Feedback:Game updates

Note: This is the feedback page for game updates. To provide feedback on these updates that the Developers can use, please go to the talk page for the individual feedback listed on the right.

Recent updates

• Friday 7^th of February (talk)
• Tuesday 4^th of February (talk)
• Thursday 23^rd of January (talk)
• Wednesday 22^nd of January (talk)
• Wednesday 4^th of December (talk)

Older updates

• Archive

This list contains all recent updates as published by ArenaNet. If there are undocumented changes, they are listed in a section titled "Guild Wars Wiki notes" under the related update.

Update -- February 7, 2025

• Fixed a bug that was causing some maps to use excessive CPU causing 'lag'.
  • The bug fix did not require a new build.
  • The bug would manifest more often during Festivals and/or when more than one build of Guild Wars was active.
  • This bug was fixed just before the recent Lunar New Year festival but not publicly announced as it wasn't clear how impactful the change would be.
  • The build on February 4th was to test how the fix performed with multiple builds during a festival.
  • The results so far are promising so as an experiment the maximum capacity of all Outposts has been increased.

Update -- February 4, 2025

• Server maintenance build.

Update -- January 23, 2025

• Added new command line parameter "-log" (or "/log")
  • Off by default
  • Writes "Gw.log" to the Guild Wars install directory
    • Clobbers existing "Gw.log" file (i.e., does not append to an existing file)
  • Steam integration logging is highly preliminary
  • "Normal" errors, which have existed for years and can be ignored:
    • Error: Client pathing data out of sync with server. You may observe your character 'warping' during movement.
    • Various texture errors
• Server maintenance build

Update -- January 22, 2025

• Download and initialize steam_api.dll. This is a preliminary step to better integration with Steam.

NOTE: Guild Wars on Steam is a legacy version. As far as I can determine, Guild Wars was first launched on Steam on April 22, 2009. We only sell game keys through the Steam Store and do not utilize any other Steam features. Consequently, significant effort is required to reconcile Steam purchases with our internal sales system. Due to the lack of previous integration between Guild Wars and Steam, certain development tasks will be more efficiently performed on the live servers. That is why this update is being implemented today, even though it does not include any user-facing features.

Update -- December 4, 2024

• Server maintenance build.

See also

• List of game updates, for a full list of game updates articles.