Curse

Fureian · Oct 14, 2007, 09:55 PM // 21:55

I Bought the game today and put it in my computer to install it yet nothing happend, i go to my computer and look for it in the drives but its not there. It dosent pop up with any instructions to install it, nothing happens at all! Oh and by the way this is Guild Wars Factions im talking about. Please Answer Me

lordpwn · Oct 14, 2007, 11:28 PM // 23:28

Do any other discs work in the drive? Have you tried the disc in some other computer to see if there's something wrong with the disc itself?

You don't exactly need the game disc to install and play the game - just the access key. If you can't get the disc to work download the game client from the Guild Wars official site and run it - if you haven't run the game before it'll ask you where to install the game and download common game files from ArenaNet's servers before starting, and then download the rest as needed.

If this causes long loading times, you can force the client to download every file in the game by running the client with the command line argument '-image' (w/o quotes), though that's likely to take a few hours - the full data file's size is over 3.5 gigabytes.

Fureian · Oct 15, 2007, 12:01 AM // 00:01

thx I havent tried it on an other pc yet, and i guess if that doesent work ill have to download it. thanks

iridescentfyre · Oct 15, 2007, 06:21 PM // 18:21

It sounds like a dead CD-ROM, or perhaps the Factions disc is a DVD (I don't remember...) and your drive can't read DVD-ROM discs? Either way, I'd just download the client software from guildwars.com.

And just to save you some time, there's several campaigns for Guild Wars (Factions being one of them), but they all use the same client-side software. You'll never need to install anything ever again, only add access keys. That may save you some confusion in the future.