Following a Windows clean install..?

[Taffycat]

This is (for the moment) a hypothetical question, but I like to "be prepared" so thought I'd ask it anyway

It concerns Guild Wars... which I don't think many here play, but hopefully, Mucks (who does,) or one of you other game gurus might spot it, and be able to point my nose in the right direction.

If I needed to perform a clean install of Windows (Vista,) can anyone tell me what - if anything - I would need to do to "save" Guild Wars please?

I am presuming that on a clean system, I would need to reinstall one of the GW campaigns, (such as Nightfall) then, if I enter my log-in details, would everything automatically resume from where I'd left off?

I've got a total of 18 characters and would feel a bit miffed about "losing" them if anything went wrong with the PC, so will appreciate any advice. Thank you muchly for reading.

 

[V_R]

Copy your save games. I dont know about guild wars but some games have the saves stored online some dont. So whene you login it 'syncs' you with the game.

Back it up incase.

Makes sense?

 

[muckshifter]

It's an online game, there are no "saved" data to worry about in this case.

I am presuming that on a clean system, I would need to reinstall one of the GW campaigns

Nope/maybe ... it can be quicker to just download the latest installer, which will install all relevant "stuff" needed ... your log-on details will do the rest.

http://www.guildwars.com/support/downloadclient/default.php

... the bit on the bottom.

18 chars ... bloody hell

GW2 2011






I play Eve these days

 

[Taffycat]

Thank you both for your replies V_R and Mucks I tried Googling for the answers, but got a bit conflicted. Some people talked about backing-up the .dat files, others said it wasn't necessary... Doesn't take a lot to confuse me

18 chars ... bloody hell

Yup... they just keep multiplying