Finally someone having the exact same issue as me. Here are two error logs generated by my client. The first is just running the game normally, and the crash happens after choosing a character and during the loading screen. The second error is when attempting to use -repair with the shortcut. I’ve even followed the above mentioned steps about deleting the local.dat and such. Also note that this error happens far more frequently when the graphics settings are on Auto-detect or Maximum Quality (which both generate the same settings on my system), but will still happen (albeit much less often) on Maximum Performance.
—> Crash <—
Fatal Error: Fatal disk-error (23) on read,
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 5552
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 15445
When: 2012-09-06T19:33:44Z 2012-09-06T15:33:44-04:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:01:09
Flags: 0
—> System <—
Name: ############
IpAddr: ############
Processors: 8 [GenuineIntel:6:10:7]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)
—> System Memory <—
Physical: 8528MB/12271MB 69%
Paged: 20048MB/24540MB 81%
Virtual: 2644MB/ 4095MB 64%
Load: 30%
CommitTotal: 4492MB
CommitLimit: 24540MB
CommitPeak: 9717MB
SystemCache: 8269MB
HandleCount: 34994
ProcessCount: 85
ThreadCount: 1077
—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1046MB
WorkingSet: 624MB
PeakWorkingSet: 624MB
PageFaults: 1603691
[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7601.17514 (64/32-bit compatible)]
—> Error Logs <—
Mem Arena ‘Transient’ capacity exceeded. Attempted alloc category: ‘Cinema Tex’ Size: 131120
Disk read failed with error 23 (incomplete): file ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.dat’
Disk read failed (23): file ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.dat’
—> DirectX Device Info <—
VendorId = 0×10de
DeviceId = 0×1200
Version = 9.18.0013.0479
Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Compat = 0×00100800
VidMem = 1024 MB
—> Crash <—
Exception: c0000005
Memory at address 00000000 could not be read
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 4440
Cmdline: -repair
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 15445
When: 2012-09-06T19:34:38Z 2012-09-06T15:34:38-04:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:10
Flags: 0
—> System <—
Name: ############
IpAddr: ############
Processors: 8 [GenuineIntel:6:10:7]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)
—> System Memory <—
Physical: 9094MB/12271MB 74%
Paged: 20244MB/24540MB 82%
Virtual: 3023MB/ 4095MB 73%
Load: 25%
CommitTotal: 4295MB
CommitLimit: 24540MB
CommitPeak: 9717MB
SystemCache: 8276MB
HandleCount: 34429
ProcessCount: 86
ThreadCount: 1080
—> Process Memory <—
Private: 896MB
WorkingSet: 123MB
PeakWorkingSet: 123MB
PageFaults: 412589
[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7601.17514 (64/32-bit compatible)]
—> DirectX Device Info <—
VendorId = 0×10de
DeviceId = 0×1200
Version = 9.18.0013.0479
Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Compat = 0×00100800
VidMem = 1024 MB