A connection error on the launcher like that means your connection dropped when trying to download files from the asset server.
Try using ArenaNet’s primary asset server:
Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2
If that has the same problem, you know the problem is with your connection. To rule out any other software causing it, open msconfig (WindowsKey+R), select the boot tab and check safe boot with network under it, then ok and reboot. Undo this later by unchecking safe boot. Under safe mode, try running the launcher.
To actually see what the launcher is doing, you can use the -log option. It’ll save a log file to %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.log, which you can open in notepad. It’ll tell if your connection is simply dropping or if the patch files are corrupted, in which case a VPN is required.
If that fails, something is interfering with your connection and you will likely need to use a VPN. You can use the -log option (Gw2.exe -log) to see what it’s doing, which saves to %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.log.
It most likely is. Bad button contacts can cause the inputs to twitch, which rapidly spams mouse up and down events. Razer for example uses cheap components, so this is a common problem, though simple to fix by cleaning the contacts. You might not notice this in some games simply due to how they’re programmed, like using delayed input for example.
If you want to find out, setup a logger to record your mouse input.
Having too many waypoints is actually bad for the game, as they allow people to skip through it. The game will look a lot more alive with people running around and stopping to gather, help or whatever, which they would have skipped otherwise. The problem is that they made waypoints too convenient. Waypoints are actually supposed to work like flight paths in other MMOs, where you must first interact with one to use the grid. Imagine if you could only revive at the last visited waypoint.
Use the -log option (Gw2.exe -log) and let it sit for a minute on the stuck file. Open the log file in notepad (%appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.log) to see what it’s getting stuck on. Post it as an attachment.
You can try a different server (Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2), but in a lot of these cases, the problem is the ISP, making a VPN required.
Did you try toggling the glider? Assuming this is the standard updraft problem, it’s caused by lag and the fact that gliding is handled client-side. It should be easy to fix though, with a simple invisible ceiling.
Rename Gw2Setup.exe to Gw2.exe and it’ll simply install to its current folder.
The funny thing is, this was a bug in the old launcher, where it’d simply begin installing on some systems. I guess they couldn’t fix it so they simply went with the default Program Files.
Not sure why they don’t just make an actual installer. They’re having Gw2.exe double as the installer, meaning they’re making you download that ~30 MB executable twice. It’s why you can simply rename Gw2Setup.exe to Gw2.exe.
There is no need to make open world PvE more difficult because it is not suppose to be.
It actually is. Unlike other MMOs that try to appeal to the majority by making solo content trivial, ArenaNet has always been for the gamers.
The core game was actually heavily nerfed during the first beta in fear of losing players, as people were standing still and getting facerolled. HoT’s difficulty is actually a return to how the game once was, back when a level 2 Moa right out of the gate in Queensdale could kill you within its channeled flurry of pecks. An ettin for example could 1 shot you with its charged club attack. The obvious problem in trying to appeal to this audience however is that they will end up losing the average player, and without vertical progression, there is no alternative except for grouping up, which most people won’t want to bother with.
(and i guess i didn`t recognised this problem with the old monitor because it wasnt a full hd monitor so i was playing not in HD)
That’s most likely the problem. You’re going to notice a lot more pixilation, especially on bigger monitors. You can try experimenting with graphics enhancers to improve the look, such as reshade, sweetfx and gemfx.
So you only changed the monitor? That means the problem is with the monitor itself. Try hooking it to your computer using the different cables it may have came with and if you have multiple DVI inputs on your video card, try them all.
It may be caused by a configuration option on the monitor itself. Some of those monitors have built-in effects like sharpening and gaming modes for a rawer experience. Press the button on the monitor and experiment with its settings.
It may be caused by the refresh rate. Try lowering it to the standard 60 Hz.
This is all assuming you’re seeing a grainy screen, which isn’t going to be visible in screenshots. If you were simply referring to the character preview for example, previews use low settings with aliasing off, so you can’t change that. You would have noticed this on your previous monitor unless it was a smaller screen. If this screen is much larger, you’re going to notice pixilation due to stretching.
Considering mounts will forever change the game, but are locked to a non-required expansion, ArenaNet’s going to have a problem moving forwards. They can either try to avoid them or re-implement them. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next expansion is underwater or floating and thus underwater or flying mounts. Flying mounts would of course only be useable in specific areas.
The question will be different, if PoF maps do NOT have huge meta events, they will die when players finish their achievements and story there, then go back to HoT maps for the meta events.
I wouldn’t count on seeing the bigger split-group events like HoT. That design came out of season 1, which only worked back then because the content was temporary and always active. It quickly failed in HoT once the majority left, which turned it into LFG-only content. World bosses are still popular today because people can casually show up and play. Expect to see them continue in the style of the core game as they’ve done with season 3, where it’s all balanced for single groups of 3+. The split design only guarantees that it will eventually fail, since it’s not futureproof, when they could simply avoid the problem by having multiple objectives that don’t need to be completed simultaneously.
The only viable way to do events that require larger amounts of coordinated players and appeal to the majority is by splitting them from the open world. Put them in their own instance that you actually have to queue in to, meaning it’s always active, and is automatically set up with balanced teams for the multiple objectives. Simply put, make them activities.
The test characters haven’t been deleted; they’re only hidden. The first set was only deleted a few days prior to the second demo. Without another demo planned, you can only guess when ArenaNet will get around to deleting them.
PoF could feature some of HoT’s masteries, but they would have to be entirely optional. You could either do a jumping puzzle or use an updraft, which they did in Bitterfrost for example to reach a vista. Some masteries are too specialized however, like most of season 3’s, and will probably never be seen again. Some will simply be redone, like how tubes are v2 wallows.
The problem with using HoT’s masteries however is that it’ll be confusing for those simply buying and playing through PoF. Some will also be mad about it, when they find out grinding through HoT is required to access shortcuts in PoF. The expansions after PoF are going to be the bigger problem however, because mounts are too big of a deal to ignore.
Chrome thinks it’ll take too long to load, so it’s blocking it for your experience. ArenaNet could change the way that script is loaded to prevent that. That script however is actually an alternate for when jquery-1.9.1.min.js fails, so if you want to debug it, find out why. Check the network tab to see if there are any obvious problems.
But i’m sure if you can wait for 2 or 3 months HoT will be free, because otherwise Anet is going to loose a lot of players.
HoT isn’t required like WoW’s expansions are, so they don’t actually need to give it away. They’d probably lose more players if they did, since it’s such a difference experience compared to the core game.
It may change with 3rd expansion however. Either HoT will go F2P, the $50 bundle will include all expansions, or they’ll simply continue to sell each expansion individually.
Disabling SLI had no difference on FPS besides shifting the GPU usage all onto one GPU. Bus speed of the GPU is normal.
GW2 does a lot of back and forth with the GPU. This isn’t something you’ll notice in most other games, but when the bandwidth of your GPU is being limited, it’ll effectively half your FPS. This can be caused by putting the GPU in the wrong type of slot or simply not seating it properly. In GPU-Z, the optimal bus interface is going to be PCI-E 3.0 x16 @ x16 3.0.
At 1920×1080 outside of the zerg, you should easily be able to get 80+ FPS on high settings in the core game, 120+ overclocked. Ensure shadowplay isn’t recording in the background and if you’re Windows 10, the same for the Xbox app recorder. Check your processes for anything else wasting the CPU and exclude GW2 in any anti-virus software. Rename Gw2-64.exe to Gw2.exe, simply for detection software.
The page is pulling resources from digitalriver.com. If your browser is paranoid or you’re running certain ad blockers, it’ll cause it to look like that. Press F12 to open the dev tools and read the console to see if gives a reason, or you can look under the network tab and refresh the page to see why it failed. If you’re unable to connect to digitalriver.com, flush your DNS or try Google’s DNS.
You can’t actually trust a “computer” specifically. It should say network.
You can choose to trust a network by choosing to remember it when logging in. It’s based on your IP address, which may or may not change regularly depending on your ISP.
If they reset it, people would expect that every expansion and they might as well simply unlock the elites through the story.
They made hero challenges in HoT worth 10 points specifically because they didn’t want you to unlock the elites immediately. They wanted it to feel like you were progressing through the expansion, just as you would gain new abilities through leveling in other MMOs. If they want to keep doing that however, they’ll need to move away from generic hero points.
You can use the -log option to see what it’s doing, which saves to %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/Gw2.log. If the files aren’t going down, but it is downloading, then it’s downloading corrupted data. Ensure that any security/network/monitoring software isn’t manipulating your traffic. A quick way to test this is rebooting into safe mode with networking enabled (msconfig > boot > safe boot with network).
A VPN should have fixed any network troubles, so ensure GW2 is actually going through it and that you’ve chosen a VPN server in the US or something. You don’t want to use a VPN that’s going through the same network as you.
For the -assetsrv option, use -assetsrv 64.25.41.2, which is ArenaNet’s primary server.
Rename Gw2Setup.exe to Gw2.exe and it’ll simply install to its current location. If you’ve already began installing it to Program Files, simply move the folder wherever you want.
A black screen but still being able to access the menu is a bug. For whatever reason, when GW2 doesn’t receive a certain packet, it’ll do that. Unless you changed routers or firewall/network software since this started happening, chances are the cause is out of your control and only a VPN will help you. You could also try -clientport 443.
Today I have had to change my password twice due to it not recognizing my password, despite my “current logins” showing the same IP I am normally on.
Remembered IPs only allows you to skip the authentication code. If your email/password combo is failing, either someone is changing your password or there’s something wrong with one of the login servers. You can try different servers using the -authsrv option and IPs can be found using the -diag option.
I’ve noticed after logging out, and back in (without a black screen crash) on certain characters it would put me in Lion’s Arch, just west of the Traders forum way point.
That is the default location when the game doesn’t know where you should be. It can happen by simply waypointing to a map then logging out for example.
Mounts are a 200% speed increase over the standard out of combat run speed. For comparison, swiftness is 33% and superspeed is only 36% due to the movement speed cap.
When I start the game using either shortcut the game stalls at a white screen waiting for an SMS or E-Mail auth. Is there anyway to turn that 2 step off? Is command line support gone?
If you already know what the problem is, what’s the problem? Simply login to account.arena.net (or launch GW2 normally) to prompt the authorization and select to remember your IP. Using those command line options have always caused it to stick on a blank screen when your IP isn’t authorized. You can’t disable 2FA, since it defaults to email authentication.
The ability to use waypoints from any location is to simply make them more convenient for players. Imagine if you actually had to touch them to access the waypoint map and reviving was only possible at the last one you passed by.
3. If they make it 500 and 20 per challenge, how will we not end up in the exact same situation next expansion?
PoF would have 25 challenges at 20 points each for the 500 total. There wouldn’t be anything adding to the excess, so this would no longer be a problem moving forwards. This is what HoT tried to do originally by having 40 of them at 10 points each, but they made the mistake of making them group events and having too many of them.
They’ll probably just leave it as is at 10 per for 250 total. Although 500 is still only 25 challenges, the same as HoT, people will see the higher total and scream grind. The vast majority of players aren’t going to have the points to immediately unlock their elite anyways and the smaller total would lead to a better experience. The average player is only going to have around 40-100 points by level 80 and less than 10 after HoT. For the few that are able to unlock it immediately, ArenaNet can simply further gate the elite behind the story.
For a simple catch-all solution, they would just make hero points specific to the expansion. They could also do something completely different, such as offering 5 quests/challenges for the 5 utilities, like back in GW1.
If the black screen is limited to GW2 and you can switch to other programs, press F12 on the black screen. If the logout dialog appears, it’s caused by packet loss and your router could be causing this. If possible, try bypassing your router, otherwise you’ll need to experiment with its settings. You can also try running the game on port 80 (Gw2.exe -clientport 80). If you’re simply experiencing packet loss however, only a VPN will help.
Think about it this way: would it make sense, looking 2-3 expansions down the line, to have the elite specs cost 250, 350, 250, 250, etc?
It would be 250 for HoT, then 500 for all future expansions. HoT’s hero challenges were worth 10 points each solely because they didn’t want you unlocking the spec right at the start. It was balanced so that 100% completion was roughly 50% of the elite. If they want to try that again, they’ll simply double it, making it 20 points per challenge for a total of 500 for the elite.
So no I’m not excited for the mounts, I’m just really curious why would ANET give in and listen to the community on this one? Because there is really no point in this game for them.
Mounts are probably the most popular items in MMOs and are very easy to sell. They will be far more commonly used than gliders and just look at how many people bought those. After HoT’s losses, it’s no surprise that they would try something as big as mounts.
If you would like to test something, open your Guild Wars 2 folder (where Gw2-64.exe is located), select the address bar (alt+d), add the following to the end of the folder’s path, then press enter to launch GW2:
\Gw2-64.exe -log
… or if you’re 32-bit:
\Gw2.exe -log
This will create a Gw2.log file under %appdata%/Guild Wars 2/ (enter it into the address bar to open the folder). Let it sit at 31% for a minute, close the launcher, then open that file with notepad. It should say something about failing to patch a file or something. If it does, post that file as an attachment.
Probably intentional. Expansions are supposed to bring more people in, whereas HoT lost more than it gained. They would want to avoid the major complaints.
GW2’s problem is the lack of a traditional leveling experience. In other MMOs, you’re provided with appropriate gear as you play through the quests, but here you’re expected to obtain it on your own. If you simply follow the story, you’re thrown into HoT with zerker rares, no runes and no accessories. It probably would have gone a little differently if they provided a set of defensive gear at the start, which they should go back and add to the original story so that this isn’t a continuous problem.
Why would I be hitting EU hosting when I’m based in Atlanta GA?
The -diag option traces both EU and NA servers. If you don’t have an EU-registered account or play on the EU servers, you can ignore the first trace entirely. The second trace is to the NA servers, which doesn’t show any packet loss. The third one failed, but it’s just a patch server and GW2 will automatically try another one, otherwise the launcher would say connection error.
Now if arenanet could fix whatever they did to their Amazon AWS servers….
Considering you can bypass the CDN entirely, connect to ArenaNet’s main server (which doesn’t have any problems) and still have this issue in these locations, it’s probably the ISPs censoring stuff. If someone would post the “-log” file for this…
It doesn’t tell you the size because it doesn’t know. It knows the total size of the files, but that number is absolutely useless to you unless you’re downloading the game for the first time. Patches to existing files are a small fraction of that total, and this is where ArenaNet can’t know, since they allow you to patch from any version to the most recent. What they could do however is include an estimated size, but it’d only be valid for those who were up to date.
If you really want to, the total size can be discovered by downloading the headers of each file, which costs approximately 600 bytes per file. I already wrote an alternative patcher basically for this situation, which allows you to download patches manually from any computer, then feed them back into GW2. It’d be trivial to simplify down to only showing the size.
As someone who doesn’t know much about computers, this doesnt help very much.
That wouldn’t of helped you anyways. It was simply to find the cause of the problem.
The launcher getting stuck on specific files has been a problem for a while, and it’s usually in Australia. The only person I’ve seen try to debug it found that their ISP was injecting messages into their web traffic, which causes GW2 to download the same files over and over. This is why only a VPN will work, because it prevents outside sources from interfering.
