Guild Wars 2

Good evening all,

So i’m raising this issue because the game is giving so much grief not only about fixing the game but also my entire computer. I’m not very computer savvy but i will try to explain the best i can.

Issue almost always arise when I log out but do not “X” out of the client (the part where you click Log In) and then Log In again after some time. This almost always happen after a patch. This just breaks the entire game and I wont be able to even launch the client. If i try my entire computer freezes. I cant even “end task” from the task manager. My computer wont let me uninstall the game. Again if i try it freezes my entire system. I’ve tried deleting the “.dat” file to re-patch but that doesnt work either. Further, it affects everything including my steam games. Steam wont launch and wont connect to the internet.

The only thing that I find that work is reformatting not only the partition where I have GW2 but the my entire computer. The annoying part is that downloading the game again. It takes forever. I checked my internet speed and it goes upwards to 170 mbps download and 50 mbps upload speed. Downloading GW2 only maxes out at 15 mbps and thats only 10% of the time most times its under 1 mbps. It also seem to like to count down 1 mbps… 999 kbps… 998 kbps…997 kbps… until it reaches 0. All in all it takes 5 hours to download and install the game.

This happens about once every couple of months. No other game breaks my computer like this but GW2. Am I doing anything wrong? Is this my doing? How do I fix the problem next time it happens? Does this happen to anyone else?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Fixed my computer everything is fresh install including the game but its still not working. I was able to play a little last night but tons of glitches and loading screen took 5 mins before getting loaded from select character to map if at all loaded. Now game crashes just as i get into the character select screen.

Am i the only one experiencing connectivity problems? How do i fix the game?

I don’t know exactly what could be going (wr)on(g) for you, but all I can tell is that the launcher window (where you log in and patch) acts very spoiled. It seems to be updating the window contents by far too often, being an alpha-blended layered window, which can “kill” some older PCs, especially those not using composited desktops (aka XP or Vista / 7 without Aero Glass enabled).

I had a friend once who couldn’t even click anything on the launcher because it fully (ab)used his CPU. Try using the -autologin parameter if logging in is what you meant you can’t get through with.

You have a lot of red flags in your post. The short answer is that GW2 is unlikely to be the cause of your problems and that you have faulty hardware. Also Mbps is not the same as MB/s. Your max download speeds are reasonable based on the claimed speed of your connection. Anet has been slow this week because of the updates.