Guild Wars 2

This is kind of hard to explain. So, normally when you click on a waypoint that someone has linked (Guild chat, whisper, etc) your map will move over to where the waypoint is and you can click/travel.

Since last night, this no longer works for me. If I click a waypoint, it opens the screen to where my character is currently standing, and that’s it – see screenshot.

When I’ve had this problem in the past, I was told to delete my local.dat file, and the problem would fix itself. It always did, until this time. What I have tried:

Deleting local.dat
Opening game again, trying a waypoint.

Repairing the game
Opening game again, trying a waypoint.

Deleting local.dat
Repairing game
Opening game again, trying a waypoint

Switching characters

Switching between 32 and 64 bit.

Nothing works I’m honestly considering deleting the game and reinstalling, since that’s the only thing I haven’t yet done. What broke, and how can I fix it?

Oh, and this is NOT a case of me not understanding how to take waypoints, or not understanding how to waypoint between layers. I can open the map, move it around myself and click anywhere I want to go. I just cannot take a waypoint that has been linked.

I’d wait before re-installing. There seems to be character creation and naming issues presently. It may be connected.

This bug is still occurring. Last time, support told me I needed to do a clean re-install, which I did. As you can see, it only lasted a month before it started happening again. I will re-install AGAIN, but if someone could fix this for the better…. that would be great.

zhonnika.1784:

This bug is still occurring. Last time, support told me I needed to do a clean re-install, which I did. As you can see, it only lasted a month before it started happening again. I will re-install AGAIN, but if someone could fix this for the better…. that would be great.

Contact support again and tell them that it keeps happening. If clean re-installing fixes the symptoms, then something is corrupting your game’s program file(s), but not that of other players. It’s unlikely to have an obvious solution.

Can I ask if you have a key bound in your control options, under the ‘Map’ section, to ‘Recenter’ the camera? If so, what key is it bound to? Also, just curious what key you have ‘Open/Close Map’ bound to as well.

I’m just trying to imagine as many aspects to the scenario as possible, taking into account what you’ve attempted in the past that has not helped and what has.

I’m currently thinking about a potential input control conflict where your clicking a waypoint from chat is also activating the ‘Recenter’ function before the map can shift to the location of the clicked waypoint – causing the map to stay in place and centered on your character.

Just thinking about it though. It’s an unusual problem so I am also thinking it is likely to have an unusual cause.

Thanks for the replies, guys.

Currently recenter is set to ‘space’ and open/close is set to ‘M’. I’ve tried changing both of these, and there’s been no change. If there’s some sort of conflict, I don’t really know what it is. I ran diagnostics for support last month, and they said the only way to fix it was clean install.

I did find an old (2 years old) thread on these forums from someone having the same problem, but there was no dev reply, or otherwise helpful advice posted to it. I guess I will reinstall, but it’s going to get pretty kitten old if I have to keep doing it once a month.

repair your harddrive then if the datas are corrupted within an month. chckdsk at admin mode cmd window. or at the harddrive properties the “tools” tab then repair disk.