Guild Wars 2

After the recent patch today, whenever I log into a character the loading screen will freeze up while I can hear sounds from the environment around my character. Fiddling with compatibility mode won’t fix anything and the same installation will run just fine in Windows 7. So it appears its an issue with the patch itself with Windows 8.1.

I have Windows 8.1, and had no issues logging into GW2 earlier

I tried two separate installations of the game and rebooting the computer. Yet when I switch over to Windows 7, everything’s just fine. Never had this problem before the last patch.