Guild Wars 2

Thanks chaps. Sounds like it will be ok then on the NAS drive. I don’t think I’ll have problems as such latency wise as I am the only person in the household who does any PC gaming. I just wanted to be able to store and run the game from the NAS. My laptop is high end, or at least it was cutting edge 3 years ago (Alienware 6970m, Sandybridge CPU) so I think it’ll run ok. Trouble is I can’t expand the storage as my drive bay slots are both taken which is why I have the NAS drives dotted about. It’s unfortunately the way it is now but every game nowadays seems to be huge ranging from 25 – 50 gigs making it hard to keep more than a handful of games installed.

I know it’s nowhere near as quick as a local drive but the NAS is running across gigabit. It’s write access when I send large video files to it over the network is around 35 – 50 mbytes/sec which isn’t too bad. I guess when reading files off it’s even faster but I haven’t timed that.

Just curious. I just bought the game on-line, plan to possibly download it later when on my home machine. I’ve never really played mmos before but everything I see regarding the game has blown me away so finally decided to plunge in!

The issue I have is my machine is a bit low on hard drive space. Only got about 60 gigs left and I don’t really want to lose another 20/25 gigs to the install as I know Windows likes about 10% hard drive space free to do some of it’s stuff. What I do have is a couple of large NAS drives on my network, both show up under Network and I also have each one mapped locally as X and Z. Can I install Guild Wars 2 directly to a NAS? I know many games don’t like this and insist a local installation. Will the game give me a choice to select these drives? I plan on downloading the GW2setup.exe and placing it on my NAS drive X within a folder I’ll create for the game. Maybe by placing the GW2setup.exe in here it will ensure that it installs in this location?

My other question is a little strange so forgive me. But as it’s a huge download and at the moment free time is at a premium I may delay downloading the full game a short while. In the interim because I am stickler for how my machine looks regarding games/shortcuts/icons I plan to maybe just download and place the GW2setup.exe shortcut onto the desktop ready for later use (just because I like to see my games on the desktop neatly arranged towards the top grouped in genres). I wouldn’t want to see some kind of generic icon sitting there though. So does the GW2setup.exe actually have a ‘Guild Wars 2’ icon/look to it? If that makes sense.

Cheers,
Wayne