Guild Wars 2

Sudden crashes when trying to login after the latest patch The Lost Shores.
I have tried multiple times to login and with different computers but it never starts, either the game crashes, blue screen, or the computer shuts down.
Using Windows XP on both computers if that would help.

This (game error/crash or BSoD on every attempt to play) just started happening to me with the latest patch about an hour or so ago. I’m also using Windows XP.

Makana.4590:

This (game error/crash or BSoD on every attempt to play) just started happening to me with the latest patch about an hour or so ago. I’m also using Windows XP.

I am having this same issue after this mornings update.

Same problem of a friend of mine, she can’t log in since this morning update, and she use xp too…pls let us have some info on this problem.

I am having the same problem and I am running Windows 7. After signing in my screen goes black and then my system reboots. Boooohhhhhh

My friend just resolved the problem by upgrading her vga drivers, maybe u all should give it a try. ^^

I’ve been unable to load since this morning as well. The login window pops up with “Downloading 0KB (0KB/S).” If it does actually progress past that, it’ll give me a black screen and never load the character select screen.
Updated graphics drivers; didn’t help.

While updating my drivers got me no closer to a fix, thanks to the Sylvari Specialist dd790 over at http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/75196-pc-crashing-after-latest-update/, I found a solution that did work for me. As he suggested in post #7 @ 12:40pm, I just renamed my local.dat file and voila, I’m back in the game!
NOTE: Be sure to have a firm grip on your user name and password, & any custom Options settings you have as doing this caused me to lose my customized settings/options. Small price to pay imho. Hope this helps someone else too!

Makana.4590:

While updating my drivers got me no closer to a fix, thanks to the Sylvari Specialist dd790 over at http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/75196-pc-crashing-after-latest-update/, I found a solution that did work for me. As he suggested in post #7 @ 12:40pm, I just renamed my local.dat file and voila, I’m back in the game!
NOTE: Be sure to have a firm grip on your user name and password, & any custom Options settings you have as doing this caused me to lose my customized settings/options. Small price to pay imho. Hope this helps someone else too!

This appears to have worked for me as well. Also, when my PC was having this problem, it would crash to blue screen maybe 4 or 5 times, then it would hang on the loading screen and go to the Anet crash report but never get to the game. After the crash report was sent and everything appeared to go back to desktop, I checked my video settings on my PC and found that Nvidias desktop manager was not functioning properly and that my desktop settings were set at 600×480 which was not what they were displaying on screen which was actually 1600×900. Upon reboot however everything goes back to normal until I try to start the game again then the process repeats. Anyways all this has been sent to Anet as I have been in contact with them since early Saturday morning. Hope you guys can get it all sorted. Good Luck.

HUGE thanks to Makana for finding out a solution through other sources. I kept crashing every 3 mins or so in Lions Arch, since the Lost Shores last event and even after that. I got annoyed and hoped the patch would solve it but it did not. Deleting that local.dat worked, so that my game won’t crash every minute anymore! Thanks a lot!