Guild Wars 2

Guys help T~T
I’m redownloading the game just to see if that works but if you have any other suggestions or insight I would most appreciate it
C:\ Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe is not a valid Win32 application

What OS are you running, please give us some background to work with.

But off the bat, have you made sure to run as admin? And/or tried compatibility modes?

I’m sure someone else will have thoughts, that’s a new one for me.

No it sounds like the file got corrupted.

I just got this error tonight for the very first time. Not sure what to do? Should I just try complete uninstall and reinstall?

Try a -repair first.

In your game’s (or game shortcut’s) “Properties” > “Compatibility” tab, do you have the “Compatibility” (run this program in compatibility mode for:) check box enabled and something selected?

Also, to " -repair" (if you need help with doing that):

• Make a copy of your Gw2 game shortcut and rename it “GW2 Repair” or to something that you will recognize it for being only for running a repair on your GW2 installation.
• Now, right-click this “Gw2 Repair” shortcut and click on “Properties”.
• On the “Shortcut” tab look in the “Target:” field, you should see:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” or wherever you have Guild Wars 2 installed.
• After the closing quotation marks in this line put a space and then add -repair
  It will look like this but with your GW2 install location:
  “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2” -repair
• Hit OK after making this change.
• Run this repair shortcut. Your game will run through a repair cycle and fix any damaged files it finds.
• After it runs through, start the game using the normal GW2 game shortcut (not the repair shortcut) and see if your game can start up properly.

Also, if you think your Gw2.exe file is corrupt and cannot be repaired, instead of un-installing and re-installing to get a new executable (and re-downloading 16 gigs or so again), this is an old version of my Gw2.exe from September 17th. If you want to download it and see if it will execute properly and then update to the latest version, then this may be a method to resolving the issue. Or it might not help, but may be worth a try.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/1o52010z5sxk5zc/Gw2.exe

I’ll look to upload the current Gw2.exe from this new patch and update this with the DL link to it if you want, but this old one should execute and update fine if it is, indeed, an issue with that file being damaged and unable to execute or be repaired.

Also, after your issue is resolved, you may want to make a backup of your GW2 files someplace else on your hard drive so you do not need to re-download the whole game in the future after an un-install or if a file gets damaged and needs to be replaced.