Guild Wars 2

I can play the game fine on existing characters. If I initiate the creation of a new character my whole system hard locks 2 seconds after the first screen of creation loads. There is no background on the screen, just the scrolling arrows at the bottom with the flavor text and then total system lock forcing me to hard reset.

I upgraded to HoT last night. I cannot say that creation worked fine prior to that however. I have not created a new character for a long time.

64-bit client.

Try a -repair on your client. Upgrading to HoT only changes your characters access. The files are still the same.