I am experiencing an extremely high volume of strange symbols where intelligible English words should otherwise be. I have attached a screenshot of an example of this bug. Other instances of this bug occur frequently in mail from non-personal computer entities.
Note the E with the line over the top of it where the word ‘and’ should be in the screenshot.
I had the same issue. There’s not supposed to be an “&” there, but rather a “•” .
Easy fix. Right-click the GW2 shortcut on your desktop (make one if there isn’t one), click “Properties” and at the end of the “target” line, add " -repair". Make sure there’s a space before the dash, and that you’re adding this OUTSIDE of the quotation marks.
Double click the shortcut, let it run the repair, then restart your game. Fixed it for me!
::edit:: The “odd A” (actually an A-ogonek) is caused by the same issue. It should be a —, but something with the encoding got corrupted. If you ever have to type an accented character and it crashes your game, this is likely the same issue and the same thing fixes it.
I had the same issue. There’s not supposed to be an “&” there, but rather a “•” .
Easy fix. Right-click the GW2 shortcut on your desktop (make one if there isn’t one), click “Properties” and at the end of the “target” line, add " -repair". Make sure there’s a space before the dash, and that you’re adding this OUTSIDE of the quotation marks.
Double click the shortcut, let it run the repair, then restart your game. Fixed it for me!
::edit:: The ? is caused by the same issue. It should be a —, but something with the encoding got corrupted. If you ever have to type an accented character and it crashes your game, this is likely the same issue and the same thing fixes it.
Thank you for your reply! I will attempt the repair which you advised. I’ll inform you of the outcome later.
I attempted the fix you prescribed, but it was not the solution. I am still experiencing all of the bugs described in the first two posts of this thread.
You know, now that I think of it, I think my issue went away on its own after I ignored it for a while. I guess you could try uninstalling, deleting the Guild Wars 2 folder from My Documents, and making sure everything is gone. I did that before I did the repair, so who knows? I thought they just fixed it in an update or something.
Hm… I’m gonna bump this thread because the issue has come back for me since the last maintenance. Has anyone found a fix?
::edit:: I’ve confirmed that this was fixed by deleting the My Documents\Guild Wars 2 folder. Please report back if you’re able to fix it the same way. It might take a few tries.
I have the same issue ever since BW3. Since then, I used the repair function once, and also completely uninstalled and reinstalled the game. The problem persists. My old thread with screenshots is here.
I know that there was an issue like this related to the interface size. I can’t find the thread anymore, and I’m on my laptop so I can’t confirm, but try changing the interface size to something else. IIRC the problem was with the “large” setting and switching to any other size fixes it.
I know that there was an issue like this related to the interface size. I can’t find the thread anymore, and I’m on my laptop so I can’t confirm, but try changing the interface size to something else. IIRC the problem was with the “large” setting and switching to any other size fixes it.
This issue showed up again for me today, and I’m glad I dug up this old thread to find your answer. Thank you so much!
Unfortunately, this is something that should really be fixed. “Large” is the only UI size that’s really comfortable on my monitor. :-\
