Guild Wars 2

After being gone for over a year I decided to run GW2 again. It immediately crashes on gw2-64.exe after it updated.

I tried a repair and it crashes again. So I restarted my computer. No change.

Finally, I decided to do an uninstall/reinstall of GW2, and it crashes on GW2-64.exe -uninstall.

At this point I’d be happy just to do a clean uninstall of the game so I can redownload it. Anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this?

I rebooted my computer again and managed to manually delete the Guild Wars 2 folder and remove the program from the uninstall list.

I’m downloading the 64-bit client now. Hopefully this works!

So I downloaded the x64 client and when I start the game it says “Unable to initialize 3D output. Please verify you have DirectX 9 installed and an updated video driver.” Well, I know I have D9 works because Guild Wars 1 works just fine, as does Skyrim, Fallout 4, and hell even Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries.

Off I go to update my NVidia drivers!

OK, so I updated my NVidia drivers, and when that didn’t work I mnaually downloaded and installed DirectX 9 from Microsoft. Still no dice. Still get “unable to initialize 3D output.”.

Anyone have suggestions?

Try forcing the 32 bit to run the game.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments