Guild Wars 2

This is a recurrence of a problem I had in the not so distant past where, when loading into a city or logging into a character who is in a city at peak hours (6 – 9 pm GMT), the game hangs at loading.

Only this time, I cannot seem to load into any character at any time. My main is trapped in Lion’s Arch. I assume this is because L.A. has been dolled up in Hallow’s eve props and meshes and this is affecting the problem greatly. Though I have no proof of this.

These problems cripple my ability to Roleplay, which is the reason I bought the game.

For the past couple of days I have experienced this exact issue EVERY single time I try to load into LA on either a test human guard and the norn guardian I’m levelling now. I try to load the game and it gets as far as hearing the sounds of the game as if I am standing where I would be if I had loaded properly but the loading screen never leaves.
Here’s some “solutions” I’ve dredged up from threads that are over a year old about this same problem that have allowed me at least one successful load:
-Create a new GW2 shortcut to GW2.exe, right click on the shortcut, then click properties, then add to the very end of the target line a space then “-repair”. Clicking this shortcut will now supposedly repair the client (It took several minutes for me). This was only a temporary fix for me.
-Delete your local.dat file from your appdata GW2 file, also perhaps guest to a different server, again this has worked a few times but was never permanent.
-Carefully prune MSCONFIG to prevent unnecessary programs from booting or running: This has worked once but I have yet to find out if it has permanently fixed the problem. UPDATE: This is the first fix that has worked twice in a row for me.
Even then the top two fixes haven’t always worked. sometimes you’ll be able to move around LA but won’t be able to interact with anything and eventually you will disconnect and inevitably hit the exact same problem when loading back in.

Thanks a bunch for the reply. I’ll definitely have a go at these solutions and report back.

I’ve had this error since the last two updates. This Hallow’s eve update and the last update, that Royal celebration one. So I’ve had this problem for a very long time. It’s incredibly frustrating and I can sadly say that I’ve not seen Arena Net help out such issues like mine. As far as I can see ( which people have also told me in the past ) is that ANet is famously terrible on Tech support. So far this is proving true.

So far using selective start-up and carefully un-ticking the boxes for all of the programs in MSCONFIG I know I don’t need running appears to have solved the issue for me today as I have not had a single issue when loading since doing so. Hopefully you’ll have the same result.