an old hard drive though.

They have to do with your hard drive or SSD. Your internet speed doesn’t factor into the equation of load times. You can monitor the network activity while playing the game and there really isn’t too much going on when you’re playing the game.