Guild Wars 2

hey guys

i bought the game yesterday and of course there are was many many updates after the launch
1-so the game cant be playable without some of the updates ?
2-and icant know how many GB still to download how can i know
because i got a really bad connection .
3-if the PC turned off while downloading it will restart again ?

thank you for reading and i hope to get an answer

Hi, sorry you’re having an issue… The initial download for the game is excruciating.

So, the game .dat file is around 17.5 gb in size. If you close the client while downloading, it should, upon re-opening the client, scan the data it already downloaded and continue from there. (see ilithis’ post for exceptions to this)

I believe in a windows environment, it saves the .dat file in its install location, you can get the properties of this file to see how much you have already downloaded and guesstimate how much more to go. I can’t remember if it appends an additional extension or if it is stored in a temp location prior to being complete, so this may prove challenging.

However, once the .dat file is completely downloaded, you may actually copy this download file and save it somewhere so you shouldn’t have to download all of it again. Just current updates. If you have a friend who plays, you can use a jump drive, external hard drive, or some similar media for copying data, to copy their file and transfer it to your computer. Just make sure to put it the right location. The client should scan this data to check for completeness and either “finish up” any misc data or move on to the current updates.

Hopefully this helps, and if anyone has further info that could be useful or make mine better, please follow up. I haven’t used windows in a bit to be 100% certain.

PhyZiX.3802:

hey guys

i bought the game yesterday and of course there are was many many updates after the launch
1-so the game cant be playable without some of the updates ?
2-and icant know how many GB still to download how can i know
because i got a really bad connection .
3-if the PC turned off while downloading it will restart again ?

thank you for reading and i hope to get an answer

Correct, the game cannot be played without being fully updated.

See Kyllaa’s post about how much left you have to download.

This last question can go down one of two ways. If the PC turns off from a power outage or some other interruption that is unexpected, then you might have to start the download all over again because of corrupted data. If your PC turned off in a controlled manner, than the launcher will likely just have to check all your existing files you have downloaded already and then the launcher will continue downloading the rest of the updates.

thank you guys very much for the info