Guild Wars 2

I don’t want to install the game on the primary drive.

No, it was around 970,000 or so when I glanced at it earlier.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Downloading-the-same-files-again/first#post2081126

Just came across this. Can someone who knows tell me if this is what’s happening? And how to stop it anyway?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Can you change the shortcut to say “D:\Games\GW2.exe” or whatever your secondary drive letter is, and whatever path/file location within said drive Guild Wars 2 resides in?

I’ve no idea, but that’s the thought I had.

Good luck.

I was running it from a desktop shortcut I made, but searched around and some people were saying that they had luck by opening the launcher from the actual filepath location. Thanks for the response! I’ve already tried that though.

I replaced my motherboard the other day. I didn’t configure the HDD I was already using first, and now can’t boot from it. I reinstalled Windows on a new drive, using my old one as a secondary to access all my files. That’s also where my GW installation is, the old HDD now being used as a secondary. Every time I open the launcher, it starts downloading the game files as if it were a fresh install from 0%. I’ve tried running it without using a shortcut and going directly to the directory for the launcher, but it doesn’t help. I’ve tried searching everywhere for an answer on how to make this stop, but nothing yet. I don’t want to copy the game to the new primary HDD, it’s much smaller capacity. Any help with this would be much appreciated. Sorry I just realized I wrote a book.