Guild Wars 2

Tribio.8531:

Hmmz, the client stops for some time with downloading and you force close it? And then it crashes? Seems legit, no..

Might be best to investigate how come the download drops at around that time.. If you open your eventviewer / networking, do you see any out of the ordinary at the time of the drop? Are there any processes hogging your CPU? …. ?

after client starts to download, about 20seconds, it gets to roughly 3-5 mb, then it just stops/crashes, and it wont close, I have to force close it with task manager.

I opened up the event viewer like you said; at launch it spikes to around 30% and then drops immediately and sits at a low level while downloading, as it stops downloading it spikes up to 40% CPU usage and stays there.

I made sure all other processes were closed, I only have GW client, not even AV to make sure its not blocking it.

1. Mounts – Earned with Achievement, Bought in-game & a few Cash Bought mounts (like 4) to help get developers money.
(seriously, I can’t stress this enough, players will literally spend weeks playing just to earn 1 mount to show off to other people, and yeah showing off a cool mount is huge in MMO IMO)
2. In-Game Hair Salon, paid with game money
3. Player Housing (for coolness)
4. Transmog gear :P

can’t stress enough that grinding for cool gear, achievement or vanity gear is half the reason why people play mmo for months on end, getting those things makes the game addicting. Work on those things and you got a solid game.

Banquetto.9521:

RayneSilverthorn.7590:

I know this is an told topic to bump, but I found a solution after having this problem today.

Aniaden had the right idea. But it isn’t your game folder you need to go into. You need to go to “C:/Users/YourUserName/AppData/Roaming/Guild Wars 2” and delete everything from in there.

The file that was messing it up for me was ‘local.dat’ (or something similar)

Bumping this old topic again because I just had the exact same issue and RayneSilverthorn’s advice sorted it out perfectly.

Word of warning: this will wipe your saved username & password so make sure you remember it, if you saved it in the GW2 client a couple of years ago and promptly forgot it, lol.

I did this, and found alot of corrupt files, deleted them, but still same problem. Gets to 3mb and stops downloading/crashes

simonas.9037:

Downloading 0kb (0kb) everytime i start client. Cant update

bump this! I have same problem.

I haven’t played GW2 in about 2-3months, so when I fire it up, the client needs to update.

It says I got to download 19k files, and then starts the download, then at abour 3-5mb the download stops and speed decreases to 0kb/s, and then I can’t close it or click on anything on the client – the client crashes, I have to open Task Manager and force it to close, and I can see that it is using alot of process power, so there is a problem.

Things I tried:
- appending -repair to the target of shortcut, this checks all 280k files but then when it starts to download problem persists
- Run as Administrator (also changed compatibility in properties.
- Turned of AV and whitelisted GW2
- Changed language of client (was told it may help)
- Changed DNS to Google DNS, also flushed my dns before that.

so ya none of that worked. And I can’t delete 20gb of data to redownload another 21gb, my ISP has a 30day threshold on usage and will soft cap me for 3-5 days, so no internet, which defeats the point. Also, I seriously dont understand how a game like this can have such a crappy issue with its game client; making players redownload full game from scratch because of a badly scripted game client just seems unfair.