Guild Wars 2

Hi,

This is the third time this has happened to me. the first time i downloaded the game, played, and when i shut down to restart the game i cant find the game’s gw2.exe to start it (shortcut and real file) and had to download all over again. (happened 3 times already) (by the way, im not new gamer, but returning player, didnt play for a year and my computer was bought especially for gw2 so it hasnt been started for a year as well, not like that helps solving this just wanted to state it)

After the third time it happened and i posted (wrong forum but people was helpful) and i found it here C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Local\Temp\GW2.exe

It worked fine, i made a shortcut of the gw2.exe to my desktop and was great for about 2 weeks now.

But then….

Today i was lagging a bit (wvw) so i restarted my computer and its gone?!!! wtf hahahaha @^#%&^$
It says the “the item gw2.exe that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved, so this shortcut will no longer work properly, do you want to delete this shortcut” hell no i havent deleted it and i have no idea where it went. im no expert in computers windows or mac, but this is messed up. comp is going coup de ta on my kitten again.

please help for a solution, im so tired of downloading the game over and over again just to play probably already 44 hours worth of times i downloaded the game…. my server needs me we’re against piken and AM DE!!

by the way…

before i restarted, the computer asked for an update, not sure what it was, maybe something from microsoft windows… ( i think i have a fake miscrosoft windows if this helps solve the problem)

TEMP means temporary files .. that is just a folder where files are temporary located
so you never should install something there.

Create a new folder like c:\games\gw2 and move the gw2.exe there and also the
GW2.dat if it still exists, else you need to redownload it all again.

And next time, don’t execute something you download directly but use “save as”
so you know where it is located, and don’t use the temp folder for stuff you want
to keep.

Ok, so there is a gw2 folder in C:\program files (x86) \guildwars 2 and there is a gw2.dat file and bin folder, crash.dmp, gw2.tmp. should i remove those to a new folder under c>game>gw2? currently i just moved the gw2.dat and im downloading the game again. and after it finished downlaoding look for the gw2.exe and remove it to the new folder you told me to?

only thing im confused now is if the game after its downloaded and its not in temp where else do i look for it because it doesnt give me an option to save as it. it just downloads automatically. (i have a cd of the game)

Rassen.1234:

Ok, so there is a gw2 folder in C:\program files (x86) \guildwars 2 and there is a gw2.dat file and bin folder, crash.dmp, gw2.tmp. should i remove those to a new folder under c>game>gw2? currently i just moved the gw2.dat and im downloading the game again. and after it finished downlaoding look for the gw2.exe and remove it to the new folder you told me to?

only thing im confused now is if the game after its downloaded and its not in temp where else do i look for it because it doesnt give me an option to save as it. it just downloads automatically. (i have a cd of the game)

No need, you can use that folder. Just make sure that the gw2.exe file is located in the same folder – C:\program files (x86) \guildwars 2

Also, you really should check where you download stuff to. Best it to set your browser to ask each time imho, then you have to select a location every time you download something.

No leave it there I’m thinking for some reason you are just losing the desktop icon not the whole game, not sore why this is happening to you, but till you get it sorted out just use the gw2.exe to start the game in that folder. What Antivirus are you using maybe your AV is thinking the game is a threat and Quarantining the game. Some have had a lot of issues with Norton’s and GuildWars2.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Rassen.1234:

Ok, so there is a gw2 folder in C:\program files (x86) \guildwars 2 and there is a gw2.dat file and bin folder, crash.dmp, gw2.tmp. should i remove those to a new folder under c>game>gw2? currently i just moved the gw2.dat and im downloading the game again. and after it finished downlaoding look for the gw2.exe and remove it to the new folder you told me to?

only thing im confused now is if the game after its downloaded and its not in temp where else do i look for it because it doesnt give me an option to save as it. it just downloads automatically. (i have a cd of the game)

No need, you can use that folder. Just make sure that the gw2.exe file is located in the same folder – C:\program files (x86) \guildwars 2

Also, you really should check where you download stuff to. Best it to set your browser to ask each time imho, then you have to select a location every time you download something.

Ok, i will keep using the program file (x86) >gw2 as the folder but how can i check where it iinstalls anything i downlaod? how can i set my browser to ask each time i download? so i can set the location. its been doing it automatically and i have no clue where find the commands to do what you just said.

sorry and thank you for replying

Rassen.1234:

Ok, so there is a gw2 folder in C:\program files (x86) \guildwars 2 and there is a gw2.dat file and bin folder, crash.dmp, gw2.tmp. should i remove those to a new folder under c>game>gw2? currently i just moved the gw2.dat and im downloading the game again. and after it finished downlaoding look for the gw2.exe and remove it to the new folder you told me to?

only thing im confused now is if the game after its downloaded and its not in temp where else do i look for it because it doesnt give me an option to save as it. it just downloads automatically. (i have a cd of the game)

Then just use the GW2.exe there and create a shortcut to it there.
The dat file is most of download, so no need to redownload it.

The exe always just downloads everything to the directory where it is located.

Feirlista Xv.1425:

No leave it there I’m thinking for some reason you are just losing the desktop icon not the whole game, not sore why this is happening to you, but till you get it sorted out just use the gw2.exe to start the game in that folder. What Antivirus are you using maybe your AV is thinking the game is a threat and Quarantining the game. Some have had a lot of issues with Norton’s and GuildWars2.

Ok. i will leave the gw2.dat in the program file (x86)>gw2 folder. i have Baidu antivirus, but more or less i dont have proper antivvirus on this computer, (i should but never got around to getting it) it could be that the stupid baidu is deleting or quarantine it like you said. makes sense instead it just dissapearing. yeah its the whole gw2.exe file that dissapears.

Beldin.5498:

Rassen.1234:

Ok, so there is a gw2 folder in C:\program files (x86) \guildwars 2 and there is a gw2.dat file and bin folder, crash.dmp, gw2.tmp. should i remove those to a new folder under c>game>gw2? currently i just moved the gw2.dat and im downloading the game again. and after it finished downlaoding look for the gw2.exe and remove it to the new folder you told me to?

only thing im confused now is if the game after its downloaded and its not in temp where else do i look for it because it doesnt give me an option to save as it. it just downloads automatically. (i have a cd of the game)

Then just use the GW2.exe there and create a shortcut to it there.
The dat file is most of download, so no need to redownload it.

The exe always just downloads everything to the directory where it is located.

So, i dont know where to locate the exe file, gw2.dat is here i can find it but the exe is the one missing. so thats why im waiting to download the whole game again and look for the exe file hopefully its still in temp>download folder. if its not than im screwed again haha.

Rassen.1234:

Beldin.5498:

Rassen.1234:

Ok, so there is a gw2 folder in C:\program files (x86) \guildwars 2 and there is a gw2.dat file and bin folder, crash.dmp, gw2.tmp. should i remove those to a new folder under c>game>gw2? currently i just moved the gw2.dat and im downloading the game again. and after it finished downlaoding look for the gw2.exe and remove it to the new folder you told me to?

only thing im confused now is if the game after its downloaded and its not in temp where else do i look for it because it doesnt give me an option to save as it. it just downloads automatically. (i have a cd of the game)

Then just use the GW2.exe there and create a shortcut to it there.
The dat file is most of download, so no need to redownload it.

The exe always just downloads everything to the directory where it is located.

So, i dont know where to locate the exe file, gw2.dat is here i can find it but the exe is the one missing. so thats why im waiting to download the whole game again and look for the exe file hopefully its still in temp>download folder. if its not than im screwed again haha.

How do you even download the game without the exe ? You need to start the exe
in fact to download the game.

You should really learn some Windows basics, at least how the file system works.

Oh .. and as Antivirus i suggest Avast Free .. never heared of Baidu.

The exe file on my desktop that i didnt delete (the one that couldnt locate the original file because that was the shortcut) i took it and moved it to the program file (x86). Hopefully this will solve it afterwards. Yeah the exe must be on the computer somewhere but i just cant seem to locate it. and dont know how to. yess i do need to learn more basic windows.

anyways Thank you for your help. and i will check out the anti virus you suggested, yeah baidu , i dont even know how i ended up with it…