Tips And Tricks

Guild Wars Tips and Tricks

DOWNLOAD & DECOMPRESS ALL FILES FOR GUILDWARS
FOR ZERO LOAD TIMES
Right click the Guildwars shortcut on your desktop
Select Propertys
You will See a line Called TARGET:
it says "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe"
Simply add a SPACE and -image
Example "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -image
Hit Apply And OK
NOW USE THE SHORTCUT
It will open the Guildwars UPDATE WINDOW and Retreive any files you dont have
It will then EXTRACT or DECOMPRESS ALL FILES to there full sizes (THIS COULD TAKE AWHILE)
After its done it will close, and you RE-EDIT the Shortcut , to REMOVE THE "-image" Switch and it will work like before.

No Password at every login

This is only for use on your own personal computer, for it will automatically log you into your account.

1.) Right click on your Guild Wars icon.
2.) Click properties.
3.) Click on the Shortcut Tab.
4.) In the Target: field add -email "youremail" -password "yourpassword" to the end of the destination address. Should look something like this
"C:..Program Files..Guild Wars..Gw.exe" -email "youremail" -password "yourpassword"

Now for Quick Switching between characters, just hit the F12 key and it will bring you straight to the character selection screen!

Add Performance stats to your game screen
Frames Per Second

1.) Right click on your Guild Wars icon.
2.) Click properties.
3.) Click on the Shortcut Tab.
4.) In the Target: field add -perf

This will add one line of information to your game screen in this format:
Tri: xx,xxx FPS: xx Bytes/Sec: xxx

THE VERY FAST AND VERY EXPENSIVE ROAD TO ASCENSION

Create PvE Player

Level a bit

Travel To Ashford, Foibles Fair, Barradin Estate, & Fort Rankin.

Obtain All QUESTS "!" For Free Skills

After Getting ALL your Skills

Advance to SEARING as soon as possible

Get Runner too - Piken, Yaks, Beacons, Lions Arch

At this Point Get too Droknar's Forge as soon as you Can Afford to Get there

Get Armor (Lions Arch or Drok's Depending on funds)

Get Runner To Santum Cay

Get Runner Thru Santum Cay Mission to get to Desert

In Amnoon Oasis' Buy a Run Around The Desert (7 Locations)

Complete The 3 Desert Missions - Dunes - Thirsty - Elona (2 Can be RUN)

Cap your First Elites On ANY of those 3 Missions

Goto Augry Rock , and Talk to Guy on Platform

Enter the Hall Of Hero's , and Whoop your Mirrors Ass GUIDE HERE

WooooT you just got 50,000 exp and are like level 18 - 20

You can go Back now and do all your Quests, Missions,
Bonus's, and skill caps (Don't Buy Skills With Skill Points That you can Get from QUESTS for FREE

ALL KNOWN Guild Wars Command Line Switches

How to alter the shortcut

1)Right-click the Guild Wars icon.
2)Select 'Properties'.
3)Select the 'Shortcut' tab.
4)In the 'Target' field...

Example "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -switch1 -switch2 -switch3

Switches

-password
Automatically fills in the password

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -password=*****
Where ***** = your current password

-perf
Displays the performance statics - Tri, FPS, and Bytes/Sec
(Tri = Triangles, FPS = Frames per second, Bytes/Sec = Transfer Rate)

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -perf

-fps
Frames Per Second Limit - Can limit or cap the max frames per second
Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -fps x

Where x = the max frames per second. If you say -fps 10 GW will not render more then 10 frames per second. Not sure why they have this switch unless it's for testing / troubleshooting. The game runs at the highest fps it can for the scene.

-dx8
Force's Direct X 8 Render. GW was updated to a new engine that uses DX 9. Some people lost AA options when older cards (Geforce 4 for example) started using the newer DX 9 engine. Enabling this on older cards or on cards that lost options should help.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -dx8

-noshaders
Disables Pixel and/or Vertic? Shader's (part of Direct X). Using this with the dx8 switch may help you get GW to run better (less taxing on the card) for low end cards / not quite supported (on board intel for example).

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -noshaders

-windowed
Start GuildWars in a window mode vs Full screen on start up. You can then make it full screen as normal (or latter go back to windowed as normal)

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -windowed

-nosound
Disables all sound/music. Some people have used this trick to get some performance back after GW updated the music engine to support MS DS3D. If you do have this trouble, get the April 2006 version of Direct X 9 from MS and see if this solves your problem.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -nosound

-mute
Disables all sound/music.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -mute

(http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10009827
Not sure how -nosound & -mute differ other then -nosound as the internal sound system running but with 0 volume.)

-noui
No user interface at all. The situation where you take a screen shot without any button's text, etc but it's on all the time. Keyboard / Mouse still work but you don't see any chat / indicators and such.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -noui

-diag
Run's anet Diagnostic Utility. It will create a log file (GWDiag.txt) and save a copy of it to your desktop (or your Guildwars folder). It checks communication to there server's as well as detailed information about your system and driver's. Great if you need to submit a work order ticket to support.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -diag

-repair
Attempts to run a "repair" GuildWars. Was indicated this only works on an occasion.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -repair

-uninstall
This will make the shortcut uninstall guildwars. Only use I can think of this is you can't get to Add/Remove Programs (say in a locked down enviroment).

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -uninstall

-image
Downloads and Decompresses all the compressed files in the gw.dat file. This will improve load time in new area's and get you up to date.

** During this process it will max out your computer (high cpu and memory usage) aka don't multi-tasks during this process **

Use this switch by itself, the game will exit / end as soon as it's done decompressing.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe” -image

-heapsize

This must always be the LAST switch off of the shortcut.

This is a windows trick that tells windows to devote ram just to a program (in this case, guildwars). This can speed up loading of maps. It was recommended you specify of your ram.

Usage: "C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe” -heapsize xxxxxx

Quick chart: ( ram 3 zero's)
128MB -heapsize 64000
256MB -heapsize 128000
384MB -heapsize 192000
512MB -heapsize 256000
640MB -heapsize 320000
768MB -heapsize 384000
1024MB (1GB) -heapsize 512000
2048MB (2GB) -heapsize 1024000

(aka 1/2 your memory and add three zero's)

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