Originally Posted by Snograt

The old jumping npc bug, eh?

Corrupt .dat

Delete gw.dat, install new gw.dat from most recent Guild wars chapter you have, run using -image switch.

Originally Posted by ME!

If you have a shortcut for guild Wars on your desktop, right-click it and select "properties". On the window that opens, click the Shortcut tab, then the button that says "Find target..."

Unless you have Vista, of course - in which case you have to trawl the depths of the Games folder. Which I hate.

[edit] Damn, you posted again before I could reply. Yes, it is gw.dat and yes, you can take it off the cd. Uste the most recent cd you have: Eye of the North > Nightfall > Factions > Prophecies.

Even if you take it from the installation cd, I would still use the -image switch, otherwise you will be downloading data here, there and everywhere.

If you don't have a Guild Wars shortcut on your desktop, make one. Here's how.

Open the folder containing gw.exe, as mentioned before, probably C:\Program Files\Guild Wars

Right-click AND HOLD on gw.exe and drag it to the desktop. When you release the right mouse button, select "Create a shortcut here"

Now you have a GW shortcut, do the following.

Right click on the GW shortcut and select "Properties"

Click on the "Shortcut" tab

In the box marked "Target" it wil have "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\gw.exe"

Change this to "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\gw.exe" -image Note that there is a space between " and -image.

Cick the Ok button.

Now, when you double-click this icon, it will download every update to the gw.dat since that version was released. It mat take a long time, but it is very much worth the wait.

Once it has finished downloading, you can re-edit the shortcut to remove the -image OR, as many have done, leave it there for whenever you need to -image again and make a separate shortcut for playin the game.

Originally Posted by scalpachette

ok but what is image switch all about?

Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief

No, you can keep your GW.dat file provided it is uncorrupted in the first place.


If you had to remove your GW.dat file, you can tell the newly installed client to download ALL files available to it (this includes every single map, texture, everything) and rebuild a new GW.dat file. To do this, right click on the shortcut you use to open Guild Wars. Click properties. Under the shortcut tab, you will notice a bar that says, "Target".

You will see something very similar to this:

"E:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe"

Your E:\ will most likely be a C:\. Now, put a space after the ' " ' mark at the end. Type -image. Press apply, and the OK. Act as if you are opening the game via the shortcut. Rather then open like normal, the game will now download everything possible, and then will close upon finishing. Remove the -image command and reapply/OK it. Open the game as normal now.