Guild Wars 2

Upon “exit to desktop” from the game, the application appears to close and is removed from the applications list in the Task Manager, but the process remains active. Trying to launch the game launches another GW2.exe, but does not start the launcher or application.

I had to manually close the GW2.exe processes to relaunch the game.

Same issue for me.

Likewise. Replicates every time I launch the program.

happened to me as well

Same thing here.

Yup, happened to me too!

Was gonna post this thread myself;
Mark me down for this one too.

It’s getting tiresome having to open the task manager and manually killing the process before I can launch the client

When i close game, it relaunchs the client sometimes.

I tried to launch the client today and got a message that it’s already running and cannot run another copy. I had to go into task manager to kill gw2.exe game client to launch the game. I’m running windows 7.

I’m having this issue as well, needing to manually end the process before I can launch the game again. Hope there’s a fix coming soon, it’s pretty annoying!

Same here. I’m not very computer savvy so I thank you for the solution, it’ll have to do for now.

Same here for me but the task manager trick is working

Issue started for me after 1/29 update

Emrys.8130:

Issue started for me after 1/29 update

Likewise…

Same here. I’ve been disconnecting constantly tonight and when I exit to the desktop I have to manually end process before launching the game client again.

I’m having this same problem, and have encountered this bug several times in the past two days. It started with the big 1/28 patch on Monday. I had not ever had this issue prior to that point, and yet now it happens often.

Yep, same issue for me. At least it’s got an easy workaround. I trust Anet will address this in the next update.

yea same issue it started for me last night thought it was a one time thing but nope. after logging for a few hours it happened again. only solution for now is to log off windows and log back in.

yes, I’ve been having the same issue. I have to kill the processes manually before i can relaunch the client.

I’m in the same boat, except I’m also experiencing a significant amount of complete crashes post-patch. It’s actually unplayable at the moment. ANet will release a solution soon I’m confident. They seem to address these issues without much delay.

Yes, add me to list as well, and also started after the last patch..

got to restart comp twice today as can’t exit/run client.
also have lot of dc and keep getting drop out WvW while in combat, then find my character dead at normal area (even if I was far from die at WvW).
very bad lag at Wayfarer zone, rubber-band effect also occurred.

Yep, add me to this list. Have to go into Task Manager and end gw2.exe from there.

Same problem here. Was hoping the patch last night would fix it but it’s still happening.

Having the same problem. I hope they can resolve this soon.

Same thing is happening to me. Glad im not the only one.

Experiencing the same issue. Any possible fix from Anet?

I think I-m dealing with the same problem since quite a long time now, tried reinstalling OS but it just keeps happening, whenever I exit the game in a minute my PC become unresponsive and have to manually restart it.

It is very frustrating as I can’t find a way to solve this issue at the moment, my computer works good with any other software/game I use/play, just have this big annoying issue with GW2.

If you’re a computer enthusiast you know how you feel when you have to push power or reset button to shut down or restart your PC.. I hope this get fixed asap.

i’ve been having the same issue. whenever i exit gw2, there is still a process left running, and if i try reopening the game, i get an irritating prompt that pops up saying gw2 is already running about 15 seconds later. the only fix i’ve found is just killing all gw2 tasks after exiting, then loading the game again. first began after the jan 28th patch, and i’ve already attempted to repair the game :/

“me too”. glad to see its not just me.

Maybe there are some 3rd party application/security software interfering.

Any of you tried running in “clean boot” mode? (See Part 1.1)

Many people running it fine, yet there is a good number of people with this issue, must be a common denominator somewhere.