Guild Wars 2

Since today i experience random crashes with the same error over and over again. Repairing the Installation doesn’t help at all. Yesterday everything worked fine for a long time and today the crashes started. Since a lot of other people are having the same problem i hope for a fix from you anet.

Assertion: A file was corrupted in the archive. Please run once with ‘-repair’!
File: ..\..\..\Game\Main\MainCli.cpp(589)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 4700
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 17583
When: 2013-04-06T18:11:24Z 2013-04-06T20:11:24+02:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:19:05
Flags: 0

It sounds like your Gw2.exe somehow got corrupted while patching. Connectivity loss or a system restart during the patching process could do this.

You can try this:
Run a repair of GW2
1) Navigate to theGW2 directory normaly located at “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\” or “C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\”
2) R-Click “Gw2.EXE” then select Send To>Desktop (create shortcut)
3) One your Desktop R-Click the “Gw2 – shortcut” and Rename it to “Gw2 Repair”
4) R-Click the “Gw2 – Repair” shortcut and select Properties
5) In the tagert line, all the way to the right after the quotation mark add a space then type the following: -repair
Example: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair
Example 2: “C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\” -repair
6) Click Apply then OK
7) Run teh gw2 – Repair

or

Grab a new Gw2.exe from:
https://account.guildwars2.com/account/download (It’ll download as Gw2Setup.exe)

You can then rename it from “Gw2Setup.exe” to “Gw2.exe” and replace your old one.

NOTE:
The later was posted by a Mod on this forum.

err sorry didn’t read the whole post try the second option.

You could also rename the Gw2.dat to Gw2.OLD. The Gw2.OLD would be a back-up. This causes the game to be download again so it is time intensive.