So I downloaded the game this week. (Took me 2 days due to my wonderful Aussie 500kbps). I was in game earlier today and now when I activate the client I am back to downloading the whole 20Gb of the game again. WTH!?
I’ve search the harddrive and cant find any trace of the game, just the GW2 Client.exe file.
I’m curious if you have the Gw2.exe in your temp folder by accident. The easiest way to resolve this issue is to pull the executable out of the temp drive and place it on your C drive. You can do this by following the steps below:
1. Hold down the Windows button on the keyboard and hit the “R” key.
2. Paste in the following line: C:\users\%username%\AppData\Local\Temp
3. Click “OK.”
4. Find Gw2.exe and right-click on the file and select “Cut.”
5. Go to your C drive and into the Games folder. If there is no Games folder, create one.
6. In the Games folder, create a folder called “Guild Wars 2” and open that folder.
7. In the Guild Wars 2 folder, right-click and select “Paste."
8. Run Gw2.exe from the Guild Wars 2 folder.
The game should launch and immediately start patching. Two additional files should be created: Gw2.dat and Gw2.tmp
