Ravion.4635 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Hello. Today I received the new build message in game an turned it off and started again to get the update. I'm still waiting and it has 93K+ files downloading. Sometimes updater shows it speed as 0 kb/sec. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to wait? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolcor.2601 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 The new update is downloading very slowly for me. I'm not sure if this is intentional or if there is something wrong with the update itself. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spankyed.4735 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 same! very slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bthomas.3605 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tynious.2069 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 its not even downloading any more... cant log into account through launcher ... stuck at 0% .. have to cntrl/alt/delete to close launcher... get ready for a full game scan in doing so.. =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerkralle.1435 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) Download is going from like 1kb/sec to 200kb/sec very rapidly it's very fast in changing the speed of the download. I am in Germany and have an account on an EU server. So i am not sure what's causing this, but it's not a pleasant experience. I am just glad it does download it at all. I am happy that i have decent connection. Sadly not true in all areas in Germany. Update: Saw a spike of 400kb/sec.... Very weird behaviour. Nothing to worry about now, but if you from Arenanet could investigate if there might be more problems in the background we are not aware of right now... Worrisome. Edited January 10, 2023 by Tigerkralle.1435 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paradox.2546 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Mine seemed to be stuck for about 5 minutes, after that the login window showed and it began downloading the files. But very slowly too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booey Bubblehead.4890 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Same here, waiting 15 minutes thus far. Download speed goes to 1mb/sec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schimmi.6872 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 4 minutes ago, Tigerkralle.1435 said: Download is going from like 1kb/sec to 200kb/sec very rapidly it's very fast in changing the speed of the download. I am in Germany and have an account on an EU server. So i am not sure what's causing this, but it's not a pleasant experience. I am just glad it does download it at all. I am happy that i have decent connection. Sadly not true in all areas in Germany. Update: Saw a spike of 400kb/sec.... Very weird behaviour. Nothing to worry about now, but if you from Arenanet could investigate if there might be more problems in the background we are not aware of right now... Worrisome. The speed changes happen because it downloads 100k+ small files today, normally there are much less files. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bthomas.3605 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 This is the longest I've waited for 500mb to download in 15 years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zohane.7208 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 In my experience this happens when there's a lot of really small files to download, and it seemed to be the case today. Probably lots of metadata to process for each file. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Good to see that I wasn't the only one with a super slow download rate. 😁 Guess they've uploaded a lot into this patch in preparation of future updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemie banger.9624 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 My PC wont connect even. My laptop is slow but downloading :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Min.5834 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 I am been using 1 Gbps fibre broadband for few years now and usually I have no problem updating GW2, it's super fast speed averaging less than a minute. This latest update patch, I have been downloading for more than an hour now and not even half the patch is done?! I relogin, reset my internet, nothing works. Used to be 25-40 mbps now I see only 10-30 kbps download. What is happening? Anyone else having same issue? Ya and I have no problem streaming movies and downloading other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGrimm.5624 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 1 minute ago, Min Min.9368 said: I am been using 1 Gbps fibre broadband for few years now and usually I have no problem updating GW2, it's super fast speed averaging less than a minute. This latest update patch, I have been downloading for more than an hour now and not even half the patch is done?! I relogin, reset my internet, nothing works. Used to be 25-40 mbps now I see only 10-30 kbps download. What is happening? Anyone else having same issue? Ya and I have no problem streaming movies and downloading other stuff. Its looking like its re-verifying all the files versus just the files for the update. So the speed delay might be that aka the drive checking versus actual downloads.. I think when it first started it said something 175K files to download. Don't have a fast connection but its chewing thru the 175K files pretty quick with min downloading. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) Its because there's hundreds of thousands of small files, which it has to download and patch and this takes alot of time due to it having to go through the archive (Gw2.dat) file by file. You can only reach a high transfer bandwidth when you have files that are very large, not a few kilobytes, because your system has to spend more time on the CPU, memory and disk patching small files than it does in the few milliseconds it takes to download that amount. Edited January 11, 2023 by Mariyuuna.6508 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent.6137 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 8 minutes ago, Min Min.9368 said: I see only 10-30 kbps download. What is happening? Anyone else having same issue? Same. Usually takes 1 min for a file this size- about 1.5gb. But the download speed was hovering around 50 to 75 kbps although it does spike up ro 1 or 2 mbps but never last more than a few secs. Could be the network route for some of us. I'm in western part of Ganada, btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGrimm.5624 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 I guess they wanted to give us all more time for Forum Wars 2, The Reply! Almost done, as I said saw it spend a lot of time spinning file counts without adding to download size so its hard to tell what went on here. Couple of guild mates starting up are seeing the same mass file checks or I would assume I had hit something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Min.5834 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Silent.6137 said: Same. Usually takes 1 min for a file this size- about 1.5gb. But the download speed was hovering around 50 to 75 kbps although it does spike up ro 1 or 2 mbps but never last more than a few secs. Could be the network route for some of us. I'm in western part of Ganada, btw. Same here too. Once in a while, it spikes up to more than 100 kbps but only for a few seconds and then dropped back to 10-30 kbps speed 😕 Now I am still downloading hovering at 20-50 kbps, up and down, up and down... Never happened before and I hope that this is a one time thing due to routing or what not. Thank you all for the replies 🧧 Edited January 11, 2023 by Min Min.9368 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinisterSlay.6973 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) Yeah the update notes are oddly brief for an update that appears all the games files? Edited January 11, 2023 by SinisterSlay.6973 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 As I replied in this other thread, its limited by the speed of your computer, not your connection. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 2 minutes ago, SinisterSlay.6973 said: Yeah the update notes are oddly brief for an update that appears all the games files? Its pretty much in preparation for an entirely new graphics engine as they remove DirectX 9 from the game, shifting to DirectX 11 entirely and basing all future code and map design on its featureset. Right now although DX11 was implemented the engine is still a hybrid spaghetti. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent.6137 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 5 minutes ago, Mariyuuna.6508 said: Its because there's hundreds of thousands of small files, which it has to download and patch and this takes alot of time due to it having to go through the archive (Gw2.dat) file by file. You can only reach a high transfer bandwidth when you have files that are very large, not a few kilobytes, because your system has to spend more time on the CPU, memory and disk patching small files than it does in the few milliseconds it takes to download that amount. It doesn't matter much if it's 1 huge file or lots of small files. They're downloaded into a cache file. Any updates always involves 1000's of small files. It is extremely unusual when the download speed is less than 1/1000 of the normal speed. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinisterSlay.6973 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 9 minutes ago, Mariyuuna.6508 said: Its pretty much in preparation for an entirely new graphics engine as they remove DirectX 9 from the game, shifting to DirectX 11 entirely and basing all future code and map design on its featureset. Right now although DX11 was implemented the engine is still a hybrid spaghetti. That could be it but it feels unlikely since they just use a middleware anyways. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) 15 hours ago, SinisterSlay.6973 said: That could be it but it feels unlikely since they just use a middleware anyways. They just posted an announcement saying they're increasing the system requirements and removing DX9. Edited January 11, 2023 by Mariyuuna.6508 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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