Guild Wars 2

I found this forum post:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Fix-found-my-black-screen-login-problems

Which basically suggests renamed/deleting the local.dat file in the gw2 directory. Several others posting in that thread indicated it helped fix their problems. One user stated he was having blue screen issues with nv4_mini.sys also, and renaming the local.dat file fixed his issue.

One thing I’ll note, the local.dat file I renamed was over 34MB in size. The new one that was created was only 2MB. So it appears that perhaps something bloats this file over time.

I’ve spent over 3 hours on this now, and I need to go to sleep. I’ll try playing again tomorrow and see if it still works.

I’m having a similar problem, but I’m actually getting a BSOD from it. I"m also playing in windowed mode, for what it’s worth.

GW2 has been playing mostly fine since I bought it months ago. In early January I started having crashing issues (Error 1450 disk read error I think it was). I ended up deleting a bunch of old games which freed up about 60GB and the problem went away. Now, starting yesterday, I’m suddenly getting blue screens when I click “Play” in the launcher. I click it, the game window opens, but before I get the character screen, it blue screens with a Stop 8e on nv4_mini.sys. Yes, I know this is the nvidia driver. I already checked, and I have the latest version. I’ve also gone through and disabled just about everything that starts at boot time (other services), but that didn’t help either. And the game ran just fine last week with all those things running. I also verified I don’t have the /3G thing in my boot.ini (saw a suggestion to check for that since stop 8e conditions sometimes indicate a problem with pool/paged memory). I’ve run chkdsk and defraged recently too.

Attached is the Game Advisor log.

Hi.

So, I noticed after the Christmas holiday that I suddenly started getting an error when I clicked “Play” on the launcher to start the game. Sometimes this would result in a BSOD/reboot, and other times it would just crash the game. The text of the error was something about “Fatal disk-error (1450) on read” and related to the file GW2.dat in the Guild Wars 2 directory. This file is 15GB in size.

I tried running chkdisk, defragmenting my hard drive, and several other things I saw suggested. The only thing that kind of worked was starting the launcher with the “-image” option to re-download everything. That fixed it for one play session, but then it promptly started crashing again the next day.

Then I noticed on some web page somewhere that someone said the GW2.dat file is a compressed file. I recalled that I had, over the holiday, purchased some new, large games via Steam and installed them. Because of this, my available HD space was down to about 30GB or so. The crashing had started around that time.

I deleted many old games I hadn’t played for months and was able to increase my free HD space to around 70GB, and since then I haven’t had GW2 crash at all. My theory is that somehow the GW2.dat file is uncompressed when the game is started, or perhaps the game calculates how much space it would need to decompress the file, and finds there is not enough free space and crashes.

Anyway, I spent a lot of time Googling for a solution to this and didn’t find one, so I thought I’d post what worked for me.

TL;DR Are there any plans to offer a two-factor authentication solution for people who do not have a mobile device that can make use of Google Authenticator?

Hi. I have a cell phone, but I only use it for emergencies. It is not a modern phone. It does not have an operating system. It does not run apps. It’s a pay-by-the-minute phone, and as such, only costs me about $7 per month to use. It’s perfect for when I need to make a phone call. I’m not interested in getting a more high-tech phone and expensive phone plan just so I can make use of Google Auth. for two-factor account security. Other MMOs I’ve played have offered hardware tokens, which I was happy to order (and pay for) to help keep my account secure.

Are there any options for two-factor auth. for people like me that do not have mobile device that can make use of Google Authenticator?