Guild Wars 2

After the last patch, my game started crashing about 2 seconds after I hit play. It does give me a crash notification. There were a few smaller patches a couple of days after this started happening, but the issue was still not resolved. Its very irritating. I don’t want to reinstall either, cause the game is nearly 20 GBs. PLEASE FIX.

Try this:

Run As Admin

• Close your game completely.
• Right-click your GW2 game shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Compatibility” tab, check/enable the box for your game to “Run As Administrator”.
• Hit OK after making sure this setting is enabled.
• Re-launch your game with this game shortcut and see if the issue persists.

If the issue persists:

Check the game for errors and repair it

• Close your game completely.
• Next, make a copy of your Gw2 game shortcut and rename it “GW2 Repair” or to something that you will recognize it for being only for running a repair on your GW2 installation.
• Now, right-click this “Gw2 Repair” shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Shortcut” tab look in the “Target:” field, you should see:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” or wherever you have Guild Wars 2 installed.
• After the closing quotation marks in this line put a space and then add -repair
  It will look like this but with your GW2 install location:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” -repair
• Hit OK after making this change.
• Run this repair shortcut. Your game will run through a repair cycle and fix any damaged files it finds.
• After it runs through, start the game using the normal GW2 game shortcut (not the repair shortcut) and see if your game can start up properly.

Also, if you have plenty of storage space on your hard disk(s), I highly recommend making a backup copy of your game installation folder elswhere on your drive in the event you need to do a re-installation or something happens that damages your current installation. All you would need to do is copy over your backup of the game to your installation directory so you do not need to re-install and/or re-download the entire thing all over again.