Guild Wars 2

Hi team,

I’ve just bought the game via the website and have downloaded Gw2Setup.exe
When I run the program, it immediately gives me the error
“Guild Wars 2 is unable to access its archive file Local.dat. Please verify that the file is available…”
Ironic given that file doesn’t exist on the computer and I haven’t touched the beta etc.

I’ve tried the suggestions in other threads such as disabling all the msconfig things (inc antivirus) but that has yielded nothing. I’ve tried getting a GameAdvisor log but GameAdvisor won’t install and gives me a 0xc0000005 error upon running the file.

Any help that could be provided would be much appreciated

- Brian

I’m running Win 7 64 bit, all service packs up to date, graphics card drivers are up to date as well.

Thanks

try right clicking on gw2setup and choosing Run as Administrator" its possible that the User Account Control is interfering with it.

Also if you’re installing GW2 to Program Files or some other OS-created folder, try installing it somewhere else to folder of your own creation like C:/Games

Sometimes games have problems with write permissions due to Windows security, even if you run the program as admin and UAC is disabled – that’s why some games advise avoiding Program Files. I use C:/Games as the install folder for all my games + Steam these days.

Thanks for the responses team – much appreciated.

I’ve got no UAC’s as I’m the only user and I admin by default.
Also, I never got the screen where I could select a location to download GW2 into.

It’s quite an odd issue and it’s come up in the past with other programs as well – namely Adobe Reader.

The problem has been fixed by simply inserting a USB drive and mapping it to Drive E:

By way of background, all my non-system files use to be on Drive E.
I did a bit of jigging around a year ago and changed it to Drive D.

Having done a bit of Googling around – I found a suggested Reg fixes and I manually updated that, but it didn’t fix the problem – Adobe Reader (and I suspect the Guild Wars install) still wasn’t able to find Drive E – I’m sure that mapping is somewhere in my reg.

Anyway, someone suggested tos imply put in a USB key and map it to drive E.

I did that and both GW2 and Adobe Reader installed without a hitch.

Tech support – maybe this is something to address in the coding

I have no idea if its an easy fix but I’m pretty sure there is a similarity with the Drive ‘location’ Adobe Reader Installer was looking for and the location GW2setup was looking for.

Hope that helps other people

Thank you! I mapped a USB drive to Z:\ and it worked perfectly!

I have this problem as well. With about half the game patches, the launcher will suddenly be unable to write to the local.dat file. If I restart my computer the problem is fixed and the launcher will run. Yesterday I was tinkering around and discovered that there were 3 GW2 files that had no assigned permissions at all. I changed the permissions and it worked, until the patch last night. It looks as though the patch wiped the permissions from the file. Is there any way to prevent this?