Guild Wars 2

So I just downloaded the patch and it downloaded fine. My problem is when I click play it wont bring up the visuals of the game. I can hear the music just fine. But I get a blue bar flashing at the top of my screen like it is opened in windowed mode, but that is all that it will do. I see my background the entire time and when I try to alt tab or bring up my task manager I can’t click on anything. I don’t know if your patch just isn’t compatible with Windows XP or if it is something on my end. Has anyone else had this problem?

I have the exact same problem.

Used a seperate partition I have XP installed on and can confirm the problem above we’ll just have to wait for a fix or continue playing on a different OS.

I downloaded it today and I have the same problem -flashing blue bar at the top on a black screen. OS XP.

Also can’t start the game, also have XP.

Did they decide to nix support for the OS and not tell anyone, or is it just a bug? I don’t expect them to support a dead OS till the end of time, but if it was the former, a little forewarning would be nice.

I have this problem as well. Also on XP

Yeah, pretty much the same problem here. I checked with a friend who also has OS XP and he’s facing the same problem. Hopefully ANET will solve this problem anytime soon.

For all you XP users who cannot load the game,

Try starting it from a cmd line in windowed mode. worked for me:

Gw2.exe -perf -windowed

how can i start the game in windowed mode when i used full screen before?

when i change the target from
“C:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe”
to
“C:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -perf -windowed
the computer reboot

Sanrio.7192:

how can i start the game in windowed mode when i used full screen before?

when i change the target from
“C:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe”
to
“C:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -perf -windowed
the computer reboot

thanks that works..i’m not happy but at least i can play thanks

Vivianne.2506:

For all you XP users who cannot load the game,

Try starting it from a cmd line in windowed mode. worked for me:

Gw2.exe -perf -windowed

I can confirm that this does work, just make sure you don’t hit the maximize button by accident, or the flicking thing will start all over again, thanks for the find!

thank you

“C:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -perf -windowed

is working proper now

Vivianne.2506

Thank you so much! Your solutions using the cmd line worked!

“F:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -perf -windowed

Awesome! I can finally play the game again! Have been working on this problem since the patch for came out!

Oh, and Fyi, once you get into the game, you can go to options, set it to “Windowed Fullscreen” and have the fullscreen experience without the bug or window borders. You can even go back and remove the command prompts after doing this, and the game will start up in windowed fullscreen every time.