Guild Wars 2

Well, it’s been two weeks and I still cannot reinstall on my new PC. I’m done.

If a Dev reads this and has any suggestions apart from those things I listed, great, if not, well I’m boned.

Disappointing.

Tried a couple more things today:

Installed GW2 to a folder not in /Programs. No joy.
Installed DirectX. No joy.

I really don’t want to have to mess with my DNS settings or reinstall Windows, sigh.

Hmm…pretty sure I have direct x 11? Will double check when I get home. I assumed it was installed for Borderlands 2…

Was considering the install of Windows. Will need to look into what I should do first.

Yeah mate, it was…so I’m starting to wonder now….

I couldn’t agree more.

I’m pretty much gonna let the next few days slide and hope for an answer, or some form or resolution in the new year.

I’m seeing a pretty big increase in all sorts of problems in regards to the patching process over the last week.

Any sort of official response would be great.

Cheers @ kirito for all his/her help and suggestions.

Heya folks.

Day 7.

Still unable to get more than 10-15 seconds of continual patching done before the patcher drops and stays at 0.00kbps.

I have, to date, tried the following things:

Removing all other PCs/users from the network (never had to do this before)
Forwarded all ports to recommended (never had to do this before)
Deleted and restarted the install/patch process numerous times (never had to do this before)
Turned off all firewalls, including my modem (Ive never messed with my modem before and it doesnt feel right having to do it now)
Removed all virus scanning and anti virus programs (Never used them before)
Installed all drivers for windows and cards (Hasnt changed anything)
Always run the Patcher as Admin (makes no difference)
Have disabled UAC (as above)

A couple other things to note:

Steam works fine, have downloaded half a dozen games so far (Xmas sale!)
Have downloaded and patched LOTRO just fine.
Have downloaded and patched Rift just fine.

Ive moved past frustration now, and Im into the early stages of bemused confusion.

Almost 6 days, no change. Some kind of dev response would be nice.

A quick review:

Brand new PC.
Patching starts and stops within 10-15 seconds.
No firewall/anti-virus running.
Always run as Admin.
Steam works fine, games download without issue.

Heres the info on my PC using the link I saw provided elsewhere:

Still borked. Same old same old, double click launcher, download anywhere from 10-40meg, speed dribbles to 0.00 and then does nothing.

Anyway, Merry Christmas all!

Day 3, still completely unable to install/patch the game.

Ran the program as above as well, heres my results:

My launcher is borked as well, as seen in this thread here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Horrible-Client-Download/first#post1069621

Convinced my fiance to give me her new Macbook and let me try installing it. Seemed to work just fine, patcher sat at my maxed connection speed, and downloaded more files in the first 10 minutes than Ive managed all day.

So…what the hell is wrong with my PC, and why arent it and the launcher getting along?

This is really frustrating

The launcher is buggy as all hell lately. Tried restarting the launcher?

Im sorry, I find it hard to believe that in order to download and patch GW2 I have to go through all that kitten. Thanks for the suggestion, but thats ridiculous.

Some kind of response from a Dev would be nice.

Im willing to try anything at this stage, can you give me a run through on how to do that?

This is ridiculous. Uninstalled everything, restart download process. The launcher downloads fine, caps out my connection, as soon as the launcher starts patching, speed drops to 0.00kbps and does NOTHING after that.

Steam runs fine, capping out the speed on my ADSL connection.

Cmon ANet, someones gotta be able to see this. If youre attempting to sell more copies for the Xmas break, a crappy downloader is only gonna hurt.

So, got my new PC today, and Im attempting to install GW2, except, Im not sure why, but the process is kitten horrible and frustrating all at once. The downloader seems to ramp up and down in speeds, anywhere from 800kbps, down to 0.00 where it will sit for 45-60 secs, before slowly climbing back up to speed again.

So far, Ive managed 45meg of download in 15 minutes.

Ive got no firewall installed/running, and I uninstalled the trial AVG version as soon as I got the PC set up. So those arent the issues.

Really very disappointing.