download updates ahead of time? - Guild Wars Forums

Crenait · Jan 12, 2008, 01:05 AM // 01:05

does anyone know if I can download the area updates ahead of time? I am playing from the downloaded client as I cannot find my disks at the moment, and it gets annoying having to wait 5 minutes to load a zone, especially when im in a party. Is there a way I can download everything at once and not have to wait for it in game?

zyphern · Jan 12, 2008, 01:38 AM // 01:38

It is possible to pre download all guildwars content to your hard drive overnight! Simply do the following...

Right click your Guild Wars shortcut (the direct .exe icon itself will not work)
Click Properties
Where it says target, go to the end of what is already there (after the last "), place a space and type -image
It should look like this: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image
Hit okay, and double click your shortcut, this is referred to as imaging by players

In order to play GW you will need to remove -image, you could also make a separate shortcut for playing, and updating.

Jan 12, 2008, 01:05 AM // 01:05	#1
Crenait Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Jan 2006	download updates ahead of time? does anyone know if I can download the area updates ahead of time? I am playing from the downloaded client as I cannot find my disks at the moment, and it gets annoying having to wait 5 minutes to load a zone, especially when im in a party. Is there a way I can download everything at once and not have to wait for it in game?

Jan 12, 2008, 01:38 AM // 01:38	#2
zyphern Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Mar 2007 Guild: Knights Assassins Profession: Me/E	Imageing It is possible to pre download all guildwars content to your hard drive overnight! Simply do the following... Right click your Guild Wars shortcut (the direct .exe icon itself will not work) Click Properties Where it says target, go to the end of what is already there (after the last "), place a space and type -image It should look like this: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image Hit okay, and double click your shortcut, this is referred to as imaging by players In order to play GW you will need to remove -image, you could also make a separate shortcut for playing, and updating.