Jan 05, 2007, 06:28 PM // 18:28
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#21
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Lion's Arch Merchant
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rakeris
Haha, I just redownloaded it all, and mine is over 6GB...Woot?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sykoone
I use the -image switch at every update (even the minor ones) to keep load times down, and my dat file is at 2.93.
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This fact is very intriguing.
If two persons (and rest mentioned above) are using build-in-game command to do the same and download all the data why there is so big difference?
A question to others: my file is still around 3640MB - did you notice any differences in your GW.dat file's size after this week period?
Last edited by Lex; Jan 05, 2007 at 06:30 PM // 18:30..
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Jan 05, 2007, 09:18 PM // 21:18
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#22
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Mar 2006
Guild: The Lost Dynasty [SEEK]
Profession: W/Mo
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As of today, at 5 days of having GW installed on a new comp. GW.dat is 4.7GB
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Jan 05, 2007, 10:03 PM // 22:03
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#23
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Oct 2005
Guild: Kinetic Fusion [kF]
Profession: Me/
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3.2gb here
This is on a brand new comp with the -image tag.
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Jan 06, 2007, 04:59 PM // 16:59
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#24
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Sep 2005
Profession: R/
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2.96GB on a dat from original Prophecies days. Always use -image before I play. I find it fluctuates depending on what you do in the game... the more you switch characters the bigger it gets. When I did that it grew by 300MB then when I played one character it dropped back to what it was before.
Weird.
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Jan 06, 2007, 10:31 PM // 22:31
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#25
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Krytan Explorer
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I posted how big my GW.dat was already(3.31GB), but now it has changed. About a week ago I noticed it was now 3.04GB. It had gone down by 0.27GB. It since went up by 0.01GB to 3.05GB.
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Jan 06, 2007, 10:59 PM // 22:59
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#26
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Ninja Unveiler
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Louisiana, USA
Guild: Boston Guild[BG]
Profession: W/Me
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmy_logic
2.96GB on a dat from original Prophecies days. Always use -image before I play. I find it fluctuates depending on what you do in the game... the more you switch characters the bigger it gets. When I did that it grew by 300MB then when I played one character it dropped back to what it was before.
Weird.
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Could most likely be User Information and Character Information caches saved over time so that the game does not have to reload them from the server.
My dat as of now is 3.09GBs with two separate accounts played on one machine.
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Jan 06, 2007, 11:01 PM // 23:01
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#27
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Ninja Unveiler
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Louisiana, USA
Guild: Boston Guild[BG]
Profession: W/Me
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Double POST.
(I HATE this forum software, a lot of money for nothing.)
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Jan 07, 2007, 04:12 AM // 04:12
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#28
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: May 2006
Location: The Netherlands
Guild: The Biggyverse [PLEB]
Profession: Me/
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So, the conclusion is: there is no and never will be an official size.
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Jan 07, 2007, 04:36 AM // 04:36
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#29
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Stoke, England
Guild: The Godless [GOD]
Profession: W/
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Just ran an -image and mine is at 2.82GB.
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Jan 07, 2007, 04:43 AM // 04:43
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#30
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Frost Gate Guardian
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I've read this thread Yesterday, noticed that my gw.dat was 7gb long, deleted and re-downloaded it today. Now it's 9.3gb, and I really think it's messing up my loadings, sometime they take 20 secs, sometimes 3 minutes. I can't really understand what is happening. I have 256mb RAM, but I don't think that's really the cause, since I've played in a machine with the same specs and the loads took like 20 segs (Like my machine does sometimes). And I've read about some people with bugged GW.dat who screws their load times.
Anyone knows anyway to fix that? I know I need more RAM, but it cannot be THAT difference from 512mb to 256mb, like 2m30s.
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Jan 07, 2007, 05:09 AM // 05:09
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#31
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Stoke, England
Guild: The Godless [GOD]
Profession: W/
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You'd be surprsied at how much difference more RAM would make. For instance, if you're using Windows XP then that alone can suck up nearly 200MB of your RAM.
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Jan 07, 2007, 05:27 AM // 05:27
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#32
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Frost Gate Guardian
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But that much difference? I really can't believe.
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Jan 07, 2007, 05:46 AM // 05:46
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#33
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Meadow
Profession: Rt/
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Mine is setting at 2.76GB and this was a clean install that I did from the Nightfall DVD. It has all the updates as of Jan 6, 2007 and was reinstalled near the halloween event.
Make sure that you delete the gw folder in program files but move your screens or templates out before deleting the folder after the uninstall.
Then do your reinstall and redownload all the updates.
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Jan 07, 2007, 07:46 AM // 07:46
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#34
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Ninja Unveiler
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Louisiana, USA
Guild: Boston Guild[BG]
Profession: W/Me
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Aqualung
I've read this thread Yesterday, noticed that my gw.dat was 7gb long, deleted and re-downloaded it today. Now it's 9.3gb, and I really think it's messing up my loadings, sometime they take 20 secs, sometimes 3 minutes. I can't really understand what is happening. I have 256mb RAM, but I don't think that's really the cause, since I've played in a machine with the same specs and the loads took like 20 segs (Like my machine does sometimes). And I've read about some people with bugged GW.dat who screws their load times.
Anyone knows anyway to fix that? I know I need more RAM, but it cannot be THAT difference from 512mb to 256mb, like 2m30s.
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Did you try deleting the client program and downloading a copy from the Guild Wars website?
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Jan 07, 2007, 08:25 AM // 08:25
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#35
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Sep 2005
Profession: R/
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I always install using the most latest CD/DVD from Arena and then run the game with the -image straight after. Although when the setup program commences the update after installing the .dat from the CD/DVD I cancel that and then run the -image switch.
Regards
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Jan 07, 2007, 09:56 AM // 09:56
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#36
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Frost Gate Guardian
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Omega X
Did you try deleting the client program and downloading a copy from the Guild Wars website?
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No I didn't, I just deleted the gw.dat and let it redownload again. I'll delete everything now.
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Jan 07, 2007, 05:15 PM // 17:15
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#37
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Illinois
Guild: Feners Reve
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It seems it is based on some extent on how fast you download? Or how many "sessions" you download it in. As I recently went to a friends house, brought my PC and downloaded all of the GW.dat in around 2 hours. Which was 3.6GB. Where on dial up, I was downloading it every night (switching the GW.dat file from my old one to a new one every night) and it was up to nearly 4GB and was only around half way done.
Last edited by Rakeris; Jan 07, 2007 at 05:23 PM // 17:23..
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Jan 07, 2007, 06:00 PM // 18:00
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#38
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Academy Page
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The size of the Gw.dat depends on your download speed.
We had a long thread on the german guild-wars.info forum months ago:
http://guildwars-forum.onlinewelten....d.php?t=102612
To get a clean Gw.dat do this:
(Make sure you have enouth hd space)
Run gw.exe -image to get all files.
Then copy this files from the GuildWars CD into an new folder on your hd:
Code:
Setup.exe
\Data
\Data\cdrom.ini
\Data\config.ini
\Data\Gw
\Data\Gw\GwSetup.exe
Modify \Data\cdrom.ini to this:
Code:
[CDROM]
Program=Guild Wars
Chapter=
Disc=1
Move your Gw.dat in the \Data\Gw folder
Deinstall Guild Wars
Reinstall Guild Wars from the copied files on your hd.
Last edited by ObiWan07; Jan 07, 2007 at 06:03 PM // 18:03..
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Jan 07, 2007, 11:43 PM // 23:43
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#39
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Frost Gate Guardian
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Thanks ObiWan07, reduced the file from 9gb to 2.6gb.
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Jan 08, 2007, 10:19 AM // 10:19
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#40
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Done.
Guild: [JUNK]
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super dooper thanks obi!
my file size was 5+ gigs - now it shrank to the normal 2.7!
thanks again!
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