Found a very interesting zip file here: ftp://ftp.plaync.com/Source/XDeltaWithNCsoftMods1.zip This seems to contain information on all of NCSoft compression techniques, hope this is useful to some people. Edit:- Some of the sub info points here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt And that in turn p...

Found a very interesting zip file here: ftp://ftp.plaync.com/Source/XDeltaWithNCsoftMods1.zip
This seems to contain information on all of NCSoft compression techniques, hope this is useful to some people.

PlayNC, NCSoft and ArenaNet seem not to like windows Vista at the moment. Heres what the PlayNC (UK/Europe) support site had to say about vista. Windows® Vista™ Question Can I play the game with Windows® Vista™? Answer Windows® Vista™ is not a supported operating system for any NCsoft game. This may...

Hmmm, just spotted a gw.tmp 0 byte file, and doing a search for gw.tmp and found GW.TMP-********.pf a 45.5k prefetch file containing references to gw.tmp too This is not the whole GW.TMP-********.pf file but to quote the above info: \ D E V I C E \ H A R D D I S K V O L U M E 2 \ P R O G R A M F I L...

Just out of curiosity did you delete any other files/folders? While storing client data on their physical computer is far from unheard of in an MMO, I've never seen an instance where it's located in an archive. Nope, but as i mentioned before this is 'dumb' data and game information, such as your a...

I just deleted my gw.dat as part of a defrag and once I re-downloaded it I noticed that my settings for interface, graphics, sound etc was messed up and had to be re-adjusted along with my account remember me information (acct email) which was unchecked and missing, so it seems this information is a...

Just because of that it doesn't have to be a "variation of the MPQ format". :P Yeah but if you read my message I did cover this with: Ok more info, they also seem to be using a variation of the MPQ format. If so, it was also a variation of the WAVE format, as it stores data binary, too......

As for the size difference it obviously depends on which guild wars games(/expansions) you have installed, but for me a 2.5 gb special edition gw.dat expands to about 3.5 gb and yes it does seem to speed zone transition up a fair bit, your mileage may vary. Regarding gw.dat contents I found this inf...

decompression easy, extraction harder. gw.exe -image to download the decompressed gw.dat (The game client with this switch on the command line or in the shortcut (-image only as you cant run the game with this switch active) will download and decompress the files in gw.dat, it still leaves you the i...

decompression easy, extraction harder.
gw.exe -image to download the decompressed gw.dat

I also refer you to my post on this thread: viewtopic.php?t=1645&postdays=0&postord ... s&start=15
Which has a similar discussion.