Guild Wars 2

So recently I’ve accidentally uninstalled my client, and I don’t have any backups. I found my physical copy and tried to reinstall it, but when I clicked on the setup.exe the client brings me to internet download and shows 290k+ files to be updated. Is there any way that I could at least install the original game file and update from there?

Disconnect from the internet then try it, or if there’s a Gw2.dat on the disc, simply copy it to where Gw2.exe is.

It doesn’t work, it simply says download failed and Internet connection is required. Also there isn’t any .dat file on the disc but only js0 and js1 beside Gw2Setup.exe

Try downloading the installer from this website. It might take much longer to install than through the DVDs because it would have to download roughly 19 GB of data.

No offense but my purpose of posting this thread is to help me install the game from disc due to my slow connection.

Well if it doesn’t want to install through the disk, what other options do you have then?

Well I found this solution, trying it for now. http://gw2goldgood.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-best-way-to-get-guild-wars-2-to-use.html

Here’s the thing with most online games, over time the game just changes so much that the original disks become coffee coasters, there is no way to use the disks anymore. I warned people at launch of this game that anyone that get the game on disk the disks will become obsolete because of how the game will change over time. So your only hope is to download the installer and wait till you get it all with your slow internet, or find a freind or relative that has faster internet install the game on their system then copy the gw2.dat file this is the file that takes so long to download it’s about 18+GB by now so you will need a 36GB flash drive copy the file on. It takes me about 2 hours to get the game with my internet speed so just let it do its thing over night. If it takes any longer for you.

Feirlista I’m gonna politely disagree with your post here. I bought my disks in May of 2013 and installed 16 or 18 GB and downloaded an additional 4 GB to 4.5 GB. If anything the amount of content downloaded if installed through the disks now is going to be up to 6.5 GB.

Rather than arguing and debating on here for over a day, you could be playing if you just downloaded the client as suggested. Unless your connection is dial up or a Satellite one, it won’t take more than 12-16 hours to download the entire DAT file.

Now if you are not doing so due to bandwidth limitations on your connection, that’s another issue (that you failed to relate in this thread).

Your other option is to take your PC to some other connection and try the install (if the client is not detecting an internet connection, there may just be something wrong with your current connection).

Avelos.6798:

Feirlista I’m gonna politely disagree with your post here. I bought my disks in May of 2013 and installed 16 or 18 GB and downloaded an additional 4 GB to 4.5 GB. If anything the amount of content downloaded if installed through the disks now is going to be up to 6.5 GB.

Yes but have you used your disks lately I thinkthe disks became obsolete after the April feature pack release.

Maybe I’ll give it a try sometime. Physical copies of the game are still being sold so I’d argue against that possibility that perhaps it installs the vanilla game then starts downloading the updates.

Avelos.6798:

Maybe I’ll give it a try sometime. Physical copies of the game are still being sold so I’d argue against that possibility that perhaps it installs the vanilla game then starts downloading the updates.

That’s exactly what it is suppose to do, but there have been MASSIVE updates since the game first released and it’s unlikely they have remastered the original DVD release (since no expansions have been released). It is also possible the DVD itself is damaged (or smudged) and is corrupting the install.

Just stating that there are a LOT of players successfully online with GW2 that have NEVER had a physical DVD install.