Guild Wars 2

Whenever I waypoint into Caledon Forest, it stays on the loading screen and never loads, only showing the loading circle in the bottom right. Every time I have to run the repair and then delete local.dat just to get into the map, which takes a good 10 minutes just to finish the repair. It’s only been happening the last 2 days. At first I thought it was only Twilight Arbor waypoint, but now it’s happening at any waypoint I try in Caledon Forest.

Edit: After waiting 10 minutes or so, the game kicks me back to character select saying that it failed to connect, can still log into any other character that isn’t in caledon forest, though.

Suspicious…

If you are having to rebuild the data every time, that suggests a hardware problem on your end. Is the system detecting a corruption, or are you going through steps to force it to rebuild? If its detecting corruption, its sounding like you have a hardware problem (probably disk, possibly ram). If instead your forcing a rebuild happens to make it work, I could see this as a hardware issue on the video card (overheat?), and. The rebuilds give it the time it needs to recover.

Does it work the first time after you turn the computer on?

I’d suggest:

If in windows, check the event log for errors, especially any disk errors.
Test disk, CPU, and video card.

Get measurements of component temperatures. There are free tools for accessing the temperature sensors built into your CPU and video card.

Let us know how this turns out!
//Portable Corpse

That makes no sense though, why would a video card overheating only cause me to not be able to load Caledon Forest? Either way, I checked and no errors. I’ve already looked over anything hardware related since this started.

I’ve only been using repair/delete local.dat since I after searching the net/forums people have had the same problem and this was the only way they fixed it. Every time it happens I have to do the same thing, repair GW2, delete local.dat, log into another character and then I can log back into the character stuck in Caledon Forest. If, for example, I don’t log into another character first, I can’t log into the character in Caledon Forest. This is what’s leading me to believe it’s something to do with the game/client and not hardware. That, plus the fact that it’s only been happening for ~2/3 days. I’ve never encountered this before.

What changed then between when it worked and when it failed?

My decision to focus on hardware was simple: Things rarely decide to spontaneously stop working, and there weren’t game updates in that time – the trigger is on your end. there may be some specific content in Caledon that your graphics card flubs badly if its overheated. Or alternately, there’s a texture file in the .dat that the client stalls while reading due to a semi-recoverable disk error. Both would explain a zone specific stall while loading, either that would appear to recover if you are out of the game for a while.

Could you list details like OS and Video Card? That may not bring us to a cause/solution, but it may let someone start connecting dots… You might also look in the tech support forum here, see if there’s already a thread there that covers this same problem.
//Portable Corpse