I just found this on another forum post, and it actually worked for me!
’ve had this problem too.
I belive because of something incompatabile with the select_directory window…
Odd solution:
1) create a folder for a game
2) put a Gw2Setup.exe in it
3) change its name to Gw2.exe
4) run
in my case it begun downloading files in current directory…
(Very simple! I just changed the name of Gw2Setup.exe by right-clicking and renaming it to Gw2.exe and after i tried again i went straight to the download.)I tried this and managed to get GW2 installed and running on W7 x64.
However it doesn’t look line a normal install, as there are no links in programs or Windows Control Panel “Programs and Features”
Worse still, when I quit GW2 and just tried to play again – it started downloading the entire 30000 plus files again
I’ll see what happens when i get my game downloaded mate! maybe try to not run it off that same launcher? Im not sure though