Launcher closes, game client doesn't open
Run as administrator, disable antivirus/firewall/security software, delete local.dat (my documents/guild wars 2). Install all windows updates, even optional ones, double check drivers or perform a clean install of them.
No good?
Try running msconfig, disable all startup programs, restart comp, test gw2. If good, you have a conflicting program in that list. You can re-enable by repeating and restarting.
Post back and let us know how you go.
I have tried all of the above top paragraph. Running msconfig, disabling all startup programs makes the gw2.exe on the task manager last a few second longer.
Are you getting any crashes? Do you have a crash log available? (ArenaNet.log under my documents/guild wars 2)
If anything recent in there, could you post it using more posting & formatting options below.
Are you getting any crashes? Do you have a crash log available? (ArenaNet.log under my documents/guild wars 2)
If anything recent in there, could you post it using more posting & formatting options below.
after you follow these instructions OP it will be nice to read your dxdiag log file .
(To find your DxDiag, Start>Run and type ‘DxDiag’ without the quotation marks and ‘Save all Information’ )