Guild Wars 2

For anyone having patching problems still I am putting a copy here of what I posted at the end of a thread with the original problem. I hope it helps others now or any time in the future when it reoccurs as it is bound to.

If anyone is still having trouble getting Gw2 to update here is a workable cure to the endless sitting there restarting client. Open notepad. Save it into a folder you create on your desktop. Call it anything you like but I called mine Gw2 updater. Make sure you can see the .txt at the end of the name then replace that with .bat and save. Copy this into your .bat file.

@echo on
:loop
start “GW2” “F:\Games\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe”
timeout /t 80 >null
taskkill /f /im “Gw2.exe” >nul
timeout /t 3 >null
goto loop

You must change the path you see in my file from F:\Games etc \Gw2.exe to the path where your Gw2 .exe is. My path will not work for you. I left it so you can see what it must look like apart from that it must be your path used.
This will work for windows users. It will start your client automatically, let it run and update for 80 seconds then turn it of for 3 seconds then restart it all over again endlessly until when you see the client is updated you will have to just exit the running command window. If you do not wish to see the command words as it operates change the echo on to echo off. You can change the times (they are in seconds) from the 80 & 3 I have given if you need for best results on your computer. I worked them out for how long my update would run before stalling.

It works fine. Hope it helps anyone frustrated with sitting there trying to make update happen manually.