Curse

RachaelH · Jan 23, 2007, 05:21 PM // 17:21

Hiya,
After I reinstalled Guild Wars after a hard drive clean up I found that some players have giant white boxes over thier heads. It seems that the game hasn't loaded in a certain hat properly, and i've tried reinstalling again to no avail.

Any ideas of how to fix this?
Thanks for the help

moriz · Jan 23, 2007, 06:07 PM // 18:07

the simplest way is to put -image in your GW shortcut's command line. that will force the game to download everything in one go. that should fix the problem. just be prepared to wait a few hours though.

Envious · Jan 24, 2007, 01:44 AM // 01:44

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Right-click your 'Guild Wars' launcher, then go to 'Properties'; then, there should be a command line along the lines of this:

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

Change it to and add -image to the end so it should look like this:

"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image

Apply, then OK. Then run Guild Wars launcher; it will begin to download everything for GW of the Server, leave it for a couple of hours to download, then when it's done. Right-click again and remove the -image of the command line you added before; then your set to play.

~ Josh.

This should answer your question.

Kuldebar Valiturus · Jan 24, 2007, 02:19 AM // 02:19

Also, to save time next time you reinstall GW or do a PC renovation....just back up the GW.DAT file. Makes life easier, specially if you don't have a blazingly fast Net connection.

An external HDD is a good way to facilitate large back ups.

RachaelH · Jan 24, 2007, 01:43 PM // 13:43

Worked thnx guys

Deathwing · Jan 24, 2007, 01:50 PM // 13:50

I've run into the same problem - had to reformat my drive and reinstall everything after a nasty virus infection, and now probably about 10% or so of the people around when I go into GW have giant white cubes where their heads should be.

I did figure that it might be just a file that hadn't downloaded yet, so I left it running overnight last night, and it grabbed about 1.5 gigs worth of files...But the white cubes were still showing up when I tried it this morning. Is it possible there was still something missing if I didn't use the -image option?

I have Windows (XP Pro SP2) itself completely updated again, and i'm running a GEForce 7600GS with the latest drivers.

Thanks much for any help.

RachaelH · Jan 24, 2007, 02:22 PM // 14:22

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Originally Posted by Deathwing

I've run into the same problem - had to reformat my drive and reinstall everything after a nasty virus infection, and now probably about 10% or so of the people around when I go into GW have giant white cubes where their heads should be.

I did figure that it might be just a file that hadn't downloaded yet, so I left it running overnight last night, and it grabbed about 1.5 gigs worth of files...But the white cubes were still showing up when I tried it this morning. Is it possible there was still something missing if I didn't use the -image option?

I have Windows (XP Pro SP2) itself completely updated again, and i'm running a GEForce 7600GS with the latest drivers.

Thanks much for any help.

Exact same issue for me
To fix it I installed the game client from guildwars.com and ran that setup. Then I closed the window when it said connecting to anet and re-ran gw.exe with the gw.exe -image until it was finished (left it on overnight as my net is slow at the moment).

Deathwing · Jan 24, 2007, 02:30 PM // 14:30

Thanks - i'll give that a try after I get home from work today.

I thought for sure it would grab whatever was missing after downloading over a gig last night, but I suppose it doesn't take much if there was still anything.

RachaelH · Jan 24, 2007, 02:40 PM // 14:40

You may have to restart the 'gw.exe - image' a couple of times due to the 'disk full' bug that can appear even when there is plenty of hard drive and page file space. Just click ok if an error msg appears and run it again - it will continue from where it left off.