Guild Wars 2

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Hello,
Many times, when I log into the game and open trade post, it fails to show the amount of GEMS I have. When this happens, trade post loses most of its functionality. I cannot sell items from my inventory to trade post.. nothing appears on that screen, I cannot see anything on the Order History tab, the trade post items have an icon but they fail to link..no description appears on mouse over..
Now, after googling around, I tried following troubleshooting :-
1) Updated root certificates of Windows 7 to latest .. did this many times.
2) I dont have firewall and antivirus .. and I keep default microsoft firewall OFF, so no problem there. No ports blocked or such or no program is interfering with GW2.exe accessing web.
3) I run the shortcut with ADMIN rights.
4) Installed and re-installed the game several times.
Even after doing all of the above, trade post does not work MANY times.
This can ONLY be fixed by completely exiting the game client and relaunching it and hope it works.
As you can see, this can become pretty irritating on WWW especially if there is a Que because I have to exit the client if I have to use trade post. Now I am not a pve player. WWW is the only thing I play. So kindly let me know what I can do, or which log files, screenshots etc I can mail you or post here .. so that I find some solution and make sure that the trade post does not glitch out. It would seriously be very helpful.
Thanks a loads.

try deleting your local.dat and gw2 temp files.
Could also try VPN services like WTFast or Battleping 20min trial to see if it helps.

kirito.4138:

try deleting your local.dat and gw2 temp files.
Could also try VPN services like WTFast or Battleping 20min trial to see if it helps.

Thank you for your reply.

I still have following issues with above troubleshoot:-

Deleting local.dat file takes out things which disturb other settings too. I understand its a troubleshoot but its half a troubleshoot as I lose all the setup options. Also, as breaking down of trade post has “irritation” quotient, so does deleting local.dat file and re arranging options every time I log in has the same “irritation” quotient.

VPN services are extra cost which I dont want to bear. [ Neither should I have to] Also, 20 mins disconnect will not work for me on www as our server has waiting time.

Can some arena net technical guy come here and explain it to me what exact problem is? I am willing to mail you all the logs and screenshots.

This is a arenanet software issue.. kindly let me know what the exact problem is.. As per the previous post, all the ports are free, UDP/ TCP-IP nothing is blocked. All the rights are given to the program. Still, without use of external software like vpn, or changing local.dat everytime, cannot be the solution to this bug. [ This game is intended as “no grief gaming”. Trade post has been a grief issue as the bug just refuses to die.]

Thank you.

you actually lose very little settings by deleting local.dat

and you should delete local.dat any time theres a major update anyway >.> it prevents alot of issues.

Squall Leonhart.2075:

you actually lose very little settings by deleting local.dat

and you should delete local.dat any time theres a major update anyway >.> it prevents alot of issues.

Ok, I had never manually deleted local.dat before any update, but I will keep that in mind. Also, I keep a copy of gw2.dat file after every [successful] update just so that if something goes wrong, you wont have to download the whole game again.

About losing anything by deleting local.dat file, I understand that little or more is lost, thats more of individual opinion. It does bug me, and thats improper troubleshooting.

thanks.

well, it wouldn’t be such an issue if the configuration was kept seperately to the local.dat, but since it is :< i’ve resolved to having to set the graphics and sound sliders back up after each major update.

any time i’ve left the local.dat after a major update i’ve loaded in either had one of the following

*black screen
*hung sound
*game soft freezes opening a config menu

Squall Leonhart.2075:

well, it wouldn’t be such an issue if the configuration was kept seperately to the local.dat, but since it is :< i’ve resolved to having to set the graphics and sound sliders back up after each major update.

any time i’ve left the local.dat after a major update i’ve loaded in either had one of the following

*black screen
*hung sound
*game soft freezes opening a config menu

Agreed. I think there is some rights issue when local.dat is being queried which are not yet being addressed.. I think trading post is still has a bunch of bugs eating at it. I found some logs where there were errors regarding local.dat access.

But yea, I think anet wont fix it till that big feb end patch they have planned or such.. Also, mostly I have done everything in this game and now losing interest in this game at a very fast rate.. lets see how stuff is when the feb patch gets released. thanks a loads for your help info and time.

Just a simple warning concerning deleting the local.dat file. It will also reset your setting for log in. So if you have a setting (NOT RECOMMENDED) Save Username and Save password these will also be reset. Be sure to have your account details available if you have forgotten your password.

Again these settings are not recommended to use. Use them on your own risk