Guild Wars 2

Pretty much every other day since the last patch, when launching the game everything seems normal, but the mouse pointer is the hand as if you were spinning your character or something and the game is unresponsive. This usually happens at the character select screen right when I launch, but it has happened in the game when I alt tabbed out.

The game is running fine, in the few times it has happened while playing (after alt tabbing) everything is working, NPCs are moving, I can hear game volume. The only issue is that I cannot interact with the game (moving character, clicking). If I try to alt tab my start bar flashes for a split second and nothing else happens. The only way I have found to fix the problem is to alt control delete and click log off. Doing the same and opening the task manager doesn’t work, as GW2 forces itself in front of the window instantly.

When my computer tries to log off it says it’s waiting for Steam usually and I just hit cancel. Not an ideal solution as it closes just about everything but Steam and Skype.

In short; the game is working fine, but unresponsive to any thing. Fake logging out (of Windows) to close the game and trying again usually fixes the problem.