Guild Wars 2

I made a thread here earlier describing my loading issues. Got some help and thought they were fixed but now I’m having more issues.

When ever I try to start the game now it stays at 0/0kb and if I try to exit or do anything else. It seems to lock my computer up and I have to restart it.

Should I uninstall the game or restore a previous version?

I think the main issue lies behind why all of sudden the Guild Wars 2 DAT, Application, and TMP file in Programs(x86) have a security lock on them. They aren’t read me only or anything like that. Any help would be appreciated

Edit: I have several corrupt files and 1 corrupt archive in the same file location from my crashes. Should I do anything with them?

Edit: Just tried running the game from the normal location and not as an administrator. Seems to be downloading the last update (6K files). Will update if it’s working fine. I’m so confused by all of this

and last Edit: Kept getting error reports which I sent to anet

Try disabling or uninstalling (preferably the former) any anti-virus/internet security programs that might have firewall settings that are inhibiting you from connecting.

If not, right click gw2.exe and at the end of the target line, add -repair.

Run it, and see if that helps. Remove the line afterwards to test the execution.

sounds like a big ole mess.
some kind of memory leak perhaps.
I would uninstall everything, use cc cleaner to clean up junk files/registry, and start over. reinstall direct x too.

Can you link to the previous thread that you made regarding this issue? System specs and such would help.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Having-serious-loading-issues/first#post3111805

There’s the old one.

I was getting ready to uninstall and reinstall the game actually but couldn’t find GW2 in the program and features section. The only internet security I have is Kaspersky, which I know isn’t the problem due to other people I know having the same thing.

I’ll try the repair thing real quick

Edit: Assuming I added repair to the correct part (where it says GW2 so it became GW2-repair), it didn’t do anything. Got the error report for the regular document, and locked my computer up when using the one in Program Files(x86)

How would I uninstall if it’s not in programs and features?

if you don’t have CCleaner download it now, it’s free.
you can use its uninstall ability to locate gw2 and uninstall it.
then use it to clean out garbage files, then run a registry clean up.
CCleaner is one of those programs EVERY Windows owners should have.

Ok, I installed it..got rid of the extra crud it installed with it..

Ran the registry thing. But in the uninstall section it still just shows everything thats in the program and features section. No GW2

This is just a suggestion, I run the current game I play on a clean install of windows don’t run anything but the game and a VoIP app like TS3 or vent and have no problems with the game. Since this PC is only for gaming I just use Windows Security Essentials for anti virus and have all firewalls turn off. The point is that this game uses a lot of the PC’s resources so if you have some program, app, or anti virus running in the background this is known to have problems. So as a last resort try reinstalling Windows update all drivers from the manufacturers web site, do not use a 3rd party driver finder utility. Reinstall the game, I’m almost certain this will solve your problems.

Grok Krog.9581:

Ok, I installed it..got rid of the extra crud it installed with it..

Ran the registry thing. But in the uninstall section it still just shows everything thats in the program and features section. No GW2

hmm, if it ain’t there maybe it never finished installing?
go ahead an delete any gw2 folders and try to reinstall

Well, I’ve been playing since early release so it was installed at some point.

But I think I’ll do that..if worse comes to worse I can just do a wipe and reinstall everything

Edit: Well, installation was going fine for a while. About 90K files left, with only 1 error report. But now I’m not getting the 400-700 KB/sec i was getting. It’s less than 100. Actually, about 1 right now

Now it’s back up to where it was. Averaging 450-500.

I think this might work despite some issues. Wanna go ahead and thank everyone for their help