Guild Wars 2

Since launch I keep having CTD issues with GW2 that only appear after I have ran and closed the program at least once. It also happens when I try to restart the game after it crashed for other reasons, as that still happens sometimes, too.

Here’s some additional info:

If I start the game in full screen and it crashes, the game is fighting to stay in the foreground(black screen, music plays), while a second window tries, presumably the crash dialogue window, tries to bring itself to the foreground, which creates a loop of the game going to full screen more and back that prevents me from doing anything but restarting or going into sleep mode and hope that I can terminate the process before the game pops up again. Sometimes I had the fortune of the game staying minimized, revealing another error message, that read: Parser message Value Creation failed at line 903

That only happened when I ran GW2 in full screen mode, I never got that message while starting it in windowed mode.

Another minor detail that might be helpful: I have my in game gamma set slightly lower compared to my normal desktop, so every time I start the game, I see the screen darkening a tiny bit, and lighting up when the game correctly terminates. If I’m going to start a game that is going to crash, the gamma value doesn’t change, the screen stays at the same relative lighting level.

To fix the problem I tried:
Installing different video card drivers(clean installs). I’m now on the latest official Nvidia build
Moving GW2 to another folder and hard disk(scandisked the original one in safe mode)
Creating a new Windows user profile and starting it from there
Defragmented my HDD
Added exceptions to my AV
Closed all unnecessary programs

So, apart from redownloading the whole game, which would take me about 24 hours, and reformatting, I don’t know what else to do to fix this problem.

The issue has been talked about here as well, but it didn’t help me: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Game-Freezes-and-Cannot-Repair

Thanks in advance.