Guild Wars 2

I do not receive any errors, it simply freezes at the initial download screen without the name/password boxes showing up every time I attempt to bring up the game. The only way I can get out of the screen after it locks itself is by force closing it with ctrl/alt/del. I can not minimize it or close it by usual means. I have tried rolling back my computer, updating my drivers again, and have reinstalled the game client but still run in to this.

I’m having the same issue. It was working fine last night, but today i have the same symptoms as you. Launcher comes up, doesn’t download or anything, and just freezes.

See if this helps:

• Close your game completely (not running in Task Manager)
• Ensure your game is set to ‘Run As Administrator’ in the shortcut’s Properties > Compatibility tab and try launching it again.

I have tried running as admin, tried different compatibility modes, tried deleting/moving/renaming the local.dat file. Tried running with -repair, -verify, and other commandlines on startup, done virus search, double-checked firewall settings, checked for up to date GPU drivers, checked temps and status of my CPU & GPU but all to no avail. The client just hangs, and after a few moments i get the " Gw2 has stopped responding message"

I downloaded the game downloader from this site, and that patching client ran just fine.
But i don’t want to re-download the whole game on my slow wi-fi connection, just to get the same error :/

Hello Ashley.
Thank you very much for answering so fast.
Yes, i also made sure that my antivirus and firewall software gave gw2 the permissions needed. It might be worth mentioning that i was able to play on patch day, and all of yesterday. But today i haven’t been able to get past the client freeze. I haven’t installed any software or hardware since, and i am able to play other games without any issues.

I uninstalled the game, and ran registry cleaning to make sure everything is back to scratch, and atm. I am re-downloading the game hoping to see some results.
As this takes ages, i won’t be able to follow up on the matter before tomorrow.

add: While downloading, and writing this, i remembered i should check the windows error logs. This is what i found
Gw2.exe
1.0.0.1
52741f18
d3d9.dll
0.0.0.0
4ee53333
c0000005
00007824
15c8
01cedb1ce38496c0
D :\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe
D :\Guild Wars 2\d3d9.dll
1a216f97-4717-11e3-8e6d-08606e7c322e

“d3d9.dll " Seems interesting – Any word on how i should tackle this?

And thank you for your time and work.

Thanks! I will try doing that when the download is done. And post the results.

And btw. Sorry in advance to Nanoko if you feel that i highjacked your thread, but i hope that the conversation i’m having with Ashley might help out your situation aswell.

Another option Luke is to use -repair when starting the client to check for corrupt files: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

Make sure you don’t have something with an overlay running like mumble, steam, msi afterburner, or riva tuner. Especially the last two.

I have tried running it as admin, I have turned off all my security, and use the links that have posted and nothing would work. It would still freeze at the login window without a error message and have to be forced closed. I decided to reinstall a 3rd time and still get the same issues, however now the log in window is frozen for about 2 min and then it starts working.