Guild Wars 2

I thought I’d post this in case it helps others.

Symptom: graphics were all stretched and weird looking, like a character’s nose getting pulled clear to the horizon, and graphics flashy weird like a really bad hallucinogenic trip. Game was unplayable.

What didn’t work:
virus scan, system check, everything else what fine, only GW2
Updated graphics driver
ran with -repair

What did work:
Deleted just the folder in Documents, left the main program install in Program Files the way it was. Started up and everything was fine.

Cause – as yet unknown. Windows 7, nVidia graphics. It’s my S.O.‘s computer and she swears she didn’t do anything to settings…

What was next on our list of things to try was to completely uninstall and reinstall. I thought ‘what the heck – if by some miracle this works it saves 5 hrs of download’ and I be kittenly kittened, it did work.

Kittenly Kittened made me giggle. Sounds like something borked in the local.dat file. I don’t really know whats in that file but thanks for the tip.

^.^

Yeah I think it must have been the local.dat file that got messed up, and apparently it’s not vetted during a -repair

Honestly a screen shot would be fun to see.

You can try running all the diagnostics on the site but honestly reloading it fix’s the majority of minor glitches.

PS I always suggest keeping a copy of the downloaded file before opening to make sure you have a fresh copy to save time!