Curse

wick · May 15, 2008, 10:18 PM // 22:18

Well I thought this was a game bug, but someone in the bug report forum said my DAT might be corrupted. In my game, my male sin attack has been different and my female ranger doesn't /sit. Whenever I use /sit, the camera view goes down but I see her standing and will occasionally do /boo.

Is there any way to fix this and prevent it from happening again?

Snograt · May 15, 2008, 10:39 PM // 22:39

Delete gw.dat, copy the gw.dat from your latest GW disk (EotN if you have it, otherwise Nightfall) then run Guild Wars using the -image switch. Leave for some time (hours) then all will be good.

wick · May 15, 2008, 11:30 PM // 23:30

Where can I locate the DAT file? And can uninstalling then reinstalling it work?

Covah · May 15, 2008, 11:33 PM // 23:33

D:\Program Files\Guild Wars

Your .dat file will be in there, quickest way to to do what Snograt said and leave it over night.

Brianna · May 15, 2008, 11:58 PM // 23:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Covah

D:\Program Files\Guild Wars

Your .dat file will be in there, quickest way to to do what Snograt said and leave it over night.

Or C:\Program Files\Guild Wars

It depends on which drive you installed it on, but I'm assuming the OP did C.

wick · May 16, 2008, 12:04 AM // 00:04

This is what I get when I go to the C Folder.

Which is the dat? Sorry for my stupidity, unless it said 'Guild Wars-DAT' I have ono clue which one it is.

Also- I get a CD to copy the DAT?

Snograt · May 16, 2008, 12:09 AM // 00:09

If you have a shortcut for guild Wars on your desktop, right-click it and select "properties". On the window that opens, click the Shortcut tab, then the button that says "Find target..."

Unless you have Vista, of course - in which case you have to trawl the depths of the Games folder. Which I hate.

[edit] Damn, you posted again before I could reply. Yes, it is gw.dat and yes, you can take it off the cd. Uste the most recent cd you have: Eye of the North > Nightfall > Factions > Prophecies.

Even if you take it from the installation cd, I would still use the -image switch, otherwise you will be downloading data here, there and everywhere.

If you don't have a Guild Wars shortcut on your desktop, make one. Here's how.

Open the folder containing gw.exe, as mentioned before, probably C:\Program Files\Guild Wars

Right-click AND HOLD on gw.exe and drag it to the desktop. When you release the right mouse button, select "Create a shortcut here"

Now you have a GW shortcut, do the following.

Right click on the GW shortcut and select "Properties"

Click on the "Shortcut" tab

In the box marked "Target" it wil have "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\gw.exe"

Change this to "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\gw.exe" -image Note that there is a space between " and -image.

Cick the Ok button.

Now, when you double-click this icon, it will download every update to the gw.dat since that version was released. It mat take a long time, but it is very much worth the wait.

Once it has finished downloading, you can re-edit the shortcut to remove the -image OR, as many have done, leave it there for whenever you need to -image again and make a separate shortcut for playin the game.

Brianna · May 16, 2008, 12:11 AM // 00:11

''Gw'' MPEG Media File is your dat, because of the 3,755,104 Size, nothing else can be your .dat file.

I think I had the same problem when I installed VLC Media Player, it made my .dat look like that until I told it to not manage any of my files by default, then it went back to normal.

Though I do not believe this changes the functionality of the .dat file by any means, I wouldn't imagine that it would, but I just can't confirm that.

Snograt · May 16, 2008, 12:21 AM // 00:21

Oops - didn't see the picture because I'm at work.

Ah well, good advice anyway

Oh, and the file association is a pain but shouldn't affect functionality. If you double click it, that media player would try (and fail) to open it. I hate programs that associate by default, especially something as common as a .dat file.

zamial · May 16, 2008, 01:30 AM // 01:30

NEXT DEFRAG THE HARD DRIVE!!!!!!!!

soz this will save us more unneeded posts lol.

Admael · May 16, 2008, 05:00 AM // 05:00

Delete the dat and use -image to rebuilt it! The only sure way to prevent the bloat as well!