Guild Wars 2

Hey there,

The title pretty much sums up my problem. My GW2.exe is not deemed a valid win32 application by my system and can not be started.
So far I tried completely deleting and reinstalling the game but it didn’t help at all.

I’m using the following

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, Service Pack 1 (I update frequently)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @3Ghz
4GB Ram

I can access the game launcher by using the Gw2Setup.exe on my dvd and still start the game though. As far as I understand it my game files, except for GW2.exe seem to be okay?
My GW2.exe as well as my temporary file are both shown as 0kb files as you can see here:
http://i.imgur.com/MmMtp.png

That’s all I can think of right now. If you need some more data please tell me.

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/1591-exe-is-not-a-valid-win32-application

Go to

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp

and look for another gw2.exe. If there is one in there which is not 0KB (should be about 20MB), copy-paste it to your GW2 folder instead of that empty one. Don’t forget to run it as Admin.

(note that the Temp path may look a bit different in German.. I’m not sure)

XcomCaveRat.4059:

… C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp … another gw2.exe … copy-paste it to your GW2 folder instead of that empty one.

That did it. Many thanks!

XcomCaveRat’s fix worked for me today, also.

For the record, this issue never came up until today, and no, the game files are not within a temporary folder. The only recent changes to anything on my PC were the most recent patches to the game itself and a DirectX update. The game launcher window did come up briefly at first, then sent a report to ArenaNet upon crashing, and thereafter the “not a valid Win32” error window kept popping up. That copy/paste fix worked.

I’ve done all of these steps and I keep getting the error messege

Please help me. Ive been trying for hours to get the download client to open from the .exe file and its not working. It says this.