Letti.7269 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Returning player, so I still had the game installed from 3 years ago. I bought PoF this morning, and wanted to start the Spark the flame quest. Game client needed to download files to be able to take the airship; but the progress bar didn't move. I have cleared the gamecache, I ran the client with -repair flag, but still the game wouldn't let me start PoF. I uninstalled and reinstalled; download is now stuck on 23% and won't continue. I reinstalled on a fresh SSD; download still halts on 23% and won't continue. I tried every -assetsrv -log -image and whatnot that I found on reddit and the forums; still no go. Just a few % shy of being able to at least idle ingame. I opened a ticket; but seeing from the other posts on the forum, that could take up to 10 days before they help me... Anyone have a suggestion on how I get back ingame ?! (I could kick myself for uninstalling, at least this morning I could go ingame on the areas that I have visited before). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Letti.7269 Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 for some strange reason I can download approx 14 to 20mb if I add the following to the GW2 shortcut: -log -image -assetsrv origincdn.101.arenanetworks.com But after those few Mb's it drops to 0kb/sec and I need to restart the launcher to get another 14 to 20Mb still have 400.000 files to go... what a complete shit show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Healix.5819 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 The -assetsrv option has been broken/disabled for months, so that command isn't actually doing anything. Instead, you have to edit your hosts file. Open notepad as an administrator, then open: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts Add the following line and save: 3.232.164.138 assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com Remove the line when you're done; the IP changes regularly, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Letti.7269 Posted August 26, 2020 Author Share Posted August 26, 2020 > @"Healix.5819" said: > The -assetsrv option has been broken/disabled for months, so that command isn't actually doing anything. Instead, you have to edit your hosts file. > > Open notepad as an administrator, then open: > C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts > > Add the following line and save: > 3.232.164.138 assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com > > Remove the line when you're done; the IP changes regularly, > Thanks Healix, I tried that too, but same issue. For now I wrote a short python script to run the GW2 launcher, wait 20 seconds, kill the launcher and repeat. Gets me 20MB every 20 seconds... extremely slow, but for now better then nothing; at least until Arenanet support can help me out. Would try rebooting my firewall, but the mrs is working from home, so that's not an option until later this evening. (everything else works inhouse, so I doubt it's the firewall) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Just to make sure these steps were conducted correctly: * You download the client here: https://account.arena.net/welcome * You place the client on the drive location (partition and folder) where you want the game installed * You **rename** the Gw2Setup-64.exe into **Gw2-64.exe** * You double-click it and it starts downloading all the required files And it's still stalling at 23% ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Letti.7269 Posted August 27, 2020 Author Share Posted August 27, 2020 Not sure what was going on but somewhere after 21:00 yesterday, the download suddenly kept going. So either my provider or their cdn was having issues. Everything is a-ok now :) thanks for all your suggestions. support Ticket closed, time for some map completion :+1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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