Guild Wars 2

So, I wasn’t having any problems until the emergency maintenance. I logged in fine, played several hours with map changes, switching between characters and everything normal.

After the servers came back, I was able to log in and play for a solid 30+ minutes in the same area I’d been in, no noticeable strangeness. Then I tried to change maps and the game crashed completely. I restarted the program and it tried to load but simply went black, my cursor kept flipping between an arrow and a hand, I couldn’t tab out to anything else, nor use the Windows key. I opened task manager, but couldn’t make anything respond, I could just look, and then I clicked back into GW2 after being unable to make it force quit, and it froze so badly I had to restart my entire machine.

After the reboot, I tried to restart the game again. I logged on and managed to get to the map load on the character I had been playing – who was apparently on the last map, pre-port – but it just cycled forever and then finally gave me a crash error message before kicking me back to the launcher. I didn’t even have time to write down the error message numbers. Tried to run it again and it froze my machine again in the same way as earlier – if I ctrl-alt-del’ed and tried to open Task Manager, I was able to tab between my programs I’d had open (Chrome, GW2, Task Mngr), but couldn’t do anything with them. This time I C-A-D’d and logged out, then logged back in, which closed everything, including GW2. I don’t want to play that game again, so I’m not going to try a fourth time.

I’m gonna give up on it for tonight and hope you folks work something out by tomorrow eve when I try to load it up again.