Help!!!!! My game loads very slow!!!

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Phirechyld
Pre-Searing Cadet
#1
Hello Guys,

I just bought a new laptop to play Guild Wars on after my old one crashed. It's a HP dv4-1365dx. I downloaded Guild Wars and everything came up fine. Except for one thing. The download screen that pops up after I select my character moves snail slow! I left it up for two hours and only half of the files were extracted. Has this ever happened to anyone before. I really need some help. I updated my BIOS and made an exception for GW.exe to make it through the firewall. And still files get extracted at 14kbs!!

Card name: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip type: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
DAC type: Internal
Display Memory: 1759 MB
Dedicated Memory: 64 MB
Shared Memory: 1695 MB

Any suggestions? I have yet played my Guild Wars since buying this computer 3 days ago.
Lord Sojar
Lord Sojar
The Fallen One
#2
You are redownloading the entire game, and most likely trying to zone into a large zone (like Lions Arch, Great Temple of Balthazar)

You will want to use the -image and let it download for 24 hrs straight to rebuild the gw.dat file. Once it has finished, zones will load like normal.
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Phirechyld
Pre-Searing Cadet
#3
Thanks, but uhhhh... How do I do that when all I am given is the pc client on the website?
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Phirechyld
Pre-Searing Cadet
#4
Should I just let the location download screen continue on instead of trying to restart it?