Guild Wars 2

Dirril.7042:

This seemed to work on Windows 8.1 (latest updates): disabling “Automatically detect settings” in the Network > Proxy control panel.

Not sure if this was just coincidence, or something else was fixed. Perhaps the new launcher is more sensitive to network issues / crappy proxy detection? I had previously tried basically everything everybody else had in this thread (repair, run as admin, disable firewall/av, uninstall/attempt to reinstall).

It’s a simple setting to test out, so it might be worth a shot.

YMMV.

Further confirmation that this works. Thank you!

Based on my observations, some of the code continues running in the background even though the launcher UI is unresponsive. I was able to finish the update by letting it stay like that for a period of time; however, the problem persists and as such I was unable to login. After some attempts to fix the problem I accidentally uninstalled the game, and now it is reinstalling. Once again it is unresponsive at the launcher menu, but the game itself is downloading. I can see this by looking at my task manager and see that guildwars2.exe is using up 8.4mbps of bandwidth.

I’m having the same problem here. I really wanted to see the new patch… This is brutal. Hopefully we get a fix soon.