Guild Wars 2

Nut shell:

I installed GW2 recently and found that for some reason, I can only play the game if an external HD is connected. I need the game to work without it as the hard drive in question is not mine.

When I try to play the game without it, the error message attached states it can not locate the local.dat file and for me to be sure it is accessible and writable… after much frustration and tech support tickets telling me to download graphic card drivers I don’t need I am forced to post this. To play along I did as they requested but I can assure that my computer’s hardware has NOTHING to do with this issue. When the game is running is runs perfectly.

Lastly, I have tried uninstalling the game but the same error message pops up and I get nowhere. I am thinking if i re install the game, it will root the file in it’s proper place the next go-round.

Please help. Thank you!

Just did a quick search. Local.dat is in \Users\UserName\Documents\Guild Wars 2

I’m guessing in your case, that’s on the external drive… so yeah probably just reinstall without that plugged in.

Just for reference, here is my current file path.

I tried uninstalling it with and with out the drive connected…. blargh! LOL That same pesky error

you didn’t happen to relocate my documents to said external drive, did you?

right click the My Documents Folder, click properties and check the Location tab.
(note, the Documents link from start menu won’t have this tab)

Have you tried repair? (as recently described here)

Or deleting files & registry entries and installing? Maybe even just installing without uninstalling at all (lazy but I use it to fix things sometimes).

Squall Leonhart.2075:

you didn’t happen to relocate my documents to said external drive, did you?

I did actually… but by accident (I moved instead of copied, yikes) but I realized that might be the problem and moved it back over… so the file path above is where I am at now…

LameFox.6349:

Have you tried repair? (as recently described here)

Or deleting files & registry entries and installing? Maybe even just installing without uninstalling at all (lazy but I use it to fix things sometimes).

Thats actually a great idea haha I didnt try that. I will now. Is there a better way to uninstall the program other than through control panel?

The control panel is the most convenient, but when it doesn’t work, sometimes you’ve just got to delete all the files and entries associated with something (or I do). Some programs like CCleaner (free thing for generally getting junk off your computer) can do it as well I think, which is probably more convenient than manually finding all this stuff. For some reason I never think of that until after though…

LameFox.6349:

The control panel is the most convenient, but when it doesn’t work, sometimes you’ve just got to delete all the files and entries associated with something (or I do). Some programs like CCleaner (free thing for generally getting junk off your computer) can do it as well I think, which is probably more convenient than manually finding all this stuff. For some reason I never think of that until after though…

Aint that the way it always goes LOL I really appreciate all the help!

allendroth, i did quickly add more to my post, so you might have missed it?

right click the My Documents Folder, click properties and check the Location tab.
(note, the Documents link from start menu won’t have this tab)