eXruina.4956 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Wondering if anybody else is experiencing this. My game seems to be patching absurdly slow, like 10-20kb/s on a 200mb/s connection, did speedtest and tried downloading other things and speed seems to be ok. o~O Is anyone else experiencing this? 11 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falsegod.7614 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Same issue here.. I have around 250 Mbps and it's downloading super slow. This has been an issue for me with GW2 for a very long time... game launcher is definitely super weird 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverbum.7634 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 The same problem - 45kb/sec 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radiancee.6537 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Had the same issue, jumping between ~45kb/s to 1mb/s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neighto.7386 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Yeah moving at a snails pace for me... says the game is "playable" but when I load in, 80% of the map doesnt load up, so the game is not playable at all lol Gave up trying to play and will just have to wait it out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigela.6352 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Same issue here. Same on Wintersday and same on the prior patch. Not experiencing anything similar in any other game or app on this computer. Only this horrendously slow with Guild Wars 2. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlion.3065 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) Same here ... 1-10KB/s and the forum pages are also loading extremely slow. Only connections to Anet servers are affected. Everything else works just fine. (from Germany) Maybe Anet hired Elon Musk to "check" which parts of their infrastructure are actually needed. Update: It took roughly 2 hours to join the club of "locked-heal-skillers". Totally worth it! Edited January 10, 2023 by xlion.3065 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alteriel valie.4751 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 yeap same here,45mins and it is at 47%.Speed is 5-20 kb/s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trejgon.9367 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Yeah mine was downloading around 20-30 KB/s and I usually average 1-2 MB/s when downloading things (GW2 in the past included), I was thinking it's some wonkery on my end untill I noticed this thread over here..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoomlolly.1248 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 So much for playing - 1 KB / sec - sitting at 2% after 40 mins.... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigarta.3841 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Also at 1 KB/Sec. Even snails move faster than this downlaod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy.5981 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) Experiencing the same thing as everyone else in this thread so far. Something in the back of my mind is sort of telling me that this happened a while back when they did some sort of update to every map in the game world, which used a ton of very tiny files? This patch is well over 130k files, maybe its something to do with that? Edit - starting to run a little quicker but it has now downloaded over 500Mb, thats quite a bit larger than normal Festival patches, wonder if its something to do with the upcoming DX11 changeover? Further Edit - Finally completed. Total patch size is just over 900Mb Think we have downloaded more than a Festival update.... Edited January 10, 2023 by Andy.5981 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blur.3465 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Yep same issue here. Was wondering if it was my internet that went bonkers or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigela.6352 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 32 minutes ago, Sigela.6352 said: Same issue here. Same on Wintersday and same on the prior patch. Not experiencing anything similar in any other game or app on this computer. Only this horrendously slow with Guild Wars 2. And it has stopped dead three times for so long that the download bar itself has vanished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Healix.5819 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 The patch had 123k files that were < 1 KB and another 39k < 10 KB. Small files take longer to request than to download, so it's simply not possible to reach higher speeds. The same is true if you try to copy files like this on your own drive vs copying 1 large file (minutes vs seconds to copy). You can somewhat speed it up by using the option "-patchconnections 20" to double the number of files GW2 downloads at a time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphsoaty.1978 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Same I have 100MBs down but with GW2 atm only 2-200kbs down.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxof.8752 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) 5-10kb................................................................................................................................................................................................. Quality update from Anet starting a new year 👍 really give me the confidence. Edited January 10, 2023 by foxof.8752 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthonev.6452 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Internet speed isn't the issue, its the fact it is patching 165K files for some reason and most of those files are very small, so its as much about 'processing' as it is download. My guess is that they made some changes to the shader files for DX11 and that basically affected every shader file the game has and those files are just about always very small. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sen.7530 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Start the patch when the announcement happens. It's almost 2 hours and I'm still at 80% lol what is going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galmac.4680 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Same, but now done. Hope the next patch in some weeks is faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaliwenda.3428 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Yes, very slow here. I've never seen it take this long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphsoaty.1978 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Anthonev.6452 said: Internet speed isn't the issue, its the fact it is patching 165K files for some reason and most of those files are very small, so its as much about 'processing' as it is download. Most Steam games pack the files in one big file and after the download they unpack it, its a way faster with a SSD today. Edited January 10, 2023 by Raphsoaty.1978 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxof.8752 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Raphsoaty.1978 said: Most Steam games pack the files in one big file and after the download they unpack it, its a way faster with a SSD today. yea, but they forgot to update their decade old game updating system. Anyone tried delete the game files and redownload the whole game again instead of update patching old files? At this speed, redownload full 60GB maybe more faster... Edited January 10, 2023 by foxof.8752 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigarta.3841 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 We get an ANet response for the healing skill but not to this problem? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luthan.5236 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Took some time. But no problem - it finally finished. Just wait a bit. Maybe servers busy atm with everyone downloading it. Usually there is no problem. But there might be something now ... that fixes itself maybe. If we just wait. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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