Guild Wars 2

Those last 3 replies are all good tips!

I’ve changed my DNS setting before (but didn’t remember when posting) but something’s happened between my last post and now and I was finally able to download the last file!

There’s definitely been a reset and maybe it changed my network speed. I don’t know.
This is some strange kind of voodoo going on. All of the things posted in this thread sometimes work and sometimes they don’t.

But I’ll be sure to try all of them the next time this happens again. (Which will probably be with the next patch)

Thanks for your tips and I hope they work for the OP, too!

^^^ Tried that right now. It went to 33kb every time and stopped. Idk maybe it’s just random.
Glad it worked for you though. Are you on mobile broadband, too?

Also have the reply buttons disappeared for everyone or is it just me? edit: and just as I post this the buttons are back. Strange.

You can also try this tool to fake graphic card requirements: http://www.tommti-systems.de/go.html?http://www.tommti-systems.de/main-Dateien/files.html

That won’t help you in the long run though. Upgrade your PC.

Unloveableone.6082:

Here it is. I know i will have to update some stuff, but I didnt think it would honestly be that huge of a difference really since I can play just about every game perfectly including WoW on this computer. I planned on getting more RAM later as well, so dont judge me on my small amount of it xD

Your graphics card only supports shader model 2. Maybe you should update your PC every 10 years or so.

Sorry I’m bitter. Make that 5 years. Gw2 needs shader model 3. Which has been around for a few years.

Oh, and while I’m kittening about the update process: Whoever thought that the first phase of the update being a completely different UX should go into production?

(See screenshot)

There are so many posts on the forum by people who don’t know what the feline is going on. And rightfully so because what is this?

eta: After I took the screenshot it went to 0kb/s and that’s all. No error, no notification, nothing.

mathisk.6427:

Have you tried looking for the corrupted files in your game folder or the GW2 folder under “My Documents” and deleting them, if they exist? That seems to have solved the problem for a few folks.

There was a local.dat there too with a bunch log files. Deleted them. Problem persists.

Funny thing that happened concerning the mobile broadband idea: When I tried logging in to the forums ANet wanted me to authorise. Looks like I’m connecting from a completely different location this time! (spoiler: I’m not)

Still the same network problem. Still stuck at the last file. Still only 33kb before it dies.

Thanks for bothering though.

ThunderStorm.3140:

If it was the mobile broadband why would it allow to update almost 2000 files but then get stuck when only 3 files are remaining and the update process is at 99%? It just doesn’t make sense….

That’s only a question NCsoft’s network admins can answer.

I should have refreshed before posting.

The other day I’ve also tried updating from an older version that was still on my external hd and it actually worked!

But yeah, the thing is I’ve tried so many things before already and some actually worked but today: just no luck.

It almost looks like their patching away those workarounds

eta the things I’ve tried:
- update from older version
- run the launcher in xp compatibility mode
- the assetsrv command switch with various IPs I found posted on forums
- delete local.dat that sometimes gets created

Each of those and various combinations of all of them have worked in the past. None today.

The repair option has the same problem as the update. It downloads data and then just stops after a while.

Redownloading everything is kittens because of bandwidth limits. Also pointless because nothing is broken or missing except those last few kb in the last file.

I’m on mobile broadband, too. I’m pretty sure this is somehow related to the problem.

Same. Only difference is I made it to the last file :P

This has happened with every update so far: The game updates just fine up to the last 3 or 2 files. Then the download rate drops to 0kb/s. Restarting the launcher actually helps to resume the download but only up to the last 1 remaining file. Restarting does nothing at this point. It will download a few kb and just stop (see screenshot).

Actually, in the past I was able to make the launcher download the last file by starting it in XP compatibility mode. But ANet seems to have fixed this “workaround”

This has happened with every update. And every time there is a thread about it in this forum. Yet there hasn’t been an official response, at all.

Just wanted to add that I tried starting the launcher in Windows XP compatibility mode and it worked.

For me it’s the last file. I start the launcher, it downloads exactly 22kb then stops. No matter how many times I try it’s always 22kb.
The rest of the download went fine up to this point.

Firewall is open as it gets, MSE told to ignore gw2.exe :sigh:

Looks like the gold sellers are doing their thing.
I’d like to report them but there doesn’t seem to be any way to do it.