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Zorgy · Sep 04, 2007, 12:05 PM // 12:05

In order to play GWEN as soon as released, I decided to DOWNLOAD it.

Since, everything is working perfectly well. I decided to defragment my HD & a message is saying that 1 file cannot be defragmented. The file is:

\Program Files\GUILD WARS\Gw.dat

size = 3,46 GB
fragments = 32

Is it normal ???

Do I have to contact GW customer service ????

Thank you in advance for your reply.

Why_Me · Sep 04, 2007, 12:18 PM // 12:18

Can you defrag the rest of the hard drive or does it abort the defrag altogether? Read the sticky about defraging gw, it says something about the defrag programs might skip certain files because they are too large, strange, whatever. Since the size of the dat file obviously increased because gwen was downloaded, this might be the case. However, if the rest of your hard drive cannot be defragmented, then I have no idea what the problem is.

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Even if you defrag your drive regularly (and face it, most of us don't), apparently the process often skips your GW.dat file because it is too large, ungainly, doesn't match the algorithms, whatever.

Anyway, Vyk has been suffering from horrible lag with Factions - in fact, increasingly bad lag since she installed the game. So we've been looking for a solution.

Thanks to this thread (see below), I learned that some peoples' lag is due to caching issues from a very large, unwieldy and badly fragmented data file - as we've been downloading all these streaming updates, the problem has only gotten worse.

What to do? A small program called Contig works as a single-file defragmenter, and is quite easy to use.

Download it here.

Unzip the exe to your C:\WINDOWS\system32 directory.

Click Start -> Run -> 'cmd'

At the command prompt, type: contig -a "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.dat" (this is assuming you installed it to the default directory). This will tell you how fragmented your file is.

To defrag it, run the same line again but without the -a flag. You might need to do a few passes to get it down to its minimum file size.

I got Vyk's file down from 470 fragments to 3. She's not home yet so I don't know if this will fix it for her, but regardless of whether this is the source of her trouble, it can't be good to be running such a massive and fragmented file, putting your computer through a lot of work. So I thought I'd recommend it anyway.

If you've been having lag troubles, give this a shot, and if it helps let me know.

Link Here

Zorgy · Sep 04, 2007, 02:29 PM // 14:29

Thx for your prompt reply, i gonna investigate further & keep you informed.

I own the 3 GW = I bought the 3 game boxes & I only downloaded GWEN.

Before GWEN I deframented my HD every month and never such a message occured.

Thats why I post this thread, as I dont want troubles playing in the future. I play since may 2005 & NEVER encountered any problem. GJ Anet