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Installing all 3 Games

monkeyspymonkeyspy Member Posts: 196
in Guild Wars
My friend purchased all 3 games awhile back  and was getting ready to install them when he asked me a question I wasn't sure about.  I'm aware you can pretty much install any version of the game, and then it will just download the other games as you progress through the game and load each new zone.  But now I'm at a point where I'm reinstalling my OS from scratch, so I'm gonna have to reinstall Guildwars myself.



So the question is this.  If I install each Guildwars game (prophecies, factions, nightfall) will that cut back on having to download each zone for each of the games, or will nightfall installation pretty much override all of them (since it will be the last one I install) and end up having to download each zone from prophecies and factions as I play through them?



Hopefully that question made sense.

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  • BentBent Member CommonPosts: 581
    Just install using nightfall... It is the most current build.  I assume the nightfall disk has "everything"



    Simply because it is cheap to add a few MB to a dvd/cd then bandwidth.
  • SerlingSerling Member Posts: 662

    "So the question is this. If I install each Guildwars game (prophecies, factions, nightfall) will that cut back on having to download each zone for each of the games, or will nightfall installation pretty much override all of them (since it will be the last one I install) and end up having to download each zone from prophecies and factions as I play through them?"

    Nightfall doesn't have Prophecies or Factions in it, so if you intend to use all three on the same account, I'd install each starting with Prophecies. Just make sure when you install Factions and nightfall, you select "add to an existing account."

    I just had to do a clean OS install on an upgraded system, and this is the way I did it. If you have broadband it won't take long to download the zone data.

  • monkeyspymonkeyspy Member Posts: 196
    Excellent.  I never installed one over the other so I'll definitely look for the upgrade button there when I'm done installing all the programs I need for my computer.
  • patri0tzpatri0tz Member UncommonPosts: 185
    The Guild Wars installation consists of 2 files... gw.exe (the program) and gw.dat (the data).  Installing one chapter after the other just overwrites the dat file with a newer version.  You only need to install Nightfall to get the latest dat file.
  • QSatuQSatu Member UncommonPosts: 1,796
    You could backup *.dat file and then instal NF, after that put the *.dat file back.
  • UploadUpload Member Posts: 679
    I didn't needed the NF and Factions CD's to install them. I installed prophecies and just add those new key. The next time you entered the game, it would download all the new files automaticly. So I guess you don't need to install each game individual.
  • JelloB2000JelloB2000 Member CommonPosts: 1,848

    Originally posted by patri0tz
    The Guild Wars installation consists of 2 files... gw.exe (the program) and gw.dat (the data). Installing one chapter after the other just overwrites the dat file with a newer version. You only need to install Nightfall to get the latest dat file.

    I agree, just install Nightfall because it has already everything you need. (The .dat file with all data for all 3 campaigns is between 2.5-2.9gb, the single layer dvd that you install from can hold 4.3gb).
    If you install older versions you download the files you need but thats slower than installing from them dvd.

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