Guild Wars 2

has anyone else found gw2.exe not to be closing normaly? i have to manual end it via windows task manager on windows 7 ultimate

Yeah I’ve noticed this a lot lately as well. I’ll go to start GW2 up and the window never pops. I’ll look through task manager and find other instances of it still there. Just started happening to me the last few days.

I’m having this problem post-patch as well. I also had this problem soon after release, but it was fixed a couple months back.

Yes this has happened to me as well when the patch should of closed my client, but didn’t fully. As OP said you must go to task manager(or whatever equivalent you have) and end it manually if this happens for any reason. For those of you not sure if this has happened, if you start up the client and nothing happens(besides maybe a loading icon next to mouse) the client has not fully closed upon your last use. If a login message comes up stating you have not logged out, head to your account on this and go to security and end the oldest log-in activity, then try to start client.

I too am experiencing this, Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit.

This started happening to me after the January 28th update, too. It occurs maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the time after closing the client. It’s worth noting that multiple instances of the process can appear in the task manager if you keep trying to open the program.

Running Windows 8, 64-bit, non-pro edition.

Exactly the same thing happens to me too. Most of the time I close the program now it stays running in the background. The game isn’t shown in the taks manager’s Applications tab but is still active in the Processes.

Yes indeed. Sometimes it runs in the background after I close, and I must end in the task manager. Also only after 28th update.

Same problem here, will keep on running after close to desktop. Can terminate using task manager.

Mine says still running but task manager doesnt show it

I know that this isn’t ideal, but you could make a batch file to kill gw2.exe then start the game, it would save you trying to load the game multiple times and then having to kill them all.

taskkill /F /IM gw2.exe
cd c:\<game location>
start gw2.exe

Having the same problem here (another thread with additional people experiencing it: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/GW2-exe-process-doesn-t-end-when-closing )

Seems like it might be something tied to 64 OS bit since a lot of people are noting that they’re using one.