game crashing before character select

game crashing before character select

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Posted by: Tank.7821

Tank.7821

My pc updated to the new windows 10 update recently. I logged off last night and shut down my pc. I tried to login today, the launcher loads up fine but the game crashes before it reaches the character select screen, tried both the 32 and 64 bit clients.

I also tried running check disk on my hard drives, no errors found.

reloaded older gpu drivers after running DDU (display driver uninstaller) no luck

used the new drivers following the same process

removed and tried different combinations of ram modules, no luck

ran the gw2 repair. no luck

I also tried disabling my av software, added exceptions for GW2. nada.

all other games work perfectly fine.

I have run out of ideas of what else to try

pc specs:
Asus M5A99FX Pro mother board
Gigabyte R9 280X windforce 3gb
16gb ram
Kingston Hyper-X 120gb ssd
250gb Seagate Barracuda
1tb Western Digital Caviar blue

Display driver version:
Radeon-Crimson-16.7.3-Win10-64Bit

windows event log below

Faulting application name: Gw2-64.exe, version: 1.0.0.1, time stamp: 0×579fbebb
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0×00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0×0000000000000000
Faulting process id: 0×2338
Faulting application start time: 0×01d1f09b4d056389
Faulting application path: E:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2-64.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 9b2594d8-4936-4a83-9856-3fd3978f35fb
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

game crashing before character select

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Posted by: Seagull.9238

Seagull.9238

Yeah. A lot of people are having this problem. See the Problems with the 64-bit client Thread. I don’t think ANet has a fix yet.

game crashing before character select

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Posted by: Tank.7821

Tank.7821

managed to fix my issue!

deleted the local.dat file, the game redownloaded some stuff and it’s working again!

this can be closed now moderators, thank you