Guild Wars 2

Well this is pointless then. You’d think if they wanted to compete with games like WoW they would have made it able to run on older computers on low, I can run WoW fine on medium settings. Bummer bummer.

I’m having this exactly same issue. I bought the discs, disabled McAffee, ran as admin, and it does nothing. If I rename it, or mess with it I can get some files such as .DAT and .TMP but then the blank launcher appears and disappears. My DAT file downloaded to 14.1 GB, but the launcher won’t do anything else. My graphics card drivers may be old but it says it meets the minimum requirements, or I can’t find new updates of it. Here’s my issue :/

I am running on Windows XP SP3, so I can’t use that compatibility mode.

Exact same issue here. No solution or response yet.

Im having this problem too. I wish Arena Net would have been more careful about this, or made the installation process a little easy.

I did indeed try that, Smack. I disabled it while trying to install it, ran it as admin each time, and went into firewall settings and allowed the .exe connection. I use McAffee.

Yeah, it’s quite frustrating. I hope they give me a heads up to what to do. :/

Hello. Yesterday I recently purchased Guild Wars 2 from a Wal-Mart store. I took it out of the box, put in disc one and ran it as administrator, the launcher popped up for a few seconds, then closed with no sign of activity whatsoever, and I do think I meet the system requirements. It would not create the .Dat or Tmp files until I went online, downloaded the client from the website, moved it into a folder on my desktop, disabled my anti-virus, and messed with it for about 30 minutes. It has created the files now, but when I pull up the launcher it sits totally blank (Just a gray launcher with the picture of the Sylvari girl, no news, no “log-in” boxes, no text or no anything except for bold text at the bottom saying “Downloading 0KB (0KB/sec)”. My Dat file does seem to grow while it does this, but I also did this last night and the .DAT file got up to about 14 GB then stopped, and no progress was made after that.

Here’s an attachment of my test, It might be my graphics card but I have a 256 mb one, or whatever is required, although it’s older. Any help would be lovely… I’ve tried for hours and hours.

• I was looking through the test and I did see on the connections part it failed to connect with arena net servers. no idea if that matters.