Guild Wars 2

2 of my characters will not load in after selection from the character select screen, but the other 6 are working fine which makes me think the issue is the zones they are currently located in. this also makes me afraid to take my other characters to these zones until its resolved. Its been happening for a week and been sending the bug reports when it does. If it helps im on the darkhaven server and the zones are kessex hills & (hope im close on the spelling) celadon forest

anyone else having the same or similar issues?

Yea since yesterday’s patch I’ve been getting random disconnects whenever I try to load on a different map, or leave an instance or switch to another character.

I recently started playing again after taking a break in November, and I had two characters still in the no-longer-existing Tower of Nightmares and one in Kessex. All of them loaded fine, and I ran around in Kessex a bit with one over a couple of sessions (i.e. logged out and left her there once or twice). I have not been to Caledon recently, though.

I am not sure if this information is of any help, but it suggests to me that it’s not necessarilly the zones but something with the characters. If so, your others should be fine to move around.

I hope you can get to play the affected 2 soon, though!

are you on the darkhaven server too?
if you are then you may be right, I guess the only way to really know is to walk into one of the affected zones and see if I lose a third character

@River Tam
Try to:

Delete the local.dat file
Deleting this file will also cause you to lose your saved game settings (graphics, stored login data, etc.) but may fix the problem. If you rely on your stored login info to log in, make sure you can recall what your login info is as the stored login info is also cleared.

The quickest way to do this is to:

• Ensure your game is completely closed.
• Hold your Windows Key and press ‘F’ to open your Windows Search.
• Search for “Local.dat”. 2 files will be found.
• Ignore the “Local.dat” file that is in the game installation folder.
• Delete the “Local.dat” file that resides at:
  “C:\Users\YourComputerUserName\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2”
• Load up your game normally and see if the character can load properly.
• You will notice that your settings are reverted to default. You should reconfigure your game settings once again to your preference.

@leila

Try to:
Check the game for errors and repair it

• Close your game completely.
• Next, make a copy of your Gw2 game shortcut and rename it “GW2 Repair” or to something that you will recognize it for being only for running a repair on your GW2 installation.
• Now, right-click this “Gw2 Repair” shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Shortcut” tab look in the “Target:” field, you should see:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” or wherever you have Guild Wars 2 installed.
• After the closing quotation marks in this line put a space and then add -repair
  It will look like this but with your GW2 install location:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” -repair
• Hit OK after making this change.
• Run this repair shortcut. Your game will run through a repair cycle and fix any damaged files it finds.
• After it runs through, start the game using the normal GW2 game shortcut (not the repair shortcut) and see if your game runs properly.

only found 1 dat file, deleted it and now needing to reload 233,000 files to play so ill assume that was not the one im looking for

yeah i had issues like this aswell. barely managed to get into the game.

StinVec.3621:

@leila

Try to:
Check the game for errors and repair it

• Close your game completely.
• Next, make a copy of your Gw2 game shortcut and rename it “GW2 Repair” or to something that you will recognize it for being only for running a repair on your GW2 installation.
• Now, right-click this “Gw2 Repair” shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Shortcut” tab look in the “Target:” field, you should see:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” or wherever you have Guild Wars 2 installed.
• After the closing quotation marks in this line put a space and then add -repair
  It will look like this but with your GW2 install location:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” -repair
• Hit OK after making this change.
• Run this repair shortcut. Your game will run through a repair cycle and fix any damaged files it finds.
• After it runs through, start the game using the normal GW2 game shortcut (not the repair shortcut) and see if your game runs properly.

thanks ill try and post if it worked

Stin Vec, in the post to Leila, is that a – (minus sign) before the word repair?

River Tam.3168:

Stin Vec, in the post to Leila, is that a – (minus sign) before the word repair?

Affirmative, the minus/dash symbol is required.

I tried this and it did not workitten
ep getting disconnected the same way after the whole verification :/

Reading on really old posts from the forum, i saw someone from arena net saying something like

make a new shortcut from gw and add /clientport 80 outside the " "
like -> “D:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” /clientport 80

it solved my issue :} no more disconnects with this

if anyone wanna see the post info they gave to ppl with the disconnects:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/error-code-7-11-3-189-101/first#post11907

also :

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/error-code-7-11-3-189-101/first#post12471

I sent the diag log to the support, they told me what the issue was.